Daily Tech News 4 May 2023

• Amazon's Prime video streaming service managed to cut its server bill by 90%. (Prime Video Tech)
  
  By moving away from AWS managed services.
  
  Where the A in AWS is Amazon.
  
  
  

• AMD has announced its Ryzen 7040U laptop processor range. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The leaks were 100% accurate, so all we learned today is that the base model Z1 used in the Asus ROG Ally is a 7540U.
  
  
  
• Framework announced it's new AMD laptop models. (WCCFTech)
  
  I mean, the already did, but they couldn't talk about the specifics before because the CPUs hadn't been officially announced.
  
  One drawback compared to the Intel models is that one of the four swappable ports doesn't support video - you can only have three external monitors.
  
  On the Intel models you can have four external monitors but that shuts off the laptop's own screen.
  
  Also, it doesn't have the four essential keys.
  
  
  
• Orange Pi, a company that makes a cheap board to compete with the Raspberry Pi, announced its own competitor to the Steam Deck and the Asus ROG Ally, powered by a Ryzen 7840U. (Notebook Check)
  
  Can't get a decent sub-10" tablet, but there's a swarm of these things.
  
  
  
• AI can't replace human writers. (Tech Crunch)
  
  I think you'll find that it can. The one thing ChatGPT and systems like it are good at is writing mediocre fiction. It doesn't necessarily know that it is doing that, of course, but neither do Hollywood writers.

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