- Hi, everybody have a normal night?
Nothing crazy happened?
Like in the world everything's
pretty, just regular out there?
Cool, Nvidia has announced they're delaying the launch
of the RTX 3070 graphics cards
from October 15th to October 29th
in order to avoid the availability problems
that plagued the launches of the RTX 3080 and 3090.
In videos blog post says, the move is intended
to get more graphics cards
into the hands of gamers on launch day
and not at all because October 29th
is one day after AMD is scheduled
to reveal their newest Radeon on GPUs.
(laughs)
Oh my, is Nvidia going to give
AMD a taste of their own medicine?
Waiting until the reveal of the RX 6000 GPUs
and then dropping the 3070 price
to be more competitive,
in an ironic reversal of what AMD did in 2019.
We'll have to see.
But whether Nvidia screws AMD over or not on the GPU side,
one thing's for sure,
if these Ryzen 5000 series leaks are any indication,
Team Red CPUs are still gonna be bangers.
So don't worry for Dr. Lisa Su just yet.
She's a doctor.
I'm sure she'll be fine.
She'll just like reincarnate in a different body
or something, I think doctors can do that.
Oh, is that my coffee? That's nice.
Microsoft brought two new Surfaces to the top of the...
What was I writing here.
They announced two new surfaces,
the Surface Laptop Go has a 12.4 inch touchscreen
and a 720p webcam, and runs an Intel core I5 1035G1
with 4 gigs of Ram
and 64 gigs of eMMC storage.
But it's only $549.
You're definitely paying a premium
for the nice surface design there
but there's also a more reasonable build
with 8 gigs of Ram and 128 gigs of storage for $699, so...
That's what I wrote.
Microsoft also announced
a refresh of the Surface Pro X
powered by the Microsoft SQ 2 chip,
which basically a variant
of Qualcomm's revamped Snapdragon 8CX Gen 2.
I found the first Surface Pro X pretty disappointing
primarily because it couldn't run many x64 apps
but that's apparently about to change.
Microsoft is working on x64 emulation for windows on ARM.
Meaning that ARM powered windows machines
might actually be worth buying in the future.
Oh, I'm sorry what?
Is that rude?
They deserve it.
And Google is going to start paying news publishers
for their content as part of a new product
called Google News Showcase.
The company is putting $1 billion
into news partnerships over the next three years
with nearly 200 publications
in the UK, Canada, Australia, and Argentina.
Big in the news in that country. They love it there.
While this certainly seems nice of them,
it's more likely this move is an attempt
to sidestep efforts by the governments
of Australia and France, to get Google to pay for news.
It's not clear whether Google News Showcase
will be a paid service like Apple's News+,
but either way it should bring up the real good stuff
or what the algorithm thinks is good anyway.
Praise be to it's all knowing ways.
Don't kill me please algorithm.
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Quick Bits go.
PC game store GOG Galaxy is starting
to deliver on its promise of amalgamating
your entire game library.
Beta users can now purchase games
from the Epic game store through GOG Galaxy.
And not only that those games will be covered
by GOGs 30 day refund policy
not the Epic stores, 14 day policy.
There's gotta be a downside here.
You can't interact directly
with the Epic game store this way.
Nope, that's a plus, dang.
I guess this is pretty great news.
Verizon is expanding
its LTE based home internet service
to rural communities in 48 of the United States
offering download speeds of 25 to 50 megabits per second
and no data usage caps.
Wait, so they can just get rid of the LTE data caps
when they want to.
Why do we have them then?
Ooh, for to makes suit guys, money.
Nvidia has released an optional hotfix driver
for G4s GPU, which should help with some G sync issues
some users have been experiencing
and further help those nasty RTX 3080 crashes
we've been hearing so much about,
but I have a feeling those were Nintendo hacking the GPU,
maybe it's time to take a break.
Toyota has gone and done it.
They made GLaDOS from portal,
just kidding, it's actually a concept robot
designed to be installed in kitchen ceilings,
so it can help you cook and make passive aggressive
slightly threatening remarks as it does so.
Just kidding, it won't do that probably
but I will sing you songs about cake and science.
It might actually do that, I don't know.
And it's time for gamer news.
Super Smash Bros is getting a new fighter
in the form of Steve and Alex.
The main avatar characters from Minecraft.
(laughs)
Remember Smash Bros.
I just like seeing these announcements.
I haven't bought a single deal DLC,
but you know what I am buying,
is Star Wars Squadrons because it's out now.
And if you think I'm not gonna
be playing the heck out of it,
(chuckles)
you're crazy, it'd be crazy
to continue this episode though.
So come back on Monday for more tech news,
hopefully something happens in the tech world by then.
Otherwise the video would be kind of awkward.
Squadrons, let's play,
do a barrel roll, woo hoo!