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Thursday, November 07

Daily News Stuff 7 November 2019

Twelve Angry Clowns Edition

Tech News

The Jetson Xavier NX is a smaller, cheaper, slower version of the AGX Xavier. (AnandTech)

It's a controller for visual robots from Nvidia. $399, up to 21 TOPS at 15W.
Begun, the price wars have. (Tom's Hardware)

AMD's desktop market share has doubled in the past three years, and their server market share has climbed by over 400% - albeit from a very low starting point.

Intel have started cutting prices in response, but they're going to have to keep doing that to keep up, because they will be behind technically until at least 2022.
Blizzard is run by idiots. (TechDirt)

Creator of some of the most successful computer games ever, but still run by idiots.
Twitter is run by idiots. (TechDirt)

Well, we knew that one already. This is an examination of their recent decision to ban political ads.
Thirdripper 3960X and 3970X prices and specs have been leaked by a retailer unless they haven't. (WCCFTech)

3960X has 24 cores for around $1400, 3970X has 32 cores for around $2000. Both have a top speed of 4.5GHz, 128MB of L3 cache, and a TDP of 280W.
Former Twitter employees have been charged with spying for Saudi Arabia. (Washington Post)

Unwritten headline is that Twitter employees appear to have unfettered access to your "private" data.
Apple TV all the way down. (Six Colors)

Apple TV is a hardware device, an app, a streaming service, a desert topping, and a floor wax.

There is also a Videos app, a smart-TV app simply called Apple, a reseller program called Channels, and a streaming service called Cinema. Somewhere in there it is possible to watch Apple TV programming in the browser - but do you know where it is? I certainly don't.
The Australian federal government is still busily working out what they want to ban after passing legislation banning it back in April. (ZDNet)

Australia is run by idiots.
SoftBank made a Â¥15.6 billion loss in the last quarter due to a bear market on complete and utter fuckery. (ZDNet)

Specificially their investments in Uber and WeWork are underperforming, and by underperforming I mean dead and starting to smell.
Why do we need 32 core CPUs and thousand-dollar GPUs and all the other stuff?

Because.

That's why.
Jimmy Dean is coming back to the Five and Dime. (The Hollywood Reporter)

Entirely digitally, since he's been dead for 64 years, and technology hasn't advanced that much.
Tesla has a truck. (CNBC)

The Cybertruck (really) will be launched on the 21st.