- Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?
Me neither, more of a tech news guy.
After months of leaks,
Intel has finally officially unveiled
the first desktop CPUs in its 12th gen Alder Lake lineup.
And as Anthony and Linus pointed out on Short circuit
and LTT, their kind of a big deal.
Okay.
The CPU is not the host.
I mean, they are a big deal, Love you guys,
You're great. But you know.
Alder Lake is Intel's first desktop CPU architecture
with a hybrid design combining high performance or P-cores,
with high efficiency E-cores.
Intel has also split the chips TDP wattage rating
into processor based power and a Maximum Turbo Power.
Which will allow consumers to purchase an appropriate cooler
for their setup, instead of going ahead and strapping
an air conditioner to their motherboard.
Because well, at least then you have it.
- [Guy Behind Camera] Might as well
- There have been some reports about early cooler
compatibility issues with older AIO coolers,
despite many companies releasing upgrade kits.
So you'll still want to do some Googling, regardless.
Both Intel's internal numbers and the leaks
are pointing towards Team Blue's 12th gen
giving AMD's Ryzen a run for its money.
Why do I say leak like that?
Holly (bleep)
What?
Alright, but as usual you should probably wait
for full reviews to launch in November 4th,
before you go run it out,
splaying your arms across store shelves
just had the chips sitting on me just a second ago.
I swear I saw them.
- [Guy Behind Camera] They disappeared!
- Where did they go?
- [Guy Behind Camera] It's spooky!
- Nintendo has launched its expansion pack
for Nintendo switch online.
Giving switch owners a legitimate way to play
nine whole games from the N64 console.
That is much worse than any number
of other illegitimate ways.
Yeah, as if the pack costing an extra $30 a year
to retain access to the N64 library wasn't bad enough.
Nintendo's method of emulating these games is somehow worse
than many third-party emulators that already exist.
And in some cases, may even be worse than the emulation
seen on Switch's predecessor, the Wii U.
- [Guy Behind Camera] I liked it.
- Graphics can look jaggy and pixelated
compared to existing emulation,
and many games have noticeably higher input latency.
The default button mapping also kind of sucks.
Although that's understandable given that the N64 controller
had no business existing.
Yet it existed anyway,
and that's inspiring.
- [Guy Behind Camera] Such courage.
Hopefully Nintendo gets their heads out of their ass
and figures out that suing their fans
for not using Nintendo's janky methods
of preserving retro games isn't what Toad would have wanted.
- [Guy Behind Camera] He died for nothing!
- And Adobe announced a bunch of stuff
at their max conference,
including updated apps for Apple Silicon Max,
Raw Format Support for Photoshop on iPad
and extremely paired-down, web-based versions of Photoshop
and Illustrator for people who find the full versions
a little too intimidating.
But Adobe also took the opportunity to fully hop on board
the NFT hype train, choo choo, announcing an upcoming
"prepare as NFT" option in Photoshop.
Chief product officer Scott Belsky told the verge
that he believes in the power of NFT's
to allow artists to do things like,
not only get paid for their art,
but get a percentage of every secondary sale after that.
Which is cool, as long as it doesn't mean the internet
is flooded with even more of these digital Funko pops.
Collect them all,
load them on a flash drive and take them with you,
when you're lowered into the ground to decompose.
It's cool new tech.
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- Quick bits, collect them all,
stuff your synapses with information until they burst!
- [Guy Behind Camera] Gross!
- Microsoft is continuing its unending struggle
against Chromebooks with Windows Central reporting,
the company is working on a low-cost Surface Laptop,
even cheaper than the $549 Surface Laptop Go
announced a year ago.
The device is codenamed "Tenjin",
And would run a new additional Windows,
called Windows 11 SE.
Which probably stands for Student Edition,
and most likely would only run on apps
from the Microsoft Store.
That's not so bad anymore.
It's got Android apps now,
just like Chromebook.
Wait, it's a trap.
- [Guy Behind Camera] They got you.
- Got them!
YouTube has announced, it will begin demonetizing channels
that consistently upload content for children
that is low quality.
Oh yeah, according to who Google!
Google's definition of low quality
means videos that are overly promotional in nature,
deceptive and promote bad behaviors,
or use children's characters in questionable ways.
That seems pretty reasonable,
although I'm gonna have to re-work my concept
for a SpongeBob nice fights channel.
That was gonna be so good!
[Guy Behind Camera] I could take SpongeBob.
The US copyright office has helped the right
to repair movement with new modifications to section 1201
of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
AKA the DMCA.
You may have heard of it!
- [Guy Behind Camera] You guys just got hit with it.
- You down, your video down!
It's gone!
The act now contains broad legal protections for users
that repair consumer devices running software.
Although they're weirdly specific at times,
like you can only repair a game console's optical drive
and nothing else.
The new rules aren't perfect, but they're progress.
And I'll tell you,
I can't wait to get home,
jab a screwdriver into the front of my X-Box,
that's freedom.
- [Guy Behind Camera] It deserves it.
- Samsung is jumping in the Cloud Gaming ring,
announcing an upcoming game streaming service,
that's coming to the company's ties in base TV's,
and it's got a real catchy name,
Cloud Gaming Platform.
I mean, it doesn't pretend to be anything It isn't.
It's not going to change your life.
It's not going to do your taxes.
It's Cloud Gaming Platform.
And it does not apologize!
In Pimax, makers of wacky high resolution VR headsets
made some far out promises about it's new model
releasing next year.
The Pimax 12K QLED apparently has, appropriately,
a 12K QLED Mini-LED lit display,
a 200Hz refresh rate,
thanks to Foveated rendering
as well as 11 cameras for eye, face and full body tracking.
The same Snapdragon XR2 chip in the Quest 2
for standalone VR, wireless PC VR,
swappable batteries, and front modules cooling fans,
it's a tall order.
It costs $2,400 and maybe it'll launch next year,
maybe there's gonna be some crazy promises
we'll all remember and laugh about someday.
Remember that thing, back in the TechLinked and the Pimax?
- [Guy Behind Camera] It was not real.
- Yep.
I hope you all remember to come back on Friday
for more tech news.
Cause this video is over!
- [Guy Behind Camera] End it Colton.
- It's done!
- [Guy Behind Camera] Shut it down!
- Yeah!
Wooo!