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- These luscious locks, don't just show up by themselves.
My secret: tech news.
We already knew that AMD is planning on joining ARM
and Intel and using hybrid big dot little design
in their processors.
And now, a new patent has given us some insight
into how team Red's hybrids will handle assigning tasks
to either a big, powerful core,
or a little, power efficient one.
The CPU will have hardware to monitor both memory
and processor utilization, both of which will be higher
for more intensive tasks, as well as the memory
access data rate.
If those metrics are high for a particular task,
the CPU can pause its first core and then move the task over
to a more powerful core or vice versa
if the task doesn't require as many resources.
It's kind of like what they do with the DMV
and I immediately list interest.
- (groans)
- (groans) DMV.
Well, the rumors say we might not see this in action
until the Ryzen 8000 lineup arrives
in about three years or so.
- It's over 8000!
Sorry, keep going.
- It's the next generation after that.
So we have time to get excited again.
I mean, hybrids are cool.
Terminator, sweet tooth.
- The Netflix show, you know about it?
- I don't actually.
- It's got a deer boy.
- Facebook, the company, I trust least to meddle
with AI, and I do trust them to least,
continues to do so regardless of my wishes.
Their latest project is called Text Style Brush.
A name that must have also been AI generated. (laughs)
- It's just as good as any of the others.
- They're just generating AI names
for other AI's that generate AI names.
They're just going to keep going back and forth forever.
This system looks at the way a single word is written
or handwritten, and then recreates that same text style,
meaning it could be used not only to identify
or replicate a hard to find font,
but also to duplicate someone's handwriting,
a skill that would come in handy to say, I don't know,
claim that someone authorized the use of their data
when they didn't.
- Oh, how could you do that?
- Mark!
The system works even if the image of the original texts
is off center or a little unclear.
Although it isn't perfect,
the initial results have been impressive to the interns
responsible for sourcing more data
for the Zucc to vacuum into his gaping maw.
- You got a problem, I'm calling a psychologist.
- There's only so much you can do for a lizard person.
- (laughs)
- I mean either he's a lizard person
or like an actual robot, in which case
him actually being a vacuum cleaner makes sense.
If you're still using Windows 7, 8, or 8.1
for your gaming rig, maybe because you've got
some legacy titles that run better on those platforms,
because he just liked them better.
- Reminds me of my childhood.
Huh? (laughs)
- That's a little sad.
Nvidia is going to be pulling the plug on driver support
on the 31st of August.
The move does make sense from NVIDIA's perspective,
as around 93% of gamers are already running windows 10,
and continuing to direct resources
towards supporting older operating systems
is a pretty big waste of time.
Unless you're a software preservationist.
Not to mention, we're already probably seeing windows 11
next week, so it's probably time to get
with the times anyway, right?
Teen greens announcement also said that Geforce 600
and 700 series cards will also cease being supported
on the same date.
- What?
- Nvidia, that's just mean, what about my 680 classified?
I had a 680 classified and it was a really expensive card
and I want to keep it.
- Yeah it has a cool font on it.
- Yeah and I flashed it with Mac bios and sold it.
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Thi&s weekend, flight simulator would be coming
to Xbox Series X and S,
as well as the Xbox game pass on July 27th,
which is sure to please console gamers who have been stuck
in customs since the game's PC launch.
(both laugh)
No word yet on whether Microsoft will offer a hotel room
as compensation for Xbox fans being stuck on the tarmac
for so long.
(both laugh sarcastically)
John, these are the worst jokes.
Speaking of bad jokes, Amazon's Luna game streaming service
will be coming out of early access on June 21st
with a seven day free trial.
And Amazon is trying to sweeten the pot
with a current discount on the Luna controller.
It won't be included as part of your regular prime
membership fees ala prime video,
but it still might be worth forking
over the six bucks a month you were spending
on your subscribe and save order
of that fancy three ply toilet paper.
- Only the best for my butt.
- I like three ply.
On Sunday, Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla will start allowing
Bitcoin transactions again if Bitcoin mining gets
over 50% clean energy utilization.
- We're going back and forth here.
Snip snap, snip snap!
- This is why Bitcoin can't make any progress.
People are just like, oh, I'll take it,
oh wait, no, whoa, whoa, whoam
well maybe a little bit, but no.
It's currently estimated the Bitcoin mining gets less
than 40% of its energy from renewables.
So the 50% target is a little ways off,
but perhaps still in sight.
Bitcoin's price jumped back up above $40,000,
marking nearly 10% increase after the tweet.
If only I could make LNG stock go up that easily.
I mean, assuming we had stock
maybe we should sell stock at LTTstore.com.
But right now you're probably just going
to be sticking to these awesome shirts.
You know how Nvidia its 2060 lineup for a while
to help fill the GPU shortage?
That appears to be coming to an end, at least to an extent,
as Nvidia is reportedly slowing down production
of these older cards to crank out more 3000 series cards.
Hopefully this will be good news for broad availability,
as Nvidia is now limiting mining hash rates
on all 3000 GPUs anyway, which might deter miners
from continuing to scoop them up in bulk
like a scoop of bulk buy profit generating cashews,
or something.
- Solid analogy.
- Yes.
- And if you thought the razor toaster was cool,
get a lot of what Microsoft has prepping
for the 2021 holiday season.
They're releasing an X-Box mini-fridge,
presumably as a response to many observers
saying the Xbox series X actually already looks like one.
An over the top trailer claims
it uses X-Box velocity cooling architecture,
but I just hope it won't give me the red ring of death
and I open the door to discover a room temperature bepis.
- Oh my God, pepis?
- (laughs)
That's our show.
Come back Wednesday for more tech news,
chilled to a refreshing 35 degrees Fahrenheit.
- I have no idea, is that below zero?
- It's above zero in Fahrenheit.
- Yeah, we don't do fahrenheit here.
- Yeah, but you know 32 is zero,
so 35 is like almost on the edge of,
like it's perfectly chilled, you know.
- Episode's over.