- Tech news isn't good or bad,
it just happens like strawberry jam.
- [Riley] Thanks Ma.
- AMD's FSR 2.0 upscaling technology finally arrived
in its first game Deathloop earlier this week
and were shown to bring some impressive
performance and quality gains compared to NVIDIA's DLSS 2.3.
But yesterday Tom's hardware demonstrated the advantage
AMD's method has over NVIDIA's by testing FSR 2.0
on a laptop using Intel integrated graphics.
While there were some expected glitches,
thanks to the unsupported setup.
FSR actually managed
to boost the laptop's frame rates in Deathloop
from 26 unplayable frames per second
to over 30 playable frames per second.
- [Riley] Oh, that is much, that is playable, I think.
- I mean, it's nothing to throw out your gaming PC over
but to see an AMD technology actually boosting an Intel GPU
is just, just nice and wholesome.
Especially, since Intel's own upscaling tech XeSS
has been delayed after originally being scheduled to launch
this Friday.
Don't worry Intel, AMD's got your back.
They're holding a knife behind your back is what I'm saying.
Twitter's board of directors has said that
despite Elon Musk's bag and unsupported claims
about the proportion of bots to regular users on Twitter,
they plan to close the transaction
and enforce the merger agreement.
It was an air tight contract baby.
Even though no one told them to talk all sexy like that.
- [Riley] Ooh. - I love legal ease.
- [Riley] Use more terms.
- It's my favorite ease.
It's a starkly different position to the one held
by the board before Musk buyout offer.
When they adopted a poison pill strategy to stop him.
In recent days, Musk has claimed
that bots make up more than 5% of users on Twitter
and actually may account for as much as 20%,
and if this is the case, he can legally call off the deal,
maybe, they have to go to court and stuff.
But analysts are pointing out that A,
Musk has literally no evidence
to support the bot percentage claim
and B, even if he did
that wouldn't get him out of the deal
which the board apparently has the power to enforce
even against Musk's will.
He won't like this?
(Riley laughing)
- [Riley] Ooh, I can't wait.
- It's unclear whether the agreement will prevent Musk
from continuing to reply to long threads from Twitter CEO
with a single poop emoji, but we can hope.
- [Riley] It's not illegal.
- Rules don't apply to me.
And a report from industry analysis firm, Pixelate,
claims that if Google and Apple go through
with their controversial plans to remove apps
from their app stores
that haven't been updated in two years,
it would clear out one third of their combined catalogs.
- [Riley] Get outta here.
- This could just be big tech spring cleaning season,
we don't know.
The report says the Google play store
has around 869, nice, thousand outdated apps.
While Apple's app store has 650, less nice, thousand.
Interestingly, the two companies initiatives
may come back to bite them since
they sort of help Epic games argument
which claims that side loading and alternative app stores
should be available to protect users and developers
from moves just like this.
Got you now Tim and Sundar.
Now you have to let me play my Fortnite on your laptop.
(Riley laughing)
Riley, I need you.
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- Quick bits aren't very healthy for you
which is why you should never eat them, they're intangible.
It's like celery, they're negative calories.
- [Riley] It hurts your tummy.
- Images of what might be the heat sink
for NVIDIA's upcoming monster graphics card the RTX 4090 ti
have leaked showing a similar but slightly modified
dual axial flow through design
to what's used in team green's RTX 30 series cards.
The other leaks have pointed to the RTX 4090
launching in July
with as much as double the RTX 3090's performance
but that might not be as morally offensive as you think
if GPU prices continue to fall.
Plus, can you really stay mad at anything this chunky.
- [Riley] It's so cute.
- I love a good chungus.
- [Riley] It's like a big gold turd.
(Riley laughing)
- After rumors circulated regarding an Intel 13th gen
Raptor lake processor sporting 24 core, a new leak
is making it look like AMD is preparing a ryzen 9-7950X
with 24 cores and 48 threads.
- [Riley] Ha!
- I mean, that's gonna be more
'cause it won't have e-cores you know.
- [Riley] That's right, I was gonna say that,
but you knew already, James so smart.
- I mean, it makes sense,
team red and blue battled over core counts for a while
and then they focused on single core performance
and now we're going back to core counts.
Personally, I like to make us simple
by buying whichever one has number higher on box.
Android users in India
are currently battling a deluge of ads
which constantly arrive in the Google messages app,
if RCS chat features are enabled.
According to tech enthusiasts, Ishaan Agarwal,
thankfully disabling RCS solves the issue
but it makes things a bit awkward for Google
who has very vocally tried to push
Apple and other industry figures to adopt RCS
for years now across messaging services.
Although it might not be all bad,
some of those ads are the things you might really want.
- [Riley] And you might actually buy it.
- You just need to know about them.
- [Riley] Yeah, you just need to get bugged,
like, remind me.
- I hope we get this here.
Acer has released a new gaming laptop
and a couple of portable monitors
equipped with the company's spatial labs 3D technology
which uses head tracking to make images appear to float
in between the user and the display.
Like I'm the user, you're the display it's right here.
- [Riley] Oh.
- The tech was already included
in some Acer concept D laptops
but this is the first time they're putting it
in a gaming laptop.
So you can almost definitely die more in game
but at least you can be like, oh, that's kind of cool
(Riley laughing)
while you're waiting to respawn.
- [Riley] Look at the bright side.
- Look, there's a grenade flying right to my face.
- [Riley] Cool.
- And so-called liveness tests
which involve people looking into a camera
on their phone or the laptop to verify their identity
for a bank or another institution
are easily fooled by deep fake.
According to a new report from security forum SENSIT.
SENSIT says that's shared its data
with the companies that make these tests
who didn't seem to think the risk was significant.
All the deep fake machines are probably too busy
making porn to do this anyways.
- [Riley] They're working real hard.
We need to up the supply.
- I'm getting get into Putin's phone.
But we are not too busy to give you more tech news
on Friday.
So come back at that time
when that other thing is supposed to launch
but isn't going to.
- [Riley] Yeah.
- If you, if you don't come back
we're gonna start to get worried.
There's a list, your name's gonna be on it.
Yeah,
you guys suck now.