Ah, the tech news has always been celebrated for its excellence.
There's a Canadian tech news by Tech LinkedIn inspired by that same excellence.
You know this reference? It's French. The first reviews for AMD's new mobile chips seem to be blowing Qualcomm out of the water,
for the most part. So far, only the Ryzen AI9-HX370, a processor with a longer title than Daenerys Targaryen,
has been reviewed. But its specs are impressive.
The 370's NPU is capable of 50 trillion operations per second, which would be great if you could
really use it for anything. Microsoft's Co-Pilot Plus programs are currently unsupported, but you can use it for all the
other AI applications you'd want to run on a notebook, I guess?
Qualcomm certainly can't match AMD in mobile gaming, but Ryzen still can't seem to catch
up to the Snapdragon X Elite when it comes to battery life. However, that's basically Qualcomm's only win.
And it's so weird to see this happen after the X Elite got so much hype, but maybe part
of that is because most Windows on-ARM devices aren't using the flagship processor.
As of right now, the most powerful Snapdragon chip can only be found in the Samsung Galaxy
Book 4 Edge, a laptop that shares Samsung's discontinued branding for the curved-screened
phones it launched back in 2016. It's like they wanted us to not find it.
Hey, that phone was kind ofâ¦ it's like a waterfall. I hate this laptop.
AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9000 series desktop CPUs may have been delayed because of a typo.
Last week, TechTech Potato's Dr. Ian Kutcher claimed that the delay was due to a typo on
the packaging. This was seemingly confirmed in an unsanctioned Billy Billy review, seen by eagle-eyed Twitter
user HXL. Apparently, AMD mislabeled their Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X CPUs as Ryzen 9 on the chip's
heat spreaders. It always hurts a little when your parents misspell your name.
While the reports of this typo seem to be verified, they might not entirely be the reason
for the delay. WCCF Tech claims that they were told by AMD they were issues during testing.
I'm not an engineer, but I'm pretty sure typos don't affect performance.
And by all accounts, Ryzen 9000 can perform.
Billy Billy creator and relative with the dark secret, ordinary Uncle Tony, was able to break
the Cinebench R23 world record for 16-core CPUs by overclocking a Ryzen 9 9950X to 6.5
GHz and drowning it in liquid nitrogen in front of a live crowd.
Maybe we don't let Uncle Tony babysit anymore. His methods are unconventional.
SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon 9 rocket again after an engine failure occurred
earlier this month. Meanwhile, things haven't been so easy for Boeing as two astronauts they sent to the
International Space Station have been trapped there for over six weeks longer than originally
planned. God that sounds like hell. NASA and Boeing are currently trying to figure out two issues with the Starliner spacecraft
that sent them up there. For starters, the craft's reaction control systems thrusters overheated, and some of
them shut off as Starliner was approaching the ISS on June 6th.
The other was the helium leak that Boeing was warned about before launch.
Apparently that leak isn't really an issue, but they wanted to take another look just in case.
The length of the mission has been extended by NASA so that they can make sure the craft
can safely bring the astronauts back to Earth that seems important and figure out how to
avoid the same issue for the next Starliner mission. Until then, the Starliner astronauts are living off of the space station's reserve supplies,
and I'm sure the crew on the station are thrilled to have two more mouths to feed for
an indeterminate amount of time. They may have to hunt for food soon.
We could eat Elvis. Now that's a deep cut reference.
I love the smell of quick bits in the morning, or afternoon, or evening, whenever you're
watching these. They smell pretty good. Two U.S. senators have called on the FTC to investigate car manufacturers' data collection
practices and assess just how much of it is actually legal and whether consent was
obtained deceptively. Past reporting from the New York Times indicates that these companies are hoovering up massive
amounts of potentially revealing data, such as exactly how many times you've been to
the Krispy Kreme drive through this year. Now senators Ron Wyden and Edward Markey say that they're selling this data for a song.
Hyundai got just 61 cents for each car's data.
It was only 26 cents a car for Honda, whose drivers are apparently worthless.
But very reliable. And they drive them for a long time. Logitech's relatively new CEO, Heneke Fe, but not sure, told the Verge that she's intrigued
by the concept of selling a high quality, beautiful forever mouse that you'd keep and
maintain for a long time. Like a Rolex watch. A Rolex for which you pay a subscription fee to get ongoing software updates.
So your mouse will never miss out on the newest ways to click buttons.
The Verges and Eli Patel pointed out that consumers might not go for this.
To which Faber countered, what about a diamond encrusted mouse?
Damn. She's good. Apple's upcoming artificial intelligence features will launch later than expected.
According to Mark Gurman, apparently the Cupertino Collective needs more time to work out
the bugs and will therefore miss the initial iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 updates planned for September.
Developers can, however, access some of the features now, thanks to iOS 18.1 beta release
with a public beta release expected sometime this summer.
Fun fact, beta release is also how doctors refer to the birth of TechLinked writer Jacob
Rush. He wrote that to describe himself. He's not even here to defend himself.
A small team at MIT has developed a new transistor for flash memory chips that doesn't wear away
with use. Not only did the new transistor show no signs of degradation after 100 billion switches,
but it also performs at comparative speeds to current tech.
In addition, the transistor's tiny size could allow for denser memory storage, so it's
everything better. According to the researchers, this could change the world in like 10 to 20 years.
Listen, science is really cool. It's just not that fast.
As you're at CERN, then it's really fast.
And high-tech exertion-saving exoskeletons are going mainstream with a pair of $4,000
superpants created by Skip Innovations in collaboration with Arcterix, that clothing
brand for wilderness explorers who lack the commitment to resort to cannibalism, but they
look good. The Mo Go, or mountain goat, can apparently boost leg strength by up to 40%, so I'm skipping
leg day. This until it runs out of power, which only takes about three hours.
Superpants! I'm not out of the house that long. The exoskeleton is still potentially a valuable device for users with mobility issues or anybody
who wants to role-play as a cockroach for the afternoon. And if you want to spend the afternoon role-playing as a tech news reviewer who moonlights as
a cockroach, come on back here on Wednesday. It might not be the afternoon, though.
It depends on your time zone.