- You just can't stop the tech news, you know? Trust me.
I've tried.
It's like the train in "GTA V".
Tech news has no breaks.
GPU prices may have been going down a bit recently,
but demand for those sweet gaming graphics cards,
is still sky high.
According to experts on the economy.
A situation we're reminded of,
thanks to the seizure of over 5,000 XFX graphics cards,
by Chinese customs officials.
Strangely, it wasn't some shady sculptors,
trying to smuggle cards over the border,
in an attempt to avoid import duties.
It was apparently the Chinese branch of XFX themselves.
The 5,840 cards were higher end models,
apparently worth around $3 million together.
But they were improperly labeled as low end ones,
which would have saved XFX China, some money.
I miss the days when these kinds of busts,
were about drugs or diamonds.
But GPUs? That's crossing the line.
It's a little sad.
In other FX news, AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution,
up-scaling technology has playing second fiddle,
to Nvidia's DLSS since it launched,
but that might be about to change,
because Team Red is expected to announce FSR 2.0,
later this week.
And DLSS is on version 2 now,
so that means AMD is caught up.
Yeah? High five!
I got a piece of it.
Okay, wait. DLSS is on version 2.3.
Take that five back. Come on, take it back.
Although there's still hope.
Video Cardz reports that FSR 2.0,
does use temporal data and features optimized,
for anti-aliasing.
Two things that might help it compete with Team Green.
No word yet on whether FSR 2.0,
will also bring a performance boost,
but we'll learn more during AMD's scheduled GDC Talk.
Capital T on the talk.
The talk is titled,
"Next Generation Image Up-scaling for Games".
Which basically sounds like the Holodeck to me.
Very exciting.
Super realistic goosebumps in games.
And the developers of popular YouTube app, Vanced,
I believe there's an apostrophe in there,
have announced it's being discontinued after legal threats,
from Google. (shrieks)
Because Vanced allowed users to block all video ads,
on YouTube without a premium subscription.
But the app actually had a ton of useful features,
beyond ad blocking, including auto repeat,
background playback, also a YouTube Premium perk.
Pitcher and pitcher support and custom themes.
While it's sad to see YouTube going after small devs,
it seems like the Vanced team knew this was coming.
There are some alternative apps with similar features,
but apparently versions of the Vanced app,
currently installed will continue to work,
for about two years.
So that's how long you must wait until throwing tomatoes,
at Google headquarters.
Because everything else they do is perfectly fine.
- [Man] Cut.
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Hopefully Linux doesn't see.
Big time Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo,
said that Apple's next round of iPhones,
will not all get the same chip.
It's expected that the iPhone 14 Pro and the Pro Max,
will feature the top line A16 processor,
while the non-Pro iPhone 14s will be stuck,
with the same old A15 bionic chip,
that Apple just put into their cheapest phone,
the iPhone SE.
Because what kind of status symbol is the Pro iPhone,
if it has the same chip as the non-Pro.
Might as well have bought an Android, am I right?
Disgusting.
Google is being sued by a group,
representing Florida restaurants,
who say that the order online button,
seen on Google's business listings,
which links users to delivery companies like Grubhub,
or DoorDash is unlawful.
An unlawful attempt to steal a commission on a purchase.
They claim Google never got permission from restaurants,
to use the button.
But Google says they don't actually receive,
any compensation from the feature, so.
Or do they? I don't know.
But I do like seeing tech giants getting sued,
eat the rich, ha-ha, get it Riley?
He wrote get it, James. But he's not here.
Shenzhen, widely considered the Silicon Valley of China,
has been placed into a week long lockdown following a spike,
in COVID cases.
Which has led to major tech suppliers like Foxconn,
suspending operations.
They're gonna affect me.
It's unclear how long the shutdown may last because wow.
Remember when we thought this thing would be gone,
after a month, ha!
Remember that though, seriously.
My one friend was like three years, guys.
I was like, shut up.
(Man laughing)
Twitter has reversed last week's controversial update,
to its mobile app, which allowed users,
to swipe between the algorithm powered home feed.
and the chronological latest tweets feed,
after intense backlash.
The real issue wasn't the new swiping feature,
it was that users weren't allowed to change,
the default setting.
Meaning every time you open the app it would be set to home.
That's right. Fight the algorithms.
Maybe humanity has a chance in the robot war yet.
Maybe we'll have the top tweets.
And console modding YouTuber, Ginger of Oz,
took it upon himself to make that 15 year old fake image,
of a portable game cube into a real device.
Not an image at all, not even an NFT.
He actually made it better than a game cube.
The handheld combines a Wii console with game cube controls.
Teaching us that not everything in this world sucks.
There's a handheld game cube thing now.
That's gonna be okay. Everything's gonna be fine.
Everything's definitely gonna be okay,
if you come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
If you don't, I have no idea what's gonna happen.
And frankly, I'm scared.
Have you read the news, David?
The tech news. Come back for more.