- Welcome to the show.
Can I get a tech news?
- [Man] Tech news.
- Come on, let's raise the roof.
- [Man] Tech news!
- Sony's PlayStation 5 is apparently outperforming
the Xbox Series X in some cases,
despite early speculation to the contrary,
based on the Series X being rated for 12 teraflops compared
to the PS5's measly 10.28 teraflops.
Right?
Digital Foundry's testing found that in Devil May Cry 5,
Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Dirt 5,
and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War,
let's just add more post titles,
anyway, Microsoft's new powerhouse takes a slight lead
in 4K and ray tracing performance.
But in the high frame rate mode,
the PS5 achieves as much as 40 more frames per second
than the Series X.
Turns out there's more to life than flopping.
Really?
Is there more to life than flo-
That's just what I do.
But hey, you know what?
Maybe that's just fine,
because the new Xbox apparently are super good
at emulating Retro games,
as an app developer going by Tunip3 found out
by exploiting a loophole
in the Xbox app distribution system to download RetroArch.
And when Halo Infinite comes up,
well, the Xbox Series X will run that one way better
than PS5.
- [Man] Infinitely better.
- So.
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Gamers have had a real tough time getting their hands
on the new releases lately,
but it's hard to tell how much of our frustration
to place on companies having low stock and buggy servers
or scalpers buying up all the inventory.
Well, an investigation by Business Insider has explored just
how bad the scalping situation is.
One UK-based group called Crep Chief Notify,
heck of a name, managed to secure almost 3,500 PS5 consoles,
holy crap, between its 12 staff members.
This group also offers subscription services
that help other people use bots
to scalp in-demand products like consoles or Yeezys.
Do people still use, do people still desire Yeezys?
Is that a thing?
- Yes. - I feel like I've outgrown
the meme and the meme just came back and anyway.
That's why I'm never able to cop the latest drop.
Wow.
If I knew actively making people's lives worse was
so lucrative, I would've subscribed
to Crep Chief Notify ages ago.
Nah, I can't say that with a straight face.
I don't like making people's lives worse.
And Vulkan, the open source graphics API,
has received full ray tracing support,
according to the API's developer, Khronos Group.
The addition makes Vulkan the first cross-vendor,
cross-platform standard to support the feature,
meaning games that use it could use ray tracing
on basically any piece of hardware,
whether it's from Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Sony.
The reason this is cool is because now that Nvidia
and AMD hardware support ray tracing,
we're starting to see games
that support ray tracing exclusively on team red
or team green.
Cyberpunk 2077's ray tracing will only work
with Nvidia cards at launch.
Will God fall, but only looks extra glorious on AMD.
- [Man] This is so cool.
- It's the coolest.
Vulkan hasn't seen super widespread adoption yet,
but maybe that'll change.
Maybe it'll rain money tomorrow.
There's a chance, guys.
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- [Man] Stop.
- [Anthony] Amazon Web Services experienced an outage
this morning, meaning that so did a large chunk
of the internet,
including services from Adobe, Roku and more.
Amazon hasn't given an explanation for the outage
other than that North America was experiencing
increased error rates.
- [Man] I blame Bill Gates.
- Well, there are other people who would blame other things
if you read the news.
Oh, if you're listening, Amazon,
I'm pretty good at tech tips.
So let me know if you want me to come fix that up for you.
Apple just launched their M1-powered Macs,
but rumors are already starting to spread about the sequel.
- [Man] Return of the Mac.
- LeaksApplePro claims that Apple's next chip
will be called M1X with eight performance cores, thank you,
and four efficiency cores,
and it'll launch in a 16-inch MacBook Pro next year.
I'm sure that one will run iPad apps even better.
I can't even make that joke,
they're really good.
LG has filed a patent for a laptop with a rollable display,
much like it's rollable TVs.
The laptop's keyboard would also be rollable,
meaning that it would look less like a clamshell
and more like a scroll.
Perfect for watching videos on the go
and reading imperial edicts.
Hackers have again attacked the city of Baltimore
with ransomware, which took internal networks
for the Baltimore County Public Schools offline.
That caused the city to close the schools,
giving students a day off.
Wait, that sounds like a cool modern day
Ferris Bueller party.
Piss off, hackers.
And despite government warnings to stay away,
the mysterious metal monolith found in the Utah desert
this week has been located and physically visited
by Redditors.
Because of course it has.
The monolith has apparently been there for years,
but we're just finding it now,
which means the aliens have already infected the planet
and our minds.
Well, it's been fun.
How about you come back for more fun on Friday?
We'll have a fresh batch of tech news
if the reptilian metamorphosis hasn't completed by then.