Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Intel… just STOP already…”.
Now that the chicken wings and chips that you ate, while watching yesterday’s big sportsball match, have run through you, why not wipe your butt with a little tech news, [ Riley, ] Wait., That’s gross.! By now, it’s pretty clear that Apple’s new M1 chips have positioned the company on the verge of being a major player in the CPU market, meaning it was only a matter of time before the likes of Intel took. Notice. Team blue recently put out a large number of benchmarks that, unsurprisingly, show its 11th gen i7 chips outperforming Apple’s M1s.. The tests include web browsing productivity, artificial intelligence and programs in the Adobe Creative Suite..
But despite the benchmarks running a wide gamut of programs, Intel was criticized for not keeping the hardware consistent between tests making. It look, at least in part like an effort to cherry-pick good results. [ Riley ] That doesn’t seem like them, Never.. Whatever the truth about the chips’ performance is Intel is clearly concerned about a third company eating into their market. Share.
In Soviet Russia Apple eats you [ Riley ] Soviet Russia is a company ( chuckles, ) Eh, There’s really no escaping promoted, tweets, better known as ads. In your Twitter timeline, if you use the app on your smartphone, but if you’ve got a few dollars to spare that may change in the near future, as reports indicate that Twitter is considering some paid subscription options that would allow the platform to bring in enough extra Money to lessen its reliance on ad revenue., The ideas that seem to have the most traction offer additional features like profile, customization, exclusive content or Tweetdeck. So it probably isn’t gon na be a situation where you pay a certain amount of money just to turn off ads. Youtube-Style, though, details are murky at this point.. In any event, it sounds like a great idea.. I’Ve been waiting for yet another monthly bill to add. On top of the eight streaming services I subscribe to., I don’t think I- Peacock, I’m on Peacock.
There’s dozens of us. Why Did you catch that? A quick five-second ad during the Super Bowl that you probably didn’t even have time to read That was the first-ever Super Bowl commercial from Reddit, which claimed that it spent its entire marketing budget on the spot. Probably over a million bucks when you do the math.. The ad was mostly just words on the screen in the style of a Reddit comment, giving a nod to the GameStop short squeeze that was propelled by WallStreetBets subreddit.. The idea was to bill Reddit as a powerful platform that showcases the power of the people coming together, which the ad drove home by speculating that finance textbooks might one day include a chapter tendies.
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He wrote “ few less CUDA cores ,”, but I don’t make that error. What an error If it’s countable it’s fewer., The 3080 Ti is also rumored to come out sometime in April, while the 3060 may be on shelves much sooner February. 25Th., That’s practically …, We’re there baby. Whoo. Of course, when I say shelves, I mean that in the abstract, nonmaterial sense unless you’re a bot., And you might also be disappointed if you’re ready to settle for an RTX 30-series laptop as supplies of those are reportedly being squeezed by cryptominers in China. Thanks to recent spikes in bitcoin and ethereum, so I guess it doesn’t matter whether Nvidia is transparent about the laptop specs or not because again, abstract. They’re, just shadows on the walls of a cave., (, laughs, ) And with the surge in crypto.
Maybe it’s not too surprising that the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is putting his crypto where his mouth is. Tesla, has bought $ 1.5 billion worth of bitcoin huh and will also soon start accepting payments in bitcoin. The cryptocurrency spiked to around 44,000 U.S. dollars after the Announcement.
Bitcoin. It’s 2021 and the world’s economy rises and falls based on the tweets of a Twitter memelord.. God help us all. [, Riley ].
I wouldn’t want it any other way.. Remember the old idea of a company town, where some big manufacturer, basically controlled one whole community, Elon, Musk, …, Just joking. Nevada – might be putting a modern spin on that idea. As the state’s governor wants to create innovation zones, that would give high-tech companies the power to form their own little local governments. Ew, Although it’s being billed as a way to attract good jobs and more investment to the state company towns, haven’t exactly been the model of Good government. Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg started making rules to tell you how you can use your meat, smoker., [, Riley ] You have to log in first.
Or like he gets to be in the sauna and not have a towel. … [ Riley ].
What ( James giggles ) Mark no Mark’s on Strata? He wouldn’t. Let me have this planter box., And are you one of the many good people who have an iPhone but use Spotify instead of Apple Music? Keep fightin’ the good fight. It looks like Apple is finally going to let you switch your default music service as of iOS.
14.5, so if you ask Siri to play something, she’ll go right to Spotify instead of trying to make it play in Apple Music., Holy cow. Wow, I didn’t know you. People lived under this regime..
This is so brutal, Congratulations., Welcome. Wow. That’S our show.! Come back on Wednesday for more tech news., Even if Siri tells you not to.
[ Riley ], We tell Siri what to do now. Yeah I bought my phone. I should be able to use my …. Can you imagine It’s like “, No dialing Tim Cook..
We don’t want you to talk to Grandma., I can’t let you do that James .” .