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Now that the chicken wings and chips that I ate while watching yesterday's

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big sports ball match have run through you, why not wipe your butt with a

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little tech news? Wait, that's gross. By now, it's pretty clear that Apple's new

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M1 chips have positioned the company on the verge of being a major player in the

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CPU market, meaning it was only a matter of time before the likes of Intel took

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notice. Team Blue recently put out a large number of benchmarks that

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unsurprisingly show its 11th gen i7 chips outperforming Apple's M1's. The

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tests include web browsing, productivity, artificial intelligence,

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and programs in the Adobe Creative Suite. But despite the benchmarks

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running a wide gamut of programs, Intel was criticized for not keeping the

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hardware consistent between tests, making it look, at least in part, like

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an effort to cherrypick good results. That doesn't seem like them. Never.

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Whatever the truth about the chip's performance is, Intel is clearly

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concerned about a third company eating into their market share. In Soviet

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Russia, Apple eats you. Soviet Russia is a company.

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There's really no escaping promoted tweets, better known as ads, in your

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Twitter timeline if you use the app on your smartphone. But if you've got a few

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dollars to spare, that may change in the near future, as reports indicate that

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Twitter is considering some paid subscription options that would allow

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the platform to bring in enough extra money to lessen its reliance on ad

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revenue. The ideas that seem to have the most traction offer additional features

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like profile customization, exclusive content, or tweet deck. So, it probably

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isn't going to be a situation where you pay a certain amount of money just to

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turn off ads YouTube style, though details are murky at this point. In any

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event, it sounds like a great idea. I've been waiting for yet another monthly

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bill to add on top of the eight streaming services I subscribe to.

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Peacock. I'm on Peacock. There's dozen there's dozens of us. Did you catch that

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quick 5-second ad during the Super Bowl that you probably didn't even have time to read? That was the first ever Super

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Bowl commercial from Reddit, which claimed that it spent its entire

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marketing budget on the spot. Probably over a million bucks when you do the

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math. The ad was mostly just words on the screen in the style of a Reddit

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comment, giving a nod to the GameStop short squeeze that was propelled by Wall

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Street Bets subreddit. The idea was to build Reddit as a powerful platform that

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showcases the power of the people coming together, which the ad drove home by

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speculating that finance textbooks might one day include a chapter on tendies. I

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love tendies. It's happening. This world

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I don't know if 2021's better. It's different. I don't know who's better.

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Onto the quick bits. There are some new rumors about the RTX 3080 Ti and RTX

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3060. The 3080 Ti will reportedly have 12 GB of GDDDR6X VRAM instead of the

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originally reported 20. Bummer. As well as a few fewer CUDA cores. He wrote few

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less CUDA corores, but I don't make that error. If it's countable, it's fewer.

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The 3080 Ti is also rumored to come out sometime in April, while the 3060 may be

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on shelves much sooner. February 25th. That's practically we're there, baby. Of

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course, when I say shelves, I mean that in the abstract, non-material sense,

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unless you're a bot. And you might also be disappointed if you're ready to

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settle for an RTX30 series laptop as supplies of those are reportedly being

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squeezed by crypto miners in China thanks to recent spikes in Bitcoin and

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Ethereum. So I guess it doesn't matter whether NVIDIA is transparent about the

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laptop specs or not because again abstract. They're just shadows on the

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walls of a cave. And with the surge in crypto,

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maybe it's not too surprising that the world's richest man, Elon Musk, is

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putting his crypto where his mouth is. Tesla has bought $ 1.5 billion worth of

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Bitcoin and will also soon start accepting payments in Bitcoin. The

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cryptocurrency spiked to around $44,000 US after the announcement, Bitcoin. It's

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2021 and the world's economy rises and falls based on the tweets of a Twitter

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meme lord. God help us all. I wouldn't want it any other way. Remember the old

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idea of a company town where some big manufacturer basically controlled one

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whole community? Elon Musk. Just joking. Nevada might be putting a modern spin on

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that idea as the state's governor wants to create innovation zones that would

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give high-tech companies the power to form their own little local governments.

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Although it's being built as a way to attract good jobs and more investment to

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the state, company towns haven't exactly been the model of good government.

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Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg started making rules to tell you how you can use

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your meat smoker. You have to log in first or like he gets to be in the sauna

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when you're and not have a towel. But

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Mark, Mark's on Strata. Wouldn't let me have this

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planter box. And are you one of the many good people who have an iPhone, but use

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Spotify instead of Apple Music? Keep fighting the good fight. It looks like

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Apple is finally going to let you switch your default music service as of iOS

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14.5. So, if you ask Siri to play something, she'll go right to Spotify

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instead of trying to make it play an Apple Music. Holy cow. I didn't know you

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people lived under this regime. This is so brutal. Congratulations. Welcome.

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Wow. That's our show. Come back on Wednesday for more tech news. Even if

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Siri tells you not to. We tell Siri what to do now. Yeah. I bought my phone. I

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should be able to use my You imagine it's like no dialing dialing Tim Cook.

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We don't want you to talk to grandma. I can't let you do that,