- You know when you go outside on a moonless night,
and you look up at the stars?
(crickets softly chirping) Ho,
I don't know why people do that.
There's no tech news up there.
It's boring.
AMD is set to officially announce
its Zen 4 processors today,
but prices have been leaked ahead of the event.
And contrary to previous rumors,
it looks like AMD has decided not to increase prices
like they did with the Zen 3 launch.
That was a rare time when I was upset with Dr. Lisa Su.
She's taken such good care of me otherwise.
Hey, Riley here after the AMD event actually happened.
I was about to lie to you. Our script was incorrect.
Turns out the 7950X is $699.
The 7700X is $399, and the 7600X is $299, okay?
So, there actually was a price cut.
That's nice.
Sure, this is disappointing for those
who are wanting a price cut,
but it's still welcome news
during this time of aggressive inflation,
and not the weird internet kind.
Yeah, see, that wasn't right. There was a price cut.
There was,
the price went down a little bit, okay?
Of course, this is a leak, so take it with a grain of salt.
But either way, we'll have an official announcement
from Team Red soon enough.
I happen to know.
Anthony Young is at the event right now,
probably partying with all the new chips.
Until Nvidia reveals some details
about their upcoming 4000 series GPUs in September,
we'll have to tide ourselves over with news from a leaker
who claims to have benchmark results
for the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti which are mid-tier cards,
just like this joke.
Unfortunately, these aren't actual game benchmarks.
Rather, the tests were done in Time Spy Extreme
with the 4060 Ti scoring around 8,600 points,
and the 4060 getting about 6,000.
Power draw was at 280 watts for the Ti card
with the non-Ti version coming in at 240 watts.
If these vague numbers don't mean much to you,
they represent about a 50% performance boost
over the current gen.
Hopefully, we won't be paying a premium
for the privilege though.
I don't know why John wrote that.
We will.
And did you happen to see an incredible deal
on an SSD from Walmart over the last few days?
A third-party seller on the Walmart website
was selling an external SSD,
that purportedly held a whopping 30 terabytes,
for just 39 bucks.
And, of course, tsk, it was a gigantic scam.
It turns out that the 30 terabyte SSD
actually consisted of a couple of low capacity SD cards
hot glued to a controller board.
Or what my weird Serbian uncle calls,
"The uncle Zoran special."
When you plugged it into a computer,
the drive's hacked firmware would report
that it, indeed, had a 30 terabyte capacity,
but if you tried to write data that was larger
than the tiny capacity of the SD cards inside,
the system would just overwrite
whatever existing data there was,
over and over again.
So, when you went back to find your data later,
it would be gone.
See, it's not actually a scam.
It's a lesson.
Don't depend on anybody.
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"Quick Bits" are the best thing I have going on right now
so don't ruin this for me.
Although the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal,
it was four years ago now,
Meta has just agreed to a settlement
in the related privacy lawsuit,
meaning Zuck won't have to testify.
So don't expect to find out any juicy details
other than what's already been reported.
This is kinda concerning,
but also, does anyone wanna see this guy
try to pretend to not be an alien again?
No, thanks.
The US Department of Justice is reportedly considering
an antitrust case against Apple for its App Store practices
and fees that have earned the company
plenty of criticism over in the EU.
Although companies like Google and Meta
have been more in the crosshairs of regulators lately,
the DOJ is apparently miffed that they still can't install
Fortnite on their iPhones.
Big battle royale fans up there in DC.
Do you live in California?
You only have until 2035 to buy a gas-powered car
as the state has recently passed a ban
on the sales of gas cars in the state, starting that year.
While it seems like an aggressive target,
many large automakers have already set the 2030s
as a timetable for transitioning
towards all-electric manufacturing.
Although California isn't the first state
to pass such a law, it's always big news
when a jurisdiction that has more people in it
than all of Canada decides they're done with gasoline.
'Cause, we're fricking not.
Snowmobiles don't run on apologies.
We finally have word on pricing for Netflix's
new ad-supported tier, between $7 and $9 a month.
Big news.
For comparison, Netflix's current HD plan is $15.49 a month.
And Netflix plans to sweeten the pot
by limiting ads to only four minutes of every hour
and not showing them if a customer is watching
a Netflix original.
So technically, you could avoid ads with this tier
if you only wanna watch yet another season
of "Too Hot to Stay Single:
Blind Lava Floor Date Challenge."
There's way too many.
And a Google patent has been uncovered
that seemingly describes either a Pixel foldable phone
or the upcoming Pixel tablet
featuring a tiny camera embedded in the bezel
that the patent describes as an "ultra micro hole."
This camera hole is so small,
it will barely let in any light
and may not even function at all.
But if this hole is as little as it sounds,
many hole aficionados are sure to love
this ultra micro hole because of just how teeny tiny
this hole is.
Tech news aficionados are sure to love
what they'll hear on Wednesday
when we present even more tech news
as part of the web video that we'll publish on Wednesday.
See you then.