AMD's Smart Access Memory has been ported over to Intel, sort of. See, the feature allows a Ryzen 5000-series processor to have full access to the GPU memory of a Radeon RX 6000-series GPU, which can have a decent impact on performance. That does sound smart, but SAM is actually based on a technology called resizable base address register, or resize BAR which has been a part of the PCIe spec for years. Nvidia has said they ‘reworking on adding the feature to their GPU as well. Some of the board makers have already released BIOS updates that enabled BAR on Intel’s Z490 motherboards including Asus and ASRock, who named their implementation Clever Access Memory.
Some early testing has been done showing that a system with
an Intel 10900K and an RX 6800 XT could gain performance by as much as 16%.
This is great news for Intel, but if some Rocket Lake leaks are accurate,
they're gonna need every extra boost they can get. That was a rocket pun. Maybe they can ask Elon Musk for help. - Comes in a rocket can. Google is in
hot water, whatever that means when you're one of the richest companies on
Earth, over its treatment of current and former employees. The US National Labour
Relations Board has filed a complaint against the tech giant for illegally surveillant
employees and firing those who attempt to unionize. The complaint alleges that
Google blocked employees from sharing work grievances and information with each
other using email, calendars, and even physical meeting rooms. At first, I was
like, well, this is their fault for using Gmail, and others, G Suite. They have
meeting rooms. Google, send Karen a message about how Google sucks.
There's also controversy surrounding Timnit Gebru, a
research scientist on Google’s ethical AI team. Gebru was fired after
questioning a manager's request that she retract a research paper that she had written
discussing how AI systems can sometimes demonstrate racial bias. Now, hundreds
of Google employees have signed an open letter calling Gebru's firing
unprecedented research censorship. The best part is Google doesn’t even have to
take any of this seriously since they removed don’t be evil from their motto,
and obviously mottoes- - They're legally binding.- They're binding. So, they're
free. They couldn't be legal before, but now they can.
And stock shortages continue to affect sales of graphics
cards with retailers selling out of basically everything as soon as they refresh
their stock. Wow, you can help them sell out even faster by joining the
thousands of people currently watching a stock checker bot stream its
stock-checking on Twitch. Sure, the screen is entirely composed of slowly
updating lists of GPU models with big red text reading out "Out of
stock," but what else would you do with your time in these unprecedented times
where you have so much time? What would you do? Figure out which graphics
settings to turn down so your current graphics card can play cyberpunk, which isn't
even gonna get made anyway? What, watch the new episode of Mandalorian? No
thanks. If you do enjoy this type of entertainment, you're in luck. Nvidia says
that thanks to wafer shortages and other impacts on the supply line thanks to COVID,
stock shortages are probably going to be the norm for the next couple of
months, so grab the popcorn. "The Mandalorian"
is okay at best, anyway. You don't even watch it. It's pretty good now. I've seen
enough.
Photos of a phone called the Pixel XE have been leaked
online, or at least that's what the device thinks it is, according to the About
Phone section. It doesn't look like any Pixel phone release so far, so this
could indeed be Google’s next flagship. Pretty rude of them to just steal
Intel's graphics brand like that. But again, evil isn’t out of the question
here. Am I right? They're making the Pixel. They're making the Pixel! - I hope
they call it the Z instead of XZ. That's stupid. Hackers have been targeting
the global supply chain responsible for distributing COVID vaccines. According
to analysts from IBM’s comic book-sounding X-Force IRIS division. It's suspected
the hackers aren't attempting to disrupt vaccine distribution. That would be
disgusting. But are trying to harvest credentials to get close to the myriad
corporations and countries involved in the effort, but it might screw things up
anyway.
So, can you just take a break for a second, hackers? Can you
just take your boot off of the throat of 2019 as it gasps for air? Verizon is
trying to fix a glitch in their live chat support service that shows customers
logs of previous chat sessions from other customers when they open a chat
window. Yikes. This info can include names, addresses, phone numbers, and
account numbers, and Verizon was notified of the issue by Ars Technical on
Monday.
Warner Brothers Pictures has announced the studio's entire
2021 line-up of movies will release simultaneously in theatres and on HBO Max,
including big boys like “Dune" and "The Matrix 4." 'Kay, this
does not mean that all those movies are coming out in the same day. Awesome is
what I would say if this wasn't limited to the US only. Do you want piracy? Cause
this is how you get piracy. And ants. What about Canada?
And Chinese physicists claim to have built a quantum
computer that completed a task in just over three minutes that would have taken
the world's fastest conventional classic computer 600 million years to finish.
The quantum machine used a process called Gaussian Boson Sampling which works
exactly the way you would expect. The researchers say that this means they’ve
achieved quantum supremacy even though Google already declared the same thing.
These guys are even more supreme. They're Supreme, but I think technically all
you have to do is declare it and you have it. It's like bankruptcy.
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