i thought it might be nice if we talked about some tech news would you like that
this week ARM unveiled a prototype for a plastic based flexible microchip the
company has creatively dubbed plastic ARM they've got to have some germans on
the naming committee over there oh yeah we've seen bendy chips before
but not like this with a 32-bit cortex m0 CPU and with over 18 000 logic gates
plastic ARM is about 12 times more powerful than the other flexible chip
designs out there they might as well be stickers which is one application for
these chips thanks to costing drastically less than rigid silicon
based chips plastic ARM could be built in a product packaging or labels which
could for instance detect if food has gone bad that's right an ARM engineer
said we'll be putting processors on lettuce or anything else you can think
of ew gross that's what you thought of
i'm not thinking of anything i'm obviously not thinking good news for
anyone with an rtx 3090 made by evga that was bricked while playing the new
mmo new world the company says they'll replace the busted gpus for free that's
nice of them some are saying this is the least evga could do since the prevailing
theory is that the hardware was more to blame here than the game itself although
amazon has patched the frame cap in the game's menu just in case i can't say i
feel too bad for the victims here since they made the choice to a buy the most
expensive gaming card on the market and b
play new world but why are we making fun of new worlds not
even out yet anyways if you've been turned off of rtx 3090s forever the
Radeon 6600 xt looks like it'll be announced soon so you'll have an
opportunity to make a more balanced purchasing decision
don't buy choices expensive things
and more good news for the right to repair movement the federal trade commission has voted unanimously to
create new policy enforcing customers rights to fix items ranging from
smartphones to farm equipment the vote comes after u.s president biden issued
an executive order calling for such policy and with any luck this will lead
to new laws preventing apple and other companies from discouraging third-party
repairs nice subscribe to lewis rossman he talks about this stuff and his sassy
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TechLinked quick bits come quick bits go that's the
digestive system for you many major websites and platforms
including amazon steam the playstation network and even costco
experienced a brief outage yesterday thanks to a dns issue experienced by
major web infrastructure company akamai that pronounced that right sure
beautiful the issue was fixed after a few hours but i don't feel comfortable
using the web when everything can just disappear like this so i'm gonna go back
to reading books i read books yeah atomic habits by james
clear just read it i'm trying to become a better person riley epic games has filed a new complaint in
their lawsuit against google including new information about how the web giant
tried to block epic from hosting fortnite on samsung's galaxy store
because while they're waiting for the apple case to be decided might as well just remind google that they care you
know you don't want to leave them on read red red [ __ ]
i just swear sorry for swearing two democratic senators introduced a bill
yesterday that would remove section 230 protections from social platforms if
their algorithms are found boosting health related misinformation feeling
more debate about the control that twitter facebook and the rest have over
what people are and aren't allowed to say online like
i'm confused about things that i can say can i say
stop it all right sorry about that cassaya the it services provider to
around 1500 companies that were affected by a ransomware attack has obtained a
master decrypter key from a third party that is now being used to free the
imprisoned data cassea got the key after wandering around the dungeon for what
felt like days until they saw a weird-shaped block that it turned out
had to be rotated in order to get to the chest a guide would have been handy in
this case and the tokyo olympics kicked off this week with a suitably japanese
musical fanfare from a ton of classic video games including dragon quest final
fantasy and monster hunter you think there'd be some nintendo titles represented but nope that company is
probably too busy suing its fans for not wanting to pay 90 dollars for a 10 year
old game howard's sword is 90 canadian
unbelievable i want to play it but i'm not paying that much that's it i'm done
come back on monday for more tech news i promise we won't yell at you this time
it was just it's just been a lot today it's been a lot we're here for you thank
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