Welcome to the Tech Mem ride home for Tuesday, August 14th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, Invidia announces its next generation

GPS.

Apple wants developers to get sassy.

What if we're just rebuilding the cable bundle,

but now with streaming channels.

Tinder Founders File Suit, and is Kevin Durant

teaming up with Mark Andresen.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. NVIDIA is doubling down on

GPS being the new frontier for all types of computing.

Late yesterday the company announced its Turing

GPU architecture which it says includes AI-based capabilities and

real-time ray tracing.

NVIDIA claims that the fastest Turing parts can cast 10 billion rays per second.

A 25X improvement in ray tracing performance and essentially can render graphics six times faster than Invidia's Pascal architecture from 2016.

Now I'm not going to pretend to understand what that means, so I'm going to let the smarties at Anand Tech explain it to those of you who can

Grock this sort of thing.

So what does Turing bring to the table?

The marquee feature, at least for Invidia's Pro Viz crowd, is on hybrid rendering, which combines

ray tracing with traditional rasterization to exploit the strengths of both technologies. This announcement is essentially a continuation of

NVIDIA's RTX announcement from earlier this year, so if you thought that

announcement was a little sparse, well then here is the rest of the story.

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