Here you are with ner detectors to your
name. It simply won't do. James, don't
worry. We'll fix you right up. After the appropriate amount of
information had leaked, as required by traditional PC gamer culture, AMD
officially announced the RX6700 XT
today. The card comes with 12 gigs of memory, 40 compute units, and according
to AMD, can perform about as well as NVIDIA's RTX 3070 at 1440p while costing
$20 less at $479 US. Unfortunately, that's still
higher than many fans expected, leading some to accuse AMD of capitalizing on
the current low supply, high demand market situation by raising prices,
which is not something that happens very often in the economy. I think I've never
taken an economics class. it what lazy
fair man. AMD also announced that their implementation of resizable bar called
smart access memory which allows Ryzen CPUs to directly access GPU memory will
work with Ryzen 3000 series CPUs, not
just the upcoming 5000 series chips, which means they might have a bit of a
leg up on Intel and NVIDIA, which as a reminder are other companies that
release products you can't buy. But if you really want to try, the RX6700 XT
will launch March 18th. Get your butt
ready programming. Last year, Google announced they would remove support for
third-p partyy cookies in Chrome, which allow companies other than Google to
track you across the web in order to serve you ads for things that you might
actually be interested in, like a pillow shape, like a processor from ltstore.com. Hey, get out of here. Good
boy. Well, today Google said once they get rid of all those nasty third party
cookie crumbs, they're not going to build alternative identifiers that track
individuals as they browse the web, nor will they use them in their products,
which kind of makes it sound like that's exactly what they're going to do. I
could almost hear the wink in that sentence. Also, why do you need to say
you're not going to use the thing that you said you wouldn't
build? Just a question. Question of Firefox. Google's clearly trying to keep
up with their consumer's demand for privacy, an area where browsers like
Firefox, Exactly. You You got there, James. And Brave are a step ahead.
Google says they can make this change without breaking the way that web advertising works, but it's unclear
whether that means things won't break for Google while breaking for everyone
else. Suck it, Zuck. Zucket. And Arizona
has passed a bill that would prevent tech giants from forcing an app
developer to use a preferred payment system. A landmark piece of legislation
that could have a big impact on app Epic. Maybe they should just they should
just merge Apple and Epic, you know, make up finally and become one company.
A big impact on the fight between Apple and Epic over the iOS app store. The
bill also prohibits companies like Apple or Google from retaliating against
developers who elect to use thirdparty payment systems. Just like the recent
similar North Dakota bill, this one was influenced by the Coalition for App
Fairness, which is like Epic's Club for companies burnt by Apple's mean app
store rules that suck. That's the acronym. I can't can't say it. The bill
being passed could be the start of a legislative wave sweeping through the US
state by state until iPhones are literally just open source devices you
can install Windows on if you want. Or could that couldn't happen. It could be
nothing. Either way, despite all the lobbying, Epic Games seems to be sitting
pretty. They just bought the developer of Fall Guys, the pandemic era smash hit
that everyone's still playing, right? Everyone. Drake, I've got Drake, are you
there? Oh my gosh, you have to try these quick
bits. No. What? No way.
Shut the front door. Intel has discontinued its performance tuning
protection plan, which provided an extended warranty covering processors
that get damaged by overclocking. Intel says the PTP wasn't needed anymore
because overclocking is so easy now, and demand for the warranty was low. So,
they're listening to their customers and responding to them. It's not at all
because they were just ordered by a judge to pay $2.2 million to a patent
troll company after losing a lawsuit. Those are customers, too. It's That's
true. Yeah, those don't that actually doesn't work together. I thought they
would go nicely together. Microsoft's Ignite Conference kicked off this week
and besides the super nerdy announcements like Power Automate
Desktop now being free, we got yet another flashy concept video about how
how Hollow Lens is going to revolutionize work in another 10 years.
Exactly. Microsoft Mesh is basically Alt Space VR. Uh Microsoft acquired Alt
Space VR, so that makes sense. And there's also a Pokémon Go Hollow Lens
demo. Wow, this was fun. Can't wait for next year's Hollow Lens concept video.
It'll it'll get here someday. The audio chat app Clubhouse is currently being
cloned by the bigger tech platforms, but Twitter's clone called Spaces is making
some features available on Android. Clubhouse itself is only available on
iOS and is invite only. That's what the cool kids do. Exactly. I mean, it makes
your app cool, but it also makes it harder to download. And all the coolness
draws the attention of the big guys and then clone your app. But you do have the
cool thing going. And I love I love being cool. DJI officially unveiled
their FPV drone yesterday, which works with the company's FPV goggles and
combines elements of racing and cinematic drones. You can fly with GPS
and visual positioning systems like a normal DJI drone, or take full manual
control to make it act more like a Cinnowoop style drone. Do you know what
that is?
Nope. Taking the Cinnowoop for a Whoop whoop. And a game developer has managed
to force its own game off of Steam, which is not something you hear every
day. You see, Frogwares, developer of The Sinking City, had to DMCA their
former publisher, Nikon, who had published the game on Steam without
Frogwar's approval. Their reasoning doesn't look like that cool of a game.
Anyways, guys, whoa, rude. Why would you
better get at him on Twitter for that? It would be rude to continue this
episode. So, it's over. Come back on Friday for more tech news. You know the
kind that really sticks to your ribs. Oh, I thought you gonna say tongue.