hey I saw you working hard this week so
I made you this big bowl of tech news careful now it's hot Gamers Nexus may
have found the reason why the RTX 4090 connector is getting even hotter than
that bowl of tech news I just gave you in a video published on Wednesday after
completing two weeks of testing the infamous 12 volt high power connector
the GN team disputed the weak solder joints hypothesis put forward by Igor's
lab stating politely that Igor didn't appear to conduct any actual heat
testing and only looked at adapters that hadn't failed which is kind of like
looking for socially well-adjusted teenagers in a school chess club
that seems unnecessarily rude I was in
one Steve from Gamer's Nexus instead postulated two potential causes for the
failures first foreign object debris created either in manufacturing or by
repeated plugging and unplugging which could get into the pins and heat up from
conduction the second hypothesis was a scenario in which the connector is not
plugged all the way into the graphics card which is the only failure scenario
they were able to replicate seems like the adapter overheats when it's not
absolutely fully plugged in whether that's because you didn't realize you
hadn't gotten it all the way in there or because you did get it in but then bent
it at a sideways angle which pops one side out a few millimeters I mean we all
do that from time to time I pop out a few millimeters and sometimes I pop off
and we're trying to summarize this as best we can but Steve's 30 minute video
has way more detail so go watch it the findings may be good news for NVIDIA who
found themselves the target of a class action lawsuit over the melting adapter
as well as a merciless tweet from an AMD
exec I wonder what burned more probably the 40 90.
NVIDIA just released a statement regarding testing of their own that is
consistent with gn's conclusion and stated they are aware of only 50 cases
of failure globally which is a drop in a bucket I guess there's no reason not to
buy a 1600 GPU now take out that second mortgage we are kidding that's a joke do
what you will speaking of things that can be hot deep fakes
okay you've seen your favorite celebrities in commercials or a trailer
for an upcoming British series and that's it nowhere sketchy at all and one
company is hoping to keep it that way Intel has developed a technology to
detect deep fakes called fake catcher makes sense which can operate in real
time to detect deep fake videos Intel much like our fans in the YouTube
comments quickly claim to be first to do this fake catcher reportedly uses
a deep learning AI that analyzes the blood flow mechanics of a face to
determine if the likeness is authentic or not and apparently it has a 96
success rate it doesn't work as well for bloodless people
Mark Zuckerberg the tech is based on photo plethismography
a technique of measuring the change in
blood flow in human tissue a real person's tissue will change color
microscopically as blood travels through all those tubes in their face the old
blood tubes they call them back in the old country and deep fakes are currently
unable to replicate this phenomenon so let's hope nobody unsavory figures out
how to do that anytime soon namely the bloodless people Elon Musk
AKA mussy Baka that's right we're still
not free of this torment and so neither are you it seems Twitter lost its
payroll department and hundreds of other employees after musk gave workers an
ultimatum on Wednesday work long hours at high intensity or leave with three
month Severance for some reason a lot of people in the finance department took
the severance and left to presumably work at a less extremely hardcore
company and it wasn't just them one report claims that less than 50 percent
of Twitter's employees decided to stick around for musk Chan's Twitter 2.0
that's the name of the anime yesterday Twitter let employees know that all
Office Buildings would be temporarily closed and badge access would be
suspended effective immediately apparently this was done to prevent
Sabotage by employees but also they're still figuring out which workers they
need to cut access for man he can't trust the people he's fired but he also
can't trust the people that are sticking around the badge manager was even fired
and had to be asked to come back can you believe that you shouldn't because it
was actually a joke but that didn't stop Elon from thanking him on Twitter
instead of getting at him for impersonation I thought he was I was all
about that right now but okay uh later that night everyone thought Twitter was
going to die and started saying goodbye for the second time in a month but this
time Elon got in on the memes too of
course the next morning he asked his followers what should Twitter do next
accomplished that what next now it's
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you can do it Junior you believe in yourself you can do it Pokemon scarlet
and violet launched today directly into the ground
while the game has extravagant ideas the execution leaves something to be desired
sometimes the camera doesn't follow you sometimes you have to battle a wall it
happens sometimes you fall into a void and sometimes it's your Pokemon but you
get a Pokemon that functions as a motorcycle so
10 out of 10 IGN T Swizzle who you may
know by her stage name of Taylor Swift caused a bit of a Ruckus when she
announced her first tour in five years and the pre-sale crashed Ticketmaster
then Ticketmaster announced that due to the massive demand during the pre-sale
the general sale would be canceled there's one rule Ticketmaster don't
with swifties Ticketmaster more like ticket student in the aftermath
Ticketmaster actually posted then deleted a blog post explaining what
happened so if subreddit seems to think they didn't like being criticized by
swifties in the comments I guess they didn't think they could be overwhelmed
with demanding Swift fans two times meat
doesn't have to be murder anymore the United States Food and Drug
Administration has approved lab-grown chicken for human consumption the
product is made in steel tanks by the company upside Foods you know lab-grown
chicken is what they called me in high school
I assume upside Foods decided to make chicken because it would be easiest
since it tastes like everything the FDA stated that they had no further
questions which means they're either confident in their decision or they're
scared they'll sound stupid if they ask like I was in university and I failed a
test so let's hope it's not that multiple small businesses have been
hacked on Facebook and Instagram and are getting charged hundreds of dollars on
PayPal apparently each I should say each it's not hundreds of dollars each yeah
apparently hackers gained access to their meta accounts add their own
accounts to the victim's ad accounts before removing the original account
owner then they get the victim banned by
posting inappropriate content so that they can't access their accounts and
alert meta that they've been hacked who came up with this the hackers are then
free to buy ads with someone else's money how do they get access to the
account in the first place well they might have bribed and employed since
more than 12 have just been fired for selling users information wait that it's
my job said Mark Zuckerberg probably he was jealous because they had because
they fired people do you remember would you go watch the video and researchers
have detected an unusual black hole merger the merger named G w190521
what does it mean for good reason didn't fit the typical model of two black holes
orbiting each other then colliding in fact it was determined that they weren't
spinning at all but flew at each other through space before crossing paths and
then eating each other in the universe's most terrifying yandere meat cute ever
discovered by science that's how I would describe it too and you'll be able to
discover more Tech news if you come back next week don't worry though I don't
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