you're just sitting there and bam there's the tech news it slaps you in
the face like a powerful pink salmon leaping out of the rivers
there's no feeling like it if you're thinking about being one of the first to adopt the new ark graphics
cards from Intel i'd say knowing how much vram they're gonna have is pretty
darn important and now team blue has confirmed how much to expect 16
gigabytes on the a770 and eight gigs on the more mid-range a750 notice how i
said more mid-range they're all pretty mint although the memory is going to be
run-of-the-mill gddr6 on both models it
is good to see the a70 getting a full 16 gigs as it's becoming increasingly
common in recent years for games to push up against vram limits as textures and
other visual assets take up more and more space
since 16 gigabytes is more than you find on many even higher end cards it might
end up being a key way that Intel differentiates itself from teams red and
green other than you know color scheme there have been oodles of
headlines about chip shortages over the past couple of years but it turns out
there's also a shortage of cables specifically fiber optic cables have
gotten much more expensive this year due to key components also rising in price
as well as from higher demand for online services post pandemic we're all at home
right of course this comes at a pretty lousy time considering that big tech has
been trying to lay more and more cables under the ocean and mobile carriers are
in need of fiber optics in order to build out 5g networks while the fiber
optic crunch which sounds like a serial i would buy directly affects back end
infrastructure more than consumers we'll have to keep our fingers crossed that
the extra costs won't find their way down to us when we pay our internet bill
but i'm sure our corporate overlords would never do anything like that
here's a bizarre story out of russia that has nothing to do with vladimir
putin sitting at his comically long and definitely not compensating for anything
banquet table last week a robot that was programmed to play chess was facing off
against a seven-year-old boy but instead of you know playing chess the robot
broke the poor kid's finger which i think is against the rules apparently
the boy tried to move a piece before the robot was expecting him to resulting in
the bot grabbing a finger instead of a rook the kid deserves credit for
finishing the tournament even though it's unclear why a chest bot would need
to use bone crushing force just to pick up a piece regarding the accent sergey
lazarev of the moscow chess federation commented
this is of course bad now it's time for quick bits brought to
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deals just keep getting better learn more about all the deals AMD has to
offer at the link below the apple watch is getting a long-awaited facelift at least according
to apple insider mark german the new pro
or higher end version due to come out later this year is apparently getting
the largest display ever on an apple watch as well as body temperature
sensors and a bigger battery that could let you go several days without a charge
and a tougher chassis in case you take your smart watch into hazardous
environments like russian chess tournaments one of the most hyped
features of the xbox series x was faster load times and it delivered on that with
its use of PCIe ssds but now the xbox
dev team has made boot times even quicker in a recent update you can
expect to save roughly five seconds which is a significant amount of time
when you consider how previously it took an absolutely glacial 12 seconds to
start up i'm still going to reach for my phone but this is progress
google has canned blake lemoine who you might remember from his claim last month
that the company had developed a sentient ai the official reasoning that
they gave was that he breached google's data security but lemoine is apparently
gearing up for legal action no word yet if the allegedly almost human ai
construct will be called to testify in court it appears we have a new
challenger in the gaming monitor space none other than asrock who are much more
well known for their motherboards but the company has apparently registered a
few models with a korean government agency and at least two of them have
refresh rates in the triple digits which makes sense if their focus is going to
be on gaming we still don't know when they'll be available or in which
countries or if you'll be able to turn them on by jumping the pins with a
screwdriver and if you're a t-mobile customer
you might have some free money headed your way as team magenta can i call them
that is paying around 350 million bucks
to settle some class action suits regarding the theft of personal data of
nearly 77 million customers if you had to measure carrier in august of last
year keep an eye out for a check given how many people that money is
going to don't expect your windfall to cover much more than last month's data overages that's our
show come back wednesday for more tech news it's better than free money baby