WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.640 NVIDIA may be gearing up to launch an RTX 4090 Ti 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:07.320 if leaked photos are any indication, although many are speculating that the photos 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.480 might depict a new RTX Titan or perhaps another graphics card 00:00:11.480 --> 00:00:14.680 that isn't remotely worth its MSRP. I'm Riley Murdoch. 00:00:14.680 --> 00:00:20.160 This is TechLinked and this massive cooler was first spotted in October last year 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:23.720 and was claimed to have a cooling capacity of 900 Watts, 00:00:23.720 --> 00:00:27.380 double the TDP of NVIDIA's current 4090 flagship. 00:00:27.380 --> 00:00:31.880 More than likely, however, this heatsink was a prototype for the 4090. 00:00:31.880 --> 00:00:36.240 GeForce RTX is written on it, whereas Titan cards normally say Titan 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:39.400 as a way to differentiate between a card bought by a normal person 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. 00:00:43.800 --> 00:00:47.280 Use money to smother the sadness. It is a money-shaped hole. 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, 00:00:52.440 --> 00:00:55.560 which is, it's pretty cut and dry. But here's the thing, 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 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.360 or that the upcoming 4060 should have been a 4050, 00:01:03.360 --> 00:01:06.840 it's possible that the best bang for the buck 4090 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. 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. 00:01:17.080 --> 00:01:21.080 Don't do the math. Speaking of the upcoming 4060 leaked 3DMark tests 00:01:21.080 --> 00:01:26.240 for the card show a 23% performance improvement over the 3060 12 Gigabyte version. 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.480 So there's actually a chance this card could be a good deal. 00:01:30.480 --> 00:01:34.880 AMD and their partners seem to think so since multiple Radeon RX 7600 models 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:38.240 have been discounted days before the 4060's release. 00:01:38.240 --> 00:01:42.440 Do you see gamers? Do you see what happens when you simply don't buy 00:01:42.440 --> 00:01:48.240 an overpriced product like the 4060 Ti? Oh, I'm getting a transmission from the future. 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:51.480 The RTX 4090 Ti sold out on day one. Damn it. 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.680 Why don't you listen gamers? We've talked about this many times gamers. 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 00:02:02.440 --> 00:02:07.280 to play online games instantly according to an email seen by the Wall Street Journal. 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:11.240 I mean, after Google got a taste with Stadia they couldn't just cold turkey quit 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:16.440 offering gaming services no one wants. Their newest alleged foray is called Playables 00:02:16.440 --> 00:02:21.520 and will make online games instantly playable within YouTube's website and apps. 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 00:02:27.080 --> 00:02:30.160 by requests from every one of your casual acquaintances 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 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:39.640 in which players aim to smash layers of bricks with a bouncing ball. 00:02:39.640 --> 00:02:42.920 Sounds like my kind of Friday night, you know what I mean? I've never. 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 00:02:48.320 --> 00:02:53.720 I used a radical new journalistic technique called Googling to find StackBounce. 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. 00:02:59.320 --> 00:03:02.400 I wish, his are the best. After Stadia was retired 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:07.040 the services general manager Phil Harrison did say Google wasn't giving up on gaming 00:03:07.040 --> 00:03:11.600 and that Stadia's underlying tech could make its way to Google services like YouTube. 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 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.160 without leaving the website. Finally, a convenient new feature 00:03:21.160 --> 00:03:27.420 for the lowest common denominator. We need more of those. There's not enough stupid things. 00:03:27.420 --> 00:03:31.420 And Microsoft has made some lofty claims while defending themselves in court 00:03:31.420 --> 00:03:35.060 since the FTC simply will not let them be. 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 00:03:40.940 --> 00:03:44.380 questionable along with the Xbox Series X and PS5 00:03:44.380 --> 00:03:49.820 Microsoft argued that both Xbox and PlayStation offer cheaper consoles priced similarly 00:03:49.820 --> 00:03:53.420 to the Nintendo Switch. Microsoft brings up the Xbox Series S 00:03:53.420 --> 00:03:58.580 and the PS5 digital edition while also saying Sony is expected to release 00:03:58.580 --> 00:04:03.820 a PlayStation 5 slim later this year at a $400 price point. 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 00:04:08.780 --> 00:04:12.660 on back in September of last year. It's so kind of Microsoft 00:04:12.660 --> 00:04:16.340 to help their rival Sony announce their products. That was so sweet. 00:04:16.340 --> 00:04:20.280 You only fight sometimes but maybe don't believe everything Microsoft says 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 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:32.160 later this year for under $300. If that is a reference to Sony's already announced 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:36.520 project Q, either Sony vastly undersold Q 00:04:36.520 --> 00:04:40.240 during its announcements and we're about to get a wonderful surprise. 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. 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. 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 00:04:54.560 --> 00:04:57.760 that Microsoft bought Bethesda to prevent Sony 00:04:57.760 --> 00:05:01.200 from making Starfield a timed exclusive for the PS5. 00:05:01.200 --> 00:05:04.480 And he said that Sony uses the 30% cut 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:07.480 on any Microsoft games sold on PlayStation platforms 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:12.200 to help fund strategies to, quote, reduce Xbox's survival on the market 00:05:12.200 --> 00:05:18.240 by presumably doing harmful bad things like offering competing products and services. 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:22.440 I mean, when you think about the fact that poor Microsoft only gets a mere 70% 00:05:22.440 --> 00:05:26.560 of Microsoft games sold on PlayStation as opposed to the 100% they get 00:05:26.560 --> 00:05:29.560 when selling on their own platforms, it really starts to make sense 00:05:29.560 --> 00:05:32.800 why the $2.5 trillion company is losing the console war. 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:36.360 Donate today. Hey, hey, eyes up here. 00:05:36.360 --> 00:05:40.040 I'm more than just tech news, okay? I'm a person. 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 00:05:46.120 --> 00:05:51.040 according to, well, NASA. The Mars sample return mission is meant to pick up 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:54.680 the samples taken by the Perseverance rover over the last two years 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:58.960 and transfer them back to Earth for study. The cost estimate, however, 00:05:58.960 --> 00:06:02.360 has jumped from up to 4.4 billion in 2020 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:07.120 to up to potentially double that amount. Ooh, there are multiple factors to this. 00:06:07.120 --> 00:06:13.240 Costly mistakes made by the Jet Propulsion Laboratories updated sample retrieval plans to ensure collection 00:06:13.240 --> 00:06:18.960 if Perseverance has died by the time the mission launches and worst of all, inflation. 00:06:18.960 --> 00:06:23.400 And we're not talking about the balloons that are used by the rover and some, 00:06:23.400 --> 00:06:27.520 I'm assuming there's balloons. Don't Google it. Because not even robots in space 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 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:38.000 that their next generation model, Gemini, will be more capable than ChatGPT 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:43.160 without saying in what way exactly. Like, will it stop making things up about me 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. 00:06:46.840 --> 00:06:50.200 Can it juggle? Gemini will combine the powers of a large language model 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, 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. 00:07:01.400 --> 00:07:05.440 Google, please just test this one before you demo it. 00:07:05.440 --> 00:07:10.040 That was embarrassing. Meta has launched a new MetaQuest Plus subscription service 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:13.000 joining the exclusive ranks of PlayStation Plus, 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:18.680 Apple TV, slash fitness, slash other things, Plus, Disney Plus, and many, many more. 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:22.960 The word Plus, basic math's way of saying this, but more so. 00:07:22.960 --> 00:07:26.920 For 7.99, subscribers will receive two games every month, 00:07:26.920 --> 00:07:31.760 two specific titles that Meta chooses for you. July's titles are rhythm games, 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. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:42.120 August's titles, however, will be Walk About Minigolf 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:45.760 and Mother Gunship Forge. And I desperately wish I was the kind of person 00:07:45.760 --> 00:07:48.800 who would enjoy all of those games equally. They must be so happy. 00:07:48.800 --> 00:07:54.680 UK police are blaming a recent Android update for an uptick in emergency center butt dials. 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, 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:05.120 something that can be accidentally accomplished while trying to dig out a particularly pernicious wedgie. 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:10.600 Did you think about that, UK police? Or, as the British call it, wedgie. 00:08:10.640 --> 00:08:13.000 But in the accent like that. Wedgie. 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:19.200 Wedgie. Wedgie. The feature was already available on Pixel phones, 00:08:19.200 --> 00:08:24.320 but there's been a major increase in British butt cheeks, unknowingly dialing 999, 00:08:24.320 --> 00:08:27.400 now that the feature is available on all Android devices. 00:08:27.400 --> 00:08:31.800 A Google spokesperson said that device manufacturers will address this issue shortly, 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:35.200 and that users that continue to experience this issue 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:38.840 should switch emergency SOS off for the next couple of days. 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:42.400 So, if you're looking to commit a crime somewhere in Britain in the near future, 00:08:42.400 --> 00:08:45.400 here's your chance. Horses. 00:08:45.400 --> 00:08:49.560 Horses. Horses. And Amazon is recruiting small businesses 00:08:49.560 --> 00:08:55.200 to help deliver packages throughout the US, including coffee shops, clothing stores, and florists, 00:08:55.200 --> 00:08:59.880 because that's what your local grocer slash bookstore slash U-Haul Depot needs. 00:08:59.880 --> 00:09:04.240 Another side hustle. These are intended to be last mile delivery outposts, 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:08.760 which receive packages from larger distribution centers and drop them off at customers' doors. 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 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:18.980 to make around $27,000 a year, delivering an average of 30 packages a day. 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. 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:28.520 The other option available to them was to raise delivery driver wages 00:09:28.520 --> 00:09:33.560 in order to attract more delivery drivers instead of paying random florists to deliver packages. 00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:37.120 But you know, honestly, I see where they're coming from. It's a hard situation. 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. 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. 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:48.640 I'm big into hacking.