Techy Sum: Daily News (11 October 2022)

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4 min readOct 12, 2022

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Hello everyone, on the sixth chapter of the Techy Sum, volume 1 number 6, here’s the news that you’ve been looking for:

📱Tech news💻:

- Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 graphics card review is out. Learn more about the architecture here. Here’s the review from TechPowerUp, TechSpot, Tom’s Hardware, VideoCardz, WCCFTech, and HardwareTimes.

- RTX 4090 seems to be capable of 3.3GHz GPU overclock of PUBG’s benchmark gaming, according to Twitter user, wxnod.

- Tech market analysis, Trendforce, predicts that at least two rounds of price cut for SSD can happen for SSD in mid-2023 due to weak consumer demand.

- On Twitchcon, Intel unveiled NUC 13 Extreme Raptor Canyon, a quite sizable PC form factor (fit enough for three slots of graphics cards), yet compact and pretty easy to assemble and disassemble PC parts.

- Tum Apisak, a well-known Twitter hardware leaker, spotted a budget Intel CPU of i3–13100 through CPU-Z database.

- TSMC will still carry on with it’s R&D expenditure of process node despite most tech companies cut their chip output. Qualcomm (known for Snapdragon chip) and Mediatek (known for budget and premium chip, Dimensity) chip order arrangement might boost TSMC chip sale at some point.

- MSI enables their AM5 board to overclock AMD Ryzen 7000’s iGPU and to turn off/on AVX features of the CPU.

- Gboard beta v12.3 features much user-friendly keyboard for tablet user. Expect the updates to trickle by for weeks to come.

- [Rumor] Google’s Tensor 2 and Samsung’s Exynos 5300 5G modem chip will be manufactured with FinFET’s 4 nm process node.

- Interestingly, Windows 95 were optimised for SimCity’s buggy read-memory-after-free-them, and Windows NT (first introduced on Windows ME) were telling Final Fantasy 7 that it ran on Windows 95, according to Joel Spolsky, a podcaster and a retired game programmer.

- Callback phishing essentially tricks the user with bogus payment invoice to install malware on their computer, by clicking on the provided link. Be careful and stay vigilant, users.

- Mediatek announced Dimensity 1080, a budget SoC for affordable 5G phones.

- ASRock and Gunnir will launches custom Intel Arc A7xx series GPU card tomorrow. Look out for that if you’re interested in Intel GPU lineup.

- Due to Microsoft’s stringent Windows 11 specs, only 57% of surveyed PC workstations met the requirement for Windows 11.

- China semiconductor output fell by 24.7% year-on-year from August 2021 to August 2022, also due to U.S. tech restrictions.

- Chetu, a U.S.-based company, were ordered to pay a Netherland-based workers a sum of $19,995, plus a $50,000 fine for violating remote worker’s right to not constantly open up webcam 8–9 hours a day.

- ComputerBase overclocked RTX 4090 card’s GPU clock to 3.15GHz, making it able to reach 100 TFLOPS (teraflops per second) on AIDA64’s GPGPU (general purpose GPU) single precision compute test.

- QUARTZ (QUantitative Analysis of Retinal vessels Topology and siZe), an AI tool designed to detect retina’s blood clot size and width that can predict any heart disease risk under 60 seconds.

🎮Video game news🎯:

- Free Monster Hunter collab DLC will be on shelve for Sonic Frontier on 14 November 2022.

- [Leaked] Ark 2, a sequel of Ark: Survival Evolved, will remain on Xbox Game Pass for three years after it launches sometime in 2023.

- MST Financial analyst, David Gibson, shares new data of U.S. consoles import for Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony. Overall, the trio had a pretty good time of it (Sony’s data looks regressed due to change of transportation method from sea freight to air freight).

- An unknown insider told Insider Gaming that Sony aimed for 30 million PS5 consoles shipment for Sony’s Financial Year 2023 (FY23).

- Games mod to try out: MassiHancer’s RT direct illumination mod for Watch Dogs Legion, Elden Ring’s Shattered mod, and TES: Oblivion’s Domino’s pizza order mod.

- New games to keep an eye for: Choo-Choo Charles, Persona 3 Portable (PC release), Veteran: Sharpshooter, and New Blood.

- Square Enix Montreal were rebranded to Studio Onoma after Embracer Group’s end of August $300 million purchase.

- Microsoft reveals their earning on Game Pass for 2021, earned $2.9 billion out of $12.581 billion of Microsoft’s Games and Services sale.

🚀Space news🌌:

- Here’s the tips from Space.com on how to prepare for total lunar eclipse this year on 8 November 2022.

- Nanoracks and Paihau-Robinson Research Institute will test out applied-field magneto plasma dynamic (AF-MPD) electric thruster using high temperature superconducting (HTS; operable at −321.1 degrees F (−196.2 degrees C).

- U.S. Space Force’s Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) now deployed in Australia, after years of testing on New Mexico’s White Sands Missile Range. It will detect any faint space debris, newly-launched satellites and rockets (detectable up to geostationary earth orbit), and capable of astronomy observation too.

- Hubble Space Telescope shows ‘fan-like spray’ of gas and dust surrounding young star of IRAS 05506+2414, located on Taurus constellation, with the center of it reaches 220 miles per second (350 kilometers per second).

- Astronomer’s guide of using James Webb Space Telescope to hunt around any planets, stars, galaxies, nebula, to name a few.

That’s all I’ve got for you this time! I’ve tried my best to shorten the news with things that you (and myself) will care and read for, which would be less hassle to read now. I’ll improve my techniques regarding the tech news curation method, and we’ll be back with more news for you tomorrow. Take care and have a good day! Peace~

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