Daily Tech News 16 August 2022

• Android 13 is here, bringing with it uh. (Thurrott.com)
  
  Apparently you can stream certain things from a thing to another thing, and it has spatial audio support for headphones - it makes the sound feel like you're walking around in a room.
  
  Okay.
  
  I think the last Android release which was really a must-have was version 6 with adoptable storage. Of course, most of the major manufacturers - particularly Samsung and Sony - immediately broke adoptable storage and leave it broken to this day, and Google's own hardware can't support adoptable storage because it has no storage to adopt.

• Linux 6.0 is here too. (The Register)
  
  It doesn't bring any big changes either, but that's because they just flip the version number when it gets too unwieldy. No-one wants to remember whether they're running 5.20.21 or 5.21.20.
  
  
  
• Ryzen 7000 will cost around 10% more than Ryzen 5000. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  At MSRP. Since Ryzen 5000 is now selling at well under MSRP - the $799 5950X is available on Amazon for $546 - this could lead to a street price gap of as much as 50%.
  
  And the new chips will require new motherboards and more expensive DDR5 RAM, leaving Ryzen 5000 as a still attractive option for price/performance builds.
  
  
  
• It's only a model: Russia unveiled a model of its proposed taking-my-ball-and-going-home space station. (The Guardian)
  
  It's no Lego Millennium Falcon, but it's okay, I guess.
  
  
  
• New Jersey police used a blood sample from a baby - taken to test for genetic issues - to pin a crime on its father. (Wired)
  
  There are no federal laws against this and there are no state laws against it in New Jersey, but the problems are so obvious that even the ACLU is opposed to it.

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