it's a beautiful day don't let it get
away it's a beautiful
dayoo a laptop that appears to be one of
Microsoft's upcoming surface devices has shown up in a geekbench listing powered
not by qualcomm's much hyped Snapdragon X Elite an ARM-based chip that is
supposed to overturn the x86 based Global Order I believe a plague of frogs
is involved no this one is powered by a Snapdragon X Plus that sounds like a
lower tier variant of the X Elite which jibes with the specs in the geekbench
listing the plus has 10 cores to the Elite 12 but it does still have 16 GB of
RAM giving enthusiasts hope that the brain rot causing some to think that 8
GB of RAM is an acceptable Baseline may be limited to Apple if you're out of the
loop and wondering why anyone's making a big deal about ARM-powered laptops
because pretty much all of them suck well it's because it's seems like these
ones don't suck and between qualcomm's recent performance demos Microsoft
reportedly going all in and using Snapdragon X Series chips in the new
surfice lineup they'll be announcing on May 20th and a leaked super slim Lenovo
Snapdragon notebook it's looking like the ARM powered Windows laptop
Revolution is upon us Qualcomm teased a
Snapdragon X related announcement for this Wednesday they teased it on X which
is exactly why you don't name things X even if it's your favorite letter it's
everyone else's too it's the coolest letter well you're just going to say your favorite letter is K that's just X
being a little sassy meta announced its making the operating system that powers
its meta Quest headsets available to third-party device makers and a few of
them have already said they'll use it in their own VR headsets though at the time
of reporting it was still unclear whether they had made that promise
mostly to convince Mark Zuckerberg to get off their property sure sure just
whatever you can't fight us Mark just stop making eye contact it's clear that
meta wants the quests operating system which is calling Horizon OS to become
the Windows or Android of vr/ miixed
reality/ spatial Compu I don't know what to call this anymore and we need to pick
one leave your vote in the comments about what the catchall term for headset
stuff should be whatever it is meta wants to be the Windows of it so the
company is also opening Horizon OS to other app stores they've reportedly
invited Google to bring the Play Store over for a play date Google probably
just gave some excuse and left so watch out for a slew of new meta ified
metastasized headsets including a gaming focused one from ASUS Rog a productivity
SL learning one from Lenovo as well as a
limited edition meta Quest inspired by
Xbox so get excited VR fans there will
be a green one now part of the reason meta is opening up their headset
ecosystem is clearly to compete with Apple's wal Garden approach but it looks
like Apple's $3,500 Vision Pro is already Fading Into Obscurity without
anyone's help according to Apple wisan Mark the gizer German Apple retail
stores are reporting a massive drop in demand in sales with prospective buyers
regularly no showing to appointments they've booked it's unclear how existing
Vision Pro users feel on the whole but there have been many reports of
discomfort neck pain and black eyes what
are they doing in there German himself testified that while he initially used
his own units several times a day he's down to maybe once or twice a week even
him germatron prime Apple is reportedly
dealing with this Heartbreak by pitching The Vision Pro more heavily to
businesses and highly skilled workers like surgeons the headset has an app for
practicing surgeries but one Brazilian doctor actually used it during surgery
which sounds kind of sketchy but actually seemed pretty useful he was
able to reference x-rays see a live feed from the tiny surgery Cam and tweet
about how crazy it was cutting up this dude's shoulder right now and he's not
reacting at all it's awesome p t surgery
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Intel doesn't appear to have done anything to mitigate the stability
issues reported by owners of the company's 13th and 14th gen processors
other than to say they're looking into it so other companies are stepping in
systems Builder Falcon Northwest released a guide to modifying some BIOS
settings that may help while ASUS has released a BIOS update for its
motherboards with a new Intel Baseline profile that should help your CPU calm
the F down I mean can you imagine being born into the world basically
overclocked to your limit already you'd be Bradley Cooper in Limitless and it
would be awesome EK cooling a Bastion of the PC liquid cooling space is in the
midst of a financial and emotional meltdown according to a report from
Gamers Nexus the company has apparently left suppliers employees and contractors
unpaid for as long as 4 months in large part due to holding large amounts of
unsold inventory but the situation has been exacerbated by what sounds like bad
management a cease and assist letter sent to a former employee for sharing
his story and infighting between EK cooling's us branch and its Slovenian
headquarters it all sounds pretty messed up so we can only hope that cooler heads
prevail I'm sorry that's Google isn't expected to launch the pixel 9 for
another 5 months but we've already had our first leaked photos of a prototype
pixel9 Pro which appears very similar to renders published by on leaks back in
January according to Russian language website rosette Kid the new prototype
contains a tensor G4 s so and comes with a hefty 16 GB of RAM to the 8 Pros 12 GB
because Google would really like their phones to run local AI without cooking
themselves from the inside out a potentially less reliable leak has also
claimed that the upcoming pixel 8A will be more expensive than the 7A but Google
lacks ground to complain about unreliability as the company has
released its second patch this month to fix glitches that caused missing phone
calls and text messages which are pretty much a phone's most important job
otherwise it's not even a phone at least it used to be UK retailer curries has
dropped the price of the MSI claw gaming
handheld by 25% only weeks following its
launch with the core Ultra i7 1 tbte
model dropping from 800 to just 600b
awkwardly this makes it 100 lb more expensive than the core Ultra i5
512 gig model which hasn't dropped
further both models are still priced significantly higher than a brand new 1
tbte OLED steam deck which by all accounts is just better notably curries
has had an exclusivity deal with MSI and is the handheld console sole retailer in
the UK which just goes to show that you should really check whether your partner
is poorly optimized and non-competitively priced before you consider going exclusive it's just basic
research on the flip side the claw has received a Intel GPU driver update that
can boost performance by up to 43.2% and it even comes with a free copy
of Skull and Bones if that sweetens the pot which honestly it probably doesn't
and Tinder is getting a new share my date feature which surprisingly has
nothing to do with polyamory and everything to do with user safety now
rather than screenshotting the details of your hiking date in the Deep Woods
with a complete stranger you can share the details directly from the app
including to non- Tinder users so that your mom knows what to tell police when
you go missing this is this is dark I'm
sorry Tinder created this feature after user data showed that 51% of singles
under 30 told their friends the details of their dates beforehand gosh I wonder
which half of the population thought to do that but both halves of our viewers
are equally important to us the top and
the bottom so we hope we'll see you on Wednesday for more Tech news