Hello everyone, on the sixteenth chapter of the Techy Sum, volume 1, here’s the news that you’ve been looking for:
📱Tech news💻:
- AMD Adrenalin 22.10.2 WHQL (official tested driver) are finally out. There’s slew of fixes that have been implemented, that are: Radeon Super Resolution will now trigger after screen resolution or HDR settings change in Nioh 2, V-Sync being set globally to always-off no longer causing system stuttering or driver timeouts during video playback on the RX 6000-series GPUs, no more driver timeout noticed during HEVC video encoding on RX 6000-series GPUs, no more video playback dropped frame on Chromium web-browsers with hardware-accelerated video, Chromium-based browsers no longer experiencing video stuttering on extended monitors and mixed refresh rates, no more bouncy or wobbly Oculus dashboard menu, and no colours were inverted when previewing the timeline in Vegas Pro. Get the official driver from AMD (via TechPowerUp) here.
- Gigabyte now enable instant automatic 6GHz overclock on it’s motherboard via BIOS/UEFI menu for Intel Core i9–13900K for effortless overclocking experience.
- Tech enthusiast apparently noticed that Asus has updated their website to include Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti (8GB VRAM, 608GB/s, 2 x 8-pin power connector) GDDR6X version. This is part of Nvidia strategy to load off excessive stock of Ampere GPU to any customer that are interested with gaming PC side.
- Microsoft releases PC Manager beta, a competitor software/app to CCleaner and Wise Disk Cleaner, to anyone that are interested with new stuff from Microsoft. The features aren’t as extensive as those software/app, but should do some job to clean up your PC. It is first appeared on Chinese version of the Microsoft Store.
- Adobe showcased their tech on MAX conference with this three experimental techs: Project Clever Composites (making image composition easier to blend in with something), Project Vector Edge (smooth around edges around cropped image and using context awareness to place in the cropped image on something else), and Project All of Me (uncrop images by generating new scenery, and generate new clothes or background by marking it against the subject). It is all done with Adobe’s Sensei AI tech.
- Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) from Copenhagen, Denmark, were able to achieved 1.84 Pbps (petabits per second; 230TB/s (terabytes per second)) of data transmission with a single silicon nitride photonic chip (or “chip-scale light source”) connected to a 37-core fiber optic cable, over a distance of 7.9 kilometers. The data stream into 37 sections, one for each core of the fiber-optic cable; each one of these channels was split into 223 data chunks represented by different frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum through a “frequency comb” without interference.
- GM (General Motors) announces $107,000 all-electric 2024 Sierra Denali Edition 1, which can do 40 minutes of fast-charging that are drivable up to 400 miles (643.74 km), compatible with 800-volt DC public fast charging systems. It generates 754 horsepower and 785 lb-ft (1,168.21 kg-m) of torque in Max Power mode, from zero to 60 mph (96.56 kmh) in less than 4.5 seconds. Max towing capacity is up to 9,500 pounds (4,309.13 kilograms).
- [Rumour] According to hardware leaker @momomo_us, Intel is working on Core i9–13900HK and i7–13700H parts for laptops, while i7–13620H and i5–13420H configuration and platform target were remain a mystery.
- Despite EVGA’s recent departure from being an Nvidia AIB (add-in board) partner, EVGA still willing to support RTX 4000 GPU series, with latest Precision X1 v1.3.7.0 released on 21 October 2022 release log stated that it improved compatibility with RTX 4090.
- [Rumour] @momomo_us in a short tweet said that AMD Ryzen 7 7700 CPU, an octa-core 16-thread with 65W of TDP will be release at some point, might replacing 5700X CPU.
- [Rumour/Leaked] According to the ‘GN21 Marketing Name’ slide (leaked by REHWK), NVIDIA will be launching five different RTX 40 mobile SKUs, that are: RTX 4090, RTX 4080 Ti, RTX 4070, RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 406. Meanwhile, Greymon55 in a short tweet said that Radeon RX 7000 (Navi 32) mobile GPU could be as powerful as desktop RX 6950XT and RTX 3090.
- [Rumour] WCCFTech’s source (via NotebookCheck) said that AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT GPU will feature 20GB of VRAM (video RAM), 320-bit, although not a top-performer SKU.
- [Leaked] TEENA (via TechGoing) reveals Realme 10 5G (two rear-facing cameras) & Realme 10 Pro+ (3 rear-facing cameras, with 2 of those crammed side by side into the same lower circle on its back panel) design, with almost similar design of Asus ZenFone 9 or a Nothing phone (1). Both will be equipped with 67W charger.
- Tesla hints at new, remain out-of-reach $3,000 Model Y, with colours selection of Quicksilver and Midnight Cherry Red for U.S. market. Abyss Blue Multicoat colour were found via some MyTesla mobile app code digging, which remains a question if this specific colour were for international market or not.
- Thanks to Samsung’s 200-megapixels ISOCELL HP2 camera sensor, Ice Universe, a notable mobile phone leaker said that Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra nightography will be much better due to less aggressive FWC (Full Well Capacity) to 10,000e- (“e-” = electrons), which determine how pixels respond with light especially after dark. The source also said “RMS, RTN, FPN are significantly optimized”, stands for Root Mean Square, Random Telegraph Noise (can cause flickering pixels), and Fixed-Pattern Noise (occurs in long exposure photography), respectively. Basically, the combination of noise reduction and control is the name of the game here, especially during low-light photography.
- KIOXIA demonstrate Silicon Motion SM8366 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller with 13.6 GB/s read speeds and 3.4 million of random 4K IOPS throughput, which is essential to take advantage of current PCIe 5.0 system to take advantage of DirectStorage’s speedy loading time.
- Samsung and China Telecom launches Galaxy W23 and W23 Flip, with more fancy gold accents, ceramic finishes or both than usual, and also more RAM and storage. W23 Flip packs 12GB of RAM, while W23 replaced the Z Fold4’s normal Gorilla Glass Victus+ rear panel with black ceramic, and from 12GB to 16GB of RAM. Both have storage option of with 512GB. W23 Flip and W23 were priced at 9,999 yuan (US$1,380) and 15,999 yuan (US$2,209) respectively.
- AMD has confirmed that a live webcast titled “together we advance_gaming” will take place on 3 November 2022 at 20:00 GMT (13:00 PDT (Pacific Daylight Time)), which AMD will unveil RDNA 3 GPU.
- According to patent documents first spotted by Patently Apple, Apple’s technology uses machine learning to create synthetic images (deepfakes) of human faces based on a reference image provided by the user. Once the tech has generated a synthetic face, it can manipulate that face to create changes in expression. Given a reference image or “target shape” depicting a whole person (not just a face), the image generator can also create synthetic images in which the reference person is posed differently.
- Alef Aeronautics unveiled its first prototype of flying car on Wednesday (19 October 2022) at a press conference at Draper University. The electric Alef Model A is designed to take off and land vertically like a drone or a helicopter but drive and park like a conventional car, which Alef says makes the vehicle more practical for existing infrastructure. With a driving range of 200 miles (321.87 km) and a flight range of 110 miles (177.03 km), the Model A technically isn’t just for commutes; it can also handle shorter road trips and help drivers skip out on traditional airfare. While it only have two persons space, Alef also planned for Model Z, a four-person flying sedan with a driving range of 400 miles (643.74 km) and a flight range of 110 miles (177.03 km). When the Model Z becomes available sometime between 2030 and 2035, it’ll cost around $35,000.
- Benchmarks conducted by aschiling show that the Core i9–13900K loses up to 25% performance when coupled with the ASUS ROG Z690 Hero (BIOS 2103), which were tested in Cinebench R23 (multi-threaded), Blender (Classroom rendering), and Y-Cruncher (nT (500M)).
- [Leaked] GeForce RTX Titan design were leaked on Chiphell forum posting, showing a massive aluminum heatsink and shroud.
- [Rumour] According to Raichu, Intel’s 14th Gen Family, Arrow Lake’s desktop “S” lineup will be outsourced to TSMC’s 3nm process, while mobile “P” offerings will be fabbed on the internal 20A node, possibly due to limited capacity of 20A production. The two should be on par in terms of density and performance.
- Intel Core i9–13900K beats the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X in gaming and content creation benchmarks, and costs $130 less than AMD CPU top performer.
- Advocate Aurora Health (AAH), a healthcare provider with locations in Illinois and Wisconsin, has published a data breach notice to its website, due to Facebook’s Meta Pixel Tool JavaScript. It may have shared the following information with Meta without patients’ knowledge: IP addresses, dates, times, and locations of scheduled appointments, patient’s proximity to an AAH location, information about patients’ providers, types of appointments and procedures, communications between patients and others through MyChart, first and last names, medical record numbers, insurance information, and proxy MyChart account information.
- Security researchers at SafeBreach Labs have discovered a novel PowerShell backdoor which has been able to evade the dozens of malware scanners employed by VirusTotal. It is used to target individuals who are likely to have access to highly sensitive data, by disguising it as job application form. Its evasiveness is due in large part to code obfuscation. The researchers explain how the document instructs those who open the file to enable editing and then enable content. The enable content button allows the embedded macro to run, which places a file called updater.vbs into a fake folder located at “%appdata%\local\Microsoft\Windows\Update\” and also schedules a task to run this script. As always, be careful and do not open any suspicious attachment for your own cybersafety.
- Valve has made looking up model of SteamDeck task very easy with the latest Steam Deck Client beta update. Open up your Steam Deck with this latest beta client and you will be able to head to: Settings > System > Model/Serial Numbers button (under the Hardware header). This will reveal the model and manufacturer of major components in your Steam Deck.
- [Rumour] MyDrivers said that while Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 gaming graphics card has been in high demand, the company has decided to shift its production capacities to meet the demand for Hopper H100 AI GPUs which are a more lucrative business for the chip-maker at the moment.
- The Birentech’s Biren BR100 GPU, a Chinese alternatives to Hopper H100 and Ampere A100 GPUs, looks like that it can’t outsource chipmaking to TSMC anymore due to U.S. pressure of banning chipmaking tech.
- Shortly after Jony Ive’s resignation, Evans Hankey became Apple’s chief industrial designer for three years, and she decided to resign this year for unknown reason. According to Bloomberg, Apple has yet to announce a suitable replacement but reports that Hankey will remain at the company for another six months before leaving.
- The Russian Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences intends to produce a 7nm-capable lithography scanner by 2028, according to its plans published on Nizhy Novgorod Strategy Development website (via Cnews), and Russian government intends to produce a 28-nm fabrication tech by reverse engineer it, slated for 2030.
- U.S. government may also ban China from having AI and quantum computing from them, extending from initial chipmaking ban too.
- Just as expected, Nvidia’s Korea CEO, Kim Seung-gyu explained that the name of the RTX 4080 12GB was “confusing” compared to the RTX 4080 16GB, because the latter offered significantly more performance. Seung-gyu explained that Nvidia normally names the GPUs so that the model name can be used to predict performance, but the large difference in performance between the two 4080 models would confuse customers.
- Researchers from University of Texas figured that Starlink, with a separate radio, such as the one that they used, can be used to predict the sync sequences, which can then be used to replicate a signal which matches or ‘correlates’ the variables necessary for GPS positioning. The overall signal to noise ratio (SNR) of -6 dB of the positioning data is well below the threshold required for providing GPS coverage, usually around 55dB. This low ratio also means that powerful antennas are not needed for positioning coverage.
- Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said on Thursday that the company would soon undergo a round of “targeted cuts.”, which were scheduled to announce on 1 November 2022. He said that the cuts as necessary in the wake of high costs and low margins on the myriad of products Intel develops, manufactures and distributes, aim to reduce Intel’s operational expenses to and unlock a way back to profitability.
- Intel releases first Arc Graphics driver package for Ubuntu version 22.04 LTS that will automatically detect any Arc GPU on installation process and start up.
- China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has held talks with the country’s semiconductor and supercomputer companies in a bid to assess the impact of sweeping U.S. sanctions against Chinese high-tech industry which came into effect last Tuesday. The government vows to financially support affected companies, but without plans on how to alleviate the effects of sanctions that bar select Chinese companies from U.S. technologies. Officials summoned executives from various semiconductor and supercomputer companies, including 3D NAND memory maker Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (which YMTC denies any involvement of it) and supercomputer maker Dawning Information Industry Co. better known as Sugon, to discuss the impact of American sanctions against China’s chip and supercomputer sectors, reports Bloomberg.
🎮Video game news🎯:
- The Callisto Protocol has gone gold, ready for game release on 2 December 2022. Watch out for that and have fun later!
- Artha France, a French organization is developing a haptic feedback belt that transmits information from an input like a camera or screen into sensations on the skin. When testing on the device first started, it would take six to 20 hours for users to learn. By this year new players can pick up and go in an hour. The technology give visually impaired people more ability to perceive their environment — and they’re using video games to test and expand it. They’ve managed to make Trackmania accessible to even those who are totally blind. It was chosen due to consistent and fairly simple gameplay, it mimics many real-world challenges, and requiring players to have fairly fast insight in consistent environments.
- NPD Group has a report regarding monthly year-on-year basis (September 2021 and 2022) gaming spending regarding Sony’s PlayStation 5 improved sales by up to 19%, game content spending of 7% decline compared to the previous year to $3.4 billion, accessory spend flatten compared to a year ago at $174 million, mobile game user spending decreased by 5% year over year, this year’s game install decline by a 40% year-over-year in new installs of hypercasual games, and new game installs were down 3% and at the lowest point since before February 2019.
- For God of War Ragnarok, those with more standard 4K sets, Sony is serving up two options — Favor Resolution, which offers a full 4K at a locked 30fps, and Favor Performance, which offers dynamic 4K and a locked 60fps. Now, if you have access to a VRR-capable TV with HDMI 2.1 inputs, the Favor Resolution mode will offer a 4K and 40fps and Favor Performance will offer dynamic 4K that “targets” 120fps.
- Developer Intercept Games and publisher Private Division announced Kerbal Space Program (KSP) 2’s Early Access launch on 24 February 2023. The first Early Access build will be available on PC via Steam, the Epic Games Store, and other digital storefronts. KSP 2 will improve, iterate and enhance from it’s original KSP back in 2015’s inception.
- Silent Hill 2’s original translator, Jeremy Blaustein, said that he wasn’t told about the remake, and despite his contribution on translation, voice over and motion capture performance, he said that he only need his name to be credited on appropriate role(s) that he reprise, and he doesn’t need any financial compensation for that.
- Try these games to play: Resident Evil Re:Verse (multiplayer & singleplayer, available to everyone who owns Resident Evil Village; early access begins on October 24 at 02:00 GMT until October 26 at 06:00 GMT, full release on 28 October 2022), Deadlink (early access), Yerr Out, Faith: The Unholy Trinity, and Dorfromantik.
- Warner Bros. Games and DC finally launches Gotham Knight on PC and consoles. However, reviewers such as SomeOrdinaryGamers (known by the name of Mutahar or Muta) legitly complained several things about the game: boring combat gameplay (felt like a dumbed-down mobile game, which what it might originally target of, but later were going with the current way after previous backlash of their other game), sparse city population on the street, outdated graphics that should reflect the current generation (since this game were officially developing for 8 years until release today) and poor game optimization (only able to get 40+FPS on average despite him having AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU). I don’t know about you, but I prefer you (especially if you’re a fan of Batman) to buy it on Steam sale event due to this reason.
🚀Space news🌌:
- Galileo Galilei was the true author of an early work of treatise titled the “Considerazioni Astronomiche di Alimberto Mauri” — Italian for the “Astronomical Considerations of Alimberto Mauri” — which was published in 1604, in a new finding.
- The study’s start date of the panel will begin its work on Monday (24 October 2022), NASA officials wrote in an update on 21 October 2022. It will be headed by 16-person team, including former astronaut Scott Kelly.
- China’s Chang’e 5 moon mission samples upend theories of lunar volcanism, due to a lower melting point for portions of the lunar mantle could be due to the presence of fusible, easily melted components, leading to young lunar volcanism.
- World’s oldest complete star map, lost for millennia, found inside medieval manuscript. The researchers took 42 photographs of each of the nine pages across a broad range of wavelengths before scanning the photos with computer algorithms that picked out the text hidden underneath. By comparing their wound-back night sky to a separate medieval Latin manuscript called Aratus Latinus, long believed to contain a partial copy of Hipparchus’ original catalog, the researchers confirmed that the Aratus manuscript’s coordinates for the constellations Draco, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor also landed on 129 B.C., providing compelling indirect evidence that the newfound fragment originated from the same source as the manuscript.
- A Soyuz-2–1v rocket lifted off from Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwestern Russia Friday at 15:20 EDT (19:20 GMT; 22:20 Moscow time), carrying two classified payloads to orbit. “According to unofficial posts on the Novosti Kosmonavtiki web forum, the rocket was expected to deliver a pair of new-generation military satellites designated 14F164 and 14F172,” Anatoly Zak wrote on RussianSpaceWeb.com. Astrophysicist and satellite tracker, Jonathan McDowell, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, speculated on Twitter that the payloads may be “an experimental pair of military satellites, possibly to test out satellite inspection techniques.”
- The ozone hole that forms yearly over Antarctica has grown for the third year in a row, and is the largest it’s been since 2015, nearly 10 million square miles (26.4 million square kilometers). Despite that growth, scientists say that the hole’s size is still on a downward trend overall. “All the data says that ozone is on the mend,” Paul Newman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s chief Earth scientist, told the Associated Press.
- Thirty-six of OneWeb’s broadband spacecraft, launching atop a GSLV Mark III rocket, the most powerful rocket in use by the Indian Space Research Organisation, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota at 18:37 GMT (12:07 India Standard Time on 23 October 2022). “All our satellites have successfully separated and now we wait as our team works to confirm contact with all our spacecraft,” OneWeb wrote in a Twitter update. ISRO mission managers appeared filled with pride given the short turnaround between the launch agreement with OneWeb and the launch itself. Thirty-six of OneWeb’s broadband satellite weighed 5,796 kg (12,778 lb), making it the heaviest payload ever lofted by GSLV Mark III rocket, and is the first commercial mission undertaken by GSLV Mark III rocket.
- NASA astronauts, Zena Cardman and Drew Feustel, were doing ‘moonwalk’ test in the Arizona desert for the preparation of future Artemis 7 lunar mission.
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