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NVIDIA you are you are so sneaky you thought we
wouldn't notice that you're reducing the cryptocurrency mining efficiency of the
rtx 3060 and announcing a new product
line of GPU's dedicated specifically to mining but we did notice
cnvidia your big mistake was publishing a blog post announcing those two things
big oof these new cmps or cryptocurrency
mining processors don't support graphics output and are essentially meant to be a
piece of bait dangled out in front so the crypto miners bite at it while
sparing the tender young gaming gpus for the rest of us but the miners won't want
those gaming ones anyway because of that mining efficiency limiter that is
apparently so robust that NVIDIA claims it cannot be hacked
you see it's a secure handshake between the driver the silicon and the BIOS and
walls like those have frankly speaking never been breached
so we've got miners upset that NVIDIA is dictating what you can or can't do with
your own hardware we've got gamers upset that this probably won't do anything to
help the GPU stock shortage and we've got jensen who's upset because he's all
like sitting on his motorbike with his leather jacket like flipping his shades
like you're welcome whoa he's so cool
and you'll never believe this but chrome os has overtaken macOS as the second
most used operating system in the pc space after Windows despite being worse
than well both of the other ones this news comes from mike shire an analyst
for the market research firm idc who confirmed the findings to geek wire
while chrome os devices have outsold macs in single quarters before 2020 is
the first full year where chromebooks consistently took second place
interestingly while you could see this as a loss for apple it's actually a
bigger blow for microsoft in 2020 market
share for chrome os grew from 6.4 to 10.8 percent with macOS actually also
growing slightly from 6.7 to 7.5
Windows meanwhile dropped from 85.4 to 80.5 so looks like google's strategy of
brainwashing students with free access to chromebooks is working i wish i had
thought of it Linus os we could call it Linux
and canada may join australia and facing off against facebook canadian heritage
minister stephen gilbeau told reporters that he is working on legislation that
would require giant platforms like google and facebook to pay news
publishers to link to their content now because of the wait because why those
laws are apparently a heritage thing yeah totally now we canadians don't
traditionally insert ourselves into conflicts unless someone insults the
village moose but gilbeau said that canada is at the forefront of this
battle uh right behind australia that is
where facebook has uh already blocked all news posts in an attempt to deter
the country from passing their link tax legislation for that matter france is
deeply embroiled in this too right hold the door facebook's move has
been heavily criticized for being unreasonably heavy-handed the newsband
ended up also blocking some government health pages for example which users
depend on for information about covid19
great and now we've signed up for this i mean the prospect of using bing was
funny when we were talking about australia where their internet barely works anyway but
now it's it's not
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and by the way just to be clear this has nothing to do with valve and epic and
some kind of secret pc gamer alliance i'm not convinced there's any love lost
between those two it's just that apple's request was overreaching at best
french hardware site cow kotlin claims to have inside information that AMD will
launch the Radeon rx 6700xt on march 18th the card is supposed to
have 12 gigabytes of memory 40 ray accelerators and be available in
limited quantities oh AMD you know you should really talk
to NVIDIA about throwing an unhackable crypto limiter on there i heard i heard
they're unhackable and there's some more leaks chinese
language site hke pc claims that they know that Intel's 11th gen rocket lake
desktop processors will launch on march 15th and that it'll be a hardware launch
that's the kind with availability in store it won't be bad i think it'll be
fine yeah it's 14 nanometers so like lots of that going around
hey got em LTT Store processor pillows go buy them i went off script so that
didn't really work nasa successfully landed the perseverance rover on mars
yesterday with a rocket-powered platform that looks more than a little like green
goblin's glider from spider-man cool but you know what's even cooler than
spider-man pictures of the martian surface and you know what's better than
that this thing which is the latest entry in the
category of fabric-covered robots designed to remind you of a cat except
this one called the nicobo doesn't just make purring sounds and wag its tail it
also farts whenever it wants it just it just lets
them rip i mean what you think there's like an app where you can control how
often it farts you fool it's a cat analog it does is it
pleases it's descended from the noble hunters of the plane its fart impulses
cannot be contained it is 360 dollars
why don't you just get a cat they are like no work at all unlike this show
which is a lot of work which is why we won't have another one for you until monday but i promise there will be more
stories about farts less
there will be more