I can't believe that worked. - Oct. 29, 2021

[RILEYISMYNAME]

 

 

NEWS SOURCES:

 

THE NEW META

Facebook rebrands company name

Because that’ll fix things https://gizmodo.com/facebook-has-no-clue-how-to-solve-its-image-problem-le-1847945657

But John Carmack is skeptical https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-10-29-oculus-john-carmack-skeptical-about-efforts-to-build-the-metaverse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnSUk0je6oo&t=883s

Quest won’t require FB accounts https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/28/22751297/meta-oculus-quest-need-facebook-account-login-password

 

Project Cambria headset https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/28/project-cambria-is-a-high-end-vr-headset-designed-for-facebooks-metaverse/?tpcc=tcplustwitter

It’s the Oculus Pro https://twitter.com/Basti564/status/1452366595653869576

Meta Watch has a notch https://www.zdnet.com/article/meta-working-on-smartwatch-to-rival-apple-watch-says-bloomberg/

 

 

LOOKIN’ XESSY

Intel XeSS looks pretty good

https://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/148578-intel-xess-demonstrated-hitman-3-the-riftbreaker/

Intel presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP46fuSNhjI&t=380s

Intel’s Aurora supercomputer will be even more powerful than they thought, 2 ExaFLOPS

 

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1384485-intel-ups-auroras-performance-to-2-exaflops-engages-in-zettaflops-race/

https://www.tomshardware.com/uk/news/intel-ups-performance-of-aurora-to-2-exaflops

 

https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/10/27/intel-aims-for-zettaflops-by-2027-pushes-aurora-above-2-exaflops/

 

CORE MULTIPLIER

AMD EPYC Turin CPUs could have 256 cores, 600W TDP

Genoa 96 cores https://www.tomshardware.com/news/zen4-madness-amd-epyc-genoa-with-96-cores-12-channel-ddr5-memory-and-avx-512

https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/joao-silva/amd-epyc-turin-processors-may-come-with-up-to-256-cores-and-600w-ctdp/

https://twitter.com/ExecuFix/status/1453707924338089990

https://hothardware.com/news/amd-epyc-turin-zen-5-cpu-256-cores-600w-tdp

 

 

QUICK BITS

 

ENCRYPT ME IF U WANNA REACH ME

Google Fi adds E2E encrypted phone calls

https://blog.google/products/google-fi/google-fi-end-to-end-encrypted-calls/

https://9to5google.com/2021/10/28/google-fi-encrypted-call/

 

BETTER HIT THE GIM

DJI Ronin 4D camera has built-in gimbal

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1384534-maybe-the-cameraman-looks-less-of-a-weirdo-now-dji-releases-camera-with-inbuilt-lidar-and-gimbal/

https://youtu.be/V7DnNoAnbDc

https://www.techradar.com/news/i-spent-a-day-with-the-dji-ronin-4d-and-it-took-my-filmmaking-to-the-next-level

 

 

 

LEMME FIX THAT FOR YOU

Microsoft finds macOS security flaw

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/microsoft-reports-sip-bypassing-shrootless-vulnerability-in-macos/

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2021/10/28/microsoft-finds-new-macos-vulnerability-shrootless-that-could-bypass-system-integrity-protection/

 

P.LAYSTATION C.OMPUTER

Playstation is all in on PC, creates publishing unit

https://www.pcgamer.com/sony-creates-playstation-pc-publishing-label/

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/sony-has-formed-the-playstation-pc-label-for-its-pc-games-push/

https://twitter.com/MatPiscatella/status/1453722573263364108\

 

PEW PEW, HEH, OH GOD RUN

Boeing and General Atomics will develop 300kW laser for the Army

https://www.engadget.com/us-army-ga-ems-boeing-300-kw-laser-154817777.html

https://www.ga.com/ga-ems-and-boeing-team-to-develop-300kw-class-helws-prototype-for-us-army

[Spotty]

4 minutes ago, RILEYISMYNAME said:

Project Cambria headset

Project Cambria?

Cambridge Analytica

 

Coincidence? I think not!

[Arika]

21 minutes ago, RILEYISMYNAME said:

Quest won’t require FB accounts

Good...but?......

 

The article makes things very vague.

[Basti564]

18 hours ago, RILEYISMYNAME said:

It’s the Oculus Pro https://twitter.com/Basti564/status/1452366595653869576

Hehe, I'm one of the sources