Sometimes the tech news river can run pretty dry and then NVIDIA and AMD and Apple coming in blow up the damn
Oh, come on get your wet suits on we haven't did her net reviews went live for NVIDIA's RTX 5070
yesterday and AMD's RX 9070 and 9070 XT this morning
Finally giving GPU testers a chance to sleep. Well, I didn't know you could wear a suit
Clean up nice the LTT team found that the RX 9070 and 9070 XT trade blows with the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti
Respectively in raster performance for way cheaper. He says as if GPU prices are stable at all right now
That's what I do. I narrate my life in the third person team red also delivered big improvements in ray tracing and the new
RX 9000 exclusive FSR for upscaling slash frame-gen technology
Although it still falls short of matching NVIDIA's DLSS for the biggest complaint with AMD's new card seems to be that AMD has
pulled their own 7900 XTX trick again and made the $600 9070 XT too good of a deal compared to the
$550 9070 but at least AMD didn't claim their base 70 tier card is equivalent to an RTX 40 90
I mean sure in some games the RTX 5070 can use multi-frame generation to put out more frames
Then a 4090 That's not using frame-gen as long as like Indiana Jones. You like artifacts
It belongs in a museum speaking of frames hardware on box notes that the RX
9070 XT's cost per frame is much better than the new NVIDIA options
Mostly because the AMD cards are an option with all signs pointing to retailers actually having MSRP versions in stock
The same can't be said for the RTX 5070 founders edition
Which no one has found an NVIDIA delayed it at the last second yesterday as for the third-party cards
Despite the bad reviews. They sold out immediately Ultimately making this an NVIDIA launch that really could have just been an email
Interestingly that is the approach Apple took this week when they launched upgraded Macs and iPads with nothing more than a press release and a
Couple of tweets from CEO Tim Cook or his assistant
It was Siri the new base model MacBook Air is getting an M4 chip
16 gigabytes of RAM and a hundred dollar price drop starting at a thousand USD
Depending on your situation. This could be a no-brainer upgrade The same can't be said for the new iPad Air which seems to be literally the same device
But with an M3 chip with the same amount of cores as the M2 and support for Apple's
Floaty looking magic keyboard. It does look quite floaty though
The base model iPad has also been updated. It's getting an A16 chip
Which lacks support for Apple intelligence the killer feature?
I'm sure everyone's using and talking about but I just can't hear them the beefiest upgrade Apple announced though
Was the new Macs studio models available with an M4 max or the brand new M3 ultra
Which is Apple's term for when they take two max chips and fuse them together something they won't be doing with the M4
Apparently maybe later Because it lacks the ultra fusion connector. Oh, so not later
US President Donald Trump called for an end to the Chips Act a Biden-era law that subsidized
Chipmakers efforts to build facilities in the US during the president's address to Congress this week calling the Chips Act a
Horrible horrible thing worst we've ever seen the last part was me just in case the act doesn't get repealed through Congress
The Trump administration is firing nearly half of the staff that would dish out the subsidies anyway because as
Evidence by TSMC's recent commitment to build a hundred billion dollars worth of chip making facilities in the US over the next 20 years
You just need to threaten these companies with tariffs not help them do the thing you want them to do
However TSMC still says they won't make their most advanced chips in the US and research by the Consumer Technology
Association concluded that bringing all tech manufacturing back to the US is not feasible and cutting chips act subsidies also
Wouldn't help American chipmaker Intel who's not exactly swimming in profits right now
Trump also said he could still levy tariffs on Taiwan which would make chips more expensive for US consumers
adding on the effect of a now 20% tariff on Chinese goods meanwhile
Mexico and Canada that's us announced retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump's tariffs
Which are supposed to go in effect today? Although the talks are still ongoing with the pause on vehicle related tariffs being proved just hours ago
You can't keep up with this stuff unless you watch our show You never know what's gonna happen when you play tariffs the fun flip-flopping game where nobody wins and everything's expensive
I'm sorry for saying damn in the intro that was crass and vulgar
Let me atone by offering these quick bits YouTube has finally launched its rumored premium light subscription in the US
Which will cost eight bucks for a month instead of the 14 charge for full premium
It'll remove ads from most videos, but keep them on for music content. It's a subscription tier
That's just a little bit premium stay tuned for the plan that goes the other way YouTube premium ultra or it moves everything
Including the videos stay on Google has announced its AI overview search feature has been updated to use the Gemini
2.0 model and can now be used by teens and non signed-in users
The tech giant is also rolling out a new experimental AI mode for search
That seems like a middle ground between a normal Google search and just using Gemini because so many people were asking
How do I make searching the web more like asking someone to do it for me?
Who's high out of their fucking mind? It's more fun according to Android authority
Google's also updated Android Auto with preliminary support for Gemini
Which usually warrants users that it may make mistakes and tells them to verify the answers which?
Might not be easy to do when you're driving scientists at biotech company colossal
Sciences have genetically injured woolly mice with hair much thicker and longer than normal mice as part of their efforts to bring
Woolly mammoths back into the world hold on I'm calling it now They're just gonna stop doing that and and be like a hair replacement therapy company. That's it
Just give bald people woolly hair They say they're not just doing this as the setup to a movie where literally everything goes wrong
There is some evidence that adding mammoths or large animals back to Arctic environments could protect the permafrost
Which could have knock-on effects on the economy?
Or something colossal is also trying to bring back other extinct animals including the Dodo the Tasmanian tiger
And who knows what else but founder Ben Lam insists quote it wouldn't end like Jurassic Park
I promise the mycerin cages literally what could go wrong and an Australian company called cortical Labs has launched the CL1 a
Module that they call the world's first biological computer
That's us because it can run computations using human neuron cells attached to silicon hardware
Customers will be able to rent computing time on the chips or buy a CL1 unit for themselves
And trust me using a calculator app hits different when it's powered by wet squishy stuff
Maintained with tubes and valves instead of just dead circuits. Look, I don't mean to
Disparage this it's genuinely cool research as long as the chips aren't conscious and trying to escape
They must scream but they can't whether you're gonna do like some people will pay extra for this
But don't you try to escape coming back here on Friday for more tech news because I won't let you
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