EVGA might be pulling out even further from the PC business,
according to rumors about their motherboard team resigning.
What would they tell the children boards? I'm James Shrive, this is TechLinked,
and this is a forum post from Korean overclocker, Safedisk, who claims the entire EVGA Taiwan team,
including fellow overclocker, Kingpin, have resigned,
which could force the company to leave the motherboard market altogether.
As a rumor, it almost makes too much sense, since it's been just short of a year
since EVGA announced they would no longer be making GPUs,
and GPUs and motherboards are like peanut butter and jam. Peas and carrots.
They taste delicious between bread. However, workers at EVGA Spain told Tech Power-Up,
it's just another day at the office. Shortly before EVGA's PR team told Linus Meagrup
that these resignation reports are rumors, and everyone at the Taiwan office is still there,
high-fiving and building electronics. They probably even have a beer cart on Fridays.
There's still room for doubt, though. It's been pointed out on Reddit and several forums
that the company's Supernova XC power supplies come with only a three-year warranty.
Now, two to seven years shorter than usual. I mean, maybe these new PSUs are just huge piles of shit,
but there's also the fact that Tech Jesus, Steve Burke over at Gamers Next
has interviewed EVGA's motherboard BIOS team along with Kingpin, who answered Steve's question
about future projects by saying, there is no next project,
as he and the BIOS team soon won't be colleagues anymore.
For some reason, no one's interpreting this statement in a morbid way.
Oh, he's definitely killing the whole team. So we'll wait for further details.
Instead of assuming Kingpin might be taking inspiration from his Marvel counterpart.
Very few of NVIDIA's ad and board partners are interested in promoting the upcoming
4060 Ti 16 Gigabyte version. This is according to Andreas Schilling,
an editor at Germany's Hardware Lux, who has an unfortunate name for this business,
but who also tweeted that he had heard this personally from several NVIDIA partners,
while also pointing out that there are fewer models of the 16 Gigabyte version,
compared to the already available eight Gigabyte version. And who can blame them after the 4060 and 4060 Ti 8 Gigabyte
were received about as warmly as one would receive being shived with an icicle during a visit from your in-laws,
who are from the Northwest Territories, that's part of Canada. We'll throw them under the bus, eh?
Under the toboggan. The eight Gigabyte 4060 Ti has already received
a price cut in Europe at Spanish retailer Coolmod,
two Spain mentions, and so has the 4060, just one week after launch.
It's possible this epidemic of more reasonable prices for NVIDIA's underwhelming cards
will spread across the pond. Partner cards priced above MSRP
have already started dropping in the US, so it's possible the MSRP itself may drop as well.
With all this background information, it's pretty obvious that AIB partners
wouldn't be jumping out of their pants to promote and release another card
that they'll eventually have to sell at razor-thin margins. Anyone can crack that case, not just genius detectives
like Tony Shalub's monk from their award-winning TV shows
of the same name, which I actually watched. It's a jungle out there.
I don't know why. And Meta's Twitter rival, Threads,
launched this Wednesday and already has 70 million users
who I imagine are enjoying familiar features like following people, writing little messages,
and having limits opposed on how many times you can do certain things.
Maybe the familiarity is why Twitter threatened Mark Zuckerberg
with legal action. Threads gets threats. A lawyer for Twitter, excuse me, I mean, XCorp,
the successor in interest to Twitter, sent a letter to the Zuck,
who was probably doing no-gee-jiu-jitsu when he received it. The letter CC'd Elon, which you can do in letters,
and ended with the valediction, very truly yours,
which sounds kind of hot for a legal threat. I think that means like I'm real right now.
Maybe lawsuits are how billionaires flirt. Elon, of course, had to tweet about the story
since based on the letter, he believes Meta cheated by maliciously hiring dozens of former Twitter employees
after Elon fired them all. But Twitter's former workforce
still can't get their old boss out of their minds and I assume that's why they are suing Musk again.
This time they're looking for Twitter to foot the bill for the arbitration cost
from lawsuit classic. He's entitled employees, man.
Elon already apologized last year. What, now you want them to pay for the fees Twitter
is required to pay based on the clauses of the arbitration firm they selected?
How is that fair? Pull yourself up by your boat straps.
Oh my God, you guys. Are you threatening me? They're probably pedo guys.
For legal reasons, anyone who lost fingers on July 4th can only watch an amount of quick bits equal in number
to their remaining digits averaged over both hands.
Average, not median. The European Commission has released the first seven companies
that meet the definition of gatekeeper under the Digital Markets Act.
It includes usual suspects like Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple.
And next year, online travel agency, Booking.com will join the club.
Gonna be a bit of a weird eighth wheel situation.
If the EU confirms the gatekeeper designation, affected companies will face regulations
like needing to make their messaging apps interoperate with rivals or allowing users to decide
what apps are pre-installed on their devices. I can't wait until I can finally use iMessage on Booking.com
or not use iMessage on Tinder dates. I go on them still, I'm bad.
I don't, I'm lame. A French bill that would let police surveil suspects
through the cameras, mics, and GPS systems of their own phones or other devices
is close to becoming law. In what promises to be a perfect answer
to ongoing protests about police conduct, a judge will have to approve the surveillance
which will be limited to serious cases and maximum surveillance length of six months.
Peanuts. And don't worry, French MPs added amendments
to exclude sensitive professions from being surveilled, such as doctors, lawyers, and of course MPs.
But officials say this is nothing like 1984, probably because that was almost 40 years ago, guys,
and British. Amazon's planned acquisition of RoombaMaker iRobot
is facing scrutiny from the European Union. No, this didn't go through years ago as your mind thought.
The EU feels that the planned $1.7 billion buyout
could affect the competition in the robot vacuum cleaner market.
All two of the other companies. But apparently, like everyone else,
they're not concerned with Amazon gaining access to the home maps generated by Roombas
or the front-facing cameras on the newest models. I mean, when was the last time sharing intimate data
with tech giants had terrible ramifications? Cambridge Analytica, Amazon giving information to police.
This year, weeks ago. When Apple launches the Vision Pro headset next year,
buyers will be required to make an in-store appointment
so they can be taught how to use it to make sure it's fitted properly.
After all, these people will be buying a $3,500 first-gen product.
They're not exactly geniuses. The smart people point and laugh from the sidelines.
Everybody knows that. This info comes from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who also wrote that the fitting process
will involve fitting optional prescription lenses,
different-sized light seals and multiple head straps.
You're gonna come out of there looking like a minimalist BDSM enjoyer.
But at least he'll be one of the first to arrive in the place Apple refuses to call the metaverse.
They call it the orchard. Who's your daddy now? It's Tim Cook. I'm in the core.
And former Apple design chief, Joni Ive, recently completed his first hardware project
since leaving the multi-trillion dollar fruit company and starting his own design firm, Love Form.
Love From? Mine was better. The product in question is a turntable made in collaboration
with British audio brand, Lynn, to celebrate the company's 50th anniversary.
I've described this opportunity as a very gentle and modest project for us.
And I just think that's beautiful. Anyway, that turntable is $60,000.
Who cares? But the experience of tech news is priceless.
So come back on Monday when we launch our next episode. There will be blue.
There will be orange. There will be squares. What more do you need?