oh thank goodness you're here the tech news was almost offended
jk the tech news cannot be offended it is not a person
reviews of one of the two laptops that apple has slapped its new m2 chip into
so far are out and the consensus seems to be that while the company's second
gen soc definitely brings some performance gains it's hard to recommend
grabbing it when it comes buried inside the same old boring 13-inch macbook pro
design sure the m2 performs a bit better than the m1 but is that saying much when
you're comparing a supposedly pro laptop to a chip you can find in the ipad air
some reviews noted that a macbook pro with an m1 pro chip can still get up to
double the performance of the m2 in some cases plus do you want to be seen buying
a new laptop that still has the touch bar on it that would probably be so
embarrassing for you the m2's value proposition might make a little more
sense when the new macbook air shows up or better yet when it comes in its
inevitable upgraded m2 pro model so stay
tuned for that episode where we scrutinize those products for anything
we could make a joke about in other product review news Intel's arc a380
desktop graphics card has received one of its first full reviews courtesy of
chinese tech channel
shh i'm not gonna say it right it's it's anglicized shen
i tried on billy billy as expected the card was able to keep pace with and even
outperform a Radeon rx 6400 and gtx 1650
in some synthetic benchmarks but performed significantly worse in every
real world gaming scenario if you're thinking oh oh that's because the
drivers probably aren't optimized good job that seems to be the prevailing
explanation among speculationists on the internet right now if so Intel better
get those drivers in shape before they launch the Intel serpent canyon nuk with
its arc a770m GPU which was leaked on
another chinese social media site baidu prepare for more info dumps like this
out of china as Intel continues its launch in that country starting with the
low-end gpus and working their way up to the flagship models i'm guessing by that
time Intel hopes to have its drivers in shape because they'll have all that
training data from chinese gamers my idea of optimizing drivers basically
just looks like reboot it's a great show i'm bob and sorry non-canadian listeners
but we're going to talk about our own country for a second because the canadian government has just voted to
advance the controversial bill c11 aka
the online streaming act which would require platforms like youtube netflix
and even pornhub to change the way they serve up content proponents of bill c-11
say the act is needed to place digital distributors under the same regulations
that apply to traditional broadcasters defining and promoting content that
qualifies as canadian we call it can con
up here not to be confused with the much more interesting cancun but critics
argue that platforms would be forced to prioritize and de-prioritize certain
content for canadian audiences potentially affecting viewership at home
and abroad c11 now moves to a final vote in the senate so if you don't want this
to happen write to your representatives and if you do want it to happen i don't
know drink a bag of milk and chill i guess
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in and out you won't even you won't even notice them you won't remember them a
new tech industry group called the metaverse standards forum has been
created by a number of tech giants including microsoft epic games NVIDIA
qualcomm and of course meta they almost set out though as the
name implies the forum will be working on developing interoperable standards
between different vr and ar ecosystems something apple and google are
apparently not interested in as they haven't joined the club yet they didn't
even respond to the rsvp mark stayed up all night working on it pretty rude
they were partying in their own private metaverses github has publicly released
its ai powered coding assistant copilot
as part of a 10 per month subscription although it's free for students and
maintainers of popular open source projects copilot hasn't been free of
controversy with some criticizing the fact that it previously required paid
software to use and others probably asking if the code generated by the ai
is sentient for some reason you have to name every string that it writes and
assure it that it matters you're a parent now in other microsoft news
because microsoft owns github the company may have blocked downloads of
Windows 10 and 11 for users in russia
multiple reports make it seem like that's the case but microsoft hasn't
officially commented on the issue they did publish a blog post though today
detailing their efforts to help ukraine fight back against russian attacks both
cyber and otherwise so i don't think it would be
super out of character like i don't think anyone's saying what but why
north american phone aficionados excited for the release of the much hyped
nothing phone one received some disappointing news today when the
company headed by former oneplus chief carl pay announced the phone one would
not be getting a widespread release in the u.s or canada so i guess north
american fans of nothing will get what they wanted after all and amazon has
unveiled what it calls its first fully autonomous mobile robot called proteus
which can move large carts around its warehouses proteus arrives at a crucial
time for amazon which just had a memo leak showing that executives think the
company's high turnover rate has almost depleted the entire available workforce
close one amazon talk about a success story and this
episode has successfully concluded come back on friday for more tech news or it
will be offended i lied at the beginning