so without further ado the tech news
i let the news speak for itself new graphics cards have been hard to come by
in 2020 so photos of a cryptocurrency mining farm equipped with 78 GeForce rtx
3080 graphics cards are understandably causing some distress in pc enthusiast
circles the setup was apparently built by simon
byrne in las vegas for around a hundred thousand us dollars with like paid him
with a hundred thousand or that's how much it costs and when electricity costs are factored
in it's capable of generating 128 thousand dollars per year
in ethereum what's your job and what's the price of ethereum is that
counting because that's why so all simon could potentially start
making money with his disgusting machine about 10 months from now why don't you
just start mining bitcoin instead simon it just broke the 28 000 mark that was a
trick bitcoin will definitely crash at some point and then we'll be the rich
ones as long as i sell mine before that as if
the story wasn't bad enough many reports were claiming that a missing shipment of
500 000 rtx 30 gpus was found in south korea but it turned
out the original article was a joke haha posted for spain's version of april
fool's day which isn't in april
when will the madness end when the rtx 3080 ti releases it will fix everything
it's our greatest hope but perhaps we should look even further into the future
for some hope as rumors are starting to proliferate concerning NVIDIA's
successor to the ampere architecture reportedly codenamed lovelace
funkytown in case you're wondering that's not a
reference to linda but to ada lovelace the english mathematician writer and
countess yes he's just diving into money
and NVIDIA's lovelace cards may be equally impressive so far the rumors say
that they'll be built on a five nanometer node instead of ampere's eight nanometer and the flagship gaming chip
the ad102 will be capable of 66
teraflops of fp32 computing power around double that of the rtx 3080. how
exciting and distracting from our current GPU lacking reality
lovelace the very word fills my nostrils with a sweet
dream that's not the delivery i was going for but hey we'll take it and
Intel's not giving up hope either because more leaks have given us
potential idea of the performance we can expect from the company's alder lake
processors a geekbench result for an alder lake CPU has popped up sporting 16
cores and 24 threads the benchmark has so many cores normally you'd expect the
thread count to be a double the core count on a multi-threaded CPU but alder
lake will reportedly use a big little design similar to qualcomm's mobile
processors and apple's m1 chip meaning powerful and in this case
multi-threading capable cores are supplemented by smaller more power
efficient cores in any case if these geekbench results are to be believed
it's a setup that might work for Intel as there's some discussion that with
slightly higher clock speeds this CPU could outperform AMD's ryzen 5950x but
these chips aren't supposed to come out for at least another year so let's not
get too excited you know because AMD is probably going to keep making stuff too
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Linus he's the coolest quick bits they're not
what you thought they were lg has announced a new tv technology
it's not OLED or lead it's q ned or the way they want
it pronounced q-n-e-d it's a moped no ped no red you said look
what is this it's based on mini led technology and will allow tvs to have up
to 2500 dimming zones so it's pretty cool even if we do have to learn another
acronym i'm oh fed up k-fed that's the tv technology
but i think the end has something to do with quantum dot which is nano-assist
otherwise and if i know it's an acronym boston dynamics has taught its atlas
spot and even its ostrich-looking handle robots to not only show off some frankly
impressive dance moves but to do so in perfectly timed collaboration with each
other because they're robots they don't have individual personalities
and after the war they'll have something to do on our graves
last year apple filed a lawsuit against a company named corellium way cooler
name than apple which offered virtualized instances of iOS for
developers well corellium has actually won a victory in that legal battle with
a judge throwing out the portion of apple's lawsuit related to copyright
infringement corellium isn't completely off the hook yet but this show's apple
can be hurt their apple skin can be pierced they're just like mortals like
the rest of us apple trees definitely send me a facebook invite
when it's time to storm their
you there campus apple did do something good this week
though when it pulled the vibe together app off its app store the app promoted
invite only secret house parties that helped users covertly defy local covid
restrictions and restrictions from their partners against having uh orgies
which is definitely something you could not do with any other messaging app
both those things plus this one has vibe
you wouldn't get it and it appears that at t's experiment involving releasing
movies in theaters and on hbo max of the same day
has paid off wonder woman in 1984 earned the highest box office opening ever seen
during the pandemic pretty low bar and broke download scores on the
streaming service again a low bar so a third wonder woman
film is being fast-tracked which is
well you have to go and check out our review on carpool critics to see our opinion
this episode is just getting less awesome as we go so now it's over come
back on friday for more tech news and guess what it'll be 2021 then
all the bad things will be gone
21 more like 20 20 fun