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Hello everyone, on the seventh chapter of the Techy Sum, volume 1 number 7, here’s the news that you’ve been looking for:
📱Tech news💻:
- [Rumor] Apple plan to debut next iPad Pro, slated for the holiday release this year, with hybrid OLED. By combining rigid glass OLED substrates panel with thin-film encapsulation of flexible OLED panel, it should produce warpless, clean flexible OLED screen.
- AMD now bundles Ryzen 5000 “Zen 3” series with free game: Uncharted: Legacy of Thieve’s Collection. This move also consistent with the effort to clear up any inventory of the AMD’s yesteryear pre-AM5 CPU too, to concentrate their effort with AM5-based CPU, DDR5 RAM and PCIe 5.0.
- BMW will offer AirConsole’s phone app, free with ads/$2 per month subscription-based services to play with on their BMW car with local multiplayer mode, next year.
- KillNet, a pro-Russian hacktivist that supports Russia invasion of Ukraine, were targeting U.S. airport with DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service; using infected botnet computer that acts upon C2 command) on U.S. airports, such as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD), Orlando International Airport (MCO), Denver International Airport (DIA), Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) and other high-traffic terminals in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Hawaii. This causes inconvenieces of accessing airline’s website, flight updates, and booking services, although did not ground any flight schedule.
- [Rumor] According to Display Supply Chain Consultants (DSCC) analyst, Ross Young, he believed that Apple’s next iPhone SE will be 6.1-inch screen size with notch, similar to iPhone X series form factor. Currently, it’s unknown whether Apple will keep the TouchID or moving on with FaceID.
- Google unveiled OpenXLA Project, a tech consortium that aims to standardise AI/ML (artificial intelligence/machine learning) tools and provides bridges between the tool. This initiative were quite similar with Intel’s OneAPI effort.
- Some people thought that the driver-assisted tool for electric cars were actually fully automated. This kind of dangerous misconception were unveiled by a publication from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a non-profit organization funded by auto insurance companies.
- [Rumor] Nvidia’s AD102 GPU core were saved for RTX 4090 Ti, features 18,176 CUDA cores, 92MB L2 cache and 24GB VRAM (video RAM) GDDR6X memory at 24 Gbps, maximum bandwidth of 1.1 TB/s. It can boost to 2.75Ghz (2.95GHz gaming clock), using 475W of TDP. Theoretical performance were around 10–20% above 4090, according to XpeaGPU.
- Intel Arc A750 and A770 Limited Edition (actually not, but still a cool name though) GPU were now available in France for €440/€380 (VAT tax included).
- Samsung’s Ukrainian branch office for research & development (R&D) were targeted by Russian cruise missile strike on Monday, but barely hit the building, and no one were hurted, on Monday attack’s after Kerch bridge, linking Crimea to mainland Russia, were bombed two days prior.
- Intel Arc Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3490 and Nvidia Geforce 522.25 WHQL Drivers are here. Check the update log to know more if you’re using any Intel Arc and/or Nvidia Geforce GPU.
- Toyota’s access key (through GitHub repository) toward their database were left exposed for 5 years due to subcontractor’s mistake, but fortunately, no hacker were utilizing that so far.
- Intel Arc A750 and A770 were bundled with four games: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Gotham Knights, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed and The Settlers.
- Edmonton Police Service in Alberta, Canada, created an AI faceshot depiction of the suspect based on limited DNA evidence using an AI tool called Snapshot. Public were outrage of it, and they’ve since retracted such a post.
- Google will allow select customers from 2023 to pay their services using cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Dogecoin, USD Coin and USD Tether) with Coinbase Commerce.
- Google is pushing the idea of passwordless, “QR code-like” sign in method for Android and Chrome browser.
- Intel considers to layoff 20% of it’s sales and marketing staff out of total of 113,700 staff as of July this year, cited that the global economy currently not in a good shape, as it heading towards recession. It might save Intel 10–15% of it’s fixed operation cost.
- TSMC aren’t worried regarding China’s plan to invade Taiwan, cited that China “won’t able to lay golden egg” in case TSMC’s plant were taken over by China.
- GALAX Brazil OC team overclocked Nvidia Geforce RTX 4090 using liquid nitrogen, were able to shatters five world record with 3.45GHz of GPU clock.
- [Rumor] AMD Ryzen 7000 series vs Intel Raptor Lake 13000 series benchmark were shown by a Twitter hardware leaker user, 9550pro.
🎮Video game news🎯:
- GameXplain made a graphics comparison video of No More Heroes 3 between PS5 and Nintendo Switch. The result: PS5 has better graphics, lighting, huge LOD (level of detail) and texture quality compared to Switch. Even then, having it run on Switch and able to play it portably is equally good for gamers, too.
- Iron Man 3 and Among Us VR (slated for November 3 & 10, respectively), Behemoth (coming soon in 2023), Xbox Cloud Gaming app, Meta’s gaming studio acquisition of Camourflaj, Armature Studio and Twisted Pixel Games, and $1.5k Quest Pro were announced on Meta Connect 2022 event.
- Blizzard (well, if you know, you know) accidentally relocked 12 Overwatch 2 heroes of Doomfist, Sigma, Wrecking Ball, Ashe, Echo, Mei, Sombra, Symmetra, Zenyatta, Kiriko, Baptiste, and Brigitte, in a move to actually fixing overbuffed attribute heroes of Torbjörn and Bastion.
- Mortal Kombat+, a fan-made project that aims to improve and fix bugs that never being squashed out by Midway from the trilogy (Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3) game series.
- Support for Nvidia’s DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) 3 tech will be added on five games: Justice ’Fuyun Court’, Loopmancer, Microsoft Flight Simulator, A Plague Tale: Requiem and F1 22.
- Video games mod to try out: Cyberpunk 2077’s Wannabe Edgerunner mod.
- EA informed in a tweet post that you can turn off any comicbook-like effect within the Need for Speed Unbound’s game setting.
- Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier, a royale battle game made by Square Enix, will be fully closed on 11 January 2023.
- DON’T NOD, a Paris-based game company (known for Life is Strange), outlined in a new outlook that they will release at least eight games between 2023 to 2025.
- JusDax, a Redditor, posted in r/Nvidia that by bypassing VRAM overhead of DLSS 3 for Cyberpunk 2077 with a simple file tweak, that user managed to get 80FPS on RTX 2070, at 1440p resolution.
🚀Space news🌌:
- Japanese Epsilon rocket, a fully solid-fueled three-stage rocket, failed on it’s sixth mission on Wednesday (00:50 GMT, 09:50 JST) for the first launch of 2022 due to stage three of the rocket failed to ignite on the flight mission. It was supposed to carry RAISE (Rapid Innovative payload demonstration Satellite 3), a 240-pound (110 kilograms) craft packed with seven technology-testing payloads: two experimental thrusters, one of which was designed to use water as fuel; a satellite-deorbiting “drag sail”; a deployable power-generating membrane structure that can also serve as an antenna; telecom tech; a high-speed software receiver; and a commercial graphics processing unit (GPU).
- NASA’s DART mission, which impacted Dimorphos at velocity of 14,760 mph (23,760 kph), altered it’s orbital time surrounding Didymos from 11 hours 55 minutes to 11 hours 23 minutes (shorten by 32 minutes) and the orbital shape. European Space Agency (ESA) will visit both of the asteroid with follow-up Hera mission in 2024.
- Three Chinese taikonaut from Shenzou 14 mission teach the students from Tiangong space station for their first lecture of the station, third lectures overall of China Space Station program.
- Europe’s Sentinel-2, a part of Copernicus earth observation satellite, captured pictures of Italy’s Mount Stromboli eruption that occurred on 9 October this year, five hours after the eruption.
- Cosmicflow-4 galaxy mapping catalogue were made available for the researcher and astronomer, around 56,000 galaxies available in the catalogue.
- Andrew McCarthy, an astrophotographer, captured a 1 million mile (1.6 million kilometers) long of CME (coronal mass ejection) of the sun on 24 September 2022.
- Researcher published stunning images of Europa and Ganymede, both a Jovian (Jupiter) moon, captured from the surface of Earth. It will support future space mission of ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE; also will visit Callisto and the Jupiter) and NASA’s Europa Clipper mission.
- Sun picked up more activities, with AR3112 sunspot region produced an M2.4 flare at 16:20 UTC on October 10, and AR3116 produced an M3.9 at 08:40 UTC on October 11. R1 radio blackout were reported over Indonesia and Africa.
- Dennis Tito, a space tourist and billionaire businessman, and his wife, Akiko, will be flying aboarding SpaceX’s Starship on a ride to the moon, at minimum altitude of 40 km above the moon surface.
- Researcher propose ideas on how to detect alien life using SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)’s telescope. Among of it is by observing any lurking spacecraft outside the realm of human-made, and observes if any such space machinery were used in any planet/star for mining purposes.
- Russia launches fifth GLONASS-K satellite series, named Kosmos-2559, on 10 October 2022, at 02:52 GMT or 05:52 Moscow time) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russia, using Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat rocket.
- NASA’s Perseverance rover having a hard time to properly seal off her recent 14th collected rock sample, which in the meantime, she stored it on her caching assembly.
- Vredevort asteroid turns out to be twice the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaur millions of years ago, a new research found out.
- Bizarre, wobbly star ring of WR140 star turns out containing organic, carbon-rich star dust, that were also one of the building block element for life on earth.
- Scientist have modeled the lava world with 16 different types that any researcher can use whenever hunting for any alien planets with James Webb Space Telescope.
That’s all I’ve got for you this time! It’s a mouthful of information, but you should be able to digest this news, as you have more or less 24 hours to process the information. I’ll be back with more news for you tomorrow. Take care and have a good day! Peace~
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