Tech news moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while,
you could miss it. And then you won't know about the new computer that's so cool it makes everyone who purchases it
physically and spiritually fulfilled. Apple has reportedly considered launching
an even more expensive version of their most expensive iPhone.
According to a Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman, a.k.a. the sandgerm of Arrakis,
ha ha ha! A new tier of flagship iPhone,
distinct from and superior to the pro and Pro Max models, could be on its way
as soon as next year. Given that there's an Apple Watch Ultra
and an M2 Ultra processor, it's expected that said flagship could be launched
as the iPhone Ultra, provided that the marketing department hasn't had
a little too much fun with the thesaurus recently. I'm partial to iPhone Supreme.
It's correct. I like iPhone Flex, but it doesn't fold or anything.
No, no, no, it's just expensive. It's just flexing on you. Weird flex, but okay.
Anyway, if we do end up seeing this thing on store shelves, the starting price will likely be at least 100 bucks more
than the next model down the product stack. Unfortunately, there are no details yet
on what additional features could be included in the Ultra to justify the price increase.
Maybe it has a special ringtone that just says, I have money, look at me.
Or there's an exclusive feature you can activate that makes Tim Cook tell you how handsome you are.
And maybe you get one kiss, but just one.
Tim Cook doesn't give two kisses. They don't call him two kiss Tim.
If you really want a Samsung Galaxy S23,
you might want to consider ponying up a bit more for a model with extra storage
because an investigation has revealed that the base model S23 has 60 of its 128 gigabytes
of storage taken up by the system partition.
This includes the Android operating system, but the bulk of that 60 gigabytes is actually just bloatware.
Although arrangements where software companies pay hardware manufacturers money
to preload their crappy software are common. Samsung is absolutely notorious
in the high end smartphone space for doing this more than their competitors.
Or hear me out, buy a different phone. Oh, but, ah, but it's a galaxy.
Oh, I forgot. By contrast, the Google Pixel's Android installation
only takes up 15 gigabytes. Like Samsung's One UI can do more things than stock Android,
but 45 gigabytes more things?
I'm gonna need to see the thing to Gigabyte ratio here.
Give me a spreadsheet before I invest.
What do you, Elon? Like Microsoft has invested billions in open AI.
And now they're wondering why they should bother with their own AI development at all
when they can just rely on chat GPT instead. A new version of Bing powered by chat GPT
appeared briefly last week only to disappear just as quickly.
Microsoft is also having chat GPT through their homework.
Just throw it in there. Users were prompted to ask Bing a question
instead of entering a search string the way it's normally done by Bing users?
That felt weird to say. But if you missed out on this mysterious demo,
you can always pay for the new tier of Microsoft Teams
that incorporates some chat GPT powered features like automatic note taking and recapping of meetings,
I'm guessing. It's currently $7 a month. And while any AI powered feature
won't currently be perfect, anything that can make the slog
of using Microsoft Teams slightly more interesting is welcome.
Meanwhile, Google of course, doesn't want to be left out of the fun.
Oh, did I say fun? I meant slow creeping towards an inevitable human machine war.
The tech giant has announced a chat GPT competitor called Bard, which unfortunately is not programmed
to only answer you in sonnets. And won't try and sleep with all your friends.
All right, plays about you. Have you ever seen quick bits in their natural habitat?
I wouldn't recommend it. They get just completely nude, like all the way.
It's not- They're also very aggressive. Del wants to be just like all the other tech companies.
So they're laying off nearly 7,000 employees. Okay, it's also because PC sales are down
due to people not staying inside for long periods of time after doing just that
during the height of the pandemic. But it could also be because of poor marketing.
Maybe they should bring that that, dude, you're getting a Dell guy.
I don't remember that guy. Do you? It's common sense that a new CPU
is probably going to be faster than an older one, but AMD's new Ryzen mobile offering
looks even more impressive. The Ryzen 9 7845HX has nearly doubled the performance
of the previous mobile flagship in benchmarking software PassMark,
not to be confused with the country, Denmark or, or famous, the room line,
Ohio Mark. Ohio Mark? I'm sure many of them were very disoriented.
Twitter is reportedly looking at charging businesses $1,000 per month
to keep their gold verified check mark. And while that might be small potatoes
for the likes of Amazon, it will undoubtedly be too much for some smaller mom and pop Twitter accounts.
Perhaps in trade, Twitter is giving free API access
to novelty good bot accounts. That makes it sound like
they weren't giving it for free before. Well, they were going to stop.
I think we can all agree that a loading bar saying how far through the year
we've currently progressed is worth extorting business over a few pretty pixels.
Pretty pixels. Big news for AMD fans. Just two months after the launch
of the Radeon RX 7000 series, Team Red has announced they finally have time
to make drivers for older cards.
There had been a delay in new drivers for the 6,000 series and earlier,
as the company needed more engineers focusing on putting out the 7,000 series fires.
Almost, almost literally. It's nice they remembered us.
Unlike some people. A girl I used to date would always call me Ryan.
Our wedding was awkward. And expect to cough up a bit more money
for a Tesla Model Y. Prices are up around $2,000
because the US Treasury now considers the Model Y
as an SUV instead of a car. Perhaps because it is.
Just guessing. Vehicles in the SUV category can be priced higher than cars
and still qualify for an EV tax credit, which explains the increase.
But the good news is that the new prices are still way lower than they were
at the beginning of the year. If Tesla sells enough, maybe they can make up their Bitcoin losses.
Huh, got them. And I got you to watch this whole video.
Ha, tricked you. Come back on Wednesday. If you wanna be tricked again, I'm-
And it bedazzled. Oh, just kidding.
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