It's Got Last Year's Chip... - Sept. 7, 2022

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

NO PHONE IS AN ISLAND

Apple Event – Sept 7 stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux6zXguiqxM

 

Watch Series 8

• Automatic ovulation updates
• Crash Detection
• Low Power mode in multiple models
• MIDNIGHT, STARLIGHT, SILVER, PRODUCT RED, SILVER, GOLD, GRAPHITE
• $399, $499 cellular

Watch SE gen 2

• Redesigned back case
• $249, $249 cellular

Watch ULTRA

• Biggest, brightest display ever on an Apple Watch
• New customizable button
• Larger diameter crown
• Second speaker for more volume
• Cellular by default
• 36hrs battery life / 60hrs with upcoming battery saver feature
• NIGHT MODE we couldn’t do this until now
• Fancy new bands designed to be tough and stay on your wrist
• Action button to denote laps while running
  • Upcoming feature will automatically detect when you GET to the track??
• Waypoint marking + backtrack
• 86db siren
• WR100 water resistance
  • Automatically launches depth app while underwater
  • EN13319 certification
• $799

New Airpods Pro

• H2 chip
• Low distortion driver
• Personalized spatial audio with TrueDepth camera on iPhone
• 2x more powerful noise cancellation
• Touch control – swipe to control volume!
• Up to 6hrs listening time (+2hrs), 30hrs total (+6hrs)
• Speaker in case for Find My

iPhone 14 and 14 Plus (no more mini )

• “best battery life ever in an iPhone”, which was only available in Pro models
•  A15 Bionic SoC (with 5-core GPU, same as 13 Pro, 1 more GPU core than 13)
• Camera:
  • 12MP Wide – 49% low-light improvement
  • Front camera – TrueDepth, 38% low-light improvement
  • “Photonic Engine” – more different earlier Deep Fusion, better low light
  • Video - “Action Mode” – better stabilization
• eSIM only in US
• Crash Detection
• Emergency SOS via satellite
  • Tells you to keep pointing at satellite
  • Launching November in US and Canada
• 14: $799  14 Plus: $899  - no increase

iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max

• Dynamic Island it’s NOT A PUNCHHOLE CAMERA
  • Display information, adapting to different situations
• Super Retina XDR Display
  • 6.1”, 6.7”
  • Peak HDR brightness 1600 nits – same as Pro Display XDR
  • Peak outdoor brightness 2000 nits – “higher of any smartphone”
  • Always On Display – refresh rate as low as 1Hz
• New A16 Bionic SoC
  • 4 efficiency, 2 performance cores
  • 5-core GPU 50% more memory bandwidth
• Camera – new sensors?
  • 48MP Main camera
  • 12MP telephoto
  • 12MP ultrawide
  • 2-3x better low-light across the board
• 14 Pro: $999  14 Pro Max: $1099 – no increase

Huawei Mate 50 and Mate 50 Pro have satellite texting https://9to5google.com/2022/09/07/huawei-mate-50-series/

 

QUICK BITS

 

PS5 TEARDOWN 2: REDEMPTION

PS5 redesign

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-ps5-internal-redesign

Austin Evans https://twitter.com/austinnotduncan/status/1567411371159191552

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21vJ9XBozeI

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/latest-playstation-5-revision-uses-10-percent-less-power

https://www.eurogamer.net/sonys-new-ps5-model-uses-less-power-during-games

 

3-LETTER WORDS

AMD switches up laptop CPU naming scheme

https://www.anandtech.com/show/17561/amd-updates-ryzen-mobile-cpu-numbering-ahead-of-mendocino-launch

https://community.amd.com/t5/corporate/announcing-new-model-numbers-for-2023-mobile-processors/ba-p/543985

https://community.amd.com/t5/corporate/announcing-new-model-numbers-for-2023-mobile-processors/ba-p/543985?lightbox-message-images-543985=72987i87D0A25665509C0C

 

INVES AND ALSO PROTEC

Tencent invests in Ubisoft while protecting them from takeovers

https://www.pcgamer.com/tencents-latest-deal-will-help-ubisoft-fend-off-takeover-bids-from-larger-corporationslike-tencent/

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/tencent-invests-300-million-stake-into-ubisoft

failed Vivendi takeover https://variety.com/2019/gaming/news/vivendi-sells-remaining-ubisoft-shares-1203155516/

 

EVERY STREAMER IS AN ISLAND

Twitch removes host mode

https://www.polygon.com/23341398/twitch-remove-host-mode-autohost-suggested-channel-raid

https://twitter.com/Class/status/1567221255438307330

https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/how-to-use-host-mode?language=en_US#faq  

 

WE KNOW NOT WHAT WE’VE WROUGHT

creepy Loab woman shows up in AI art negative prompts

https://www.ign.com/articles/loab-first-ai-art-cryptid

https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5vjw3/why-does-this-horrifying-woman-keep-appearing-in-ai-generated-images

https://twitter.com/supercomposite/status/1567162288087470081

 

THE SYSTEM IS DOWN

NFT gaming evangelist suggests enlisting poor people as real-life NPCs in games

https://www.thegamer.com/nft-consultant-developing-countries-npcs/

https://restofworld.org/2022/minecraft-nft-ban-critterz/

WolvesDAO https://twitter.com/wolvesdao

https://lmg.gg/wycZi