oh uh did some did someone ask for some tech news in here I I could have sworn I
was it you was
it why aren't you saying anything turns out that little chomecast outage we
briefly covered in a quick bit on Monday was a bigger deal than it seemed as
today marked the fourth day owners were unable to use their second gen
chromecasts and chomecast audio devices
Google quickly promised users they were working on a fix when all this news
broke though they still haven't figured it out so they've issued an apology
which is great I'll forward that over to my friends who messaged me looking for
answers after probably spending hours troubleshooting their parents chomecast
look at their faces that I won't show to you for privacy re imagine it Google
also helpfully instructed users to not factory reset their devices a day after
most of them probably already tried that especially this person who says Google
told them to factory reset it that's how
Google figured out it was bad sacrificial lamb but why why all of this
pain well according to Reddit user madh
Hatter 369 the issue is most definitely
due to one of the chomecast certificates
having an expiry date of March 9th 2025
the day all of this went down ah if only
there was some way to predict this uh to be fair to Google though the second gen
chomecast launched 10 years ago and it is a Google product at the time they
probably thought they'd let it live a few years at most before taking it out
back themselves hey you want to hear about tech that's working great though
AMD's ryzen 9950 x3d which launched
yesterday for $700 making it the most
expensive mainstream processor on the market right now but reviewers are
making it look like it's also the best on the market marrying the gaming
performance of the 8 core ryzen 7 9800
x3d with productivity chops that beat
the 16 core 9950 X non-3d in Jake's
shortcircuit video which is not a review
okay he's just vibing the 9800 x3d pulled slightly ahead in games on
average with other outlets finding similar results but the 9950 x3d was a
clear leader in multicore optimized applications except apparently for
cinebench where the Intel core Ultra 9
285k randomly pulled ahead get out of
there you're not supposed to that's not sit down now AMD also launched the ryzen
9 9900 x3d yesterday for 600 bucks but
as Leo from kit Guru points out this seems to be another example of Team
Red's tactic of launching a Fall Guy
product to emphasize how good of a deal the more expensive one is which works
great if you want customers to like you but not too too much they can be clingy
speaking of six CPUs reviews also went
up for Apple's new M4 powered MacBook Air with reviewers praising yet another
Apple s so that can run circles around basically any Windows laptop in its
class without using any fans for cooling
it's embarrassing and it makes me feel bad although hold up PC mag had the Acer
Swift ai14 powered by a ryzen AI 9 365
beat the M4 MacBook Air in cinebench
there's that weird cinebench result again either something's wonky with that
bench mark or this laptop did better cuz it has AI in its name it's enough for
investors reviews were similarly positive for the other chip
configurations Apple launched for the Mac Studio the M3 Ultra is being hailed
as the most powerful s so apples ever launched mostly because of its 32 CPU
cores and support for up to 512 GB of unified RAM the also just launched M4
Max has higher single core performance but Max is out at 16 CPU cores and 256
gigs of RAM but Apple surprisingly improved on something else this week
their receptiveness to criticism the company added a disclaimer on their
iPhone 16 series product pages saying that series cool AI update will be
coming later after the company was criticized for continuing to advertise
AI Siri as if she was in the room with us right now if she was she'd probably
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directly to me when I'm actually doing the quick bits but I can't help thinking
that you could if you just tried a little harder you know just just o
lookie here onleaks has provided Android headlines with exclusive renders of
Google's upcoming pixel 10 featuring three rear cameras a privilege
previously reserved for only the pro tier pixel models but I'll do you one
better said YouTuber Alexis Garza who posted a short showing the pixel 9A a
which is expected to arrive later this month it's little sausage shaped camera
module looks kind of perfect next to the bag of wet sausages Alexis was holding
which I think I'll soon learn are not sausages but rather another kind of wet
oblong snack of some kind now's your chance I'm going to
check the comments netic Labs has sold
the IP rights and development teams behind location-based games Pokémon go
Pikmin Blom and Monster Hunter now to
Saudi Investment Company scopely for $3.5 billion scopely also owns Monopoly
go which is kind of perfect Niantic said the move will ensure these games have
the long-term support needed to be forever games that players can continue
to be obsessed with on their deathbed and into the Beyond turns out you can
take it with you Google Deep Mind has announced its latest Gemma 3 smallish
model which it says is the best model you can run on a single GPU although
they mean a single NVIDIA h100 accelerator not the gaming gpus that you
can't buy right now Google also announced Gemini robotics a suite of
multimodal models that can enable greater dexterity in robots so they can
fold origami zip things up struggle to
clean up your desk as you actively make it messy and even follow directions when
told to slam dunk a tiny baset basketball without being trained for
that situation specifically although maybe it should have been because with
that little gentle drop this robot wasn't exactly channeling LeBron okay so
Nintendo switch emulator citen has dropped a new update adding multiplayer
support in the 2025 equivalent of a neanderthal heading out to hunt a
mammoth with nothing but his bare hands sure the citen team has a notice on
their website saying they don't condone piracy which will probably make
Nintendo's lawyers hesitate just long enough for the devs to realize they've
made a mistake but what a thrill and a man with
an artificial heart implant survived a 100 days outside of hospital before he
was able to get a donated heart successfully implanted according to the
artificial heart maker Australian company bacor the device called the
total artificial heart is made of metal and uses a magnetic constantly powered
rotor to push blood throughout the body
which results in its user having no pulse rendering Untold numbers of Love
song lyrics about heartbeats meaningless is the trade-off really worth it yeah
probably it's also incredibly worth it to come back here on Friday for more
Tech news a statement I can only assume you agree with unless you say otherwise
write this second man I'm not hearing
anything so so