sure tech news can't solve all our problems but that doesn't mean we can't
talk about computers for a bit as a way to distract ourselves from the constant
reminders that life is pain so come with me and let's go
have pain the graphics card shortage hasn't really
let up so GPU manufacturers have turned to re-releasing old cards every now and
then and now NVIDIA is once again trying to make something old new again with a
report indicating that a new rtx 2060 is coming our way early next year but this
time it'll have 12 gigabytes of gddr6 memory double the previous amount can
you imagine a card with that much vram ah i'm sorry i'm just trying to squeeze
some excitement out of this dry ass chip shortage is that a loud riley no
stop it i just like RAM the larger amount of memory will be useful for
folks wanting to game at higher resolutions or with better texture quality but i'm sure gamers will just be
happy to get their hands on a mid-range card again for a reasonable price which
might not happen because GPU prices are still hella inflated but come on we have
to hope he'll help me Jake
sticking with hardware news let's turn to Intel who looks like they'll finally
be updating the designs of its stock coolers with the upcoming alder lake s
CPU lineup other leg s will be using a new socket lga 1700 and while recent
Intel sockets have all been compatible with the same cooling solutions lga 1700
will be rectangular rectangles much sexier than squares
you know i like them long due to the new shape Intel is reportedly
changing the stock cooler complete with RGB lighting oh core i9 models will be
getting a taller model with full RGB while the rest of the product stack all
the way down to core i3 will feature a halo design similar to those you might
have seen on a ryzen stock cooler while the new stock coolers may look a bit
cooler they will still be very much identifiable as stock coolers so you may
want to check out third-party options if you're big on style points
tony hawk's pro skater there's been plenty of discussion about
Windows 11's new look and system requirements but something that's gotten
a little bit lost is talk about performance improvements and we've just
gotten a better look at what to expect according to a microsoft executive
Windows 11 will place a particular emphasis on what it calls foreground
prioritization which will put background apps in a sleep state that can slash
both memory and CPU usage by about a third although this means Windows will wake up
faster across platforms it's gonna benefit laptops the most by saving a
significant amount of battery life but i know google chrome is just gonna ignore
the feature entirely it's it's google chrome you know
RAM what's that kick it out of the club
so selfish so selfish now it's time for quackity bakity bats brought to you by
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almost positive that it's time for quackity bit bats boots or whatever i
said but i'll wait for the go ahead go okay no if you're one of the many people
who don't use microsoft edge like myself you've probably seen how
annoying Windows makes it to change default browsers but mozilla has finally
found a way around this and have updated firefox with a new method that will let
users switch browsers in one click holy
crap just in time for Windows 11 to arrive
and break it probably just give up use edge use edge foolish
consumer use edge use it use it
microsoft get out of my head ignore the voice
oh wait apple's here now the iphone 13 is set to be officially announced
tomorrow but a last minute leak from our liable apple analyst has revealed that
we should expect a one terabyte storage option on the upcoming iphone lineup
doubling the previous maximum of 512.
wow one terabyte of storage on an iphone
still no room for a headphone jack
though headphones who needs those
no chargers either from the other side of the aisle it
looks like we have an official release date for Android 12 the fourth of
october which is under one month away as you might expect google pixel users
will start getting the upgrade that same day but other devices are just going to
be left in the ditch and just have to wait
forever hate ditches in the meantime you can i
don't know cry about how out of date your phone is you know iphones get
updates really fast get out of here
you might have noticed a huge jump in the value of your litecoin wallet last
week before the value went right back down it turns out this was due to a fake
press release that claimed walmart would start accepting the cryptocurrency
yeah good luck with that walmart quickly came out to clarify the
release was bogus but litecoin's value had already shut up by 20 in the
meantime so the press release may have been fake to pump up like coins value
prior to a dump yeah we should definitely make crypto
our main currency i think it would go fine
we should just use bitcoin for everything right yeah you want some
bitcoin sure speaking of things we should be doing
there's been a breakthrough in the quest for fusion power a group of scientists
have showed off an extremely powerful magnet that can produce a field the
strength of 20 tesla which is very very
strong
the manual will be crucial for an upcoming fusion reactor due to come online in 2025 with the same project
aiming to build a fusion power plant by 2033 though i hope nobody tells doc awk
about this i hope nobody goes into the multiverse then multiverse
but if it's real we're already in the multiverse that's
true riley and i hope this episode is over
because there's nothing else left in the script except for me to say come back on wednesday for more tech news how will
you distract yourself from the pain of existence until then i don't know i hear
popsicles are pretty nice oreos are decent or tesla robots will the tesla
robot feed you a popsicle i yes or i'm not gonna buy one