Raleigh couldn't be here because it's Canadian Thanksgiving and he loves his family.
Fortunately, my entire family was killed by a crazed turkey dinner,
so I could be here to write and host this episode.
I can still hear the screams. There was gravy all over the walls!
The weight of the Vision Pro headset is a large concern for Apple due to both its
physical mass and the emotional burden customers will feel after spending $3,500 on it.
The size and weight of the headset has allegedly caused neck strain in testing,
at least according to what Mark Gurman has determined. It's a truth he's firm in and he shoots straight like a Sherman.
In Mark's stark remark, he barks that the sharks at Apple Park have a revolutionary
idea to help Vision Pro users deal with the weight and over the head strap.
Of course, a company with such forward-thinking ideas has started early work on their second
generation headset, hoping to make it lighter than its not yet released older brother.
This may prove difficult as one weight-saving decision,
making it too small for eyeglasses compatibility,
has already had some unseen consequences.
I'll just see myself out. Stocking every prescription of the headset-compatible Zeiss lenses isn't exactly feasible,
so the company is floating the idea of shipping custom-built headsets with pre-installed lenses.
Of course, this would make reselling the headsets a massive problem.
But like with all their products, the Cupertino-based company has their own special marketing name for
this reselling issue. Business as usual, in more positive news, AMD has announced they are expanding support for
their fluid motion frames technology to their previous gen GPUs, which is tremendous news for
everyone that decided that having the newest, shiniest graphics card isn't as cool as having
both kidneys. In a tweet last week, Team Red announced a new driver update will bring the tech
to Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards, meaning RDNA2 enjoyers can now use the tech in any
DirectX 11 and 12th title using the per-app settings in AMD's adrenaline software. Though,
since AMD recommends a minimum of the RX 5700XT for FSR3, anything lower than the 6600XT
may not have the best experience. Still, this is a big advantage over the Team Green faithful,
since NVIDIA's DLSS frame generation is still restricted to their RTX 40 series cards because
they have the new optical flow accelerator, which is way better than the 30 series' old
optical flow accelerator. Fortunately, AMD's tech is built different, so budget-conscious gamers
can still take a sip of those sweet fluid motion frames.
Tastes like electrocution. NVIDIA may be planning to release an RTX 4080 Ti early next year, according to reputable hardware
leaker Megasize GPU, who may or may not be a Centian 4090. According to Mr. GPU, the 4080 Ti
will be in the same price range as the 4080 while offering more performance. This is probably a good
move for NVIDIA, since the price to performance of the 4080 made it about as popular as the last
kid picked for dodgeball. Of course, that doesn't mean the card will be cheap. The 4080's MSRP
is $1,200, but if Megas' claim is true, the upcoming card will use the AD102 chip that powers the
4090, though probably definitely 100% cut down in some way. And maybe the release of the 4080 Ti
at a similar price will prompt a price cut on the 4080 non-Ti, so it can finally have a chance at
finding a date for prom. There's no word on the alleged card's memory bus in VRAM, but there
exists the smallest of chances that NVIDIA doesn't blow another GPU launch this generation. Eighth
times the charm. Right, guys? While I don't have a family to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving with,
I'm still thankful for these quick bits. They bring me joy. The prices of memory are going back
up due to increased demand and reduced production. Both the DRAM and NAND segments are celebrating
the highest revenues they've seen since the beginning of the chip surplus early last year.
Unfortunately, this means that customers will have to pay more for their memory again. So,
if you waited too long to buy that new SSD you wanted, there's always next recession.
Google announced new Gmail changes to combat spam, such as requiring bulk emailers to authenticate
their emails. The company claims that since the mandatory authentication started last year,
malicious emails have decreased by 75%. Yahoo is also joining Google in implementing this change
as well as two more. Senders must have a clearly labeled unsubscribe button and be subjected to
sending limits. Even Microsoft has warned email centers to follow the rules and stated Microsoft
365 should not be used to send spam emails because their email products were designed for receiving
spam. OpenAI may be considering making its own in-house chips due to constant shortages of
specialized AI chips and the mounting cost of running them. The company is currently dependent
on NVIDIA, relying on a supercomputer equipped with 10,000 of their GPUs to run chat GPT queries.
It's nice to know consumers aren't the only ones getting shafted by NVIDIA,
though it would be nicer to just not get shafted anymore in NVIDIA, maybe? Please?
No? Okay. Money? Yeah, okay. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified at Google's anti-trust lawsuit
last week, where he made it clear he believes the search engine company has been stifling
competition with its massive influence. And if there's anyone that knows something about
anti-competitive behavior, it's Microsoft. Nadella also expressed his worry that the AI revolution
may cause previously public available knowledge to become proprietary and locked off.
Man, if only Satya Nadella could have done something or not done something to prevent a
runaway AI boom that could have unintended consequences. Man, why would Google do this?
It was you. And Elon is hopeful SpaceX's new Starship rocket won't explode after the company's
old Starship rocket famously exploded. Musk also predicted the rocket would be able to start
launching Starlink v3 satellites next year. Hopefully he can use the time until then,
improving the sustainability of the service. Early scientific analysis suggests Starlink's
carbon footprint could be up to 30 times larger than terrestrial broadband. Though,
you know what they say about carbon footprints, Elon? Big carbon feet. And it would be a feet for
you not to come back on Wednesday for more tech news. Seriously, you should come back. I get lonely.
I don't have a family. I'm here. All of us here.