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Intel has announced its hotly anticipated 14th gen Core Ultra Meteor Lake based processors

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will launch on December 14th, making good on its promise to get the new chips out in

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2023. But just barely! I'm James Shrive, this is TechLington, and this is an Intel press release saying the

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new CPUs offer all the performance of 13th gen Raptor Lake chips with half the power draw.

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With Meteor Lake, Intel finally joins its competitors with its first CPU that uses independently

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fabricated chiplets for each component that have been assembled.

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While some of these tiles will be created using Intel's bleeding edge Intel 4 process, others

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will use TSMC's 5nm process.

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It's good too. The chips use a new type of efficiency core, which Intel calls a low power island, designed

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to handle light workloads without powering up a more energy-hungry compute tile, reportedly

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doubling integrated graphics performance per watt.

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December 14th will also be the launch of Intel's faster and more powerful 5th gen Xeon processors,

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which they hope will help democratize the AI-enabled Siliconomy, until likewise showed off its

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cutting edge new substrate material, glass, which they say will allow for 50% greater

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density of chiplets and interconnections.

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Amazon held their 2023 devices and services event where they announced that their assistant

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ALEXA would finally be getting that LLM glow up glam, infusing her dialogue with naturalistic

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pauses, umms, and laughs so you can reenact the plot of her and have a whirlwind romance

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with your smart speaker. And if you're not happy with the Ursus, Scarlett Johansson, Alexa will be getting 25 unique

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personalities via character.ai, allowing lonely users to roleplay what it's like to have

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friends. They're even adding an eye gaze feature, this is unrelated, where users can activate preset

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actions by giving Alexa the smolder.

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Alexa will also be getting real-time captioning for audio and video calls, and in the US,

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Alexa Emergency Assist, a hands-free way to contact emergency services with pre-programmed

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critical information like the user's address, medications, and allergies.

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It costs $6 a month, but if you don't have the spare cash, you definitely can't pay

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for an ambulance anyway. So in terms of actual devices and not just software, Amazon unveiled its next-gen Echo

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Frame smart glasses, which amazingly actually look like something a person would intentionally

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wear. Otherwise, there was a refresh of Amazon's various gadgets and doodads, including the

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Echo Hub, the Euromax 7 router, the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, and the freaky little cameras

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Jeff Bezos uses to watch you sleep. Video's DLSS 3.5 debuts this week on September 21st in Cyberpunk 2077 in the lead-up to next

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week's launch of its Phantom Liberty DLC.

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In addition to DLSS 3's super-resolution, deep learning anti-aliasing, and frame generation,

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DLS 3.5 adds ray reconstruction, which uses a supercomputer-trained AI network to generate

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higher-quality pixels in-between sampled rays by recognizing lighting patterns from training

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data and recreating them during play. But this isn't just about hyper-accurate simulations and picture-perfect aesthetics

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while you team up with Idris Elba to rescue the president.

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There's reportedly a distinct performance bump, and video claims an 8% frame rate boost

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in Cyberpunk 2077 over DLSS 3.0, and early users say the new overdrive ray tracing mode

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is less demanding on the GPU. Users will be getting access to DLSS 3.5 this week by a Chaos Vantage, which I'm given

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to understand is a creative tool and not an edgy comic book anti-hero or a sex move.

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The UK's online safety bill is set to become a law, but while its government touts the

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bill as a way to protect the children, its solutions could seriously affect privacy.

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The bill mandates online platforms verify users' ages and the only effective methods

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to do that risk linking people's browsing history to their legal identity.

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This is why a similar Californian law was blocked after the state tried to argue that

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collecting face scans to estimate users' age was minimally invasive.

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That's like calling a home intruder a surprised house guest.

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I Fix It has decided to retroactively drop the iPhone 14's repairability score after

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previously calling it the most repairable iPhone in years.

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While the phone's hardware technically makes it easy to swap parts, software will prevent

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the repaired phone from working properly if Daddy Tim Cook didn't give his blessing.

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And he'll only give it if you buy your replacement parts directly from Apple, preventing anyone

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from recycling harvested parts. What would Mother Octavia Spencer say, Tim?

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New information on the infamous 7nm SOC found in Huawei's Mate 60 Pro phones suggests that

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half of the processor cores were designed in-house, with most of the chip's components

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vulnerable to current US sanctions replaced with homegrown products.

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Despite this, just yesterday, the US Commerce Secretary said they have no evidence Huawei

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can manufacture the chips at scale, meaning the Mate 60 Pro will probably only be available

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to the most elite exclusive selection of CCP spy targets.

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The Danher Corporation, which produces diagnostic machines for tuberculosis, has agreed to

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lower the cost of its basic test cartridges by 20% in high TB countries in response to

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criticism of its printer ink-like business model.

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You know the one where the device is cheap but the ink costs more than a high-end perfume.

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Danher claims the new price of $7.97 per test is the at-cost price where they receive no

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profit. They have not agreed to lower the cost on their advanced tests used to confirm drug-resistant

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TB, which magically does not kill people.

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And Elon Musk's Neuralink has received approval for human clinical trials, sign me up, and

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is looking to recruit patients with crudgiplegia that also haven't heard about the allegedly

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cruel animal trials former Neuralink employees called hack jobs.

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Once recruits are found, Neuralink will move forward with what it calls the prime study.

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For some reason, Neuralink expects us to believe that prime stands for precise, robotically

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implanted brain-computer interface E. In a poor attempt to hide that Elon probably chose

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the name to dab on Bezos. And you better dab back on Wednesday for more tech links before we become a Neuralink

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exclusive.