WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040 It's tech news time, a sacred tradition where we take a quiet moment to huddle around the screens 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:11.280 and reflect on the fact that computers, oh, computers are crazy, man. And he says I can't wear this. 00:00:11.280 --> 00:00:16.640 That's more like it. AMD today announced the newest Threadripper CPU family packing all the 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:23.040 cores a growing desktop needs to get big and strong. The top-of-the-line Threadripper Pro 7995WX 00:00:23.200 --> 00:00:29.360 features double the core and Thread count that the last generation's 5995WX had because 00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:33.280 bigger is better and we won't apologize for that. It's in our nature. We love them huge. 00:00:34.720 --> 00:00:39.040 Perhaps even more exciting, at least for prosumers, is unlike the last generation, 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:44.240 there is a non-pro lineup meant for high-end desktop PCs for people that don't really need 00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:51.120 eight channels of DDR5 memory or 128 PCIe5 lanes. People who settle for a measly four channels 00:00:51.120 --> 00:01:00.240 and a paltry 48 PCIe5 lanes plus 32 lanes of PCI4. A 64-core Threadripper non-pro 7980X is a 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.560 veritable steal at $5,000. That's less than one and a half Apple headsets. Going back to the pro 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:14.160 for a second, Dell actually let PCMag remotely test one of their new towers equipped with the 7995WX 00:01:14.160 --> 00:01:21.520 and it managed to score over $100,000 in Cinebench, a 56% improvement over the 5995WX, 00:01:21.520 --> 00:01:26.720 and nearly double what Intel's Xeon W9 3495 managed to cough up. 00:01:26.720 --> 00:01:31.120 And that's perhaps the problem with AMD's Threadripper Pro. Intel can't compete at all, 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:37.440 so instead AMD is competing with little-known competitor AMD and their epic CPUs. Time will 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:46.000 tell if AMD can rise to AMD's challenge. Speaking of new chips, another company known as AMD just 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:52.080 announced a flagship mobile GPU, the RX 7900M, that holds both the title of world's first 00:01:52.080 --> 00:01:57.760 chip that designed GPU for mobile platforms and product with the most specific world's first 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:05.040 achievement claim. The 7900M features a 180W power limit and 16GB of memory on a 256-bit bus 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:11.520 and can boost beyond 2GHz, which is a lot. This card is a big deal since we haven't heard much of 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:18.400 anything from AMD about mobile graphics since they announced the RX 7600M XT and others back in January. 00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:23.600 The 7900M is debuting on the Alienware M18 laptop and AMD is sending it to battle 00:02:23.600 --> 00:02:28.960 against NVIDIA's mobile 4080. Unlike most of AMD's first-party benchmarks where the company 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:34.960 seems to stick their fingers in the ears and shout, la la la la, whenever ray tracing comes up, 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:42.240 they actually brought receipts this time. According to their specs, AMD's 7900M has a 2-6% 00:02:42.240 --> 00:02:47.520 lead over the 4080 in certain games like Resident Evil 4 and the Dead Space remake with ray tracing 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:54.080 enabled. Having said that, AMD may have used an inferior 4080 laptop, which is kind of like 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:59.760 winning a 100-meter dash against someone you love tapped with a steel pipe before the starting gun. 00:03:01.200 --> 00:03:07.760 And even if the 7900M is the be-all and-all, the only laptop that currently features it is a $2,800 00:03:07.760 --> 00:03:14.000 Alienware laptop. Personally, I'm trying to save up for the Vision Pro here. That's like 0.96 Vision 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:20.080 Pros. TSMC had some fighting words for Intel during the company's earnings call when CEO C.C. Way 00:03:20.160 --> 00:03:26.160 claimed the current 3-nanometer chip is way better than Intel's planned 1.8-nanometer tech, 00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:31.200 which definitely shouldn't be the case according to the number laws, but TSMC might be right here 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:37.280 because the nanometer amounts don't actually mean anything. They used to, but now manufacturers just 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.480 use them to refer to a chip's generation rather than transistor density or chip size. Because 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:46.560 why should engineers care about units of measurement when they're working with small and delicate 00:03:46.640 --> 00:03:52.480 components? Well, welcome to chip manufacturing where Moore's law is dead and the numbers don't 00:03:52.480 --> 00:03:59.120 matter. Brief tangent aside, it's quite bold of TSMC to predict this seeing as Intel's 1.8-nanometer 00:03:59.120 --> 00:04:04.720 tech won't be available until 2025. Perhaps TSMC used vast sums of money and resources to make 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:09.200 a time machine? That would explain why the time when he's found you is currently experiencing 00:04:09.200 --> 00:04:15.680 its largest profit drop in five years. The poor company only managed to make a mere 17.28 billion 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:21.600 in the third quarter, a number so small it caused the entire country of Canada to laugh so hard it 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:27.280 almost forgot about what studio apartments cost up here just almost. Fortunately, the good sports 00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:33.200 at TSMC say they're preparing for an upswing with CEO Way claiming there are early signs of 00:04:33.200 --> 00:04:37.680 improvement in the smartphone and PC sectors. I know we're all rooting for them from the comfort 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:42.560 of our parents' basements. Not too loud, my mom complains. Hey, this is a garden suite. Fun fact, 00:04:42.640 --> 00:04:47.280 before TechLinked, the record for quickest bit was set by Jerry Seinfeld in the late 80s 00:04:47.280 --> 00:04:52.480 when he said, what's the deal with airplane food? It's over 300 years old. Google has updated its 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:59.280 Play Protect features on Android to conduct real-time scans of side-loaded apps at the code level 00:04:59.280 --> 00:05:04.000 instead of the service level scans they were doing before. Previously, Play Protect would check the 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:08.080 app you're trying to smuggle into your phone like some kind of delinquent against the existing list 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:14.320 of problematic apps. Then, based on that threat level, Google either warns the user, blocks the 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:19.280 installation, or disables the app. Real-time scanning will help detect apps that haven't been 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:24.320 put on the no-fly list yet and improve the experience for users who only side-loaded apps for the 00:05:24.320 --> 00:05:28.800 thrill of getting these warnings. Ooh, I'm so nutty, they don't want me to use it. But at least you 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:34.240 can, Apple. Google's threat analysis group on Wednesday revealed details of a vulnerability in 00:05:34.240 --> 00:05:39.200 Winrar being exploited by government actors to attack their enemies and, even worse, 00:05:39.200 --> 00:05:45.280 being used by cybercriminals to target crypto bros trading Bitcoin. According to Google, 00:05:45.280 --> 00:05:49.760 the exploit was used by Russian-backed groups targeting Ukraine and Chinese state hackers 00:05:49.760 --> 00:05:56.320 targeting Papua New Guinea for some reason. Or maybe this has all been a ruse and Winrar is 00:05:56.320 --> 00:06:01.120 taking revenge on users who never paid for it after the free trial. God, no one's safe. 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:05.840 Even more Google news, the tech giant's mobile version of the video chat app Meet 00:06:05.840 --> 00:06:10.400 will now give you a touch-up by smoothing complexion, lightening those unsightly 00:06:10.400 --> 00:06:16.320 dark bags under your eyes, and whitening your teeth just in time for Halloween. 00:06:16.320 --> 00:06:19.600 But like the advanced editing features offered in Google Photos, 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:23.680 looking presentable will only be available to Google One subscribers, as well as various 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:28.160 workspace account holders. Because people don't love having video meetings with a troll. 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:31.200 On the other hand, that might be a good reason to leave it turned off? 00:06:32.960 --> 00:06:35.680 Shorter meetings. Put your troll on the table. 00:06:36.400 --> 00:06:41.680 A new startup, Coop, is releasing a smart home for chickens for the kind of family that is sick 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:48.720 of spending $6 a week on eggs, but can also afford a $2,000 high-tech chicken palace and a $20 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:54.400 monthly app subscription. Geez. The CyberCoop comes with pre-installed smart Wi-Fi cameras, 00:06:54.480 --> 00:07:01.040 an automatic door, and an AI Guardian named Albert Eggstein, that's real, that will count 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:06.560 eggs and monitor the environment for potential predators like hawks or raccoons, rats, the 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.200 eggs, or children. According to Coop, they spent four weeks designing a compostable 00:07:11.200 --> 00:07:15.440 custom-fit poop tray because market research indicates that cleaning the coop is one of the 00:07:15.440 --> 00:07:21.280 biggest barriers for people who want to chickens. Which, yeah, no shit. No clucking. There's a lot 00:07:21.760 --> 00:07:27.760 And the hip new drink available now on Amazon is Release, which allegedly contains the discarded 00:07:27.760 --> 00:07:32.240 urine of Amazon drivers collected from the side of the highway. The new beverage, which 00:07:32.240 --> 00:07:37.280 reached number one bestseller in Amazon's bitter lemon soda category, is the brainchild 00:07:37.280 --> 00:07:42.640 of journalist Uba Butler, who created it for The Great Amazon Heist, a documentary exposing 00:07:42.640 --> 00:07:46.800 the company's working conditions. In addition to Amazon failing to flag and prevent bottles of 00:07:46.800 --> 00:07:51.440 barely disguised human piss from being sold on its platform, Butler had two little girls, 00:07:51.440 --> 00:07:57.280 ages four and six, order knives, saws, and rat poison, buy a Alexa for a knife party. 00:07:58.000 --> 00:08:02.240 And it's always knife when you come back on money for more tech news. Stay safe and don't 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:09.680 let Jeff Bezos send your children bladed weapons. That's the Amazon Base Six butterfly shank.