we need an intro riley what's the intro i don't know what the intro is
so the big news so far this week has been the new apple silicon chips
announced at yesterday's apple event in case you haven't heard apple is now
making its own cpus for its max and the first of its new chips called the m1 is
a 5 nanometer system on a chip featuring 8 CPU cores and up to 8 GPU cores half
the CPU cores are high performance and half are lower performing but friendlier
on battery life apple is claiming it has the best performance per watt of any
laptop CPU and given how fast the a14
soc was that might very well be the case the
in-house silicon has also made it possible for apple to optimize
first-party software such as final cut but we'll have to wait until max based
on the m1 drop next week to find out for ourselves apple announced three such
devices the thousand dollar macbook air a 1300 macbook pro and a 700 mac mini
that all kind of seem to be the exact same thing
hopefully you've got your apple credit card ready to
waste some money i guess i shouldn't say that yeah but i
i think it's bad we have to go deeper into the cult the other big hardware
launch was of course the xbox series x and series s in a bit of bad news
that'll be very familiar to anyone that's tried to get their hands on an
rtx 3000 series graphics card the new xboxes are sold out basically everywhere
as long lines at brick and mortar stores and rushes of online orders were the
norm it looks like stock will remain very limited through the rest of the
year and and if that wasn't bad enough there was also an xbox live outage that
struck around 1pm eastern on launch day wait i was so confused last night
because i was playing sea of thieves and there was just suddenly no one on there
now you know now i know it was only pc people microsoft resolved
the issue within a couple of hours though that combined with the stock
shortages made it a bit of a disappointing tuesday for a lot of xbox
fans i missed the good old days before order bots and multi-Gigabyte downloads
ruined console launches back in my day
the consoles you played in the 1900s i can't wait to water cool it so far most
self-driving cars can steer accelerate brake and even park view but the driver
still has to monitor what's going on at all times to be ready to take over if an
unexpected situation pops up however honda thinks
ah jeez you scared me however honda thinks it's ready to take the next step
forward as the japanese auto giant has announced it should be rolling out a car
with level 3 automation before the end of march next year meaning that the
driver can do something else during the ride and will have more time to
intervene if the car requests it the vehicle will be an updated legend sedan
and it appears that the rollout will be japan only for now after getting
approval from the japanese government of course seeing how canada misses out on
everything cool maybe we'll be seeing it here in like 15
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actually fine yeah you know that apple m1 chip we were just talking about well
the one thing it apparently can't do is connect to an external graphics card
it's not clear why support for this feature has been removed though past
macs have had issues with external gpus and apple might have just been in the
position of like ah good enough most people probably won't use it anyway it
will also drive people who need more processing horses to future mac pros
with other apple future silicon chips
don't you just love having less functionality when you buy an expensive
gadget it's because it's a prestige project product
it's curated all the new xbox consoles will support 1440p it's currently
notably missing from the playstation 5. this isn't a huge shocker considering
consoles are built primarily for tvs and virtually no tvs out there have a 1440p
resolution however many console players do use monitors and sony is reportedly
thinking about adding 1440p support if there's enough demand if only consoles
would support ultra wide
the u.s election is over and with it the end of the huge barrage of political ads
you've constantly seen on tv if you're as sick of them as most people are
there's a bit of good news today as both google and facebook have extended their
bans on political advertising for the time being now until the end of time yay
google has said the decision is related to the amount of acrimony that
that's like lying isn't it legal term and misinformation circulating around
the election result can we all just get along not when you're being acrimonious
nanoleaf the company that makes those colored light panels for your gaming den
is about to launch a competitor to philips hue called essentials featuring
colored bulbs and light strips it works with thread mesh devices so you won't
need a separate bridge to control them unfortunately they won't be cheap as a
bulb setting you back 20 bucks away that's not too bad and a light strip
costing 50. hopefully competition will cause a drop in prices but you also can
always throw in some colored film over your plain old desktop lamp if not food
coloring yeah that would work great riley and walmart is expanding its reach
to the realm of driverless home delivery to compete with amazon in partnership
with general motors the retail giant is going to be testing some autonomous
driving in scottsdale arizona starting next week it's pretty cool news for the
folks out there but i wonder if they'll miss hanging out with the
people of walmart what's that you know the people of walmart that's
our show for today come back on friday for more tech news for the low price of
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