Hello everyone, on the 21th chapter of the Techy Sum newsletter, volume 1, here’s the news that you’ve been looking for:
📱Tech news💻:
- Ivan Kuleshov, aka Merocle, has deliddled (removed the integrated heat spreader) a Raspberry Pi Compute Module (CM) 4 and managed to overclock it to reach a maximum speed of 2.5 GHz. He also managed to maintain a good degree of performance stability, by keeping the temperature under 6 degrees Celsius (42 degrees Fahrenheit).
- PCGamer reached out to Noctua to ask regarding reason to not add some salt into thermal paste solution, in response to TikToker Mryeester’s salt plus thermal paste solution. The answers: 1. The thermal conductivity of salt is much lower than traditional filler materials such as aluminum oxide or other metal oxides, 2. Salt particles keep the cooler from making good contact with the CPU, so that thermal performance will be poor due to poor contact. And 3. There’s a high risk of corrosion issues due to salt introduction.
- Looks like cases of melting 16-pin power connector of Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 were no longer become isolated case anymore. Meanwhile, Hassan Mujtaba of WCCFTech on Twitter posted some images that apparently originate with graphics card manufacturer GALAX of that company’s testing with the 12VHPWR connector. A poor connection (such as from insufficient insertion force) can cause the connector to get very hot very quickly. This is due to uneven transfer of current across the pins, and was an issue mentioned by PCI-SIG. Igor’s Lab dug a bit deeper and cutting open one of the adapters. It looks like the real culprit might be terrible build quality on the adapters themselves, with several photos reveals extremely shoddy soldering and easily-broken connections inside the GPU-side connector.
- A 34 years old resident of London, England, Daniel Kaye, was called before a grand jury to answer for nine federal charges. Kaye is accused of operating an online marketplace, The Real Deal (only accessible on Tor network), where cybercriminals bought and sold stolen information and illicit items, such as information for US government computers, social media accounts, and bank accounts, as well as credit card information, personally identifying information, illegal drugs, botnet rentals, and hacking tools.
- Seagate on Thursday announced plans to cut down its hard drive production and reduce its workforce by 3,000 people due to significantly lower demand for HDDs that it faced in the first quarter of its fiscal 2023. Seagate is also facing charges for shipping hard drives to Huawei. Despite that, they also are on track to deliver its first 30TB hard drives featuring its heat assisted magnetic recording technology in 2023.
- Intel has announced its financial results for its third quarter of fiscal 2023, back to profitability after earning $15.3 billion in revenue, down 20% year-over-year. Almost Intel groups are profitable, but DCAI (Datacenter and AI Group; earned $4.2 billion revenue (down 27% YoY) and earned zero operating income) and FS (Foundry Services; revenue of $171 million was essentially flat, with $174 million in Q3 2021, losses deepened to $103 million) group.
- Intel tapes out first 2nm and 1.8nm chips, 4nm (planned for the 14th Gen Meteor Lake processors in the coming months) production planned for Q2 2023, while 3nm (only for Intel Xeon CPU server) planned for Q1 2024.
- AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D selling more (1,400 units) than the Intel 13th Gen (500 units) and 12th Gen CPUs (400++ units) combined in Germany, according to TechEpiphany using Mindfactory sources.
- [Rumour] According to hardware leaker Greymon55, AMD RDNA3 architecture launch is now expected in December, while unveiling date remain unchanged.
- MSI and Gigabyte revealed their RTX 4080 GPU lineup. What do you think of it? Leave your comment down below.
- [Leaked] “Vapourware” GeForce RTX 4080 12GB ties with 3090 Ti in alleged 3DMark tests, spotted by Panzerlied.
- A team of scientists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland developed dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), which are cheap, transparent, flexible, and able to generate energy for any windows.
- Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a material (by creating chains of molecules comprised of sulfur, carbon and hydrogen interspersed with nickel atoms at regular intervals) that can be made like a plastic but exhibits electrical conductivity properties commonly associated with a metal. It was also extremely stable, able to withstand being subjected to heat, cold, air, humidity and even acid without incident. The material is a dark powder that becomes iridescent and shiny when put on a surface as a film or pressed like Play-Doh, and also stable up to about 250 degrees Celsius (482 degrees Fahrenheit).
- According to a new study by UK-based price comparison service and switching website Uswitch, one in six users feel 5G connectivity is overhyped and have failed to notice any speed or reliability improvements since upgrading, mainly due to rural area’s sparse 5G coverage.
- Trends show storage upgrade opt-in dwindling due to expensive cost (screw you phone manufacturer for disabling expandable micro SD storage for flagship phone!) as mobile game makers will soon be facing a storage war as Sony and Microsoft begin plans to bring triple-A titles to phones and tablets.
- Xiaomi launches Redmi Note 12 series [1][2][3][4], each with some features that are unique to that particular smartphone.
- [Leaked] While the Realme 9 series emerge in early 2022, its next generation, Realme 10 series, might debut in November 2022. Realme International Business Group president, Madhav Sheth, has backed an initial teaser tweet up with one including an overt 10-series hashtag. The “3 major leap-forward technologies” are “Performance, Design & Display”. While most of it are hard to guess, but the second tech, display, apparently is an updated rear panel. (It stands to add flat edges to their new look, according to previous leaks.)
- OnePlus Nord 2T 5G, Nord CE 2 Lite 5G, Nore CE 2 5G, Nord 2 5G and Nord CE 5G are among the next in line for OxygenOS 13 (based on Android 13) betas.
- [Rumour] Ice Universe, a prominent smartphone leaker, said that Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra could still deliver excellent camera performance with Sony IMX989 sensor, in spite of its reported technical inferiority to other sensors.
- Tesla allows local Radio Traffic Announcements (RTA) to announce traffic jams, accidents and road closures ahead, which would interrupt your music, podcast, or audiobook playback, according image of the unannounced feature unearthed in the latest 2022.40.1 software update.
- The European Parliament agreed to stop sales of new gas-powered cars and vans by 2035, including hybrids.
- Facebook parent company Meta has seen $65 billion wiped off its market value as profits halved during the last quarter and it continues to pour money into projects many have little faith in. The company’s declining value, which is down $520 billion over the last year, has left it at risk of losing its status as one of the top 20 biggest US firms.
- Elon Musk finally takes control of Twitter after completing the $44 billion deal, which mean that he fires CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Parag Agrawal (Elon Musk now hold the CEO position), and other execs, such as CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Ned Segal, Twitter’s head of legal, policy, and trust, Vijaya Gadde, and general counsel, Sean Edgett, who has been at the company for a decade. Musk claimed he wanted to make Twitter a bastion of free speech by reducing moderation, a claim that worried Bill Gates, but he has assured advertisers that it won’t become a “free-for-all hellscape, where anything can be said without consequences”, and already promised to overturn Twitter’s permanent ban on Donald Trump. Following his official takeover, Musk tweeted, “the bird is free,” a few hours ago. He also changed his bio to “chief twit.”
🎮Video game news🎯:
- Moonbreaker, the next project from Subnautica devs Unknown Worlds, got its first content patch today for the early access game. In response to community feedback, they decided to “completely overhauled the business model” of the game to remove all monetisation and in-game purchases. Let’s hope that they will stay it that way and let us gamer enjoy the game without egregious business model.
- Try this mod for your gaming experience: Alien Isolation’s more aliens and enemies.
- Gotham Knights’ first big patch removes Denuvo DRM (digital right management; a controversial anti-piracy software that are hated by most legit-purchased consumers), and fixes some stuff and there, but no yet any performance improvement, which will be the next priority.
- Rieko Kodama, the legendary Sega developer, known as Phoenix Rie, has died at 58, confirmed by Sega producer, Yosuke Okunari. Her cause of death has not been specified.
- Steam Deck’s new UI is finally coming to desktop Big Picture mode, after years of incremental updates.
- YouTuber and developer, ThrillDaWill, finally released a free game: Lego Fallout (stylized as “L3GO Fallout”), combining Lego and Fallout.
- Bungie responds to player complaints over weapon crafting grind, in which ‘red box’ drops will become less common, but new ways to earn materials should ease the tedium of leveling up guns.
- Nvidia has a limited-time offer for six months of “Priority” access to GeForce Now, its cloud gaming service, for only $30, $20 off its usual price of $50. The monthly plan for Priority is still $10. Priority allows streaming up to 1080p at 60 fps and RTX features like ray-tracing.
- Marvel’s Midnight Suns is getting Deadpool, Venom, and more as DLC, in addition of Storm from X-Men and Dr. Michael Morbius, the Living Vampire. Each have additional story content, base upgrades, and cosmetic skins. The first DLC, featuring Mr. Pool, is set to release in “early 2023,” not too long after Midnight Suns’ December 2 release date. According to 2K’s announcement, Venom is already a boss in Midnight Suns’ campaign. 2K didn’t reveal pricing for the season pass, but it will be included as part of Midnight Suns’ $100 “Legendary Edition.” That puts us in the ballpark of $40 for the DLC pass on its own, or $10 a character.
- Xbox boss Phil Spencer confirmed that price increases are coming, likely in early 2023, for the consoles and some Xbox product. The good news is that there is still plenty of time to buy an Xbox before the hike, so grab one if you do have a plan for getting Xbox Series X or S.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II disc contains just 70MB of data (according to “Does it play?” finding), requiring 150GB download instead. Oh well, Activision being Activision again.
- F1 2022 gets DLSS 3, Sackboy: A Big Adventure gets DLSS 2, and Warhammer 40,000 free with every purchase of RTX GPUs. In the meantime, Nvidia also released Nvidia GeForce 526.47 WHQL driver, which also supports 3060 Ti GDDR6X and 3060 8GB.
- Intel Arc Graphics Driver 31.0.101.3793 also fixes slower memory issue on Arc A770 16GB GPUs, now getting GPU memory clock of 17.5Gbps (gigabits per second) instead of 16Gbps, and memory bandwidth of 560GB/s (gigabytes per second) instead of 512GB/s. Get the update here if you are using Intel Arc GPU.
🚀Space news🌌:
- Space.com explained why Falcon Heavy (FH) rocket wasn’t frequently launch as Falcon 9 (F9) rocket: it’s due to the cost saving by going with F9 rocket, and FH were too powerful for client’s need. At this point, FH rocket will mostly favored by U.S. government bodies such as NASA and NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) due to cheaper cost per mission requirement than Delta IV Heavy (will be retired in 2 years timeline anyway in 2024), and easily available rocket part for U.S. government to source with. In the meantime, SpaceX completed Falcon Heavy rocket engine static fire for USSF-44 mission for Tuesday (November 1) launch.
- SpaceX recently completed the launch of 53 Starlink v1.0 (Starlink-65/Starlink 4–31 group) satellite on Thursday (October 27, 21:14 EDT, 18:14 local California time; 01:14 GMT on October 28) from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1063) landed back to Earth and made a pinpoint landing a little less than nine minutes after launch on the SpaceX droneship Of Course I Still Love You, stationed in the Pacific Ocean. The first stage booster previously supported seven missions: Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, NASA’s DART, and five Starlink missions. The Falcon 9’s upper stage, continued on its way to low Earth orbit, eventually deploying the 53 Starlinks 15 minutes and 30 seconds after launch as planned.
- The sun appears very ‘happy’ today in NASA’s latest Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) images. But don’t be fooled by its appearance — it is spewing vast streams of solar wind that could trigger a solar storm on Earth, albeit a rather mild one. Earth is currently in the firing line of the trio of solar wind streams in the next few days. In response, NOAA’s National Weather Service has issued a G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm (has the potential to cause minor fluctuations in power grids and increase auroral activity at the poles) watch for Saturday (October 29).
- Watch out for total lunar eclipse (Blood Moon edition) on 8 November 2022. Look at this map to see whether your place can look for the event, and plan your time ahead so you don’t miss it.
- NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander detected seismic waves from a noticeable meteoroid impact on Christmas Eve (December 24) 2021. Not long after that, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)’s HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) has photographed the crater, showing the aftermath of the site. The researcher were quite lucky with the finding, especially knowing that the event were quite rare on Mars.
- Magma may still active on Mars today, a new study based on observations by NASA’s InSight Mars lander suggests. Researchers have been finding more and more clues that Martian volcanic activity extended into the recent past, and perhaps has even continued to the present day.
- Scientists, using data from Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, the only two spacecraft to exit the heliosphere thus far, have discovered something strange occurring at the edge of the solar system: The heliopause — the boundary between the heliosphere (the bubble of solar wind encompassing the solar system) and the interstellar medium (the material between the stars) appears to be rippling and creating oblique angles in an unexpected manner. More research satellite from NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite, needed to fully understand this interact. Set for 2024 launch, It will studies the emissions of energetic neutral atoms (ENAs) that are created when solar winds and the interstellar medium interact.
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