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NVIDIA's newest graphics card the rtx 3060 ti launched today for 3.99 and the
consensus seems to be that it's pretty good the 3060 ti is generally
better than the rtx 2080 super and even bites at the heels of the 2080 ti and
it's only real competitor price wise is the rx xbox series s not
actually the rx 5700 xt which performs about 30
percent worse so if your budget is around 400 bucks it
seems like a no-brainer provided you have the free time that is now necessary
for anyone in the market for a GPU to spend refreshing product pages although
according to hardware canuck's retail contacts stock for the 3060 ti should
add up to more than the 30 70 30 80 and
30 90 combined but if social media is
any indication people are still having trouble getting orders through if only
because store websites are getting slammed
well at least we can look forward to january that's when AMD is expected to
release the rx 6700 and we should also get rtx 30 series laptops both of those
things will also probably have stock problems but maybe we should just accept
that it's not about the destination it's about the journey the long long journey
at least you got to click a buy button yes ARM processors are a bigger deal now
that apple's released their m1 powered max so here we are reporting on new
smartphone processors samsung announced the exynos 1080 and
qualcomm unveiled the snapdragon 888 an
eight core system very lucky it's an eight core system on chip with pumped up
ai capabilities and built-in 5g and wi-fi 6. now to be fair these might not
just be smartphone processors qualcomm snapdragon 8cx chips which power many
Windows 10 on ARM laptops are based on the aging snapdragon 865 so updated
desktop chips based on the 8888.88
could mean Windows on ARM devices could be just as good as the apple m1
good night sweet Intel as a joke they're not it's not
maybe qualcomm believes it's possible company reps say that m1 has validated
the idea of ARM-powered pcs and japan apparently agrees apple shot up to the
number one spot in desktop pc market share there in that country following
the launch of the m1 max most of these sales weren't m1 models they were the
older Intel ones but hey at the very least we can say an ARM-powered laptop
is a flashy futuristic idea and i'm all for those a walking car
come on and earlier this year iphones were vulnerable to a hack that could
have allowed attackers to gain full control of the device over Wi-Fi with no
user interaction required and not only that the attack could worm its way from
one infected iphone to another within range giving a hacker access to untold
legions of data just by walking through a crowded area to be fair those have
been few and far between for much of 2020 and apple actually patched the
vulnerability that enabled this sort of attack with iOS version 13.5 back in may
so you can stop looking worried edsel i don't know
update your phone so if you're still running 13.4 or lower let's just hope
you've been observing quarantine and also
update your dang phone don't be an edsel don't live with spies
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onto the quick bits japan loves max well
so does amazon because the company just announced instances of macOS are
available in the company's cloud infrastructure the instances are running
on actual mac minis although they're Intel models not the new m1s i guess
apple had to dump their old stock somewhere amazon is also announcing
computer vision-based services that will allow factories to detect whether
machinery and human workers are working
well makes sense people protest amazon's draconian working conditions they double
down it's how compromise works remember facebook's cryptocurrency libra
you don't that's okay they're renaming it to diem in preparation of the coins
launched next year in a much more limited form than was originally planned
public reaction to the currency included a lot of skepticism because of its ties
to facebook so this move is reportedly designed to distance diem from facebook
in the minds of consumers and legislators and us talking about it is
designed to do the opposite diem
carpe diem it's the new thing you'll forget about remember that the arecibo
radio telescope has collapsed weeks after the national science foundation
said that the dish was too badly damaged and too dangerous to attempt repair and
we knew this was going to happen but it would have been nice to film one last
bond action sequence there you know and then film no more bond movies ever
or at least not release them yeah just keep them to yourself china
has successfully landed their chang e and i'm definitely saying that wrong
probe on the surface of the moon and begun to gather moon rocks if the lander
successfully returns to earth it will be the first time moon rocks have made it
back here in over four decades and thank goodness because we're running
dangerously low on moon rocks the time portal's gonna
run out of juice any day now and google has switched over its internet providing
loon hot air balloons to fully autonomous flight relying on
reinforcement learning algorithms for navigation instead of ones crafted by
humans in tests the ai was reportedly able to keep balloons in target areas
for longer while using less energy and used complex maneuvers the loon team
hadn't seen before he's
he's switched off his targeting computer it's time to switch off this episode so
come back on friday for more tech news and if you don't well
i won't be able to save you