- Unlike a donut, you won't find any holes in our reporting,
because we are the hole.
We call those Timbits up here.
Makes way more sense than a donut hole.
It's just too long.
- [James] The main treat media.
What? (both laugh)
- Apple is gearing up to defend itself
against yet another lawsuit over its iOS App Store
after a U.S. federal judge rejected Cupertino's bid
to dismiss a suit filed by the makers
of third party iPhone app store Cydia--
- [James] That's a double negative, Riley.
- I didn't write it.
Actually, I did write that title.
The judge is actually Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers,
the same judge from the Apple v Epic case.
Did you know that James?
- [James] I do now.
- There you go.
The case is extra interesting because Cydia is an app store
providing software specifically for jail broken iOS devices,
so Apple is probably extra mad about this.
Apple tried to argue that the complaint
fell outside the statute of limitations.
In other words, that Cydia waited too long to file it
but Judge Rogers more or less told Apple
to get that ish outta here.
I did not write that.
- [James] Ish? Ish. I like it.
- Cydia is alleging that Apple's iOS updates
unfairly harmed software distributors
by attempting to lock them out,
and is seeking both money damages and an injunction
barring Apple from excluding third party app stores.
Basically the same thing Epic wants
and the thing that might happen
if the Open App Markets Act keeps getting advanced
through the U.S. Legislative branch.
It's only a matter of time, Apple.
Those walled garden walls are getting busted open.
- [James] Those walled walls are going down.
- They use very thick shrubbery, and we just... explosives.
Speaking of Apple, they now have a name
for their upcoming VR and AR headset operating system.
Reality OS.
It's a whole new wealth garden that you--
- [James] It's very meta. (Riley laughs)
- You never have to leave, it's reality.
The revelation comes after trademark filings
from a company called Reality O Systems,
(both laugh)
which is widely believed to be an Apple shell company
that rather poorly obscured Apple's intentions.
The trademark is the latest chapter in the long saga,
saga, saga, saga
of Apple trying to get its headset off the ground
as design issues and office politics
have already delayed the headset for years.
But another report recently indicated
that Apple's developers have shown a prototype headset
to the company's board.
So it looks like we'll finally have a first look at it
either next year or later this year.
- [James] 2024, man, they're just play techy things
- Or maybe never?
It's expected to have processing power on par with a Mac.
So hopefully it'll be worth the wait
and at least provide some alternative
to VR headsets made by the lizard man.
- [James] You mean the other lizard man?
- No, I mean Bossk from Star Wars.
- [James] Oh yeah, that guy.
- And there's a new top dog in the supercomputer world
with the United States Frontier HPE Cray EX
overtaking Japan's Fugaku.
- [James] Are you speaking English?
(both laugh)
- Japan's is just called Fugaku.
It might be second in the world now but it knows who it is.
Located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,
the Frontier is powered by AMD Epic CPUs and consumes--
- [James] Why are you saying Frontier?
- What did I say?
- [James] Frontier? - I'm saying frontier.
The final frontier.
(both laugh)
- [James] Why do we even talk?
What is the story about?
- It consumes as much power as 50,000 gaming computers,
29 megawatts to be exact.
So I'd quit complaining about your GPU
needing a few hundred watts to play Vampire Survivors, okay.
There are bigger problems in the world.
Frontier is also notable
for being the first exascale computer in the world
meaning it can hit over one quintillion
floating point operations per second.
- [James] You're making these words up.
- A little bit.
Thanks to a water cooling system
with 6,000 gallons of liquid coolant,
602,000 CPU cores and 8 million GPU cores.
The supercomputer will be operated
by both the Department of Energy and the U.S. Air Force
and I can't imagine the kind of frames they're getting.
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That's... things get weird.
There's another solution out there for those of you
with Alder Lake CPUs suffering from cooling issues.
Thermal-Grizzly is producing a contact frame
that should allow coolers to sit properly
on the integrated heat spreader.
The Alder Lake lineup has become notorious for bending
so that heat sinks
don't make as much contact as they should.
Various third party solutions have been floating around
but Intel officially discourages their use.
When they were a kid, a little CPU warping
wasn't as big of a deal.
We didn't make it. Just deal with it.
- [James] I liked your Bower.
- Hopefully Intel's next CPU lineup
won't have the same problems.
Code named Raptor Lake, it now appears
that we can expect them out sometime in October,
along with new motherboards headlined by the Z790 chipset.
Raptor Lake should feature significant
multi threaded performance improvements
and use DDR5 memory, just like AMD's Ryzen 7000
which is code named Raphael, which I'm sorry,
it just doesn't sound as cool as Raptor Lake.
So, I might just wait for Intel.
- [James] Ninja turtles.
- I like dinosaurs.
Apple isn't the only company with a new headset coming soon.
Sony's latest offering, the PlayStation VR 2,
is reported to launch in the first quarter of 2023
with a million and half units available,
according to noted Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo
who apparently likes to notably analyze companies
other than Apple from time to time.
And I think that's great.
It's good to branch out.
What were, what were we talking about again?
Oh, we were talking about PlayStation
and it looks like we have an end in sight
to the rampant stock shortages of the console.
Unfortunately, Sony doesn't expect PS5 stock
to be back at normal levels until 2024.
Sony has said that it's going to try
and get their supplies and materials from multiple sources
and also optimize delivery logistics to remedy the problem.
All things they apparently weren't doing until just now.
They didn't even know what was going on.
They were busy playing their PSVR 2s.
Come on.
And Ford is now delivering the first F-150 Lightnings
notable for being the first mass market
all electric pickup truck in the U.S.
The first one delivered went to a Michigan man
who works as a CTO at a startup
who reportedly plans to use it
for quote, unquote hauling stuff.
Personally, I think converting the bed
into a jacuzzi would make more sense
but I guess driving wood around is fine too.
You know, truck, you know, truck people like us.
We know. We know what you do with that.
- [James] City truck.
- Just hook a hook up to something and... (laughs)
That's all the truck stuff we have today.
But come back on Wednesday for more hot tips
about customizing your four wheeled stallion.
Hauling things, pulling.
- [James] Gatling guns.
- You can pull, you can put some apocalypse preparation.
- [James] Galils rifles.
- You wanna know a truck guy. (bell tings)