daddy's home that's right i'm back from pat leave because i hate my family oh
don't call yourself daddy that's i like working right in front of me Intel's
been going on a bit of a promo tour for their arc graphics cards they even
waltzed onto our set uninvited on friday
very rude so maybe it's not exactly a coincidence that a presentation slide
listing prices and performance tiers for the whole lineup of Intel gpus has
strategically leaked the slide indicates you'll be paying fewer than 400 us
dollars for Intel's flagship a770 it'll compete with the rtx 3060 ti and the
Radeon 6650xt so flagship might be
stretching it a little just below the a770 sits the a750 which looks like
it'll go toe-to-toe with the 3060 and 6600 at slightly lower cost assuming
that this slide is true which you should probably not do but we will for fun
Intel may be compensating for the disappointing benchmarks we've seen so
far by actually choosing reasonable prices for their cars huh
it's enough to make a gamer want to see an arc a780
but Intel has shot down rumors that a higher end card that would compete in
the enthusiast market would exist not because they can't make
it of course oh yeah they don't want it they just don't feel like it something's
so pushy leave me alone just chill mostly pretty reliable apple leaker mark
german has said that new macbook pros featuring apple's new m2 chip are in the
works and unlike the currently available 13-inch macbook pro they might actually
be worth buying oh what got them one will be a 14-inch
model while the other will have a 16-inch display and while it sounds like
we shouldn't expect much in terms of different design or outward features
apple appears to be hoping the new m2 pro and m2 max variants will be enough
to entice prospective buyers if you bought one last year upgrade already
because otherwise it's just it's like the same laptop and not only
that but we could also be getting a new mac pro with an m2x stream extreme
is that real yeah there was no m1 extreme it went m1 then m1 pro max and
ultra which was two m1 maxes put together uh so what's an extreme fold it
into a paper airplane everyone's talking about the images from the james webb
telescope and with how detailed they are you might think it has a crap ton of
onboard storage but according to a new ieee report it only has 68 Gigabyte SSD
which is smaller than what's probably sitting in your computer or phone right
now oh don't assume you're minimalist you're so much better than this stupid
satellite that's named after a different james but nasa chose the storage system
because it was specifically designed to withstand the rigors of space which are
so rigorous and given that it sends all the data back to earth once a day using
a satellite band connection it actually doesn't need a ton of storage is this
TechLinked or Techquickie one thing to keep an eye on though is
that nasa expects the capacity to fall to 60 gigabytes in 10 years due to both
driveware and the impact of space radiation so rigorous
hopefully the drive has trim enabled hopefully it gains some superpowers from
that cosmic like the fantastic four
yeah yeah john krazan
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lab today quick bits are just one way of connecting to the great cosmic mystery
of tech news there are other ways but they're obnoxious
in the ever spinning rumor mill regarding the rtx 4000 series we've got
another one for you it's now being claimed by a leaker that the only card
we might see before the end of the year is the rtx 4090 while everything further
down the product stack will be delayed until 23. the delay is likely being
caused by oversupply of current gen gpus in a natural systemic process that
occurs without any human intervention that may or may not make NVIDIA more
money nothing we can do hey at least you can buy something that's true the chair
of the fcc wants to increase america's broadband standard to 100 megabits down
and 20 up from the current mark which is 20 down and three up pretty ambitious
for a chair the old standard had been in place since early 2015 and growth in
both overall data usage and work from home has caught the fcc's eye if the
standard has increased the fcc can take more action to promote deployment but
current political deadlock makes it unclear when that will ever happen this
could have been a statement about any policy change ever usually they get so
much done yeah speaking of politics two u.s representatives have asked the
federal trade commission that's the ftc reilly to take harder action against vpn
services that misrepresent how well they protect user privacy their concerns
revolve not just around deceptive advertising but also that it's currently
challenging to audit any claims vpns make but it's not clear if or when the
ftc will actually do anything about it again broadly applicable i mean
it's like the vpns are in office
instagram has rolled out a feature allowing users to make purchases from
chats the idea is that you can ping an account with any questions about
products and if you want to buy check out directly inside the
conversation baby don't add to cart add to chat
coincidentally i've also set up all my normal conversations with my friends
this way insert coin to check my availability for pub night are you
available and the mechanical hard drive continues to get pushed out of the market as only
45 million drives were shipped in the second quarter of this year and while
that sounds like a lot of drives it's 33
percent fewer than last year wow
repeating of course although it isn't likely that the hard
drive will disappear completely anytime soon it could get pretty close so hold
your spinners tight savor these moments something else and that's the end
and you can savor tech news again on wednesday but for today you must stop
savoring swallow it already damn it oh no i already savored