- Oh, you would love to hear some tech news right now,
wouldn't you?
You're all about tech...
You're weird, you're such a wacky and fun person,
I love that.
Apple shocked the world with their first M1 MacBooks.
I mean, they were ARM-powered laptops
that outperformed nearly anything in their weight class.
But Apple doesn't seem too worried about what people think
of the new M2-powered 13" inch MacBook Pro.
It's the sequel curse, it's everywhere.
YouTubers Max Tech and Created Tech, no relation,
have found that the SSD in the base-level M2 MacBook Pro
performs as much as 50% slower than it's M1 predecessor.
But, hey, playing devil's advocate here,
the number next to the M went up by a 100%,
so trade offs.
At least part of the explanation
seems to involve Apple using a single NAND chip
instead of multiple chips,
potentially as a result of the global chip shortage.
The other possibility is that Apple
is just trying to make people ask themselves
why they're buying the base model of the fancy pro laptops.
So you can tell people it's a pro?
It makes about as much sense as paying $50 for a burger,
it's a burger.
Yeah, come at me foodies.
If you really wanna spend your money
on an M2 chip ASAP, might as well just wait for January
when Apple's AR headset is expected to arrive.
Shout your feelings from the rooftops
in Apple's private metaverse.
Everything is made of brushed metal, white plastic,
pristine.
Valve would once again like to reiterate the message
from its initial Steam Deck tear-down video,
which simultaneously showed owners of the gaming handheld
how to take it apart and told them they should not do this.
Because it's 2022 and mixed messages are in,
try to keep up.
See, last week, a modder replaced their deck's
stock-2230-size SSD with a larger 2242 drive.
PC Gamer wrote an article about it,
which was "tweeted"
by one of the Steam Deck designers, Lawrence Yang,
who warned that such a mod could draw more power
and shorten the life of the deck.
The modder, who goes by Belly Jelly on Twitter,
nice one, actually agreed with Yang.
Although they just went on to say
their thermals look just fine.
So the moral of the story is the same one
from Valve's tear-down video,
don't mess with your Steam Deck,
and then you do a big wink.
What does it mean?
Open to interpretation.
And Cyberpunk 2077 shocked the gaming world
when it turned out one of the most hyped PC games
of all time was launching as a buggy, barely playable mess.
But now, a whistleblower has shed light
on just what the (beep) might have happened.
YouTuber, Upper Echelon Gamers was sent a trove of documents
from Quantic Labs, the quality assurance company
working with CD Projekt Red to test the game,
which indicate the QA process was plagued by mismanagement
and straight up lies about the number and experience level
of the testers working on the project.
The information may go some way
towards explaining how the studio
behind the incredibly highly-acclaimed "Witcher 3"
managed to put out the game equivalent
of "The Thing" from John Carpenter's 1982 horror classic,
which we're doing on They're Just Movies this week,
with Nick Plooff, so subscribe to our movie podcast.
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AMD's special 3D V-Cache equipped Ryzen 7 5800X3D
arrived a while after the rest of the 5,000-series lineup,
but a couple leaks are making it look like team Red
may launch a Vcash Ryzen 7,000 CPU
pretty shortly after it's lower-powered brethren
drop later this year.
The processor reportedly codenamed RaphaelX,
he's the one with the sais,
is already in mass production
according to prominent leaker Greymon55,
indicating it could very well launch
before the end of the year
to take on Intel's 13th-gen Raptor Lake chips.
So PCs are about to get some brand new CPUs.
The catch is, they'll make your SSD go half as fast,
that's just how things are now, Apple said.
Overwatch SCS go-shooter Valorant
will begin recording players' voice chats on July 13th,
according to a blog post from Riot Games.
But don't worry it's not that creepy.
Riot says they'll initially only be using
the recorded data to train AI language models
which will then be used to detect violations
of community guidelines
when the system launches later this year.
So I meant to say yet, it's not that creepy yet.
Hey, try not to use sarcasm in game
and then the bot won't be able to detect it.
Was I being sarcastic?
An appeals court has paused the FDA's ban
on sales of Juul's e-cigarettes
after the company filed an emergency motion last week.
Since the ban would effectively put Juul outta business,
the company was considering filing for bankruptcy.
Hopefully this mess gets sorted out
before all the kids completely move on to other vape brands,
such as Puff Bar, Vuse and SMOK, smoke without an E.
I wouldn't wanna be seen at school with a SMOK.
Google has announced it will finally be shutting down
its Google Hangouts chat service in November
which I thought it had already done a while back.
Anyways, users are being encouraged to migrate
to Google Chat, which is different,
where they are to await further instructions
on where to move after Chat is inevitably shut down.
Don't go to Google Meet, 'cause that's merging with Duo
and becoming Meet.
And OpenAI, the makers of the meme generator, DALL.E
that's what we're calling,
that's all it is now,
have trained an AI to play Minecraft
by making it watch 70,000 hours
of Minecraft gameplay videos.
The bot can apparently craft diamond tools,
a task that takes humans around 20 minutes.
Next step, training an AI to generate DALL.E memes
by placing blocks in Minecraft.
That's like next level and then we will die.
That'll be just the end of us, I think.
Just like it's the end of this episode.
Come back on Wednesday for more tech news just for you,
you silly tech news goose.
Honk if you love tech news. (honking)
That's you.
Oh, you're so great.