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Anyone finds out? I know you snitched. Details on MSI's upcoming gaming handheld have leaked
and now we know all of its embarrassing secrets. At least we hope we do for MSI's sake.
Less than a day after the company teased the device all over social media with fleeting glimpses,
full images leaked on Twitter showing what looks like an ROG ally going through an emo phase.
Listen to too much my chemical romance. The device is called claw.
And that was certainly a choice. But an even bolder decision was choosing Intel
to power the device's graphics. It will rely on but eight ARC Alchemist XE cores
on the Core Ultra 7 155H, which has six P cores,
eight E cores and two of the new low power cores
designed to be even more E than the normal E cores.
The claw won't be hurting from memory though, since the device will allegedly sport
a whopping 32 gigabytes of RAM, at least according to the model
that was tested on Geekbench. Unfortunately, we don't know anything about the display,
but based on the rest of the device's aesthetic, I'm guessing it's strictly black and white.
Or sepia when it's feeling artistic. NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 40 series super cards
have had their prices linked in my God. They're almost reasonable.
The familiar YouTube leaker Moors Law is Dead has claimed to have spoken to a source at NVIDIA
that has said at launch, the 4070 super will be $599.
And the 4070 Ti super will be $799.
The original MSRPs of their non super counterparts.
Meanwhile, the 4080 super may be launching for $200 less
than the original 4080, but that might not be the case.
I mean, none of this might be the case. But Moors Law says both a distributor
and a GPU manufacturer cooperated the MSRPs
for the 4070 and 4070 Ti supers.
But there was some uncertainty about the 4080 super. Ideally, this is just a music communication
and NVIDIA has started to relearn how GPU prices work.
Allegedly, the 4070 Ti super and the 4080 super
will replace their uncaped variants. While the 4070 non super will stick around
at a new official MSRP of 549. 50 host macaroos.
Allegedly, hopefully with the power uplift of the super cards, the price of performance
of the new cards will make buying an NVIDIA GPU more comparable with buying AMD card
and less comparable with putting $800 in a wood shipper.
Microsoft has decided that keyboards need a dedicated button for AI.
Damn it. It's called the co-pilot key, bringing the number of Microsoft products named co-pilot
up to roughly a thousand and six. According to Microsoft's video announcing the key,
today begins the era of the AI PC.
Keep in mind that not a single keyboard with the co-pilot key has been released yet.
It's kind of like saying, today's the day I begin my diet with the drumstick in your mouth.
You decide if I'm talking about ice cream or chicken. Microsoft's consumer chief marketing officer,
Yusuf Mehdi, compared the co-pilot key to the introduction of the Windows key.
I think that's a fair comparison, except that the Windows key got added to the keyboard.
It looks like the co-pilot key will replace an existing key.
First AI takes our jabs and now they're taking our keyboard layouts.
They're trying to kill the right control key. Resist.
Hey look, it's five quick bits and they're heading right for us.
No. Qualcomm has unveiled its new Snapdragon XR2 Plus chip
for mixed reality headsets. The company says will compete
with Apple's upcoming Vision Pro, but at a lower price.
Made in collaboration with Samsung and Google, Qualcomm claims the XR2 Plus will be able
to run over 12 HD cameras, supports 4.3K per eye resolution at 90 frames per second
and has significant speed improvements over their last chip.
We'll probably learn more at Samsung's unpacked event, in San Jose, after which Qualcomm and Samsung
will presumably drive over to Apple's Cupertino headquarters,
ring the doorbell and then watch from the bushes as Tim Apple stomps out a flaming bag of dog.
What's this fire here? Oh, geez, it's on my shoe. Oh, geez, Barbara, get back.
Incase will be resurrecting the Microsoft branded accessories that Microsoft themselves discontinued last year,
so they could focus on their more expensive Surface branded accessories.
Thanks to Incase's foul necromancy, these freshly revived accessories
will be identical in design, supply chain, and components to the canceled cadavers.
According to Incase, their design by Microsoft line
will be available sometime later this year, which could be one of like 360 days.
No rush, deciding the necronomic on takes time. Researchers say that they've created
a working semiconductor out of graphene. Remember that buzzword?
And you should maybe be cautiously excited about it. As technology hits the physical limitations of silicon,
many experts have been concerned about the continued progress of electronics,
but graphene has properties that could make it a superior successor to silicon.
This new semiconductor can move electrons at higher speeds, is more efficient,
and crucially is still compatible with standard microelectronics manufacturing.
Plus, it isn't made out of sand, which is coarse and rough and irritating, gets everywhere.
A Polish train manufacturer, Noog, is under investigation for allegedly breaking
its own trains after they've been serviced at a competitor's facility.
A company called SPS received massive fines
after Noog trains they serviced permanently shut down.
SPS then hired a hacking collective called Dragon Sector to investigate.
They discovered the trains had been programmed with an idle timer that would brick them
if they didn't move for 10 days. Nevog. Nevog.
Then, Nevog fixed the issue by extending the timer
to 21 days and having the train lock, if it stayed at a certain geographic location
that happened to be the location of competing service centers.
Now, Nevog is under investigation by Poland's competition watchdog.
I guess in modern day Poland, trains rob you!
And steamboat Willie. The early Mickey Mouse cartoon
that notoriously fell into public domain on Monday this week is apparently still being copyright struck
on YouTube on behalf of Disney. Voice actor and comedian Brock Baker uploaded
his own parody dub of the cartoon yesterday only to have it immediately demonetized.
Even though I know, you know, and Disney definitely knows
that early Mickey is not public property. I guess Disney's lawyers forgot to remove steamboat Willie
from their automatic copyright strike database because they were busy hibernating
in their Scrooge McDuck money bits. Many lawyers die every year across like coins.
And you don't die before Monday, come back for more tech news. Well, we're gonna be here.
Honestly, that should be automatic by now.