Fri. 05/20 – The Apple Headset Has Been Demoed!

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

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A new high end Snapdragon chip. The Apple AR/VR headset has been demoed, but only 9 people got to see it in action. A YC backed startup is facing lawsuits related to the whole UST blowup. The feds will no longer go after good faith, white hat hackers. And, of course, the weekend longreads suggestions. Sponsors: Composer.trade/ride AthleticGreens.com/ride Links: Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, for when flagship isn’t flagship enough (The Verge) Apple Shows AR/VR Headset to Board in Sign of Progress on Key Project (Bloomberg) Stablegains Faces Lawsuit After Losing $44M on UST (CryptoBriefing) Coinbase Slashes Costs, Freezes Hiring Amid Crypto Crash (The Information) A SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex, documents show. The company paid $250,000 for her silence. (Insider) Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Is Proceeding, Not ‘On Hold,’ Executives Tell Staff (Bloomberg) DOJ Announces It Won’t Prosecute White Hat Security Researchers (Motherboard) Weekend Longreads Suggestions: Cyber Insurers Raise Rates Amid a Surge in Costly Hacks (WSJ) The Decade of Cheap Rides Is Over (Slate) The ‘E-Pimps’ of OnlyFans (NYTimes Magazine) Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From? (Quanta) Star Wars: The Rebellion Will Be Televised (Vanity Fair) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, May 20th, 2022. I'm Brian McCullough today. A new high-end
0:10.4	Snap Dragon Chip. The Apple AR VR headset has been demoed, but only nine people got
0:16.1	to see it in action. A Y-Cominator backed startup is facing lawsuits related to the whole
0:21.0	U.S.T blow up. The feds will no longer go after good faith white hat
0:24.8	hackers, and of course, the weekend long read suggestions.
0:28.2	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Qualcomm has unveiled the Snap Dragon 8 Plus Gen 1, saying it will offer 10% faster
0:39.7	CPU performance, 10% faster Snap-Dagen 1 set the stage for the biggest Android smartphones of 2022, including Samsung's flagship
0:56.2	Galaxy, but it's about to be surpassed by a Better Plus version that will no doubt appear
1:01.2	in Buy It for the Bragging Rights, Gaming Phones, and luxury handsets.
1:05.2	It's called the Snap- Dragon 8-plus Gen 1, which just rolls off the tongue, and Qualcomm says
1:11.0	it'll offer 10% faster CPU performance 10% faster
1:13.8	GPU clocks and get this use 15% less power for nearly one hour of extra
1:19.5	gameplay or say 50 minutes of social media browsing.
1:23.0	Technically, Qualcomm says it's achieved, quote,
1:25.5	up to 30% better power efficiency
1:27.8	from both the CPU and GPU
1:29.6	and 20% better AI performance per watt,
1:32.0	but that doesn't necessarily all transfer into more battery life. percent better
1:33.0	better AI performance per watt, but that doesn't necessarily all transfer into more battery life.
1:35.0	Some of it is about performance too.
1:37.0	Qualcomm is particularly touting better sustained performance from the new chip too,
1:41.0	theoretically maintaining its clock speed for longer as it heats up while
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