Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Floppy Chips Will Change Everything”.
I thought it might be nice if we talked about some tech news.. Would you like that [ Riley, ] God Carlton Woo This week, Arm unveiled a prototype for a plastic based flexible microchip? The company has creatively dubbed’PlasticArm’. They’ve got to have some Germans on the naming committee over there., [, Riley ]. It makes perfect sense. Oh yah We’ve seen bendy chips before, but not like this.
With a 32 bit cortex M zero CPU and with over 18,000 logic gates. Plasticarm is about 12 times more powerful than the other flexible chip designs out there. They might as well be stickers., Which is one application for these chips. Thanks to costing drastically less than rigid silicon based, chips. PlasticArm could be built in a product, packaging or labels which could, for instance, detect if food has gone. Bad.. That’S right. An Arm engineer said “ We’ll be putting processors on lettuce, “ or anything else. You can think of.” Ew gross., That’s what you thought of [ Riley ]. It probably seems like you were thinking: it. — Nasty..
No, I’m not thinking of anything. [, Riley, ] Gross., I’m obviously not thinking. Good news for anyone with an RTX 3090 made by EVGA that was bricked while playing the new MMO New World., The company says they’ll replace the busted GPU’s for free, That’s nice of them.. Some are saying this is the least EVGA could do, since the prevailing theory is that the hardware was more to blame here than the game itself.. Although Amazon has patched the frames cap in the games menu just in case., I can’t say I feel too bad for the victims here., Since they made the choice to A buy the most expensive gaming card on the market and B play New World..
But why are we making fun of New World? It’S not even out yet. Anyways. If you’ve been turned off of RCX 3090s forever, the radio on 6600 XT looks like it will be, announced soon., So you’ll have an opportunity to make a more balanced purchasing. Decision.
[ Riley ] Don’t buy — Choices, [ Riley, ], Expensive things., And more good news for the right to repair movement.. The federal trade commission has voted unanimously to create new policy enforcing customers’ rights to fix items ranging from smartphones to farm equipment.. The vote comes after US. President Biden issued an executive order calling for such policy. And with any luck. This will lead to new laws preventing Apple and other companies from discouraging third-party repairs.
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No, not Costco Experienced a brief outage yesterday, thanks to a DNS issue experienced by major web infrastructure company Akamai.. Did I pronounced that right, [ Riley, ], Sure. Beautiful.. The issue was fixed after a few hours, but I don’t feel comfortable using the web when everything can just disappear like this.. So I’m going to go back to reading books.
[ Riley ], You don’t read books., I read books.. Do you Yeah. Atomic habits by James, Clear, just read: it.
I’m trying to become a better person. Riley. Epic games has filed a new complaint in their lawsuit against Google, including new information about how the web giant tried to block Epic from hosting Fortnite on Samsung’s Galaxy. Store. Because, while they’re waiting for the Apple case to be decided might as well just remind Google that they care, you know You don’t want to leave them on read. [, Riley, ], Read.
Read. Fudge Did I just swear Sorry for swearing.. Two democratic senators introduced a bill yesterday that would remove section 230 protections from social platforms if their algorithms are found, boosting health-related misinformation, fueling more debate about the control that Twitter, Facebook and the rest have over what people are and aren’t allowed to say. Online., Like I’m confused about things that I can say.
Can I say: fudge (, beep, ), [, Riley ]! Stop it All right., Sorry about that. Kaseya, the IT services provider to around 1500 companies that were affected by a ransomware attack has obtained a master decryptor key from a third party that is now being used to free the imprisoned data. Kaseya got the key after wandering Around the dungeon for what felt like days until they saw a weird shaped block that it turned out had to be rotated in order to get to the chest.. A guide would have been handy in this case.
And the Tokyo Olympics kicked off this week with a suitably Japanese musical fanfare from a ton of classic video games, including Dragon Quest Final Fantasy and Monster Hunter.. You think there’d be some Nintendo titles represented but nope. That company is probably too busy suing it’s fans for not wanting to pay $ 90. For a 10 year old game.
[ Riley ] ( indistinct ), It’s unbelievable.. I want to play it, but I’m not paying that much.. That’S it., I’m done. Come back on Monday for more tech news.. I promise we won’t yell at you. This time.
It was just. It’S just been a lot today.. It’S been a lot.
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