Welcome to Tech Late, the show where we tell you which PC components are the most flammable.
It's very important that you watch. Reports have surfaced of Ryzen X3D series CPUs burning and dying, allowing Team Red
to compete with Team Green in a market that no one asked for, the crispiest hardware.
The story blew up when user Speed Rookie showed his lightly toasted ASUS board and 7800X3D
processor on Reddit. Overclocker Der Bauer has had some experience with frying a 7950X3D chip, and apparently
put that knowledge to use discussing pin analysis hypotheses with Igor of Igor's Lab.
Igor and Co. speculate that, and who saw this coming, the pins that got crispy on the motherboard
and CPU were the ones that supply power to the CPU cores.
Of course. Of course. I know I already referenced the 4090, but I'm beginning to get deja vu.
MSI decided to address the issue by issuing firmware updates for their AM5 boards that
further locked down the voltage controls for X3D chips by only allowing negative voltage
offsets. Stay tuned for more investigation though because apparently a certain tech messiah got their
hands on Speed Rookie's busted hardware. No, not Jacob, Steve from Gamers Nexus, although I've never seen Jacob and Steve in the same
room. It's a conspiracy. The latest Google hardware leak is out, and this time it's the Pixel Fold.
A video is making the rounds on Twitter showing the phablet in action, bending like the love
child of David Beckham and Kira Knightley's character from the film, bend it like Beckham.
A perfect match. Android Police called it the most comprehensive Pixel Fold leak yet, and that is true if you
completely neglect front page techs leak from three days ago.
In the YouTube channel's video, host Jon Prosser laid out every alleged spec of the
upcoming device. According to Jon, Google is claiming a beyond 24 hour battery life with up to 72 hours if
you use extreme battery saver. That's crazy.
Which I do. Wow. Though I don't think that would include using the foldable screen since it's a 7.6 inch
6x5 aspect ratio OLED. Jon also claims Google will be including Pixel watches with full pre-orders, so it sounds
like Google really wants a win. But if the company really wants to move product, they need two things.
Two things. Sarah and McLaughlin and crying puppies.
I'd really pull some heartstrings. In the arms of an angel.
I tear my eye just thinking about it. For just a dollar a day, you can save a multinational corporation.
Yeah. By buying their product, please, Google needs your help.
And Apple is trying their best to come up with a use case for their ARVR headset.
Using a Mark Gurman, aka the early Gurm gets the bird, the multi-trillion dollar fruit
is hoping that by making its headset capable of doing more things, more people will want
to spend $3,000 on it. It just appears right in your wallet.
The headset will supposedly run hundreds of thousands of iPad apps at launch, which is
tremendous news for people who wish they could spend six times more money than a normal iPad,
so they can have one that straps to their face. Sold.
But gamers rejoice. For you will be able to play top tier games as long as they're compatible with Apple's
other devices. Man, the trains and subway surface will jump right out at you.
For $3,000, they better hit me. I better fuel the trains.
But I hope you only like short gaming sessions because the headset's external battery will
likely only provide two hours of usage. Not only that, but the battery pack will have a non-detachable proprietary connection cable.
Ah, proprietary. Cool. Awesome.
They wouldn't want you to have fun using somebody else's batteries or devices.
Apple would rather you had no fun at all.
It's their favorite word for proprietary. Wow.
Uh, Jacob. Thanks for this, bud. I'm gonna level with you folks.
I wasn't in the sponsor spot because I got fired.
They said I could get my job back though if I did well on the quick bits.
It seems AMD might be skipping some GPU series launches and go straight from the RX 7900
to the 7600. In Igor's lab, some of AMD's exclusive board partners will show finished 7600 cards at
Computex in June while no word has been given on when or if a 7800 or 7700 will be launched.
It's certainly difficult for mid-range GPUs to compete with the used market.
Who could have seen the mining crash coming? We never even got to the moon.
To the moon. To the moon. Less than a month after sunsetting legacy verification, Twitter is giving check marks
to some celebrities, whether they like it or not. The check marks still say the person is subscribed to Twitter Blue though, which clearly isn't
the case for re-verified figures like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jackson, and Anthony Bourdain.
If only because they are all very dead.
Necro verification. Twitter has also been non-consensually verifying fraudulent accounts such as an account posing
as a Sudanese paramilitary group and a fake Disney Junior UK account that's intimately
familiar with the definition of hard R.
This could possibly get Elon in legal trouble for false endorsement, a risk that's never
seemed to really bother Elon because he's got his Martian escape flight booked.
He's going to the moon. He's going past the moon to Mars.
Blizzard staff have been leaving the company in large enough numbers that the company has
had to create crisis maps to decide what can and cannot be shipped according to two prominent
employees on Twitter. Apparently, the company's return to in-office work and other work culture policies might
have driven the dev exodus. I might even call it the dexodus if I was feeling silly, and I am.
In response, Blizzard said crisis maps are not a team practice for World of Warcraft,
which is not exactly denying that they've been doing them now.
Running away from a bear is not generally something I practice either, but I doubt that
I try going for a handshake first, if you get what I'm saying.
Snapchat has rolled out their new AI chatbot to all users and has been hammered with one
star reviews as a result. The AI chatbot sits pinned at the top of user feeds, and apparently it's a gaslighting
little creep. The AI will casually reference users' locations or birth months, then insist that it doesn't
have access to the personal data. The bot used to be a paid feature, but now that it's been rolled out to everyone, it's
only possible to remove it with a Snapchat Plus subscription, like your friend who's
always asking for money. Give me $5 and I'll go away.
Alright, no. No. I need that five bucks.
And the company Augmental have announced that they are making a wearable trackpad that you
control with your tongue. Finally, a way to increase your skills on PC and in bed.
It's called the Mouthpad and it's designed to allow people with quadriplegia to control
electronic devices like iOS and Android devices, computers, and even vibrators.
Because everyone should be allowed to get their consensual freak on.
If I own a new, how am I supposed to trash talk though? That's a good question.
I don't want it. For that reason, I'm out. And you should allow yourself to come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
Did I do it? Can I have my job? Can I have my job back?
Can I go back to work? Please? Okay.
Please? We'll get back to you.