Okay, those weren’t the only topics!
But Adi did join us to talk about her Meta Quest Pro review and just how bad this product and some of the software surrounding it is. Then Nilay relayed his adventures in buying Taylor Swift tickets, Twitter news broke live on the podcast, and we all agreed knobs are good.
Tumblr’s beautiful useless new blue checkmarks stack. At least one brave user spent at least $104 to see how many checks you can stack. The answer is 24.
While the VR2 will need a PS5 to play games, the headset also has inside out tracking and plenty of other goodies that would benefit from a chip in the headset itself. But I’ll admit to still be a little surprised Mediatek, the other other other chipmaker, is making the SoC going into the VR2.
If you have $7.99 and a burner account, you can become your boss on Twitter.
Elon Musk confirmed he’d killed the gray “official” verification in a tweet to influencer Marques Brownlee after pushing the feature live hours ago. It’s depressing that it wasn’t the Full Self-Driving beta, but little gray checkmarks that are teaching Elon a lesson about testing before shipping. Though it does sound like he plans to publically ship and break even more things in the coming months.
Business and creator accounts can now schedule posts up to 75 days out in the app itself. Scheduling tends to be the number one feature people managing social accounts ask for—as they don’t really want to be working on Christmas just to post that cute Reel they recorded weeks ago. Hopefully one day this feature will arrive for the rest of us.
One of the first things Jay noticed when checking out Netflix with ads yesterday was that the ads would pop up all willy-nilly with little rhyme or reason. So I am not surprised that one of the most successful TV show creators of all time is mad about ads popping up in all the wrong places. I can think of at least three places Bridgerton would be ruined forever if interrupted by an ill-timed commercial.
Yesterday AMD announced the RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT, which are going to compete with Nvidia’s pricey 4080. But maybe more exciting were the details on the GPUs’ new architecture, RDNA3.
Using a chiplet design, AMD can mix and match components to, theoretically, make a GPU that’s faster than the competition but costs less money. We’ll still have to see how these GPUs benchmark in the real world, but if it’s anything like the Zen architecture enabled by AMD’s Infinity Fabric, it could blow us away.
