you just can't stop the tech news you know trust me I've tried it's like the
train in GTA 5. Tech news has no breaks GPU prices may have been going down a
bit recently but demand for those sweet gaming graphics cards is still Sky High
according to experts on the economy a
situation we're reminded of thanks to the seizure of over 5000 XFX graphics
cards by Chinese Customs officials strangely it wasn't some shady sculptors
trying to smuggle cards over the Border in an attempt to avoid import duties it
was apparently the Chinese branch of XFX themselves the
5840 cards were higher end models apparently worth around 3 million
dollars together but they were improperly labeled as low end ones which
would have saved XFX China some money I
miss the days when these kinds of busts were about drugs or diamonds but gpus
that's crossing the line it's a little sad in other FX news AMD's Fidelity FX
super resolution up scaling technology has been playing second fiddlehead
NVIDIA's dlss since it launched but that
might be about to change because team red is expected to announce FSR 2.0
later this week and dlss is on version 2
now so that means AMD is caught up yeah high five I got a piece of it okay wait
dlss is on version 2.3 take that five back come on take it back
although there's still hope video cards reports that FSR 2.0 does use temporal
data and features optimized for anti-aliasing two things that might help
it compete with Team Green no word yet on whether FSR 2.0 will also bring a
performance boost but we'll learn more during AMD's scheduled GDC talk capital
T on The Talk The Talk is titled Next Generation image upscaling for games
which basically sounds like the Holodeck to me very exciting super realistic
goosebumps in games and the developers of popular YouTube app Advanced I
believe there's an apostrophe in there have announced it's being discontinued
after legal threats from Google oh because Vance allowed users to block all
video ads on YouTube without a premium subscription but the app actually had a
ton of useful features Beyond ad blocking including Auto repeat background playback also a YouTube
premium perk picture-in-picture support and custom themes
wow it's sad to see YouTube going after small devs it seems like the advanced
team knew this was coming there are some alternative apps with similar features
but apparently versions of the van stop currently installed will continue to
work for about two years so that's how long you must wait until throwing
Tomatoes at Google headquarters because everything else they do is perfectly
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you hopefully Linus doesn't see big time Apple analyst Ming Chi quo said that
Apple's next round of iPhones will not all get the same chip it's expected that
the iPhone 14 pro and the pro Max will feature the top of the line a16
processor while the non-pro iPhone 14s
will be stuck with this same old a15 bionic chip that Apple just put into
their cheapest phone the iPhone SE because what kind of status symbol is
the pro iPhone if it has the same chip as the non-pro might as well have bought
an Android am I right disgusting Google is being sued by a group representing
Florida restaurants who say that the order online buttons seen on Google's
business listings which links users to delivery companies like GrubHub or
doordash is unlawful an unlawful attempt to steal a commission on a purchase they
claim Google never got permission from restaurants to use the button but Google
says they don't actually receive any compensation from the feature so or do
they I don't know but I do like seeing Tech Giants getting sued Eat the Rich ha
ha get it Riley he wrote Get It James but he's not here
Shenzhen Wiley considered the Silicon Valley of China has been placed into a
week-long lockdown following a spike in covid cases which has led to Major Tech
suppliers like Foxconn suspending operations they're gonna affect me it's
unclear how long the shutdown may last because wow remember when we thought
this thing would be gone after a month ah remember that though seriously my one
friend was like three years ago so I was like shut up Twitter has reversed last week's
controversial update to its mobile app which allowed users to swipe between the
algorithm-powered home feed and the chronological latest tweets feed after
intense backlash the real issue wasn't the new swiping feature it was that
users weren't allowed to change the default setting meaning every time you
open the app it would be set to home that's right fight the algorithms maybe
Humanity has a chance in the robot war yet maybe we'll have the top tweets and
console modding YouTuber Ginger of Oz took it upon himself to make that 15
year old fake image of a portable GameCube into a real device not an image
at all not even an nft he actually made it better than a GameCube the handheld
combines a Wii console with Gamecube controls teaching us that not everything
in this world sucks there's a handheld GameCube thing now that's gonna be okay
okay everything's gonna be fine everything's definitely gonna be okay if
you come back on Wednesday for more Tech news if you don't I have no idea what's
gonna happen and frankly I'm scared have you read the news David
the tech news come back for more