the best thing about tech news is i could make it up and you guys would have
absolutely no idea have you even seen mark zuckerberg in person trust me you
don't want to the parliament of the european union has finally officially
agreed to mandate usb-c charging ports on all phones tablets and cameras sold
in the eu by 2024 after years of
proposals and whiny comments from apple who is perfectly happy to slap usb-c
ports on absolutely everything except the iphone
they even put two of them in the new macbook air charger yeah they had they
had spares give me one of those it's unlikely this agreement is going to
catch apple off guard though as recent rumors have indicated the company was
already working on usbc equipped versions of future iphones and airpods
although there are other rumors pointing towards apple opting instead for an
iphone with no ports at all rather than let themselves be restricted to only
thinking the way that other people think they like to think different
and no by the way apple won't be able to just release a dongle for the sake of
compliance like they did last time the eu made a fuss about common cell phone
chargers back in 2010 you will give us a usbc iphone apple and you will claim
that it's the best iphone ever and it will be true for once now you'd be
forgiven for forgetting about Intel's arc GPU since
they're taking so freaking long to roll out so here's some leaked benchmarks to
keep them in your thoughts results from 3dmark time spy show
Intel's a730m one of the higher tier laptop chips but not the flagship a770m
outperforming NVIDIA's rtx 3070m and
AMD's rx 6800s which is great news
especially for people who like new products that do better than the old
ones i like to shake it up you will want to add a dash of salt to the hype
stacked on your plate based on other real world gaming benchmarks though
because they put the a730m's performance more in line with an rtx 3050 or 3060.
honestly at this point Intel just give us the gpus we'll still love you if they
suck wait chill and the latest version of macOS ventura
will make apple's killer rosetta emulator available inside Linux virtual
machines meaning that Linux apps written for Intel or AMD processors will be able
to run on m1 and m2 powered max this is
big news for developers who have been waiting to run specific apps for work
but it could also be big news for x86 app emulation on non-apple ARM
processors like those built by qualcomm or mediatek google now a software
engineer going by longhorn on twitter
has discovered that rosetta could theoretically work on those chips
although hector martin one of the devs behind asahi Linux has pointed out that
doing so would be quote not legal
i mean so are hackintoshes and apple hasn't sent its secret police force to
batter down the doors of people buying that project so who knows maybe we need
to call the eu about this use their secret police force now it's time for
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down below when you're ordering at a restaurant always ask the waiter for the bit quits
trust me they have a secret menu twitter must be fed up with elon's mind games by
now so they're planning to give musk access to the platform's so-called fire
hose API which would give the billionaire the ability to see every
tweet ever posted in real time that's what they called me in high school it's
unclear how elon will respond given that his good faith ambitions to buy twitter
have seemed less and less good or faithy
but at the very least he may appreciate the ability to witness memes directly
flowing from the collective consciousness in on mass in real time
laminar flow it's beautiful new owners of the f-150 lightning have
shared photos of an interesting accessory that comes standard on the ev
an adapter that allows them to charge
tesla vehicles which use proprietary connectors
so not only did ford beat tesla to market with an electric truck they also
equipped their electric truck to act as a aaa service for people who are driving
cars made by the rival company i mean any self-respecting tesla driver would
undoubtedly refuse but hey at least the
f-150 lightning owner can say well i offered and krata the roblox meets
fortnite game creator game that initially launched on stadia before
coming to the epic game store has now launched on facebook's cloud gaming
platform of all places facebook has a cloud gaming platform yeah i know right
oh okay well that actually makes a lot of sense
says the script given that meta bought kratos developers unit 2 games a year
ago meta is probably hoping that this free-to-play title that can be played
within a browser will give them a leg up in their metaverse i get it lag
that's funny leg up because it's cloud gaming
leg oh lag up and youtuber yannick kilcher
posted a video this week detailing his exploits training an ai chatbot with
three years worth of 4chan posts
if you guessed that the bot turned out to be racist and generally unpleasant to
talk to you'd be right it is unclear what kiltjer was hoping to
gain by repeating microsoft's disastrous
tay chat bot experiment other than to remind us that humans can and often do
totally suck no offense to fortune you know what doesn't suck though taco
bell's new fantastically dystopian defy restaurant if you can even call it a
restaurant it basically looks like a border control booth but instead of
receiving suspicious stairs you receive a gordita and a baja blast which
descends to your vehicle in a tube from the kitchen above okay are you just
taking the piss at this point because it really does sound made up you can order
stuff you can order whatever you want at this point you're gonna want to head
straight home because you'll soon have something else to put into a different
tube hey thanks for traveling along the series of tubes to hang out with us for
this episode it's now over come back on friday for more tech news on thursday
the pipes get a little clogged so you gotta use the stick it's gonna be gonna
be friday yeah suction stick