HOW does this make sense!?
TechLinked
·TechLinked
·2021-05-05
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1,276 words · ~6 min read
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- Today's the day. It's actually happening.
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In fact, it already happened. Well, isn't that cool?
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I've never seen anything like it. - [Man] What happened? What what? - Hey, want some tech tips? - [man] what happened?
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- NVIDIA launched the RTX 3060 graphics card yesterday,
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and by launched, I mean, shuffled a few boxes
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through their doggy door, where they were promptly set upon and devoured by the starving hoards of gamers.
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Of course, it's no surprise that the cards sold out almost immediately
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given the ongoing stock shortage which is a shame since it's actually a decent mid-range card
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and a worthy successor to the GTX 1060. As I said in the full review, online at tech tips.
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Newegg is now raffling off chances to buy cards,
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which is just bonkers. - [Man] But overall
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But overall. It seems like invidious plan to cripple the 3060s mining power
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and introduce mining specific cards down the line.
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Didn't do basically Jack all for availability.
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However, according to a new leak NVIDIA's first two mining cards, the CMP 38 checks
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and 48 checks appear to be based off of Turing 12 nanometer GPUs
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instead of ampere eight nanometer GPUs,
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which is of course what the RTX three series is built on. So maybe they do have our best interests
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in mind after all. Stay tuned for later in the year
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when we find out that the 50 X is built
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on ampere and NVIDIA stole eight nanometers GPUs from the RTX division to make them ha ha or maybe not
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but maybe they will, - [man] Oh but I'll definitely make a video about it.
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A judge has ordered Valve to comply really? - [man] Ha ha ha
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That's so stupid. - [man] Oh I love it A judge has ordered valve to comply
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with Apple's subpoena asking for steam game sales data
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after Valve initially refused to provide it.
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But then instead of submitting data from as early as 2015 Valve will only have to go back to 2017
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with the judge remarking that Apple has salted the earth
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with subpoenas in its quest to repel attacks from Epic games
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over the iOS apple stores, monopolistic practices. - [man] You get some dinner, you get us some dinner
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- Thanks for that. Apple says that their request is perfectly reasonable.
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I mean, they only asked for data on 436 games instead of
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30,000 Steam Games. They totally could have done that.
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So you should be grateful. Valve, Valve apparently has until mid-March
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to comply with the order or else the company's conflict will be decided with a one V one
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between Team Apple and gave in, in that's right, there on it
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- [man] Neutral ground. - And the semiconductor shortage affecting every product that uses chips,
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which is basically every product is reportedly
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going to get worse. Thanks in part to another type of shortage in Taiwan.
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The country is experiencing a massive drought,
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so chip makers like tsmc are buying truckloads
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of water in an attempt to get out ahead of the national water supply restrictions,
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so they can continue production. Because you see, their plants run on hydrogen fuel cells.
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- [man] Wow, - Wow, just kidding, the people who work there need to drink water ha ha
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and also you need water for other stuff for manufacturing. Anyway, aside from that, market analysts believe
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that it will take three or four quarters. So a year before semiconductor supply meets demand.
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The situation is so bad that US president Joe Biden signed an executive order this week
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launching a review of the supply chain, and committing $37 billion
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to addressing the chip bottleneck, right? I mean, we're a little late there, Joe
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- [man] Yeah - where was the executive order a year ago where he's getting rid of the tariffs, but
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- [man] Yeah - whatever, sup Riley
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- Thanks Riley. Hey, did you ever hear of BitQuicks - [man] Woo
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- Bloomberg and Wired have both published deep dives into just what the heck happened to Stadia?
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Well, it turns out despite a lot of big talk the service received drastically lower sales than expected,
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and spent tens of millions of dollars per title, really?
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just to port major games from publishers like Ubisoft and Take-Two.
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Stadia's leaders were presumably shocked that such a strategy could lead to overspending.
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But I mean, I don't know what were they supposed to do with that money pay news publishers
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- [man] Hey - Australia has gone ahead and passed legislation designed to force Google
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and Facebook to pay for links to news articles, even after the two tech giants spent the last two
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weeks frantically making deals with publishers.
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The law is a bit Tamer than its original version. Now giving tech companies a longer window
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of time to make such deals before being forced into arbitration.
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But, it's there now. So let's just hope
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that Google doesn't make the Koch brothers, Is that really how you pronounce this Ko Koch?
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I'm going to go with Koch brothers. Let's hope it doesn't make them go out
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of business when they suddenly realized this is costing a lot of money, which I, yeah
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but I guess would be fine. Cyberpunk 2077 won't be getting its next update
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until mid-March, thanks to the notorious ransomware hack that struck developers
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CD PROJEKTRED. The companies developers are reportedly, still locked
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out of their workstations. Oh no, we can't run good heavens because the hack
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which makes well, patching to gain a little Trixie
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- [man] Have you tried? - Although the source code might actually be out
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there somewhere on the internet. So maybe the, maybe the devs could like hack it back
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from the hackers hack exception. And Twitter announced that they're testing
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a community's feature similar to Facebook groups,
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as well as other features that could help monetize the social platform including tipping options
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and super follows
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Which would give paid subscribers access to special super tweets,
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from it's coming. Super tweeters
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- [man] There it is - Question though, I mean, would any of you pay
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for photos of me with it like (smooth music) half of my clothing removed?
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- [man] Oh no - Hey hey don't don't tell anybody
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- [man] No - it's only for the fans. - [man] Yeah it is superman. And Facebook's portal device as well
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as the Oculus Quest too will soon respond to the phrase
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hey, Facebook and execute voice commands.
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Oh, goodie. Um, how about this?
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Hey, Facebook, let Oculus go, let them go,
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Oculus if you're in their blink twice.
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- [man] Oh you're a good singer - Hey Facebook, if you're listening
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this episode is over by the way. So we'll come back on Friday for more tech news.
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The rest of you. Hey, you're not Facebook. Go celebrate.
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- [man] Hey you're not Facebook - Woo - [man] Okay