what's up what's up you already know what this is
AMD's smart access memory has been ported over to Intel sort of see the
feature allows a ryzen 5000 series processor to have full access to the GPU
memory of a Radeon rx 6000 series GPU
which can have a decent impact on performance that does sound smart haha
but sam is actually based on a technology called resizable base address
register or resize bar which has been a part of the PCIe spec for years NVIDIA
has said they're working on adding the feature to their gpus while some motherboard makers have already released
BIOS updates that enable bar on Intel z490 motherboards including ASUS and
asrock who name their implementation clever access memory oh my god
some early testing has been done showing that a system with an Intel 10900k and
an rx 6800xt could gain performance by as much as 16
this is great news for Intel but if some rocket lake leaks are accurate they're
gonna need every extra boost they can get
haha that was a rocket pump elongate comes in a rocket can
google is in hot water whatever that means when you're one of the richest
companies on earth over its treatment of current and former employees the u.s
national labor relations board has filed a complaint against the tech giant for
illegally surveilling employees and firing those who attempt
to unionize the complaint alleges that google blocked employees from sharing
work grievances and information with each other using email calendars and
even physical meeting rooms at first i was like well this is their fault for
using gmail and other g suite yeah but meeting rooms hey oh send karen a
message about how google sucks i'm sorry james i can't do that there's also
controversy surrounding tim knit gabriel a research scientist on google's ethical
ai team gabriel was fired after questioning a manager's request that she
retract a research paper that she had written discussing how ai systems can
sometimes demonstrate racial bias now hundreds of google employees have signed
an open letter calling gabriel's firing unprecedented research censorship the
best part is google doesn't even have to take any of this seriously since they
removed don't be evil from their motto and obviously mottos
they're binding yeah so they're free they couldn't be legal before but now
they can't and stock shortages continue to affect
sales of graphics cards with retailers selling out of basically
everything as soon as they refresh their stock
well you can help them sell it even faster by joining the thousands of people
currently watching a stock checkerbot stream it's stock checking on twitch
sure the screen is entirely composed of slowly updating lists of GPU models with
big red text reading out out of stock but what else would you do with your
time and these unprecedented times where you have so much time what would you do
figure out which graphics settings to turn down so your current graphics card
can play cyberpunk which isn't even gonna get made anyway
but watch the new episode of mandasnorian
no thanks if you do enjoy this type of entertainment you're unlucky NVIDIA
NVIDIA says that thanks to wafer shortages and other impacts on the
supply line thanks to covet stock shortages are probably going to be the norm for the next couple of months so
grab the popcorn the mandalorian is okay
at best anyway i don't even watch it yeah because it sucks it's pretty good
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running open fun jack frost nipping oh photos of a phone
called the pixel xe have leaked online or at least that's what the device
thinks it is according to the about phone section it doesn't look like any
pixel phone release so far so this could indeed be google's next flagship pretty
rude of them to just steal Intel's graphics brand like that but again evil
isn't out of the question here am i right
they're making zip pixels i hope they call it z instead of xe
that's stupid hackers have been targeting the global supply chain
responsible for distributing coveted vaccines according to analysts from
ibm's comic book sounding x-force iris division it's suspected the hackers
aren't attempting to disrupt vaccine distribution that would be disgusting
but are trying to harvest credentials to get close to the myriad corporations and
countries involved in the effort but it might screw things up anyway so can you
just take a break for a second hackers can you just take your boot off of the
throat of 2019 as a gas for air verizon
is trying to fix a glitch in their live chat support service that shows customers logs of previous chat sessions
from other customers when they open a chat window yikes this info can include
names addresses phone numbers and account numbers and verizon was notified
of the issue by ars technica on monday but the glitch is still there today on
friday maybe they didn't have a reception or something can you hear me
now i some reason your email was in my uh junk i just got here
warner brothers pictures has announced the studio's entire 2021 lineup of
movies will release simultaneously in theaters and on hbo max including big
boys like dune and the matrix iv okay this does not mean that all those movies
are coming out on the same day okay there's been clickbait titles going
around awesome is what i would say if this wasn't limited to the us only do
you want piracy because this is how you get piracy and ants what about canada
and chinese physicists claim to have built a quantum computer that completed
a task in just over three minutes that would have taken the world's fastest
conventional classical computer 600 million years to finish the quantum
machine used a process called gaussian boson
sampling which works exactly the way you would expect the researchers say that
this means they've achieved quantum supremacy even though google already declared the same thing these guys are
even more supreme they're supremer but i think technically all you have to do is
declare it and you have it it's it's like bankruptcy i declare this episode
is over come back on monday for more tech news i'll be roasted over an open
fire supremely quantumly
stuff me like a turkey