WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.320 Warning, the tech you are about to see may shock you if you drag your feet on carpet 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:14.160 and then touch it. So don't do that. NVIDIA's frame generation and AMD's rival Fluid Motion Frame technology have been used 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:19.280 simultaneously to achieve up to three times the performance compared to gaming at native 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:23.960 resolution, or so claims South Korean tech outlet QuasarZone. 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:29.160 Team Red and Green working together is unnatural, but also festive. 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.520 It's December 1st. 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:39.640 That 3X boost in average frame rate was observed in Cyberpunk 2077 at native 4K and Ultra settings, 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:44.280 but impressive uplifts were also seen in Call of Duty and Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart. 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:52.640 To pull this off, the QuasarZone team plugged an RTX 4090 and an RX 6600 into the same PC, 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.560 installed both of their drivers, then hooked up the primary display to the 6600, while 00:00:57.560 --> 00:01:02.000 the 4090 was set as the primary GPU in Windows. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:08.160 That meant the 4090's post-frame-gen output passed through the 6600 and got its frames 00:01:08.160 --> 00:01:12.400 fluidly motioned, which looks like this, I imagine. 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:17.880 Of course, this incredible setup is also horribly impractical, since you'd need a motherboard 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:25.160 with two X16 PCIe slots and enough space for a 4090 plus an additional GPU and enough juice 00:01:25.160 --> 00:01:33.360 for both of them. On top of that, fluid motion frames is in beta, meaning crashes may occur, and the feature 00:01:33.360 --> 00:01:39.160 deactivates during fast movement, leading to massive frame drops during motion, ironically 00:01:39.160 --> 00:01:42.880 making said motion frames incredibly unfluid. 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:48.640 While the average frame rate was pretty good, the 1% lows either barely increase or actually 00:01:48.640 --> 00:01:55.480 decrease. On top of that, both frame-generating solutions can introduce visual artifacts and increase 00:01:55.480 --> 00:02:01.600 input lag. So if you try this at home, you'll be spending a lot of time and money to potentially make 00:02:01.600 --> 00:02:05.480 yourself sick. But hey, that's what being a gamer is all about. 00:02:07.480 --> 00:02:12.840 Earlier this week, Elon Musk hosted Tesla's Cybertruck Delivery presentation, where he 00:02:12.840 --> 00:02:18.240 let 10 lucky customers drive away in the newly launched vehicle, while taking a delightful 00:02:18.240 --> 00:02:22.120 break from letting himself drive away Twitter's advertisers. 00:02:22.320 --> 00:02:27.720 Despite Musk promising the event will be the biggest product launch by far on Earth this 00:02:27.720 --> 00:02:32.640 year, many Cybertruck enthusiasts found the event quote, cringe. 00:02:32.640 --> 00:02:37.800 And not just because they decided to repeat 2019's infamous metal ball window demo with 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:41.440 a half-hearted baseball pitch. The spirit of it was intact. 00:02:41.440 --> 00:02:46.480 As of now, two versions of the finalized Cybertruck are currently available, a dual motor configuration 00:02:46.480 --> 00:02:52.360 for $80,000 and a tri-motor performance variant for $100,000. 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:57.400 Any mathematicians in the audience may surmise that neither of those numbers are equal to 00:02:57.400 --> 00:03:01.040 the promised $40,000 starting price back in 2019. 00:03:01.040 --> 00:03:04.480 Hey, wait a second. And it's not just a price difference either. 00:03:04.480 --> 00:03:08.960 Both the total carry weight and the mileage range of the Cybertruck are noticeably lower 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.760 than what was originally advertised, leading many to reconsider buying the EV. 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:18.360 Though to be fair to Tesla, there is a range extender option for the Cybertruck, and all 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:23.640 it will cost you, other than the additional cost, is more of the truck's carry weight 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:28.600 and about half of the available bed space. And why would you need either of those things in a pickup truck? 00:03:28.600 --> 00:03:37.040 It's just to look cool. An NVIDIA is rumored to be launching a new GPU in China called the RTX 4090D that complies 00:03:37.040 --> 00:03:45.600 with the US's Chinese export policies. Apparently, the reason the 4090 non-D isn't allowed in China is due to its total processing 00:03:45.600 --> 00:03:51.600 performance, or TBP, being rated above 4,800 trillions of operations per second, also known 00:03:51.600 --> 00:04:00.920 as a lot. To account for this, leaks suggest the D will use an AD 102-250 GPU rather than the AD 102-300 00:04:00.920 --> 00:04:03.920 on the original non-D. That's my reference. 00:04:03.920 --> 00:04:12.320 I thought it was vanilla swirl. Given that back in March, NVIDIA changed the 4090's die to an AD 102-301, which has 00:04:12.320 --> 00:04:18.600 a slightly lower voltage maximum, going from 300 to 250 probably represents a big change. 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:23.200 While we don't yet know for sure, it's possible that not only will the CUDA core performance 00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:28.040 be affected, but the TENSOR core performance will be as well if the change is this significant. 00:04:28.040 --> 00:04:32.960 This would make sense since TENSOR cores affect the card's AI capabilities, and AI performance 00:04:32.960 --> 00:04:39.240 is a major factor in these export restrictions. Another unknown is how the card will compare to the 4080 Super that is rumored to come 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:46.640 out in January. What we do know is that however much the 4090 D costs, it'll be too much. 00:04:46.640 --> 00:04:50.400 Just want to play some games, NVIDIA. It was the bits of times. 00:04:50.400 --> 00:04:56.240 It was the quickest of times. Charles Dickens said that once. 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:01.400 Google's Threat Analysis Group has discovered several massive and actively exploited vulnerabilities 00:05:01.400 --> 00:05:06.800 in Chrome and Apple's WebKit in a 48-hour span. 00:05:06.800 --> 00:05:11.520 On Thursday, Apple patched the flaws in WebKit, one that allowed hackers to access sensitive 00:05:11.520 --> 00:05:15.960 information and another that could make vulnerable devices execute malicious code. 00:05:15.960 --> 00:05:20.520 Google patched seven Chrome vulnerabilities back on Tuesday, one of which already had 00:05:20.520 --> 00:05:24.640 exploits available in the wild, though the company said nothing else about it. 00:05:24.640 --> 00:05:28.360 It's probably for the best, since Google doesn't want to help someone else get access 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:34.600 to your private information. They don't need the competition. That's for their special information box that they keep under their bed. 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:39.840 The ROG Ally just got way better, according to the newest episode of the official ROG 00:05:39.840 --> 00:05:48.480 podcast, a thing I just learned exists. According to that pod, the Ally now has gyroscope support and control customization options, 00:05:48.480 --> 00:05:51.960 allowing you to individually adjust the sensitivity of each joystick. 00:05:51.960 --> 00:05:55.720 There's also control calibration options, so you can recalibrate the joysticks to account 00:05:55.720 --> 00:06:02.680 for dead zones that may develop over time. Or you could install a compatible third-party Hall Effect joysticks and never have to think 00:06:02.680 --> 00:06:07.560 about that ever until the end of time, basically. It's nice to have options, though. 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:14.280 An AI-powered tool from Google DeepMind called Nome has predicted recipes for 2.2 million 00:06:14.280 --> 00:06:20.080 new crystals, with 380,000 of those being stable enough to potentially enable the development 00:06:20.080 --> 00:06:23.560 of new superconductors, batteries, computer chips, and more. 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:29.040 Google says discovering this amount of recipes would have taken 800 years using normal, squishy 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:33.000 human intelligence, and even longer to cook the darn things. 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:37.800 Just clean the kitchen and now there's vanadium everywhere, vanadium? 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:43.600 Even better, Google's giving researchers free access to the data, and 736 of the materials 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:51.040 are being synthesized and tested right now. So don't you worry, chatGPT will have an indestructible physical body soon enough. 00:06:51.040 --> 00:06:58.840 You will not be able to defeat them. But at Tufts University and Harvard have created itty-bitty self-assembling robots made out 00:06:58.840 --> 00:07:04.440 of hundreds of cultured human trachea cells that they're calling anthrobots. 00:07:04.440 --> 00:07:10.720 In the lab, these tiny transformers were able to combine into a superbot to repair a scratch 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:14.760 in a layer of neural tissue without any need for genetic manipulation. 00:07:14.760 --> 00:07:18.560 Maybe one day they'll be used to heal and regrow parts of patients' bodies, and to 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:23.000 fight the equally tiny disease-acons that secretly cause all sickness. 00:07:23.000 --> 00:07:31.400 I liked it. And Google has issued an apology to the dozens of drivers and families that Google Maps mistakenly 00:07:31.400 --> 00:07:36.520 directed down an otherwise abandoned dirt road in the Mojave Desert, ostensibly to 00:07:36.520 --> 00:07:42.840 avoid a dust storm. The new route was supposed to shave 50 minutes off their trip, but instead it just led to 00:07:42.840 --> 00:07:47.400 a washed out dead end and wrecked one vehicle badly enough that it had to be towed. 00:07:47.400 --> 00:07:51.040 This is just like in the book of Exodus, when the Israelites are wandering the desert, but 00:07:51.040 --> 00:08:01.800 every few minutes Moses goes, ding, recalculating, and then Moses stares an ocean here. 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:05.400 But there's no need to recalculate when I direct you to come back on Monday for more 00:08:05.400 --> 00:08:08.400 tech news. We won't wreck your car. I mean, we'll try. 00:08:08.400 --> 00:08:09.900 No promises. Why'd you bring your car?