Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Crypto-miners took our GPUs!!”.
Hey wait: a second. It’s supposed to be Black Friday.! It’S not it’s not black! At all! There’S blue and orange and- [ Riley ], It’s very colorful And white everywhere.. That’S on purpose. NVIDIA is in some hot water.
After an earnings report revealed that they apparently sold $ 175 million worth of RTX 30-series graphics cards to …. Ah, yes, they brought back the old villain, “ Star, Wars” -style, cryptocurrency miners.. The cards are, of course, already in high demand, but Ethereum miners are particularly interested since changes to the currency coming in December will make order hardware less effective at mining it.. Some fans are furious at NVIDIA thinking that the new GPUs aren’t in stock because they’ve all been bought up by miners., But unless my math is way off, that 175 million is only around 6 % of the total 2.7 billion that NVIDIA made in GPU sales. During the third quarter of 2020., And given that every other major recent product launch has also had stock problems, we probably shouldn’t be quite so quick to attack NVIDIA for things other than the things we already attack them.
About. [ Riley ] Like get a different jacket. Jensen. Amazon is also in hot water for well multiple reasons..
The first one is the company’s shared network program. Sidewalk. Amazon plans to use a portion of all the network bandwidth from all of its connected devices from Echo smart speakers to Ring smart doorbells to generate one giant network, meaning your Alexa-enabled devices will be directly connecting to your neighbor’s devices and to who knows how many Other gadgets that happen to be in the vicinity.. The feature will also be enabled by default, with consumers having to manually opt out if they find the idea somewhat disconcerting.
[ Riley ]. I do The other reason to be mad at Amazon. Today is well it’s Black Friday, allegedly meaning that more attention is being called to the company’s questionable treatment of its employees.. Amazon workers are protesting, unrealistic expectations and low wages across the world.
Today, even though the corporation is giving full-time staff a Christmas bonus of 300 whole dollars. Company-wide, these bonuses amount to $ 500 million, which seems like a lot until you hear that Amazon is expected to pass $ 100 billion. This quarter for the first time. I mean honestly, I’m happy for Jeff Bezos.
Being successful, like him is a lotta, hard work.. He personally carries a lot of those packages. [ Riley ] He’s flying his rocket. On his back.
Yeah. And get ready for some changes coming to Windows. Next year. Leaks have given us a peek at what Microsoft is working on, including Cloud PC which would fittingly provide access to a could-based Windows PC that one could access through any browser..
Microsoft also plans to ship Windows 10X in the first half of 2021. Along with it’s dual-screen, Surface Neo and other midrange laptops and tablets, although it will not run Win32 apps natively, which will be well interesting. And thanks to Window 10’s new baked-in support for Linux, Microsoft is apparently working on a feature that would allow users to install Android Apps straight from the Microsoft store., That is, awesome. Huh I’ve been waiting for years to use Twitter on my computer. Oh.. Oh Hey other Riley. Now it’s time for Quick Bits brought to you by Wondershare.. They just launched PDFelement 8 for Windows.
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In what looks like a win for right-to-repair advocates., The repairability ratings would be part of a standardized system, hopefully incentivizing companies to make their products more like things that you could fix. Instead of things that you could use for a little while and throw away. I’ve heard of those., Oh, I think my grandpa had one.. Oh, Can you get one Another Microsoft story here? The company is also in hot water for the Microsoft Productivity Score, a feature that was added to Microsoft, 365 last week..
What the hell is this It lets bosses track, how their employees use Microsoft’s suite of tools which sounds like a fancy way to describe workplace surveillance.. “, Oh no is Linus reading this Forget, I said anything. Go to the next story.”. No, I think that’s not cool. [ Riley, ], Yeah, Hey, Let’s get’em boss, Yeah. “ Doom” has been installed on yet another device that it was never meant to be run. On. YouTuber stacksmashing has managed to play it on Nintendo’s new tiny Game.
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