- [Riley] Thanks to LastPass
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Is this is how you stretch, James?
Which one is this?
We're gonna do tech news.
Yeah, just a sec, I just gotta (groans).
Nvidia's newest graphics card, the RTX 3060 Ti
launched today for $399.
And the consensus seems to be that it's pretty good.
The 3060 Ti is generally better than the RTX 2080 Super,
and even bites at the heels of the 2080 Ti.
And it's only real competitor, price-wise, is the RX-
- [James] Xbox Series S.
- It's not,
actually, the RX 5700 XT,
which performs at 30% worse.
So if your budget is around 400 bucks,
it seems like a no-brainer,
provided you have the free time that is now necessary
for anyone in the market for a GPU
to spend refreshing product pages.
Although, according to Hardware Canucks' retail contacts,
stock for the 3060 Ti should add up to more
than the 3070, 3080, and 3090 combined.
But if social media is any indication,
people are still having trouble getting orders through,
if only because store websites are getting slammed.
(glass breaks)
Well, at least we can look forward to January,
that's when AMD is expected to release the RX 6700,
and we should also get RTX 30-series laptops.
Both of those things will also probably have stock problems,
but maybe we should just accept
that it's not about the destination, it's about the journey,
- [James] The long, long journey.
- At least you got to click a Buy button.
Yes, ARM processors are a bigger deal
now that Apple has released their M1 powered Macs.
So here we are, reporting on new smartphone processors.
Samsung announced the Exynos 1080.
And Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 888.
An eight-core system.
- [James] Very lucky.
- It's an eight-core system on chip
with pumped up AI capabilities and built-in 5G
and WiFi 6.
Now to be fair,
these might not just be smartphone processors.
Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx chips,
which power many Windows 10 on ARM laptops,
are based on the aging Snapdragon 865.
So, updated desktop chips based on the 888,
could mean windows on ARM devices
could be just as good as the Apple M1.
- [James] Good night, sweet Intel.
- That was a joke.
They're not, it's not, maybe.
Qualcomm believes it's possible,
company reps say that M1 has validated the idea
of ARM powered PCs and Japan apparently agrees.
Apple shot up to the number one spot
in desktop PC market share there in that country,
following the launch of the M1 Macs.
Most of these sales weren't M1 models,
they were the older Intel ones,
but hey, at the very least we can say an ARM powered laptop
is a flashy futuristic idea and I'm all for those.
A walking car?
Come on.
And earlier this year,
iPhones were vulnerable to a hack
that could have allowed attackers to gain full control
of the device over Wi-Fi with no user interaction required.
And not only that,
the attack could worm its way
from one infected iPhone to another within range,
giving a hacker access to untold legions of data,
just by walking through a crowded area.
To be fair, those have been few and far between
for much of 2020.
And Apple actually patched the vulnerability
that enabled this sort of attack
with iOS version 13.5 back in May.
So you can stop looking worried, Edsel.
- [James] I don't know if I actually updated mine.
- Update your phone.
So if you're still running 13.4 or lower,
let's just hope you've been observing quarantine and also,
update your dang phone.
Don't be an Edsel.
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now onto the quick bits.
Japan loves Macs.
Well, so does Amazon,
because the company just announced instances of Mac OS
are available in the company's cloud infrastructure.
The instances are running on actual Mac Minis,
although they're Intel models, not the new M1s,
I guess Apple had to dump their old stock somewhere.
Amazon is also announcing computer vision-based services
that will allow factories to detect whether machinery
and human workers are working well, makes sense.
People protest Amazon's draconian working conditions.
They double down.
It's how compromise works.
Remember Facebook's cryptocurrency Libra.
- [James] Eh?
- You don't?
That's okay, they're renaming it to Diem
in preparation of the coin's launch next year
in a much more limited form than was originally planned.
Public reaction to the currency included
a lot of skepticism because of its ties to Facebook.
So this move is reportedly designed to distance Diem
from Facebook in the minds of consumers and legislators.
And us talking about it is designed to do the opposite,
Diem, Diem
- [James] Carpe Diem.
- It's the new thing you'll forget about, remember that.
The Arecibo radio telescope has collapsed
weeks after the National Science Foundation
said that the dish was too badly damaged
and too dangerous to attempt repair.
And we knew this was going to happen,
but it would have been nice to film
one last Bond action sequence there, you know,
and then film no more Bond movies ever.
- [James] Or at least not release them.
- (laughs) Just keep them to yourself.
China has successfully landed their Chang'e,
and I'm definitely saying that wrong,
probe on the surface of the Moon
and begun to gather Moon rocks.
If the lander successfully returns to Earth,
it will be the first time Moon rocks have made it back here
in over four decades.
And thank goodness,
because we're running dangerously low on Moon rocks.
The time portal is gonna run out of juice any day now.
And Google has switched over
its internet-providing Loon hot air balloons
to fully autonomous flight,
relying on reinforcement learning algorithms for navigation,
instead of ones crafted by humans.
In tests, the AI was reportedly able
to keep balloons in target areas for longer
while using less energy
and used complex maneuvers the Loon team hadn't seen before.
He's, he's switched off his targeting computer.
It's time to switch off this episode.
So come back on Friday for more tech news,
and If you don't well, (sighs) I won't be able to save you.