Hello everyone, on the fifteenth chapter of the Techy Sum, volume 1, here’s the news that you’ve been looking for:
📱Tech news💻:
- Intel Core i9–13900K [1] & 13600K [2] review is here. TechPowerUp [1][2], TechSpot [1], Videocardz [1 & 2], Guru3D [1][2], HotHardware [1 & 2] and HardwareTimes [1] has the detail that you need to determine whether top-performer 13th Intel Core series worth your money or not for your gaming need.
- More than 8 years (August 2014) later after AMD FX 8370 CPU broke the CPU clock world record at 8,722.78 MHz, Elmor, an overclocker enthusiast, finally beat the previous record, by overclocking Intel Core i9–13900K to 8,812.85 MHz. It was used along with ASUS Z790 ROG Maximus APEX motherboard and lots of liquid nitrogen for cooling, and now the submission were submitted to HWBOT.
- During Tesla’s earnings call two days ago, Elon Musk addressed the $44 billion in total share price or $54.20 per share Twitter acquisition deal back in April this year. He said that despite they overpaid such a price, he and his shareholder believe in long-term value of the birdy social media. For your information, Musk and Twitter almost agreed to reduce the acquisition price to $40.6 billion in total share price or $50 per share, but the company is said to have made extra demands as part of the discount that Musk’s lawyers wouldn’t agree to.
- [Rumor] Videocardz said that Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X version will be release at some point of time. In the meantime, RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X version will features the same GA104–202 GPU die from regular RTX 3060 Ti, and increase of 19 Gbps (gigabits per seconds) bandwidth VRAM (video RAM), from 14 Gbps bandwidth VRAM of regular RTX 3060 Ti. RTX 3060 Ti GDDR6X features 7% performance increase over regular RTX 3060 Ti, tested using 3DMark benchmark.
- Although still too early to know every claim of ProLogium’s 100% silicon anode solid-state battery, it has one good thing there: it has 295–330 Wh/Kg of energy density, better than Tesla’s 4680 battery of sub-300Wh/Kg of energy density & CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited) M3P phosphate-powered battery of 160 Wh/Kg of energy density.
- Google Messages added new features of it’s RCS (Rich Communication Services) system: let users react to messages using emoji reaction, Reminders (will send you notices on days you might have an important event going on), YouTube integration (watch YouTube video directly on the app), allow individual responses to specific messages, favorite messages that contain important informations, recognize phrases asking for other forms of communication and will suggest setting up a video call through Meet, and some countries will get an experimental feature allowing instant communication with businesses through Messages when the establishment is found using Google Search or Maps.
- Samsung announces ISOCELL HPX 200-megapixels camera, developed for System LSI customers in China. It features small 0.56 micron pixels, with sensors area reduced by 50%. It can take advantage of the massive 200-megapixel resolution in well-lit areas, and also use pixel binning technology to convert 1.12-micron pixels for 50-megapixel shooting modes in poorer lighting conditions. It can also combine more pixels into one 2.24-micron pixel for a 12.5-megapixel mode in a low-light environment.
- HardwareTimes questions and answers (Q&A) with Nvidia said that Opacity Micromaps (to optimize BVH (boundary volume hierarchy) traversal and intersection and Shader Execution Reordering (SER, RTX 4000 series only; multi-instance ray tracing processor engine) will need to implemented by developer themselves, and DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) 3 will be as easy as plugging in DLSS 2 in a game or software.
- OneRaichi show that the Ryzen 9 7950X is over twice as efficient as its predecessor across various workloads. In heavily multi-threaded workloads emulated by Cinebench R23 (nT), the 7950X matches the 142W Ryzen 9 7950X at a PPT (power point tracking) of only 78W. That’s roughly the same performance at 55% less power. In Geekbench, Ryzen 9 7950X match the 142W’s Ryzen 9 5950X with a PPT of just 64W.
- You can now search nearly 92 million databases of old software from CD-ROMs and floppy disks, contains music, videos, images, software, fonts, screensavers, magazines and loads of adult content. To try it, search for Discmaster, where tech archivist, Jason Scott (also works for Internet Archive, but the organization were not affiliated with the project) hosting the tool, while an anonymous group of history-loving programmers is responsible for 99.999 percent of the project, all the way down to the vintage gray theme used on the site. Meanwhile, if you’re in the mood for old-school operating system, you can try out Windows95, an executable version of Windows 95, built with Electron app.
- Damaged European undersea cables on Wednesday night, at 20:30 UTC, impact internet connectivity worldwide in Europe, Asia, and the United States. Internet cloud security company Zscaler, identified the three broken fiber connection links: Marseille-Lyon, Marseille-Milano, and Marseille-Barcelona. It caused packet loss and a latency increase for websites and applications traversing the impacted paths. Since then, it was fixed pretty quickly too. The BBC also reported that an undersea cable connecting the Shetland Islands to Scotland suffered damage at about the same time as the South France incident. The break left the Shetlands isolated from the rest of the world. The Shetland cut occurred while technicians were still working to restore another cable connecting the Faroe Islands to Shetland that got severed a week ago. Causes of the investigation is yet to be determined.
- IBM Artificial Intelligence Unit (AIU) arrives with 23 billion transistors, manufactured on a 5 nm process node (assuming TSMC’s). The AIU uses Telum’s AI engine, a core of the IBM Z16 mainframe, and scales it up to 32 cores and achieve high efficiency.
- Intel Core i9–13900K takes PassMark’s single-thread crown, at 4,844 points vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X’s 4,335 points. Despite that, AMD’s offering still have a lot of multiple advantages, such as in undervolting power saving solution and better multi-thread performance, as always.
- Apple iPad 10th Gen and Apple TV 4K have more RAM (4GB vs 3GB), newer chip (using A12 Bionic as opposed to the A14 Bionic, which yields 20% CPU improvements and 80% faster AI processing) than their predecessors.
- [Leaked] Xiaomi 13 Pro design, leaked by TechGoing, with three rear-facing (one small, two big) cameras, Leica branding (due to cooperation with them in camera department) and a bright silver colourway of the phone.
- Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra design were leaked by OnLeaks, which looks similar with the current Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
- Due to server misconfiguration of Microsoft ‘s Azure Blob Storage, which makes it viewable to public for a month, some of their transaction data and communications with Microsoft and authorized Microsoft partners might have been exposed in this leak. The detail, containing 2.4 TB of data relating to more than 65,000 companies from 111 countries, exposed files include Proof-of-Execution (PoE) documents, Statement-of-Work (SoW) documents, invoices, product orders, product offers, project details, signed customer documents, Proof-of-Concept (POC) works, customer emails, customer product price list and customer stocks, internal comments for customers, sales strategies, customer asset documents, and partner ecosystem details. These files dated from 2017 to August 2022. SOCRadar website let’s anyone check whether a domain appears in the exposed data, which Microsoft frowned upon due to possibility of leaked data were stored in there, which SOCRadar said they aren’t (only look at metadata only).
- A report from WCCFTech claims that AMD will launch more than one Ryzen 7000X3D CPU this New Year 2023 with increased boost clocks and 3 x L3 cache. The CPU in question are Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Ryzen 9 7900X3D, and Ryzen 9 7950X, slated for reveal in January 2023 at CES (Consumer Electronics Show) event.
- Twitter said that there’s no such plan of mothballing 75% of it’s workforce, despite the rumor that Elon Musk might removes the percentages, leaving less than 2k employees. We will see how this will go over the time.
- Texas sues Google over allegations it captures people’s biometric data without consent, with introduction of the Google Photos Face Grouping feature in 2015, which identifies facial features to recognize a face within a photo and group any pictures or videos that include that person (or pet). Through the Face Grouping process, Google captures and stores sensitive biometric data about Texan users and non-users alike — and Google stores that data for an unreasonable amount of time,” cited from the lawsuit.
- YouTube Premium family plan gets a $5 monthly price hike, now commands $22.99 per month for new subscribers, up from the previous $17.99 rate. Some longstanding Premium subscribers to keep their current rate for a few more months. Select members won’t see the price hike hit their bill until April 2023. The price adjustment will impact users in the US, Canada, Japan, Great Britain, Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey and Argentina.
🎮Video game news🎯:
- Get your new weekly free games from Epic Games Store today! (until October 27, Thursday next week, on 15:00 GMT): Evoland Legendary Edition and Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition.
- GeForce Now cloud gaming now support 8 new titles: A Plague Tale: Requiem, Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef, Commandos 3 — HD Remaster, Monster Outbreak (Steam and Epic Games), Batora — Lost Haven, The Tenants, FAITH: The Unholy Trinity (Steam), and Evoland Legendary Edition (Free on Epic Games, Oct. 20–27)
Supported game titles for mobile and tablet: Fortnite (Epic Games), Genshin Impact (HoYoverse), Trine 2: Complete Story, Slay the Spire, Dota Underlords, Papers, Please, Tabletop Simulator (Steam), andInto the Breach (Steam and Epic Games)
Supported game titles for tablet: March of Empires, Door Kickers, Bridge Constructor Portal, Monster Train, Talisman: Digital Edition (Steam), Shadowrun Returns (Steam and Epic Games), and Magic: The Gathering Arena (Wizards.com and Epic Games)
- In a recent interview by Famitsu, featuring CD Projekt RED’s Japan Country Manager, Satoru Honma (via VideoGamesChronicle translation article), he said that they have no more plan for Cyberpunk: Edgerunner, as the series were intended for one-time ten-episode only. This is despite the show getting a lot of fanfare that people were actually playing Cyberpunk 2077, despite it’s botched launch and lots of bugs back then. Since the patch, the game looks good to play again. What do you think about it? Comment your thought below.
- In a move to not repeat the Street Fighter 5 Beta’s crack fiasco, Capcom decided to remove Street Fighter 6 Beta’s executable file, so people cannot play the beta anymore with a mod that allows any beta tester with keys to continue play the beta on offline mode.
- YouTuber ElAnalistaDeBits made a graphics comparison video of Gotham Knights between PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S. To summarise it: PC version doesn’t have good game optimization at all, consoles do not have 120Hz/40FPS mode (only 30FPS), shadows, reflections and lighting differences aren’t that much (despite fully using ray tracing), only some closed areas does have ray tracing, but not in exteriors (especially puddles), and Xbox Series S does not support ray tracing, while PlayStation 5 & Xbox Series X does. Still, the game is really good to play, though. Give it some try.
- In a response to a tweet from Jeff Gerstmann regarding Xbox Series S holding back gaming performance, VFX Artist for Bossa Studios Ian Maclure revealed that the reason why we are hearing this so much lately is that many developers have been trying for the past year to get the Xbox Series S launch requirements dropped, adding that the console has been a pain of production in the previous development cycle and developers do not want to repeat the process over and over. Few days ago, Rocksteady Senior Character Technical Artist Lee Devonald also commented on the console that the entire generation of games will be hamstrung by a potato console performer.
- Microsoft releases Xbox Design Lab Series 2 Core controller, a colourful, yet highly customisable controller. It is available for £125 ($150), while adding the Elite package costed £175 ($207). Custom engraving costed £8 ($10). The Xbox Design Lab is open to orders from “the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, most Western European countries, and select Southeast Asian countries,” cited Microsoft.
- [Rumor] According to Jeff Grubb from GiantBomb, Electronics Art (EA) might prepared for a shorter marketing for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on December this year.
- Resident Evil 4 Remake PC requirements are exactly the same of Resident Evil Village, after cross-checked by WCCFTech. Rest assured your graphics card can handle it if you do have capable graphics card in the first hand.
- According to reliable Silent Hill insider, Dusk Golem, Silent Hill F, which Konami announced as “completely new story set in 1960’s Japan”, written by the main mind behind the cult visual novel Higurashi When They Cry and other “When They Cry” titles, said that it is not Silent Hill Sakura/The Short Message, although they are somewhat connected in some way.
- God of War Ragnarök turns out to be bigger in scope of storyline than previously envisioned due to ending of the Norse saga is here, as opposed to making it a trilogy. This information are confirmed by Story Lead, Rich Gaubery & Senior Producer, Ariel Angelotti. With that, the size is going to be pretty big, with PS4 version consumes 118.5GB of your hard drive, while the PS5 version is a bit lighter at 100GB. Digital pre-loads will be available on November 2 this year.
- Xbox October update arrived with much-awaited quality-of-life improvements, such as change your TV volume — new CEC feature for Xbox Series X|S, mute your startup audio, select or change your home Xbox, changes to Xbox power mode names, Xbox passkeys and guest keys are now Xbox PINs, Xbox controller firmware update, Xbox app — trim the length of your video clips, Xbox Game Bar — share to Medal.tv and edit your clips, and firmware support for Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2, Xbox Series X|S Wireless Controllers, Xbox Adaptive Controllers and Xbox One Wireless Controllers with Bluetooth support.
- Resident Evil 4 Remake is ‘about the same’ length as original, says Capcom’s Hiroyuki Kobayashi in an interview with PC Gamer on Tuesday, taking note from Resident Evil 3 Remake’s criticism.
- Watch out for the new games: Exocide & Frog Detective 3: Corruption at Cowboy County (release on 27 October 2022 on Steam), and try out this game: The Vampire Survivors.
- To convince the U.K.’s CMA (Competition and Markets Authority) to let Microsoft acquires Activision Blizzard for $68 million, Microsoft reveals in a new regulatory filing that by allowing the deal to pass through, Microsoft might allow the app store to be much open, instead of letting Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store dominate the mobile app space. How effective is this tactic is yet to be known.
- In the meantime, Microsoft’s latest Activision acquisition defense: What if Call of Duty sucked?, apparently didn’t convinced the CMA, cited that “persistent high revenues and player engagement” even when individual titles fail to meet expectations, and that “gamers who did not like Vanguard most likely continued to play older CoD titles rather than switch away to a different game”. In response to that, Microsoft cited Activision’s 10Q filing (opens in new tab) for the quarter ended June 30, 2022, which showed an across-the-board decline in Call of Duty in the months following Vanguard’s release: “Average MAUs [monthly active users] decreased by 47 million or 12% for the three months ended June 30, 2022, as compared to the three months ended June 30, 2021 … primarily due to lower average MAUs for Activision, driven by the Call of Duty franchise”.
- Also, Microsoft in a response to CMA admitted that consumers are not ready with cloud gaming (read: a solution nobody asked or even bother with, more like creating a non-existent problem to non-existent solution, which is why in-home streaming (local game server) might instead be the future that we actually sought of), cited that the technology is not yet there, and the cloud gaming could benefit from multiple vendors instead.
- Square Enix just shadow-dropped a video trailer for Final Fantasy 16, which provides some great world building and some great summons too.
- [Rumor] Sources told Insider Gaming this week that Bungie Software is planning the first new entry in its classic Marathon series in over 25 years. The reports describe the new title as an “extraction” shooter, not based on a traditional campaign-based shooter, similar to Battlestate’s Escape from Tarkov or Crytek’s Hunt: Showdown. After selection missions and loadouts, the game will have players hunt for items, complete objectives, and try to escape safely. Similar to Hunt and Tarkov, players lose all their gathered loot if they die before escaping. Extraction-based shooters typically involve player-versus-player-versus-enemy (PvPvE) gameplay, in which players must contend with both human and AI opponents.
🚀Space news🌌:
- LandSpace’s TQ-15A (a vacuum-optimized version of TQ-12; ZQ-2 rocket’s second stage engine) rocket engine runs for 20 seconds successfully on 16 October 2022, without using long nozzle to simulate the thrust in space. It is the largest second stage rocket engine in China, with a total thrust of 836 kilonewtons. It is powered by liquid oxygen (as oxidizer) and liquid methane (as fuel), capable of throttling between 55% and 110% and using TVC (thrust vector control) as control method, up to 4 degrees of angling. LandSpace will also test its long range operations, reliability, quick thrust throttling up or down, cooling, multiple startups, and inlet and outlet pressure. This is the first of a series of test runs that will last for 970 seconds, and it is part of a five test series that will include multiple startups during a single test run.
- Electron rocket booster has arrived in U.S., where the Launch Complex 2 is located at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Wallops Island, Virginia, on 12 October 2022. Rocket Lab are preparing for the first launch outside New Zealand, slated for later this year, which will expected to launch in December and deploy satellites for radio frequency geospatial analytics provider HawkEye 360.
- The second and only remaining operational data recorder (after the first data recorder failure in 2012) aboard NASA’s magnetosphere-observing Geotail spacecraft has failed, potentially will end the mission due to no more data can be use or even observe for magnetospheric research. It was noticed by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) researcher on 28 June 2022, and since then, scientists have been conducting tests to determine the cause and extent of the damage. Attempts to recover the second data recorder have thus far been unsuccessful, and without a working recorder, Geotail can’t collect or download data.
- James Webb Space Telescope still performing better than expected despite glitch from one of it’s instrumentation, Mid-Infrared Instrument, a grating wheel to focus on specific wavelengths of light when conducting medium-resolution spectroscopy, one of MIRI’s four observing modes, where the team members noted friction in the wheel in late August and paused medium-resolution spectroscopy to investigate the issue, and micrometeoroids, where it was striked 33 times, with one serious case happened in late May, leaving its mark on one of the golden hexagon.
- NASA’s NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, orbits about 300 miles (500 kilometers) above Earth, constantly facing the sky and gazing into the universe) showcased an amazing video of time-lapse video, which reveals a decade in the life of the universe.
- Finding from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) dataset of galaxies merger, which are bright quasar and extremely red quasar, known as SDSS J165202.64+172852.3, is about 11.5 billion years old around ‘monster’ black hole, baffles the researcher even more, as not even dark matter alone can explain the process.
- Astronomers have discovered a gas giant planet, TOI-3757 b, with the density of a marshmallow orbiting a cool red dwarf star located 580 light-years from Earth. The Jupiter-like exoplanet is the lowest-density, yet slightly bigger world (a diameter of around 100,000 miles (150,000 kilometers) ever observed orbiting a red dwarf. The planet is so close to its red dwarf parent star that it completes an orbit in just 3.5 Earth days, 25 times quicker than the closest planet to the sun, Mercury, completes an orbit of our star. They propose that the low density of TOI-3757 b is the result of two main factors. The first factor relates to how gas giants begin their formation, with massive rocky cores around 10 times the mass of Earth, which rapidly pull in large amounts of surrounding gas to become Jupiter-like worlds. The team thinks that the lower abundances of heavy elements in the red dwarf star that TOI-3757 b orbits means that the rocky core of this particular exoplanet may have formed more slowly. This would have delayed the accretion of gas to the rocky core with an impact on TOI-3757 b’s overall density after formation. Secondly, the astronomers think that the orbit of TOI-3757 b is slightly elliptical, like a flattened circle, so there are times when it is closer to its red dwarf parent star. These closest approaches result in excessive heating of the planet which causes its atmosphere to bloat.
- While scientist aren’t surprised with the second tail formation occurred with comet, now they wondered how Dimorphos, a mini asteroid that NASA’s DART hit last month, actually formed the second tail. The second tail developed sometime between October 2 and October 8, the NASA statement said. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has observed the asteroid 18 times since the impact.
- Despite setbacks in getting its new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, off the ground (due to delays of the introduction of a new power unit and delays in testing and in the development of robotic arms that assist on the launch pad during rocket fueling, which adds cost of 600 million euros, in total of 4 billion euros), Europe still has bold dreams about future space transportation, such as reusable rocket stages. Ariane 6 rocket slated to launch on late 2023, if no more delays occur.
- In collaboration with start-up Lunaria One, scientists from the Australian National University (ANU) want to grow plants on the moon by 2025. The Australian Lunar Experiment Promoting Horticulture (ALEPH-1) payload will launch aboard SpaceIL’s Beresheet 2 lander, a project Israel announced shortly after its first moon mission failed in 2020. Some candidate plants, such as an Australian grass called Tripogon loliformis, are known as “resurrection plants.” Plants like this are something like the botanical version of the hardy microscopic “water bear,” or tardigrade: They are able to spring back to life and thrive even after long stretches of dormancy and dehydration. Just add water to revive again. other than just a food source, they might also supply breathable oxygen for astronauts, and some may be used to develop medications that could eventually be manufactured on site without the need to ship from earth.
- The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket to replace Russia’s Soyuz and Proton rocket, for two of its high-profile missions in the next two years, which are the dark-matter-hunting Euclid space telescope and the Hera probe, which will follow up on NASA’s successful DART asteroid mission. Earthcare, on the other hand, will now launch not on a Soyuz but on Vega C, a rocket operated by French company Arianespace that debuted this past July. It is an ESA Earth-observing satellite that will join Europe’s Copernicus program, a constellation of climate-monitoring spacecraft.
- NASA’s Perseverance rovers will drop some collected Mars rock sample on November or December 2022, to ensure the rover’s integrity will still work and now currently preparing for Mars sample return project, slated for 2033, in earliest.
- Using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) instrumentation, researchers are able to reverse engineer the Cas A star’s explosive death, using X-ray polarization vector method to study it. The researcher were surprised with the result, nonetheless.
- With Roscosmos’s collaboration ended with European Space Agency (ESA) due to sanctions and condemnation against Russia invasion of Ukraine, it left ESA no choices but to built their own Mars rover. The European ExoMars rover, named Rosalind Franklin, originally had been slated to launch to the Red Planet atop a Russian Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in September, but alas, it has to start afresh new. ESA’s director of human and robotic exploration, David Parker, confirmed plans to order a brand-new Europe-made entry and descent module for the rover, with the goal to launch to Mars in 2028. In 2030, the rover could touch down in Oxia Planum, an ancient clay-rich basin near Mars’ northern tropics, which was chosen for its past presence of water and abundance of sediments that could harbor precious biomarkers. According to the BBC (opens in new tab), ESA will request 360 million euros to kickstart work on the new landing system, with additional funds likely needed in subsequent years. ESA has already spent some 1.3 billion euro on the ExoMars program, which also includes an orbiter that has been studying Mars’ atmosphere and surface since 2017. ESA will put the plan in front of delegates of its 22 member states at a ministerial conference in November this year, whether they agree to go ahead with the new plan.
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