- Oh, well, it's about time.
I was about to leave.
I'll take the dry aged tech news,
medium rare, hold the caprese.
I tell you, this neighborhood is going to (beeps).
It's been about two years since the RTX 30 series launched.
And even though many of us haven't been able
to get our hands on one, you can't stop progress.
It now appears that the RTX 40 series
will be released earlier than expected.
I've tried to stop a GPU release before,
did not go well, straight to jail.
Well known leaker Kopite7kimi has indicated
we'll be getting the new generation
of GPU's in either July or August of this year.
Kopite said in a separate tweet
that the RTX 4090 will be twice as fast, as the 3090,
and that we should expect products further
down the product stack coming
with significantly boosted amounts of VRAM.
- [James] That's what you like to see.
- That's what James, you love VRAM.
- [James] Stop replying to my heckles.
- In recent years, Nvidia has waited
until September to make their new GPUs available.
Hopefully, this means, production is ahead of schedule.
Although, you know who else said their new GPUs
were coming this summer,
- [James] Elon, sorry.
- The other, Intel.
And I still haven't seen one of their GPU's.
Over to CPU land now where it's looking
like AMD's upcoming Zen 4 architecture
is going to be a significant improvement over Zen 3,
not just the incremental boost
that we've become accustomed to
with each new CPU generation.
- [James] Can be huge. - It's gonna be big.
Big moves, leaks say a Zen four chip believed
to be the Ryzen 7000X,
indicate that its single threaded performance
could be up as much as 37%
compared to the 5,800X, thanks to a combination
of higher clock speeds of up to 5.2 gigahertz
and more instructions per clock,
while we shouldn't be expecting more cores,
many applications are still affected more
by single threaded performance.
So it's not surprising to see team red focus more
on that, instead, especially since they've already proved
they can put a lot of cores in.
It's like those clown cars with like 30 clowns inside.
Digital only consoles
without an optical driver becoming more popular.
But what if you got a big library
of games on disk that you wanna keep playing
without giving them their own room in your house?
They're not your teenager.
Microsoft might just have a plan to help you out
as they filed a patent to allow gamers
to verify ownership of a physical game
and then be granted a digital license.
- [James] (laughs) It's happening.
- Considering their own Xbox series S
is a digital only console.
This solution could be a heck of a lot better
than forcing gamers to buy the same title twice
if it comes to fruition.
- [James] But do I still own it?
- Google does (chuckles).
There's no word yet on what equipment a user would need
to go through the verification process.
Like do you need to prove that you're a real gamer?
How would you do that?
Describe a game, it's angry birds, different shirt time.
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Do you like your graphics cards in brown and beige?
Great news, Noctua and Asus are making another one
this time, it's an RTX 3080,
previously, the 3070 was the only card
to come in a Noctua edition,
but due to crazy demand Asus decided to partner
with the Austrian based cooler manufacturer.
Once again, - Austrian based?
- Austrian, Austrian based? - Austria based.
- Austria based, and they're Austrian.
Look out for its launch sometime this month
and turn all your lights off when it arrives.
It does not like bright colors.
It will freak out.
If your graphics card can push 480 frames per second,
you're in luck as LG and AUO optronics
are reportedly working--
- [James] The O stands for optronics.
AU, AU.
They're reportedly working on displays
that can support 480 Hertz for both desktops, and laptops.
The company showed off demos of the displays this week,
although they're still very much prototypes.
So don't expect to see these on shelves anytime soon.
I don't even know why you'd want for
in 80 frames per second,
makes 'em so much harder to count.
Uber is expanding its offerings to include more options
for folks who don't just wanna get from A to B,
users can now rent a party bus,
through its new Uber charter service and selecsivities.
That's what I call them. - [James] Selectivities.
- Along with slightly more boring, regular buses and vans.
Uber is also rolling out a feature called Uber travel
which hooks into your Gmail to schedule rides
to places like hotels, airports, and restaurants,
where you have reservations, pretty convenient,
but you also have to be cool with letting Uber
catch a ride through your inbox.
There are some sites to see.
- [James] I just want an Uber driver
who's a great conversationalist.
- He will be 'cause he's read all your email.
Batteries are expensive.
So how about powering your gadgets with, algae?
Researchers at Cambridge have been using a device
containing blue-green algae,
to power an arm cortex M0 plus CPU core
with nothing more than ambient light
and water for over a year, in the future,
this could be a viable alternative
to batteries in low power IOT devices.
As long as you don't drop them,
doing an algae carpet thing, squishy.
And you can finally catch a glimpse
of the super massive black hole
at the center of our own Milky way galaxy.
Astronomers released a composite image
from the event horizon telescope
of the black hole, dubbed Sagittarius A-star
and the bright ring of accreted material surrounding it,
was that right, James?
- [James] It was a black hole, an A-star.
I'm getting a lot of butt hole vibes here.
- It should be a B hole at least.
Although it just looks like a blurry photo of an onion ring
at first glance, scientists can compare
the image's data to a 2019 image
of a different black hole,
at the center of another galaxy,
to gain insight into the fundamentals
of how our universe works.
- [James] It's an onion ring.
- It's just all onion rings.
It's onion rings all the way down.
And it's time for you to learn that this episode is over.
Come back on Wednesday for more tech news or sooner.
I'm not making any promises, but I am doing one of these.