yes
ooh bam
sucker yeah AMD has finally properly
unveiled their new Radeon RX 970 and 970
XT graphics cards and honestly I'm glad they waited this long The Vibes were off
at CES and going through NVIDIA's dumpster fire of an RTX 50 Series launch
in the meantime really makes you appreciate this launch more because the
RX 970 will start at
$550 with the 970 XT starting at600
although it's pretty apparent that even after a 2-month delay AMD was still
unsure about the Final prices their presentation stream has obvious audio
Replacements anytime they mention it by rdna 4 is able to deliver fantastic
performance for $150 less but that price
means that despite the 970 XT performing
about 2% worse than the RTX 570 TI with
Team Red's card you get 23% more
performance per dollar and there are
overclocked versions that perform much better which will be available for way
more than 600 bucks but listen these aren't like NVIDIA's melty gpus okay
they'll all use standard 8 Pin power connectors although the sapphire 97 XT
Nitro plus has a 12vt 2x6 plug in the
back okay that one uh gets get its Freak on a little bit okay but the rest are
normal according to AMD's benchmarks and slides and whatnot their new FSR 4
upscaling Tech is way better and will work with more than 30 games at launch
although it is exclusive to the new rdna
4 based 90 series cards boo but there's
lots to be excited about here better encoding better rate tracing better AI
capabilities and both cards come with a healthy 16 GB of vram check out the LTT
video I guess for a more thorough breakdown and sit tight for proper
reviews before the 90 series actually launches next Thursday March 6th and
also maybe sit tight for an RX 9960 because as spotted by video cards
with a z AMD reps said during their Chinese launch event that card will be
coming in Q2 and I had Dennis confirm it
h do I trust him also there might be a higher-end XTX model we're getting
carried away here okay let's calm down open AI finally launched the heavily
teased GPT 4.5 but despite being their biggest
model ever the company described it as not a Frontier Model before removing
that from the official documentation AI people are kind of struggling to Gro
this release because in some math and science benchmarks GPT 4.5 does worse
than xi's grock 3 the new model doesn't
seem very good on paper but some users
are agreeing with Sam alman's claim that it's more emotionally
intelligent it's about The Vibes man in
the race to build a hyper intelligent machine God right now we're at the stage
where we build a chatbot that's comfortable passing the duy upon the
left hand side okay but really Sam what gives why
the low numbers his answer straight up
we're out of GP use we uh we don't know
where they went and other AI companies are giving excuses too in a memo to
employees Google co-founder Sergey Brin
wrote that we could totally have artificial general intelligence or AGI
if you guys just worked 60 hours a week he called it The Sweet Spot of
productivity Brinn went on to say don't work more than 60 hours a week but also
make sure you don't work less or you could end up demoralizing your
co-workers and then we definitely won't make it to AGI a term that Google Deep
Mind boss Demis hassabis just admitted is becoming kind of a meaningless term
while still somehow remaining very
important I don't know there's just a Vibe about it Mozilla has once again
changed language in their terms of service that really makes it sound like
the company owns and will sell the personal data of Firefox users why would
anyone think that when all they did was delete an explicit promise to never sell
sell users personal data you know what I see it now this
isn't the first time that language in mozilla's documentation has caused
concern but as in previous instances it
seems like Mozilla might just be really bad at doing words good in responses on
forums and to news outlets the company has tried to clarify that they don't own
Firefox user data they aren't selling personally identifiable information and
the non-exclusive royaltyfree worldwide
license to information gathered through Firefox is necessary for basic
functionality but many users remain skeptical somewhat justifiably given all
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then quick bits threw the hoop for the buzzer beater overtime
snack yeah Instagram res users were
surprised this week when many of their feeds turned into a NeverEnding scroll
through gruesome videos of violence and
dead bodies after enough people were traumatized meta revealed that this
wasn't a fun takeover collab with forchan but an error for which the tech
giant apologized in a statement given to 404 media and other outlets
oopsies hope your kid didn't grab your phone that day what the Microsoft has
announced they're shutting down venerable video calling app Skype for
good oh well anyway meta oh they're back
uh they've shown off a second gen prototype of their ARA smart glasses
which could lead to nextg meta Ray bands with state-of-the-art sensors including
six degrees of freedom slam cameras I
don't know what those are I just knew I wanted to say slam cameras at some point
today but meta could face competition
from an AI company called Sesame who's creating their own smart glasses to host
their own voice assistant which is currently blowing journalists Minds with
how natural it sounds and how much it wants to hear more about what they
think easily pleased this week Warner
brothers shut down monolith Productions the studio behind the Shadow of Mordor
franchise which was loved for its Nemesis system that generated unique orc
villains that actually remembered how you freaking embarrassed them in front
of their orc buddies multiple times but rather than let other Studios use that
system WB just locked it behind a patent until 2036 for the sake of contrast EA
just released the source code for four classic Command and Conquer games
because you know they're insecure and need to hear Praise you're not tricking
me and someone has invented tasto Vision
yet again a team of international researchers published a study showing
their prototype device called what else
easte it could could successfully
reproduce complex flavor combinations by dispatching gels through an
electromagnetic pump this could allow you to try menu items before you order
or taste the ocean salt off of Mario's
torso ah what ah I'm ah I'm I'm sorry
that image just never left my brain why did Nintendo do that look just come back
on Monday for more Tech news and let's just forget I ever said anything okay
any of it as far as anyone else is concerned we just both stood here and
made facial
expressions there are some really good ones