1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,640 NVIDIA may be gearing up to launch an RTX 4090 Ti 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:07,320 if leaked photos are any indication, although many are speculating that the photos 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,480 might depict a new RTX Titan or perhaps another graphics card 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,680 that isn't remotely worth its MSRP. I'm Riley Murdoch. 5 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:20,160 This is TechLinked and this massive cooler was first spotted in October last year 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,720 and was claimed to have a cooling capacity of 900 Watts, 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:27,380 double the TDP of NVIDIA's current 4090 flagship. 8 00:00:27,380 --> 00:00:31,880 More than likely, however, this heatsink was a prototype for the 4090. 9 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,240 GeForce RTX is written on it, whereas Titan cards normally say Titan 10 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,400 as a way to differentiate between a card bought by a normal person 11 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,800 and a card bought by someone continually looking for something to fill the endless void in their soul. 12 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,280 Use money to smother the sadness. It is a money-shaped hole. 13 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,440 Other evidence from this being a 4090 prototype is that the heatsink says RTX 4090 on it, 14 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:55,560 which is, it's pretty cut and dry. But here's the thing, 15 00:00:55,560 --> 00:01:00,200 if you're one of the many that thinks the 4080 should have been the 4070 Ti when it came out 16 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,360 or that the upcoming 4060 should have been a 4050, 17 00:01:03,360 --> 00:01:06,840 it's possible that the best bang for the buck 4090 18 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:12,880 might have also gotten a downgrade during development and this heatsink will end up on a future 4090 Ti. 19 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,080 We can't know, which is why we said the word might, about 20 times in the story. 20 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,080 Don't do the math. Speaking of the upcoming 4060 leaked 3DMark tests 21 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:26,240 for the card show a 23% performance improvement over the 3060 12 Gigabyte version. 22 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:30,480 So there's actually a chance this card could be a good deal. 23 00:01:30,480 --> 00:01:34,880 AMD and their partners seem to think so since multiple Radeon RX 7600 models 24 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,240 have been discounted days before the 4060's release. 25 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:42,440 Do you see gamers? Do you see what happens when you simply don't buy 26 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:48,240 an overpriced product like the 4060 Ti? Oh, I'm getting a transmission from the future. 27 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:51,480 The RTX 4090 Ti sold out on day one. Damn it. 28 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:55,680 Why don't you listen gamers? We've talked about this many times gamers. 29 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:02,440 No one wanted Stadia to fail except everyone. So now YouTube is internally testing a new way 30 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:07,280 to play online games instantly according to an email seen by the Wall Street Journal. 31 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,240 I mean, after Google got a taste with Stadia they couldn't just cold turkey quit 32 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:16,440 offering gaming services no one wants. Their newest alleged foray is called Playables 33 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:21,520 and will make online games instantly playable within YouTube's website and apps. 34 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:27,080 Which sounds less like the next big thing in gaming and more like 2008 when your Facebook was flooded 35 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:30,160 by requests from every one of your casual acquaintances 36 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:35,960 to help them grow corn. I didn't help anyone. The only game mentioned in the email is StackBounce 37 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:39,640 in which players aim to smash layers of bricks with a bouncing ball. 38 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,920 Sounds like my kind of Friday night, you know what I mean? I've never. 39 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:48,320 While both the Verge and Polygon think it sounds like a clone of the popular Atari game Breakout 40 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:53,720 I used a radical new journalistic technique called Googling to find StackBounce. 41 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:59,320 And it seems to be the game you see in every mobile game ad that doesn't feature Pedro Pascal. 42 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,400 I wish, his are the best. After Stadia was retired 43 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,040 the services general manager Phil Harrison did say Google wasn't giving up on gaming 44 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:11,600 and that Stadia's underlying tech could make its way to Google services like YouTube. 45 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:17,560 What Harrison didn't say was you'd now be able to play at all of the shovelware games that advertise on YouTube 46 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:21,160 without leaving the website. Finally, a convenient new feature 47 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:27,420 for the lowest common denominator. We need more of those. There's not enough stupid things. 48 00:03:27,420 --> 00:03:31,420 And Microsoft has made some lofty claims while defending themselves in court 49 00:03:31,420 --> 00:03:35,060 since the FTC simply will not let them be. 50 00:03:35,060 --> 00:03:40,940 In a legal filing arguing that Nintendo should be considered part of the high end console market 51 00:03:40,940 --> 00:03:44,380 questionable along with the Xbox Series X and PS5 52 00:03:44,380 --> 00:03:49,820 Microsoft argued that both Xbox and PlayStation offer cheaper consoles priced similarly 53 00:03:49,820 --> 00:03:53,420 to the Nintendo Switch. Microsoft brings up the Xbox Series S 54 00:03:53,420 --> 00:03:58,580 and the PS5 digital edition while also saying Sony is expected to release 55 00:03:58,580 --> 00:04:03,820 a PlayStation 5 slim later this year at a $400 price point. 56 00:04:03,820 --> 00:04:08,780 This is probably a reference to the PS5 console with a detachable disk drive that was first reported 57 00:04:08,780 --> 00:04:12,660 on back in September of last year. It's so kind of Microsoft 58 00:04:12,660 --> 00:04:16,340 to help their rival Sony announce their products. That was so sweet. 59 00:04:16,340 --> 00:04:20,280 You only fight sometimes but maybe don't believe everything Microsoft says 60 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:26,320 because that same legal filing says Sony is set to release a handheld version of PlayStation 5 61 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:32,160 later this year for under $300. If that is a reference to Sony's already announced 62 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,520 project Q, either Sony vastly undersold Q 63 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:40,240 during its announcements and we're about to get a wonderful surprise. 64 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:45,960 Or Microsoft is throwing whatever legal arguments they can at the legal argument wall to see what sticks. 65 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,880 It's mostly gum on there. A little bit of spaghetti. The high school kids love that wall. 66 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:54,560 I'm sorry everyone, it's probably the latter case after Phil Spencer said during the hearing 67 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,760 that Microsoft bought Bethesda to prevent Sony 68 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:01,200 from making Starfield a timed exclusive for the PS5. 69 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,480 And he said that Sony uses the 30% cut 70 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,480 on any Microsoft games sold on PlayStation platforms 71 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:12,200 to help fund strategies to, quote, reduce Xbox's survival on the market 72 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:18,240 by presumably doing harmful bad things like offering competing products and services. 73 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,440 I mean, when you think about the fact that poor Microsoft only gets a mere 70% 74 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,560 of Microsoft games sold on PlayStation as opposed to the 100% they get 75 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,560 when selling on their own platforms, it really starts to make sense 76 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:32,800 why the $2.5 trillion company is losing the console war. 77 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,360 Donate today. Hey, hey, eyes up here. 78 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:40,040 I'm more than just tech news, okay? I'm a person. 79 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:46,080 Not a piece of meat. Well, I am that. The cost for NASA to collect exotic sand is ballooning 80 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:51,040 according to, well, NASA. The Mars sample return mission is meant to pick up 81 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:54,680 the samples taken by the Perseverance rover over the last two years 82 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,960 and transfer them back to Earth for study. The cost estimate, however, 83 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,360 has jumped from up to 4.4 billion in 2020 84 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:07,120 to up to potentially double that amount. Ooh, there are multiple factors to this. 85 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:13,240 Costly mistakes made by the Jet Propulsion Laboratories updated sample retrieval plans to ensure collection 86 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:18,960 if Perseverance has died by the time the mission launches and worst of all, inflation. 87 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:23,400 And we're not talking about the balloons that are used by the rover and some, 88 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,520 I'm assuming there's balloons. Don't Google it. Because not even robots in space 89 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:33,160 can believe the price of a loaf of bread these days. The CEO of Google's DeepMind told Wired 90 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:38,000 that their next generation model, Gemini, will be more capable than ChatGPT 91 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:43,160 without saying in what way exactly. Like, will it stop making things up about me 92 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,840 and emailing them to my friends and family because I'm not sure that was supposed to be a feature. 93 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:50,200 Can it juggle? Gemini will combine the powers of a large language model 94 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:56,440 with the kind of reinforcement learning techniques that, quote, helped AlphaGo defeat a Go champion in 2016, 95 00:06:56,440 --> 00:07:01,400 which would be impressive if a human hadn't just beaten one of the top Go playing AIs last year. 96 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:05,440 Google, please just test this one before you demo it. 97 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:10,040 That was embarrassing. Meta has launched a new MetaQuest Plus subscription service 98 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,000 joining the exclusive ranks of PlayStation Plus, 99 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:18,680 Apple TV, slash fitness, slash other things, Plus, Disney Plus, and many, many more. 100 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:22,960 The word Plus, basic math's way of saying this, but more so. 101 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:26,920 For 7.99, subscribers will receive two games every month, 102 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:31,760 two specific titles that Meta chooses for you. July's titles are rhythm games, 103 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:38,800 slash first person shooter, Pistol Whip, and video game about playing a video game Pixel Ripped 1995. 104 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:42,120 August's titles, however, will be Walk About Minigolf 105 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,760 and Mother Gunship Forge. And I desperately wish I was the kind of person 106 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:48,800 who would enjoy all of those games equally. They must be so happy. 107 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:54,680 UK police are blaming a recent Android update for an uptick in emergency center butt dials. 108 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:59,920 One new feature automatically dials emergency services when the power button is pressed five or more times, 109 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:05,120 something that can be accidentally accomplished while trying to dig out a particularly pernicious wedgie. 110 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:10,600 Did you think about that, UK police? Or, as the British call it, wedgie. 111 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:13,000 But in the accent like that. Wedgie. 112 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,200 Wedgie. Wedgie. The feature was already available on Pixel phones, 113 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:24,320 but there's been a major increase in British butt cheeks, unknowingly dialing 999, 114 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,400 now that the feature is available on all Android devices. 115 00:08:27,400 --> 00:08:31,800 A Google spokesperson said that device manufacturers will address this issue shortly, 116 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,200 and that users that continue to experience this issue 117 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,840 should switch emergency SOS off for the next couple of days. 118 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,400 So, if you're looking to commit a crime somewhere in Britain in the near future, 119 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,400 here's your chance. Horses. 120 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:49,560 Horses. Horses. And Amazon is recruiting small businesses 121 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:55,200 to help deliver packages throughout the US, including coffee shops, clothing stores, and florists, 122 00:08:55,200 --> 00:08:59,880 because that's what your local grocer slash bookstore slash U-Haul Depot needs. 123 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:04,240 Another side hustle. These are intended to be last mile delivery outposts, 124 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:08,760 which receive packages from larger distribution centers and drop them off at customers' doors. 125 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:14,480 Amazon didn't say exactly how much it will pay per package, but they did say that they expect partnering businesses 126 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,980 to make around $27,000 a year, delivering an average of 30 packages a day. 127 00:09:18,980 --> 00:09:25,000 So, with the power of grade school math, we can determine that they will be paying around 250 a package. 128 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,520 The other option available to them was to raise delivery driver wages 129 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:33,560 in order to attract more delivery drivers instead of paying random florists to deliver packages. 130 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:37,120 But you know, honestly, I see where they're coming from. It's a hard situation. 131 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:42,800 And I'll see where you're coming from if you come back for another episode of TechLinked on Wednesday. 132 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,240 How will I see where you're coming from? I'm a really good hacker. Okay, I just hack and hack stuff. 133 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:48,640 I'm big into hacking.