if you're having tech problems i feel bad for you son i got 99 problems but
tech news ain't one hit me oh that's great news so we've been waiting for a
long time and it looks like we finally might have a reveal date for NVIDIA's
new line of ampere gpus this morning the official GeForce twitter account tweeted
out a short video saying 21 years 21
days indicating something exciting is happening on august 31st rumors have
been flying this way in that regarding pricing and availability of the product
stacks so we're not going to speculate on specifics but it's nice to finally
hear something from the horse's mouth so to speak however vague it may be as for
the 21 years part it's been 21 years since the very first GeForce processor
hit the market meaning that NVIDIA graphics cards are finally old enough to
drink in most the us so you know this launch is gonna be wild man epstein may
need not apply speaking of rumors another long-standing one is that
microsoft will be launching a second next-gen xbox alongside the xbox series
x this one at a lower price point the leak is of an updated version of the
xbox controller and on the side of the box you can see that it indicates
compatibility with both the series x and the series series
unsurprisingly microsoft was tight-lipped when ars technica asked
them about the leak but they didn't make any denial that the leak was real they
didn't not say it wasn't not real
what it's not yet clear exactly how the series s will stack up technology wise
to the series x or how much it will cost but it will most likely be a lower power
option without an optical drive it's also unclear what its nickname will be
we've got xbox sex
how about xbox sass xbox says
i'm getting an xbox set AMD looks to be in the process of
developing a new hybrid style CPU they've already put several dies on one
package as we've seen with their epic series of server processors but
according to a patent recently granted to AMD the company might be looking at a
CPU design similar to the big little paradigm used by ARM chips and Intel's
new lakefield hybrid processors the idea is that you'd put both high and low
performance dies on the same package with the higher performance core
handling less demanding operations to the lower performance ones saving energy
which i like it's unclear if the idea will ever actually materialize in the
market but if it does it'll be harder for me to use my phone
died as an excuse when Linus is pinging me
on the weekends riley he's everywhere audition
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i didn't ask for this we all know tiktok is facing an imminent ban in the us if a
non-chinese company doesn't buy them but it also looks like twitter might be
throwing its hat into the ring on the heels of microsoft's reported interest
however twitter is worth far less than microsoft so it's possible twitter may
not be able to afford to buy tick tock if only they'd given us an edit button
they would have the money they'd be rolling in it scrooge mcduck
it won't be long until toshiba laptops disappear from store shelves for good
and no one will care as the company has announced it's finally quitting the
notebook industry sharp is buying what's left of toshiba's laptop division
marking the end of a 35-year era of toshiba notebooks maybe that whole hd
dvd xbox thing just cursed the entire company you know
seven years bad luck twitter also is now allowing some users to view who has
quote tweeted their tweets and how many times other users have done so this will
make it easier to track engagement though it's not yet known whether the
future will get beyond the testing phase you know sometimes they just die like
are you quote tweeting me because you think i'm cool are you trying to make me
look dumb
although parts of the world have reopened to various degrees many of us
are still spending lots of time at home and as such video game sales are still
surging in the us total spending on gaming hit 11.6 billion dollars during
q2 up from the previous record of 10.9 billion set during this year's q1 just
make sure you're not blowing all your money on stuff like horse armor but it
looks cool and you probably noticed the empty husks
of former sears and jc penney stores if
you walked around a mall in the us lately but amazon is reportedly interested in taking over those spaces
and using them as distribution centers because why not twist if you've already
stabbed i love the irony of how amazon might end
up both killing at killing shopping malls and saving them at the same time
but at what cost every day low prices that's our show for
today so come back on wednesday for more tech news and even more problems i
really can't overstate how many problems we have that are not tech news so many
problems but tech news is easy
son yes i feel bad for you oh