WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.480 Starfield is now officially playable by gamers who bought the premium edition, 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:09.120 as long as they didn't also buy an Intel Arc graphics card. 00:00:09.120 --> 00:00:14.640 Team Blue's GPUs are refusing to run the game, probably in protest against the boundaries on 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:19.040 planetary landings. I'm James Strive, this is TechLinked, and these are posts by Redditors 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:25.680 who tried to play Starfield on their Arc A770s and A750s, only to be met with a jumbled mess of 00:00:25.760 --> 00:00:30.880 textures or simply a very angry task manager. On the platform that we're going to continue 00:00:30.880 --> 00:00:36.560 referring to as Twitter, Intel said that they are aware of the issues with Starfield, 00:00:36.560 --> 00:00:40.960 perhaps because they may have just learned that they're supposed to release a driver 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:44.960 to optimize the GPU's performance for one of the biggest game launches of the year. 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:50.160 They just found this out now! AMD released theirs yesterday, while NVIDIA, despite 00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:55.040 Bethesda choosing AMD as the game's official PC partner, had theirs out over a week ago. 00:00:55.040 --> 00:01:01.120 Even unpaid mod developers are more on the Starfield ball than Intel, with modern pure dark, 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:06.960 having already created a way to swap out AMD's FSR2 upscaling with NVIDIA's DLSS. 00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:11.200 You know, the tech that AMD refuses to say whether Starfield is allowed to officially support, 00:01:11.200 --> 00:01:15.520 but as Redditor brand underscore momentum points out, should we be calling out these 00:01:15.520 --> 00:01:21.280 companies for messing with Starfield's launch, or the people who paid an extra $30 to play a game 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:25.920 five days early? It's like $6 a day, I'd bet. 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:31.040 Lenovo has officially unveiled the Legion Go handheld, as well as the Legion glasses, 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:37.600 which I did not ask for nor want. I've already spoken to them about this. It's clear from the Go specs that Lenovo is gunning for the ROG ally. 00:01:37.600 --> 00:01:43.920 But in this economy, the more important detail is its starting price of $699 US dollars. 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:49.520 That's $700 for us, other people. It's the same price as the Ryzen Z1 Extreme-equipped ally, 00:01:49.600 --> 00:01:54.800 even though it looks like the base tier Legion Go will have the Z1 non-extreme. 00:01:54.800 --> 00:02:01.760 In the EU, the Legion Go will start at 800 euros, either because Lenovo is planning to only sell higher end models in the region, 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:05.600 or because, say la vie, cooler with the questions. 00:02:05.600 --> 00:02:09.920 Moving on, the handheld has a larger battery than the ally to hopefully fix one of the 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:15.200 major complaints about ASUS's device, and it has not one, but two USB 4 ports, 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:18.960 compared to the ally's single proprietary XG mobile port. 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:23.360 So you can actually connect to an external desktop GPU if you wish. 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:29.040 One of the most unique features is the FPS mode that turns the detachable right controller into 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:32.320 possibly the least comfortable mouse I've ever seen. 00:02:32.320 --> 00:02:39.760 It launches in October, which might have been a bad business decision, given that it's only a single month until the launch of the highly anticipated PlayStation Portal. 00:02:39.760 --> 00:02:46.720 It does one thing. Intel is accelerating the build out of its Arizona fab to prep for upcoming manufacturing 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:52.080 demand. According to Intel CEO Pat Coolcat Kelsinger, they already have a significant 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:55.680 customer prepayment for the fab's 18 angstrom process. 00:02:55.680 --> 00:02:59.200 While we don't know who the customer is, we know they have enough sway to kick 00:02:59.200 --> 00:03:02.640 18A production into gear by the second half of next year. 00:03:02.640 --> 00:03:08.160 Meanwhile, in also Arizona, TSMC is struggling to launch their Phoenix-based chip fab. According 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:14.880 to inside sources at the TSMC site, the bosses from Taiwan weren't big fans of US safety codes 00:03:14.880 --> 00:03:20.960 and regulations leading to incidents like workers spraying fireproofing chemicals right above workers 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.560 eating lunch, who did not bring fireproofing chemicals for lunch. 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:28.240 Now that sounds like a serious chemical exposure issue, but on the bright side, 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:29.760 not a single sandwich caught fire. 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:35.360 An expert has claimed TSMC's supposed skilled labor shortage 00:03:35.360 --> 00:03:40.240 is their own fault for choosing to build their fab in an area with a labor shortage. 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:45.040 Also, unlike Intel, TSMC doesn't have existing relationships with universities 00:03:45.040 --> 00:03:49.440 that can provide idealistic engineering graduates that they can psychologically break 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:53.360 with unreasonable work conditions. They just graduated from an engineering program. 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:57.200 They'll think it's normal. Here's your daily reminder that the quick bits love you. 00:03:57.200 --> 00:04:05.600 Don't say it back. They already know. Gigabyte just unveiled a PCIe Gen 5 SSD that can achieve 12 gigabytes per second speeds, 00:04:05.600 --> 00:04:09.440 because they didn't think that the 10 Gigabyte per second SSD they unveiled in April 00:04:09.440 --> 00:04:17.920 was fast enough. The AORUS Gen 5 12000 SSD comes in 1TB and 2TB variants with a 2TB version 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:24.640 being slightly faster. The SSD is so fast, it needs a cooler that is over 4 centimeters tall. 00:04:24.640 --> 00:04:28.560 That's a lot of centimeters for this. 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:31.600 Remember when computer components used to get smaller over time? 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:35.920 And have you seen the housing market? And bread's like a thousand dollars. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:40.560 The houses aren't smaller. Hacking Group Anonymous Sudan, which is not an incognito car, 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:49.600 have taken credit for a series of DDoS attacks this week, hitting Twitter, fanfiction hub, archive of our own, again, and the French Postal Service. 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:56.720 Yes, they do have a Postal Service. However, the strike on Twitter seems to have been more of a pig tail pull to beg Elon Musk 00:04:56.720 --> 00:05:02.080 to open Starlink in Sudan because the internet there is patchy due to an ongoing civil war. 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:08.160 Twitter was down only 45 minutes, AO3 less than 3 hours, and La Poste nearly 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:13.760 noof hours. That's how they say 9 there. In a stark demonstration of civilization's priorities, 00:05:13.760 --> 00:05:16.080 rage, smut, and the mail in that order. 00:05:18.320 --> 00:05:25.840 AMD's newest RX7700XT and 7800XT graphics cards support Team Red's fluid motion frames, 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:30.640 which is similar to NVIDIA's RTX 40 series exclusive frame generation. 00:05:30.640 --> 00:05:34.480 But AMD's graphics captain Scott Herkelman, the best kind of Min, 00:05:34.480 --> 00:05:38.800 said in a recent interview with Club 386 that the tech could be made available 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:44.080 to previous generation cards and even older cards from Team's RGNB, 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:47.520 depending on whether the tech gets good reception from gamers. 00:05:47.520 --> 00:05:52.400 If it only gets medium reception, AMD will cancel the tech entirely out of embarrassment. 00:05:52.400 --> 00:05:55.840 Huawei's spin-off brand and Prince Zuko's favorite word, 00:05:55.840 --> 00:05:59.840 honor, unveiled the V-Purse. And it's very purse. 00:05:59.840 --> 00:06:04.480 An outward folding smartphone that can also be worn as a clutch. 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:08.720 The device has interchangeable straps and chains to match any fit, 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:13.120 and the screen can be customized to look like a wide variety of different bags. 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:17.920 But why buy multiple purses when you can buy one that will break the moment you drop it? 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:22.080 But what a moment. She's a moment. She's an icon. She broke her phone. 00:06:22.080 --> 00:06:26.320 Scientists are using a combination of live ants and age vampires too 00:06:26.320 --> 00:06:30.400 to test whether it's better to have a small number of elite fighters 00:06:30.400 --> 00:06:34.560 or a massive number of weak fighters, aka the Zerg Rush. 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:38.480 They first tested their hypothesis in Age of Empires because wild insects are typically 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.680 less cooperative than virtual infantry units. 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:46.800 They then pitted 200 tiny Argentine ants against 20 comparatively massive 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:53.120 Australian made ants. They eat them? The meat ants always won, but they had fewer casualties 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:58.480 when the terrain was more difficult and complex. In conclusion, if you're ever challenged to fight 10 angry toddlers, 00:06:58.480 --> 00:06:59.680 just do it on the jungle gym. 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:08.320 Give me my weekends back. But you don't have to fight anyone to get more tech news. 00:07:08.320 --> 00:07:13.600 You just need to tune in on Monday. Make sure to come back or you'll break the quick bits hearts, you monster.