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peruse the specs for NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 50 Series Blackwell gpus have
allegedly already leaked thanks to Reliable tipster copit 7 Kimmy which is
how I will pronounce it always Kimmy has
claimed the cards will be based on the
GB 202 and GB 203 gpus I don't know what
their opinions will be but we'll see the latter is expected to be a cutdown
version of the former with half the number of cores on top of that the cards
may be the first to feature GDDR 7
memory specifically the memory speed will cap out at 28 gbits per second
which is lower than the the published specifications for the nextg memory but
still faster than GDDR 6x's maximum
speed this detail seems the most solid
while Kimmy has seemed to flip-flop on memory bus width the tipster now says
the GB 202 will sport a 512-bit memory
bus but previously hinted it would come with the same 384bit interface the 490
has but if all this gaming GPU news tricked you into thinking that NVIDIA
cares about those again I'm sorry sorry AI is still Jensen's favorite child CEO
Jensen hang has implied the company's nextg dgx AI servers will be liquid
cooled perhaps to deal with extra heat due to increased power consumption this
wouldn't be the only hot water NVIDIA's AI has created Team Green is being sued
by three authors who claim their copyrighted Works were used without
permission to train the company's Nemo AI platform with this lawsuit NVIDIA
joins the list of AI companies sued for copyright infringement companies like
every other AI company it's a right of passage really AGI will emerge from the
fire of being sued constantly from Team
Green over to team red now AMD has made major changes to the freesync
certification process in a community announcement the company stated they
would be increasing the required maximum
refresh rate a monitor needs to support
in order to be free sync certified originally monitors and TVs only needed
a maximum refresh rate of 40 to 60 Herz
to get a basic free sync stamp but now
the minimum certification requires at least a 144hz maximum refresh rate
meanwhile free sync premium certification used to just require a
monitor that can go up to 120 htz but now that's only true for displays with
horizontal resolutions of 3,440 pixels
or above t TVs or monitors below that
resolution must have a maximum refresh rate of at least 200 HZ and premium pro
has also changed to match premium but with the added Criterion of HDR support
now these might sound like huge and confusing changes but they really just
reflect today's most common refresh rates in desktop gaming monitors it's
super common now to find Budget gaming monitors at 144 HZ but no matter what
monitor you're running AMD's new upscaler for noname just video content
could be welcome news for you Radeon RX 7000 users out there it's basically team
Red's answer to NVIDIA's RTX VSR but
apparently it's a bit more complicated to set up not only do you have to enable
it in AMD's Adrenaline control panel but you also need to enable options in
Windows 11's Settings app and additional settings in Chrome and Edge if you want
to use it in one of those browsers as for other browsers AMD didn't mention
them Firefox what is that some sort of cryp did it's friends with the
insulindian fmid about five people will get that and apple will be releasing
NextGen iPad pros and airs in the next
month according to the germ and the apple apple will not have a launch event
for their Mac and iPad updates because the Vision Pro is all that matters now
previously it was rumored that Apple would simply put out press releases on
its website last week but that doesn't seem to have happened while we wait for
those products we can perhaps also wait for a new Apple headset oh insiders like
gerbon have claimed we might see a cheaper alternative to The Vision Pro in
2025 or 2026 but according to a leaker
called Rus sounds like a Cy Lord according to
that leaker apple is accelerating research and development on an
entrylevel headset the leaker claims apple is trying to reduce the cost of
their headset displays which account for almost a third of the vision Pro's total
manufacturing cost allegedly the second generation headset could cost cost
$1,500 which is a bargain on Apple's pricing scale but before that allegedly
happens the airpods pro may be getting a major new hearing aid mode with iOS 18
according to Mark German again he's back a 20122 study already suggested airpods
work competently as a cheaper alternative to a traditional hearing
aids so how can they get better will they cure hearing loss in some weird
partnership with Mr Beast implant your airpods directly into your skull now
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Google added extended battery statistics that allowed users to see charging cycle
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feature so they removed it saying we only enable this page on Pixel 8A and
Beyond oh oh that'll be on the pixel 8A no sorry Android users you may have lost
a feature but your sacrifice has allowed Google to justify yet another phone
launch a mod has been released that gives NVIDIA RTX 20 series and GTX 16
series gpus support for resizable bar a
performance-enhancing feature that lets your CPU access your GPU's entire frame
buffer as long as your motherboard says it's okay Mom isn't there someone you
forgot to ask that's actually not a joke rebar only works if the motherboard CPU
and GPU all support it so using this mod
which is based on another mod adding rebar support to older processors
involves patching your motherboard's UEFI firmware and that's always a little
risky but what is life if not a continuous sequence of taking one risk
after another this is not an endorsement do not sue us we're not an AI company if
Riley jumped off a cliff would you that's just a question and Porsche has
unveiled the tyan turbo GT its fastest
road legal car ever and it proved it too
by setting a new record for a production EV car at the leguna sea track in
California lonus is so sad he went back to driving his Lambo out of shame in
addition to more range and pter charging the new tyan got a bonus in the form of
a Tim Cook appearance in its announcement video he congratulated
Porsche CEO Oliver Bloom on the launch
and on the Porsche Vision Pro app that lets you spectate races from various
perspectives I hope CEO pinching the air becomes part of every major product
release going forward it just makes everything more exciting I think this called cariz where everything starts
turning into crabs oh no I'm becoming a
crab as you know we're releasing a product but there's nothing more
exciting than coming back on Wednesday for more Tech news nothing nothing