- What's up!
What's up?
You already know what this is.
AMD's Smart Access Memory
has been ported over to Intel, sort of.
See, the feature allows a Ryzen 5000-series processor
to have full access to the GPU memory
of a Radeon RX 6000-series GPU,
which can have a decent impact on performance.
That does sound smart, ha ha,
but SAM is actually based on a technology
called resizeable base address register, or resize BAR
which has been a part of the PCIe spec for years.
Nvidia has said they're working on adding the feature
to their GPU as well.
Some of the board makers have already released BIOS updates
that enabled BAR on Intel's Z490 motherboards
including Asus and ASRock,
who named their implementation Clever Access Memory.
Oh my God.
Some early testing has been done showing
that a system with an Intel 10900K
and an RX 6800 XT could gain performance by as much as 16%.
This is great news for Intel,
but if some Rocket Lake leaks are accurate,
they're gonna need every extra boost they can get.
Ha, that was a rocket pun.
- [Staffer] Maybe they can ask Elon Musk for help.
- Comes in a rocket can.
Google is in hot water,
whatever that means when you're one of
the richest companies on Earth,
over its treatment of current and former employees.
The US National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint
against the tech giant for illegally surveilling employees
and firing those who attempt to unionize.
The complaint alleges that Google blocked employees
from sharing work grievances
and information with each other using email, calendars,
and even physical meeting rooms.
At first, I was like, well,
this is their fault for using Gmail,
and others, G Suite.
They have meeting rooms.
Hey, Google,
send Karen a message about how Google sucks.
- [Staffer] I'm sorry, James.
I can't do that.
- There's also controversy surrounding Timnit Gebru,
a research scientist on Google's ethical AI team.
Gebru was fired after questioning a manager's request
that she retract a research paper
that she had written discussing how AI systems
can sometimes demonstrate racial bias.
Now, hundreds of Google employees have signed an open letter
calling Gebru's firing unprecedented research censorship.
The best part is Google doesn't even have to
take any of this seriously
since they removed don't be evil from their motto,
and obviously mottoes-
- They're legally binding. - They're binding.
So they're free.
They couldn't be legal before, but now they can.
And stock shortages continue to affect sales
of graphics cards
with retailers selling out of basically everything
as soon as they refresh their stock.
Wow, you can help them sell out even faster
by joining the thousands of people
currently watching a stock checker bot
stream its stock-checking on Twitch.
Sure, the screen is entirely composed
of slowly updating lists of GPU models
with big red text reading out "Out of stock,"
but what else would you do with your time
in these unprecedented times where you have so much time?
What would you do?
Figure out which graphics settings to turn down
so your current graphics card can play cyberpunk,
which isn't even gonna get made anyway?
What, watch the new episode of Mandasnorian?
(blows raspberry) No thanks.
If you do enjoy this type of entertainment, you're in luck.
Nvidia says that thanks to wafer shortages
and other impacts on the supply line thanks to COVID,
stock shortages are probably going to be the norm
for the next couple of months,
so grab the popcorn.
"The Mandalorian" is okay at best, anyway.
- [Staffer] You don't even watch it.
- Yeah, because it sucks.
- [Staffer] It's pretty good now.
- I've seen enough.
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Oh.
Photos of a phone called the Pixel XE
have been leaked online,
or at least that's what the device thinks it is,
according to the About Phone section.
It doesn't look like any Pixel phone release so far,
so this could indeed be Google's next flagship.
Pretty rude of them to just
steal Intel's graphics brand like that.
But again, evil isn't out of the question here.
Am I right?
They're making the Pixel.
- [Staffer] They're making the Pixel!
- I hope they call it the Z instead of XZ.
That's stupid.
Hackers have been targeting the global supply chain
responsible for distributing COVID vaccines.
According to analysts from IBM's comic book-sounding
X-Force IRIS division.
It's suspected the hackers aren't attempting
to disrupt vaccine distribution.
That would be disgusting.
But are trying to harvest credentials to get close
to the myriad corporations and countries
involved in the effort,
but it might screw things up anyway.
So, can you just take a break for a second, hackers?
Can you just take your boot off of
the throat of 2019 as it gasps for air?
Verizon is trying to fix a glitch
in their live chat support service that shows customers logs
of previous chat sessions from other customers
when they open a chat window.
Yikes.
This info can include names, addresses,
phone numbers, and account numbers,
and Verizon was notified of the issue
by Ars Technica on Monday.
But the glitch is still there today on Friday.
Maybe they didn't have reception or something.
- [Staffer] Can you hear me now?
- Some reason, your email was in my junk.
It just got here.
- [Staffer] Whoopsies.
- Warner Brothers Pictures has announced
the studio's entire 2021 lineup of movies
will release simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max,
including big boys like "Dune" and "The Matrix 4."
'Kay, this does not mean that all those movies
are coming out in the same day.
Okay.
There's been clickbait titles going around.
Awesome is what I would say
if this wasn't limited to the US only.
Do you want piracy?
'Cause this is how you get piracy.
And ants.
- [Staffer] What about Canada?
- And Chinese physicists claim
to have built a quantum computer that completed a task
in just over three minutes that would have
taken the world's fastest conventional classic computer
600 million years to finish.
The quantum machine used a process
called Gaussian BosonSampling
which works exactly the way you would expect.
The researchers say
that this means they've achieved quantum supremacy
even though Google already declared the same thing.
These guys are even more supreme.
They're Supremer,
but I think technically all you have to do
is declare it and you have it.
It's like bankruptcy.
I declare this episode is over.
Come back on Monday for more tech news.
I'll be roasted over an open fire supremely.
Quantumly.
Stuff me like a turkey.