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i got the tech news it's finally happened reddit has gone
from making memes about stonks to turning the real stock market into a
stonks meme you see this week the folks
over at r slash wall street bets decided on mass to buy stocks in gamestop the
video game retail chain that hasn't been in the best shape financially for quite
some time now the rapid influx of netizens suddenly
buying shares through online brokerages seemingly caused many such brokerages to
crash from all the traffic and elon musk as usual
wasn't helping or was helping depending on how you see things he tweeted
gamestonk with a link to the wall street bet subreddit
thanks elon now apparently this isn't just a meme
for these redditors gamestop's value rising by over a thousand percent
compared to last year is actually causing hedge funds that shorted the
gamestop stock to lose money by the
billions which has given the subreddit a real like
robin hood vibe it's also caused more traditional wall
street traders and federal regulators to panic because they're supposed to be the
ones artificially manipulating the stock market not reddit do you people have no
respect for entrenched hierarchies
Intel has reportedly begun shipping its dg1 discrete graphics card to oems and
system builders who will sell it as part of pre-built systems and if you're upset
about that because you wanted to buy one for yourself gamers
don't be although the dg1 uses the same
z graphics architecture found in Intel's latest mobile processors
it is actually excuse me less powerful than the top-end laptop
parts with only 80 out of 96 execution
units enabled and 4 gigs of
lpddr4x memory plus this thing won't work in systems
that don't have a 9th or 10th gen Intel CPU
because they require a special BIOS to function
so no no you will not be making a
frankenstein AMD CPU Intel graphics monstrosity of a
computer at least not yet meanwhile Intel graphics chief raja
kaduri shared an image of Intel's ponte
vecchio vecchio yeah thanks
the largest chip in the z family and
showed off its uh chiplets
now this thing's meant to be for data centers not for gaming so you know my
take on this is rude okay rude
throwing this in our face it's like i just want a gaming pc and you're saying
no no you either get like a game and watch or you get like a game-altering
super computer yeah nothing in between
i want the middle i want the oreo right i want the the the icing
frosting sugar sugar and sony has announced its
latest flagship mirrorless camera the a1
for 6500 us dollars but that doesn't even seem that expensive
when you consider that it's only the second mirrorless camera with 8k video
recording to exist ever so this is actually a really good deal
and it's an even better deal after you bundle sony's new xperia pro phone which
is basically the same phone as last year's
but with an added micro HDMI port so you
can use it as a camera monitor wow a reason to buy a sony phone
mind you it costs twenty five hundred dollars so i hope you got in on those
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that's how fast i was german enthusiast site computer base claims to have found
a list of all of NVIDIA's rtx 30 series
mobile GPU variants and there is 28 of them including 12 rtx 38
configurations three of which are apparently max q
so while NVIDIA may not be killing the
branding they're probably killing customer satisfaction for people who
just bought a gaming laptop only to realize that it can barely run angry
birds oneplus co-founder carl pay has
officially announced his next company it's called
nothing dude that is so it's so deep
nothing has a slew of famous investors behind it including youtuber casey
neistat and its name also describes what the company has said they're working on
actually no that's not true the plan is to release products in multiple
categories with the eventual goal of people hanging out with no laptop screen
no phone screen and no smart watch screen gotcha carl the screen is gonna
be in your mind and spacex is adding laser links to its
latest starling satellites which will help increase coverage in polar regions
without requiring more base stations on earth and i'm sure that these
laser-equipped spacecraft have nothing to do with the fact that elon musk has
been bashing jeff bezos and amazon on twitter over their plans to launch a
competing satellite internet service nothing at all
an automated bot on the secure messaging service telegram has been selling access
to a database of 500 million facebook users phone numbers which leaked in 2019
well thank goodness we all escaped whatsapp and found
telegram right this bastion of security and privacy
but hey you can always use signal or at least you'll be able to when their app
starts working you know what screw it fine zuckerberg fine you win we cannot
block your soil and finally a recently unearthed NVIDIA patent also from 2019
describes a game controller with a third pair of trigger buttons and a trackball
instead of a second joystick how's this even news it's hard to believe that
NVIDIA would try this after the steam controller's very short heyday but
i don't know maybe this is the way console players will even the odds in
online shooters i believe in you guys
never give up but we are going to give up filming this
episode because honestly we're just not that good at it
come back on friday for our next attempt at finally delivering the tech news in a
way that's informative and entertaining
pro tip by the way the crunchiest stories are usually at the end of the
week no no no