- Wow.
Brave of you to go on the internet to watch this.
I was on there this morning and it is,
it's rough out there.
Okay.
As supply shortages continue to ravage the globe.
It seems like tech companies
are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Gamers Nexus is reporting their sources claiming,
Nvidia plans to rerelease a version of the nearly
three year old RTX 2060
with an upgraded 12 gigabytes of V Ram.
A move that has been rumored many times over the past year.
As tech Jesus notes,
it's unclear why and now low tier card would get so much RAM
but the move makes about as much sense as anything else
going on out there in the world these days.
British Columbia is being flooded months after our towns,
caught fire from the heat dome.
Dennis is an emotional wreck.
He is barely standing up behind the camera desk.
It's gonna be fine.
ASUS is also releasing new creator focused Vivo book
OLED laptops with the GTX 1650 as an option.
Although that GPU is equipped with GDDR6 instead of GDDR5,
but the point is, we may be getting to the point where
your only options for hardware upgrades
are parts from two years ago.
Back when they made things to last.
(nostalgic piano music)
Those were the days.
But if you are hell-bent on acquiring new hardware,
a cascade of leaks
concerning Intel's upcoming mobile versions
of their 12th Gen Alder Lake processors has hit the web.
A Geekbench result has the Core i7 12700H performing
worse than the 11800H in single core performance,
but slightly better in multi-core.
And we've got the 12800H beating the Ryzen 5800H by 25%.
Specs for various SKUs in the lineup have also leaked,
and there's even some unreleased desktop processors
being peddled on E-bay.
Although they appear to largely be engineering samples.
So, if you're just a gamer looking for a few extra frames,
I'd probably leave those alone.
Let the Linuses of the world overpay for the privilege of
wasting days, trying to get a sketchy chip to work.
It's what he's good at.
We make YouTube videos.
And today Microsoft is celebrating 20 years
since the introduction of the first X-Box console
with the surprise release of Halo Infinite,
free to play multiplayer mode on console and PC.
I already downloaded it. Wanna play Dennis?
Big Halo guy.
- [Dennis] No.
- What's your gun of choice. Say the needler.
- [Dennis] I don't play that.
- We also got a teaser for the Halo TV series coming to
Paramount plus of all places.
Apparently starring the Master chief and Cortana.
Whoa, that is not going to be good probably.
Phil Spencer gave an interview that pretty much
confirmed Elder Scrolls 6 as an Xbox slash game pass
exclusive.
But again,
that might be better news than it originally seemed.
Given that trying to buy a PS5 right now is like trying
to hit somebody with a spartan laser.
Why did they make that so hard?
Microsoft also added 70 backwards compatible titles
with support for auto HDR and FBS boost.
And I hope Nintendo is watching.
Meanwhile, Ubisoft comes in here
with a tweet about it being the 10-year anniversary of
Assassin's creed revelations.
Like, come on, read the room.
[Explosion]
This isn't about you.
Ubisoft.
It's about the pew pew.
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Quick bits are the way we connect to the universe around us.
They, oh my God, here they come.
Russia appears to have blown up its own satellite with a
ground-based missile as part of a weapons test
resulting in at least, 1500 pieces of debris
that may have buzzed the International space station
multiple times.
The US state department is condemning Russia's actions
because what the.
But apparently, space capable countries do this all the time
and worry about consequences later
which is why we need Elon in charge of all this.
He'll sort things out.
Maybe tweet about the debris and it will crash.
I don't know.
ASUS has joined gigabyte
in releasing official firmware updates
for old A320 motherboards that will allow them
to use current gen Ryzen 5000 processors.
It's another move that will let users hold on to old tech
as long as they're okay missing out on some
cutting-edge features.
It's like choosing to eat a two week old sandwich for lunch,
like I did today.
Yeah, it doesn't taste great, but I'm doing fine.
Hackers were able to send official looking emails from a
compromised FBI server late last week,
in an apparent attempt to frame Vinny Troia,
who's not a member of the mafia,
but the leader of some web security firms for data breaches.
Why am I not surprised by the fact
the FBI's emails got hacked?
It's because I imagine them as old guys in baggy suits,
probably still running windows XP at home.
Yes. My entire mental image of them is based of
Miss congeniality.
Did you see that Dennis, Sandra Bullock great performance.
Rockstar has finally brought
the remastered GTA trilogy definitive edition
back to a playable state on PC.
Although not all the games performance issues
have been addressed.
Modders are working on that though.
Fixing key problems like the games rain system.
For a game about incorrigible criminals.
There's sure a lot of altruism going on there.
You can grand theft my auto, anytime.
In a video game not in.
And IBM has unveiled Eagle,
a new 127 qubit quantum processor
that the company claims
cannot be simulated by a classical computer.
They're not claiming quantum supremacy,
like Google did in 2019 in which almost everyone disputes.
And they're also not stating the processor's quantum volume,
which is a general measure of its capability.
It's just, it's just a quantum processor. Okay.
Maybe it's pretty good.
But hey that's quantum computing
where everything's made up and the qubits don't matter.
Time for me to make up a reason to end this episode.
Come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
Maybe you'll catch us in superposition or not, or both.
Woo.