sometimes the tech news River can run pretty dry and then NVIDIA and AMD and
apple coming and blow up the dam woo come on get your wet suits on we haven't
dinner in that reviews went live for NVIDIA's RTX 570 yesterday and AMD's RX
970 and 970 XT this morning finally
giving GPU testers a chance to sleep Riley I didn't know you could wear a
suit I clean up nice the LTT team found
that the RX 970 and 9070 XT trade blows
with the RTX 570 and 570 TI respectively
in raster performance for way cheaper he says as if GPU prices are stable at all
right now that's what I do I narrate my life in the third person team red also
delivered big improvements in raid tracing and the new RX 9000 exclusive
FSR 4 upscaling slf frame gen technology
although it still falls short of matching Enid's DLS S4 the biggest
complaint with AMD's new cards seems to be that AMD has pulled their own 7900
XTX trick again and made the $600 970 XT
too good of a deal compared to the $550 970 but at least AMD didn't claim their
base 70 tier card as equivalent to an RTX
4090 I mean sure in some games the RTX
5070 can use multiframe generation to put out more frames than a
490 that's not using frame gen as long
as like Indiana Jones you like artifacts
it belongs in a Museum speaking of frames Hardware on box notes that the RX
970 xt's cost per frame is much better
than the new NVIDIA options mostly because the AMD cards are an option with
all signs pointing to retailers actually having MSRP versions in stock the same
can't be said for the RTX 5070 Founders Edition which no one has found an NVIDIA
delayed it at the last second yesterday as for the third party cards despite the
bad reviews they sold out immediately ultimately making this an NVIDIA launch
that really could have just been an email why am I here why did you pull me
in interestingly that is the approach Apple took this week when they launched
upgraded Macs and iPads with nothing more than a press release and a couple
of tweets from CEO Tam cook or his assistant a I wanted a big event it was
Siri the new base model MacBook Air is getting an M4 chip 16 GB of RAM and a
$100 price drop starting at 1,000 USD
depending on your situation this could be a no-brainer upgrade the same can't
be said for the new iPad Air which seems to be literally the same device but with
an M3 chip with the same amount of cores as the M2 and support for Apple's floaty
looking magic keyboard it does look quite floaty though the base model iPad
has also been updated it's getting an a16 chip which lacks support for Apple
intelligence the killer feature I'm sure everyone's using and talking about but I
just can't hear them the beefiest upgrade Apple announced though was the
new Max studio models available with an M4 Max or the brand new M3 Ultra which
is Apple's term for when they take two Max chips and fuse them together
something they won't be doing with the M4 apparently maybe later uh because it
lacks the ultra Fusion connector oh so not later it just didn't have one I
don't it came like that US president Donald Trump called for an end to the
chips act a Biden era law that subsidized chipmakers effort to build
facilities in the US during the president's address to Congress this
week calling the chips act a horrible horrible thing worst we've ever seen
that last part was me just in case the ACT doesn't get repealed through Congress the Trump Administration is
firing nearly half of the staff that would dish out the subsidies anyway
because as evidenced by tsmc's recent
commitment to build hundred billion doll worth of chipm facilities in the US over
the next 20 years you just need to threaten these companies with tariffs
not help them do the thing you want them to do however tsmc still says they won't
make their most advanced chips in the US and research by the consumer technology
Association concluded that bringing All Tech manufacturing back to the US is not
feasible and cutting chips act subsidies also wouldn't help American chip maker
Intel who's not exactly swimming in profits right now Trump also said he
could still Levy tariffs on Taiwan which would make chips more expensive for us
consumers adding on the effect of a now 20% tariff on Chinese Goods meanwhile
Mexico and Canada that's us announced retaliatory tariffs in response to
Trump's tariffs which are supposed to go in effect today although the talks are
still ongoing with the pause on vehicle related tariffs being proved just hours
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bits YouTube has finally launched its rumored premium light subscription in
the US which will cost eight bucks for a month instead of the 14 charged for full
premium it'll remove ads from most videos but keep them on for music
content it's a subscription tier that's just a little bit premium stay tuned for
the plan that goes the other way YouTube premium Ultra it removes everything
including the videos stay home Google has announced its AI overview search
feature has been updated to use the Gemini 2.0 model and can now be used by
teens and non-signed in users this will be fine the tech giant is also rolling
out a new experimental AI mode for search that seems like a middle ground
between a normal Google search and just using Gemini because so many people were
asking how do I make searching in the web more like asking someone to do it
for me who's High out of their in mind
it's more fun according to Android authority Google's also updated Android
auto with preliminary support for Gemini which usually warns users that it may
make mistakes and tells them to verify the answers which might not be easy to
do when you're driving scientists at biotech company colossal Sciences have
genetically injured w mice with hair much thicker and longer than normal mice
as part of their efforts to bring woolly mammoths back into the world hold on I'm
calling it now they're just going to stop doing that and and be like a hair
replacement therapy company that's it just give bald people woolly hair look
like a caveman they say they're not just doing this as the setup to a movie where
literally everything goes wrong there is some evidence that adding mammoths or
large animals back to Arctic environments could protect the
permafrost which could have KnockOn effects on the economy or something
colossal is also trying to bring back other extinct animals including the dodo
the Tasmanian tiger and who knows what else but founder Ben lamb insists quote
it wouldn't end like Jurassic Park I promise the meeran cages literally what
could go wrong and an Australian company called cortical Labs has launched the
cl1 a module that they call the world's first biological computer uh that's us
because it can run computations using human neuron cells attached to Silicon
Hardware customers will be able to rent Computing time on the chips or buy a cl1
unit for themselves and trust me using a calculator app hits different when it's
powered by wet squishy stuff maintained with tubes and valves instead of just
dead circuits look I don't mean to disparage this it's genuinely cool
research as long as the chips aren't conscious and trying to escape they have
no mouth and they must scream but they can't what are they going to do like
some people will pay for this but don't you try to escape coming back here on
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