WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.360 Intel has announced its hotly anticipated 14th gen Core Ultra Meteor Lake based processors 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:11.320 will launch on December 14th, making good on its promise to get the new chips out in 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:17.320 2023. But just barely! I'm James Shrive, this is TechLington, and this is an Intel press release saying the 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:23.440 new CPUs offer all the performance of 13th gen Raptor Lake chips with half the power draw. 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:27.900 With Meteor Lake, Intel finally joins its competitors with its first CPU that uses independently 00:00:27.900 --> 00:00:32.720 fabricated chiplets for each component that have been assembled. 00:00:32.720 --> 00:00:37.520 While some of these tiles will be created using Intel's bleeding edge Intel 4 process, others 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:41.060 will use TSMC's 5nm process. 00:00:41.060 --> 00:00:49.220 It's good too. The chips use a new type of efficiency core, which Intel calls a low power island, designed 00:00:49.220 --> 00:00:54.660 to handle light workloads without powering up a more energy-hungry compute tile, reportedly 00:00:54.660 --> 00:00:59.460 doubling integrated graphics performance per watt. 00:00:59.460 --> 00:01:05.100 December 14th will also be the launch of Intel's faster and more powerful 5th gen Xeon processors, 00:01:05.100 --> 00:01:13.260 which they hope will help democratize the AI-enabled Siliconomy, until likewise showed off its 00:01:13.260 --> 00:01:19.000 cutting edge new substrate material, glass, which they say will allow for 50% greater 00:01:19.000 --> 00:01:22.020 density of chiplets and interconnections. 00:01:22.020 --> 00:01:30.860 Amazon held their 2023 devices and services event where they announced that their assistant 00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:37.340 ALEXA would finally be getting that LLM glow up glam, infusing her dialogue with naturalistic 00:01:37.340 --> 00:01:44.180 pauses, umms, and laughs so you can reenact the plot of her and have a whirlwind romance 00:01:44.180 --> 00:01:50.340 with your smart speaker. And if you're not happy with the Ursus, Scarlett Johansson, Alexa will be getting 25 unique 00:01:50.340 --> 00:01:55.620 personalities via character.ai, allowing lonely users to roleplay what it's like to have 00:01:55.620 --> 00:02:02.180 friends. They're even adding an eye gaze feature, this is unrelated, where users can activate preset 00:02:02.180 --> 00:02:05.820 actions by giving Alexa the smolder. 00:02:05.820 --> 00:02:10.540 Alexa will also be getting real-time captioning for audio and video calls, and in the US, 00:02:10.540 --> 00:02:15.180 Alexa Emergency Assist, a hands-free way to contact emergency services with pre-programmed 00:02:15.180 --> 00:02:20.020 critical information like the user's address, medications, and allergies. 00:02:20.060 --> 00:02:24.540 It costs $6 a month, but if you don't have the spare cash, you definitely can't pay 00:02:24.540 --> 00:02:30.760 for an ambulance anyway. So in terms of actual devices and not just software, Amazon unveiled its next-gen Echo 00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:35.940 Frame smart glasses, which amazingly actually look like something a person would intentionally 00:02:35.940 --> 00:02:40.780 wear. Otherwise, there was a refresh of Amazon's various gadgets and doodads, including the 00:02:40.780 --> 00:02:45.940 Echo Hub, the Euromax 7 router, the Fire TV Stick 4K Max, and the freaky little cameras 00:02:45.940 --> 00:02:55.860 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 00:02:55.860 --> 00:02:59.380 week's launch of its Phantom Liberty DLC. 00:02:59.380 --> 00:03:04.460 In addition to DLSS 3's super-resolution, deep learning anti-aliasing, and frame generation, 00:03:04.460 --> 00:03:11.900 DLS 3.5 adds ray reconstruction, which uses a supercomputer-trained AI network to generate 00:03:11.900 --> 00:03:17.460 higher-quality pixels in-between sampled rays by recognizing lighting patterns from training 00:03:17.460 --> 00:03:24.420 data and recreating them during play. But this isn't just about hyper-accurate simulations and picture-perfect aesthetics 00:03:24.420 --> 00:03:28.140 while you team up with Idris Elba to rescue the president. 00:03:28.140 --> 00:03:33.300 There's reportedly a distinct performance bump, and video claims an 8% frame rate boost 00:03:33.300 --> 00:03:40.340 in Cyberpunk 2077 over DLSS 3.0, and early users say the new overdrive ray tracing mode 00:03:40.340 --> 00:03:48.460 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 00:03:48.460 --> 00:04:08.660 to understand is a creative tool and not an edgy comic book anti-hero or a sex move. 00:04:08.660 --> 00:04:12.820 The UK's online safety bill is set to become a law, but while its government touts the 00:04:12.820 --> 00:04:18.020 bill as a way to protect the children, its solutions could seriously affect privacy. 00:04:18.020 --> 00:04:22.420 The bill mandates online platforms verify users' ages and the only effective methods 00:04:22.420 --> 00:04:27.060 to do that risk linking people's browsing history to their legal identity. 00:04:27.060 --> 00:04:31.580 This is why a similar Californian law was blocked after the state tried to argue that 00:04:31.580 --> 00:04:35.380 collecting face scans to estimate users' age was minimally invasive. 00:04:35.380 --> 00:04:41.060 That's like calling a home intruder a surprised house guest. 00:04:41.460 --> 00:04:46.020 I Fix It has decided to retroactively drop the iPhone 14's repairability score after 00:04:46.020 --> 00:04:49.900 previously calling it the most repairable iPhone in years. 00:04:49.900 --> 00:04:54.700 While the phone's hardware technically makes it easy to swap parts, software will prevent 00:04:54.700 --> 00:04:59.960 the repaired phone from working properly if Daddy Tim Cook didn't give his blessing. 00:04:59.960 --> 00:05:04.420 And he'll only give it if you buy your replacement parts directly from Apple, preventing anyone 00:05:04.420 --> 00:05:08.860 from recycling harvested parts. What would Mother Octavia Spencer say, Tim? 00:05:08.860 --> 00:05:14.100 New information on the infamous 7nm SOC found in Huawei's Mate 60 Pro phones suggests that 00:05:14.100 --> 00:05:18.460 half of the processor cores were designed in-house, with most of the chip's components 00:05:18.460 --> 00:05:23.140 vulnerable to current US sanctions replaced with homegrown products. 00:05:23.140 --> 00:05:27.740 Despite this, just yesterday, the US Commerce Secretary said they have no evidence Huawei 00:05:27.740 --> 00:05:32.500 can manufacture the chips at scale, meaning the Mate 60 Pro will probably only be available 00:05:32.500 --> 00:05:36.940 to the most elite exclusive selection of CCP spy targets. 00:05:37.580 --> 00:05:44.740 The Danher Corporation, which produces diagnostic machines for tuberculosis, has agreed to 00:05:44.740 --> 00:05:50.180 lower the cost of its basic test cartridges by 20% in high TB countries in response to 00:05:50.180 --> 00:05:53.860 criticism of its printer ink-like business model. 00:05:53.860 --> 00:05:57.820 You know the one where the device is cheap but the ink costs more than a high-end perfume. 00:05:57.820 --> 00:06:04.340 Danher claims the new price of $7.97 per test is the at-cost price where they receive no 00:06:04.340 --> 00:06:10.700 profit. They have not agreed to lower the cost on their advanced tests used to confirm drug-resistant 00:06:10.700 --> 00:06:13.660 TB, which magically does not kill people. 00:06:23.660 --> 00:06:29.140 And Elon Musk's Neuralink has received approval for human clinical trials, sign me up, and 00:06:29.140 --> 00:06:34.700 is looking to recruit patients with crudgiplegia that also haven't heard about the allegedly 00:06:34.780 --> 00:06:38.660 cruel animal trials former Neuralink employees called hack jobs. 00:06:38.660 --> 00:06:43.420 Once recruits are found, Neuralink will move forward with what it calls the prime study. 00:06:43.420 --> 00:06:47.540 For some reason, Neuralink expects us to believe that prime stands for precise, robotically 00:06:47.540 --> 00:06:54.900 implanted brain-computer interface E. In a poor attempt to hide that Elon probably chose 00:06:54.900 --> 00:07:01.300 the name to dab on Bezos. And you better dab back on Wednesday for more tech links before we become a Neuralink 00:07:01.300 --> 00:07:02.300 exclusive.