Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Thursday, July 23rd, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Corning has introduced what it is calling its best Gorilla Glass ever with a tough new name

Victus. HBO Max already has more than 4 million customers. It was

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. Corning has announced what it is calling

Gorilla Glass Victus, very gladiatorial sounding name, which I guess is the point,

because Corning says it can resist a six foot drop and has

twice the scratch resistance of the old gorilla glass. Corning says this is the

toughest glass it has ever created quoting the verge

It's a little known fact that Corning's Gorilla Glass hasn't gotten much better at resisting keys and coins thus scratches since 2014's Gorilla Glass 3, and it has arguably gotten

slightly worse since.

Our reporting showed that Gorilla Glass 4 actually performed worse in some tests.

Gorilla Glass 5 was in the middle and Grilla Glass 6 didn't improve any further since Corning was more focused on making

your phone survive a nasty tumble instead.

But Corning claims the new Victus glass, there's no

Gorilla Glass 7, just Victus, can do both drops and scratch resistance

simultaneously with no known trade-offs. The company

says it has twice the scratch resistance of Gorilla Glass 6, four times the

resistance of competing glass, and a representativeictus clad dummy phone

can survive up to a 2 meter or 6.5 foot drop.

That drop resistance is nothing to sneeze at.

It's a foot and a quarter higher than Corning quoted for Gorilla Glass 6, 1.6 meters or 5.25 feet, or the 1.2 meters, 3.9 feet, that the company claimed

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