Daily Tech News 23 September 2022

• Nvidia's new graphics cards are two to four times faster than the previous generation - if you are using ray tracing and upscaling. (PC Magazine)
  
  If you're not using ray tracing and upscaling, they're not.
  
  Except somehow in the case of Microsoft Flight Simulator, where they are - and somehow the RTX 4080 is the same speed as the much more expensive RTX 4090.
  
  
  
• Nvidia also explained why the new cards are so much more expensive than the previous generation: Because. (PC Magazine)
  
  
  
• And to gamers who are saying that the 4080 is really just a renamed 4070 to justify the high pricing, Nvidia had this response: Nuh-uh. (PC Magazine)
  
  Nvidia is handing a golden opportunity to AMD and Intel here. Intel simply isn't in a position to take advantage of it, but AMD might be.
  
  We'll see what they have up their sleeves on November 3.

• Does green hydrogen cause brain damage? (Robert Zubrin)
  
  A great takedown on just how stupid the green hydrogen idea is from an actual rocket scientist.
  
  
  
• Google is working on royalty-free high-end digital audio and video software to replace Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision. (Protocol)
  
  Not because they want to benefit anyone, but because it's cheaper for them.
  
  Which is a far more trustworthy motivation.
  
  
  
• China has claimed without evidence that at least one US government agency is actually doing its job. (CNBC)
  
  In this case they allege that the NSA hacked China's telecommunications networks, which is kind of the point, so probably isn't true.
  
  
  
• Another thing Nvidia announced during its big launch event is the Jetson Orin Nano. (Serve the Home)
  
  This is a robotics module with a six core Arm A78 CPU, up to 1024 GPU shaders, and a peak AI throughput of 40 trillion operations per second. It's not quite the same as a Raspberry Pi because it's a module that needs to plug in to a carrier board; you can't use it directly by itself. But it is a lot more powerful than the Raspberry Pi.
  
  Prices start as $199.
  
  
  
• Krea.ai is a directly of AI-generated art and the text prompts used to generate it. (Krea.ai)
  
  A lot of it is awful because that's just the nature of AI-generated art - you have to fiddle with things a lot to get something good.This haunted playground is suitably and subtly creepy though.
  
  
  

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