well have I got some tech news for you
did you notice I said whale there instead of well because of the whale
land party that's happening next weekend and for which Ticket No No cryptos but
tickets are available now you should buy them and don't don't buy that other thing China's efforts to establish its
own chip making capability seem to have paid off as the country's semiconductor
manufacturing International Corp or smic has reportedly shipped its minor VA
Bitcoin miner system on chip using seven nanometer technology it was thought that
smic was still developing its 14 nanometer Tech in an attempt to
challenge Intel's world record for longest amount of time stuck on the same
process that's true it's still 14 nanometer but
no turns out they've either gotten a hold of equipment that can make seven nanometer chips in spite of U.S
sanctions barring the sale of Chip making Tech based on 10 nanometer or
Beyond or they've developed their own seven nanometer Tech skipping forward
two generations in record time I mean is this really not surprising they can
build a hospital during a lunch break great job country of China now apply
that same determination to Human Rights and that'll be real progress okay
speaking of Rights how about the freedom to criticize a company for overpricing
the hell out of their custom PCS Tech YouTuber Greg Salazar has brought
attention to a scandal surrounding Overkill computers a system integrator
that bullied and harassed tick-tocker circuit board for simply pointing out
just how overpriced overkills PCS were Overkill was selling builds for over a
thousand dollars more than the price of the components based on the PC part
picker lists and after circuit board Drew attention to this Overkill sent him
a cease and desist demanding he take down every video and even every comment
referencing Overkill their reasoning according to overkill's owner Lucas is
that some ex-employees reached out to circuit board to talk about the company
which apparently breached the employees ndas but as Greg points out ndas don't
apply to people who didn't sign the NDA
and pointing to two different prices and saying this one is too much is it
defamation I'm not a lawyer but right I
think it sounds good anyways with artesian and now Overkill I guess system
integrators acting scummy and then imploding on social media is going to be
the hottest trend of the rest of 2022 other than the debilitating heat waves
and Amazon has paid 3.9 billion to
acquire one medical a company that operates more than 180 medical clinics
across the U.S in the tech Giant's latest move to unironically become a
real-life cyberpunk corpo pseudo State your Amazon Prime subscription could
soon come with free shipping cloud storage and yearly physicals the catch
you have to do them in Amazon's mental health booths get in there while one
medical provided a range of much needed Telehealth Services during the pandemic
they were also investigated by Congress for leveraging its supply of vaccines to
push 200 membership subscriptions while hoarding vaccines for staff friends and
family causing some counties to stop allocating vaccines to the company I'm
sure being acquired by Amazon a corporation known for its respective
employees and customers will straighten one medical right out they're tough but
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gaming industry tries desperately to read the room regarding nfts do we like
them are they the worst Microsoft owned Minecraft developer Mojang has come out
in opposition saying nft integration with the game will not be supported or
allowed asked if the news swayed his opinion on
nfts Tim Sweeney said the epic game store will leave the choice of whether
to mess with nfts or not to game developers and players which makes sense
if you're all about open platforms like Sweeney is but one does wonder whether
certain communities who keep getting hacked rug pulled needs some kind of
protection meta is being sued by the second company that is also named Meta
for changing their name from Facebook to meta VR company meta X LLC has been
known as meta since 2010 and filed the lawsuit after talks with Facebook over
the name change broke down another company called meta company also took
issue with meta's transformation last year it's all confusing enough even if
you don't mention the fact that discussing the fact that meta's name changes causing problems with other
metas is pretty meta in itself I just liked that Neopets is still around for
the sole purpose of serving older internet users Nostalgia as well as
being a target for hackers who managed to compromise 69 million accounts this
week not nice at all the hackers tried
to sell the site's complete database and source code including emails passwords
and other personal info for four Bitcoin or around a hundred thousand USD so
Neopets users may want to look out for identity theft change their passwords
and maybe switch to to collecting Pokemon like a normal person Razer has
launched the hyper polling wireless dongle for its gaming mice which
promises to supercharge the polling rate of the Viper V2 Pro Death Adder V3 Pro
or basilisk V3 Pro from a thousand Hertz
to four four thousand Hertz wow the
dongle is 30 bucks which doesn't seem like too much at all when you compare it
to the happiness you'll receive from all the online gaming matches that you shall
surely win once you have the hyper polling wireless dongle and a video
showing a robot heavily resembling Boston Dynamic spot firing a submachine
gun at Targets has made the rounds this week I didn't realize that was a pun
when I wrote that it's unclear whether the bot is acting autonomously or being
directly controlled but regardless the demonstration serves to remind us that
we now live in a world in which possibly evil robot dogs with guns exist and the
only way to stop them is to make our own good robot dogs with guns let's get that
going and let's get the weekend going am I right here the freaking week
come back on Monday for more Tech news I'm going to be on vacation for two
weeks but James is going to take real good care of you guys