- Happy Thanksgiving!
Yeah, Canadian Thanksgiving is a month before America's.
We had, you know, we had different pilgrims
arrived a month early,
had beaver instead of Turkey,
there's a few differences.
Those rumors a few weeks back
about NVIDIA releasing in RTX 3090 Super
were apparently wrong.
So what's NVIDIA actually doing?
Producing more stock of budget and mid-tier cards
for hungry gamers?
Oh, no, no.
It's just the name that was wrong.
Okay.
That rumored card is actually going to be
the RTX 3090 Ti. Ti, not super.
It's very different.
This is all according to leaked specs,
which claimed the 3090 Ti
will unsurprisingly feature massive performance,
thanks to more cores, a 450 watt TDP,
that's a hundred Watts, more than the 3090,
and a PCI express 5.0 power connector
capable of delivering up to 600 Watts.
The leaked information indicates a January launch,
no pricing info yet,
but I wouldn't worry too much about all that
as I'm pretty sure you'd need to sell some
vital organs in order to get one.
(chuckle)
Please do not do this.
We don't need people selling body parts!
Epic games appealed the judge's ruling
in their lawsuit against Apple
almost as soon as it came out.
But Apple actually seemed pretty happy with it.
They described it as a resounding victory.
Well, Cupertino's had a while
to think about the ramifications of the ruling,
which requires Apple to allow app developers to include
buttons or links to alternative payment methods,
and the company has now decided,
Yeah. You know what? We're all,
we're all appealing.
You guys appealing?
You're appealing, Emily?
- [Emily] Oh, yeah!
- Okay.
The new policy was supposed to take effect December 9th,
but Apple's claiming that's not enough time to work through
the complex and rapidly evolving legal, technological,
and economic issues at play here.
It's a button, Apple.
Just let them put a button in.
To be fair though,
because the judge did largely affirm Apple's vision
of the app store.
Even if apple ends up allowing
those third-party payment options,
they might be entitled to a cut of the payment anyways,
making the whole thing very confusing.
And yes, I'm making a tech longer about this.
It's just taking a very long time.
It's the name, it's.
Hey, more Google pixel 6 leaks.
This time, where does spreading
about a pixel pass subscription that
not only would include the phone itself,
but a bundle of Google services.
YouTube premium, Play Pass and Google one with the latter,
including perks like extra cloud storage
and advanced photo editing.
Subscribers would also get an extended warranty
and the possibility of annual hardware upgrades.
That way, Google gets more monthly revenue
and makes it more difficult
for people to switch phones,
which I guess is a good thing,
for Google.
The news comes after more leaks from This is Tech Today
claiming the Pixel 6 will be more of a value phone
at an MSRP around 750 US dollars.
Well, the 6 Pro will go for a $1,040.
There's only one week to go until Google's official reveal,
making it a race against time to see who will reveal
everything about the phones first.
At this point,
it's like the marriage has already happened and that event
will just be signing the certificate, which is kind of fun,
but it's like.
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- Quick bits!
Oh...oh, man.
Aw...they are just so darn quick.
Like if they could.
Reports indicate that Sony and Taiwan's TSMC
are thinking about taking their relationship to the
next level and building a chip fab together in Japan,
which would be subsidized by the Japanese government.
Sony doesn't think that chip shortage is going to be over
until 2023 at the earliest.
So having that additional capacity in Japan would be helpful
in case the geopolitical showdown between China, Taiwan and
the US somehow affects TSMC operations in Taiwan itself.
I'm guessing none of those powers are
going to be invited to the wedding.
This is an elopement.
That's what this is.
Chip maker Ampere has announced
the successor to their ultra line of
ARM-based enterprise processors.
The new ultra max M128-30 with a whopping 128 cores seems
to obliterate AMD's and Intel's competing chips in cloud
computing workloads,
but in other memory intensive situations,
it actually does worse.
So while arm chips are gaining ground,
you might want to wait a bit before you install one of these
in your server farm that you statistically don't own.
China's crypto crackdown has no end in sight
as the country may soon implement restrictions or bans
on investing in cryptocurrency mining,
in addition to its existing ban on mining itself.
But the good news for investors is that Bitcoin is still
surging at the moment,
despite China's anti crypto maneuvers,
because technology is only cool when you'd lets you control
people more facial recognition, great install it everywhere.
Blockchain stuff?
Gross.
- [Emily] Eww.
- I want my fingers in there.
Facebook and Instagram have announced it will take new
measures to protect the younger users in the wake of a
whistle blower's report,
claiming that Instagram recommended harmful content to
teens, such as content promoting eating disorders.
Users will be nudged to look at something else or to just
take a break from the platform completely apparently using
the incredibly successful
Don't Do Drugs campaigns from the nineties.
Posting carefully curated pictures of the fancy hotel
I'm staying in on my vacation.
Nah, I'm good. Thanks.
And do you remember Sony's play at home campaign last year,
which gave away free games during
the height of the pandemic.
Sony recently revealed that over 60 million games were
handed out without costs to PlayStation owners.
Of course, it's pretty clearly a strategy to build
goodwill towards the PlayStation brand,
but on the other hand, free games.
That's it for this episode, guys,
come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
That is if you're not still knocked unconscious from all
that delicious Turkey and beaver mash.
Don't eat beaver.
Don't do that.