tech news doesn't matter this is what a ding-dong would say
not me it seemed like americans were done freaking out about the fact that
unreasonably popular social media app tick-tock is owned by chinese company
bite dance but just like emperor palpatine somehow the controversy
returned on friday tick tock announced that the data of users in the u.s is now
being stored on oracle's american cloud servers by default but on the same day
buzzfeed news reported that according to leaked audio from 80 internal meetings
bite dance employees in china had repeatedly accessed u.s user data the
report conflicts with tick tock's claims that sure backups of u.s user data were
stored outside the u.s but they don't look at that data and they certainly
don't give it to the chinese government they wouldn't want it anyways they're
super chill responding to the report tiktok admitted that yes of course some
high-level admins sometimes have to access that data but the company's goal
is limiting the number of employees who have access to user data and the
scenarios in which data access is enabled so instead of picturing a bunch
of scary ccp stooges reading your dms picture like ah two or three guys
they're really good guys you should all go for lunch sometime meta ceo mark
zuckerberg has shown off a cornucopia of prototype vr headsets as a demonstration
of the advances in technology necessary for metaverse tech to pass the visual
turing test which i'm guessing is a test that makes it hard to distinguish
virtual reality from reality reality is
zuck talking about vr ever going to not be creepy i feel like he wants to suck
me into the virtual world for nefarious purposes or just because he wants a
friend anyways it is actually kind of cool to see the different avenues that the
company formerly known as facebook is pursuing even if the goal is obviously
to get people to spend too much money on purchasing digital versions of designer
clothes by balenciaga and prada which they announced today
guys they're even more overpriced than the real stuff burying your money in the
ground would be more financially advisable this is not financial advice
by the way just tech news and more good news for pc builders as german
enthusiasts cite 3d center has confirmed that prices of current gen gaming gpus
in germany and austria have on average
come back down to msrp after spiking as high as 318
back in may 2021. uh i remember that time a lot of good
people didn't have gpus Radeon rx 6000 cards
have actually dipped around eight percent lower than msrp GeForce rtx 30
series cards are sitting at around two percent above
and the forecast actually is continuing to look rosy with crypto miners
continuing to sell up their gpus and defunct system builder artesian builds
starting to auction off thousands of pc components which it never had the right
to in the first place for those who worry they might never
turn their graphic settings up again lift your eyes to the horizon it's
gandalf and he's got a ton of gpus they're all riding horses i don't know
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knowledge and knowledge is the key to feeling super smart and better than
other people leaked photos of an AMD presentation indicate that team red is
planning to launch their first ryzen 7000 processors and am5 motherboards on
september 15th they're supposedly pretty good compared to Intel's 12th gen chips
but rumors have also pointed to Intel releasing their 13th gen raptor lake
processors in the second half of 2022
which i'm pretty sure includes september fingers crossed for another global
crisis to not hit before that happens we've had quite enough of those thank
you very much after a google engineer sparked a debate
over ai sentience last week a techno
philosopher has told pc gamer that he believes even video game npcs could one
day be conscious in which case they would have real lives and deserve rights
okay counterpoint what if we intentionally
don't make npcs conscious since they are currently being subjected to constant
virtual genocide and shooter games we just turn down the consciousness dial
when we make those ones right here it makes sense speaking of shooters the
developers of call of duty's anti-cheat software ricochet have unveiled the
latest trick warzone is playing on cheaters making their guns disappear oh
maybe they could get into some cheaty fist fights nope
they take their fists away too after all if your hand causes you to sin chop it
off a little excessive for real life but just add in a video game to the end and
actually is pretty reasonable recycling electronics is notoriously difficult
which is especially sad in a world swimming in them but japanese
researchers have discovered that prussian blue a synthetic pigment used
by artists and scientists because of its ability to trap metal ions can extract
gold and platinum from e-waste much more efficiently than current methods meaning
we could maybe ease back on the digging so deep down into the earth thing you
know there could be balrogs down there we don't know
and humanity's great project of running doom on literally everything has reached
a new milestone modder james brown has created a lego brick with an embedded
monitor on which he has managed to run a ridiculously blurry instance of the
classic shooter game at 72 by 40
resolution but pixels don't matter it's what's in here that matters and in here
i know we're going to be able to run doom on the surface of the sun one day
we'll get there and we have gotten to the end of this episode so come back on
wednesday for more tech news which you can watch on any dang screen you want
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