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How Are Intel GPUs in 2024? Games, Drivers, and MORE!

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Wendell takes the Intel ARC A770 and A580 through their paces, a year and a half later!

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The Level1 Show November 23 2022: I Knew This Was Trouble When I Logged In 🎵

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0:00 - Intro
0:30 - Amazon’s CEO says more layoffs will happen in 2023
1:11 - AWS to manage out low performers, extend hiring freeze through Q1 2023
1:46 - 10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers
2:36 - FTX CEO shreds Bankman-Fried: Never seen such a failure of controls
3:18 - FTX Owes Money to More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests
3:40 - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried attempts to raise cash
4:28 - Crypto lender BlockFi says it has significant exposure to FTX
4:59 - Gemini Earn Warns Customers of Likely Withdrawal Delays Due to Genesis Lending Pause
6:47 - Protocol, the tech-news focused website, will shutter and lay off its entire staff
8:09 - YouTube expands shopping features to combat digital ad slowdown
8:48 - Microsoft, Meta, others face rising drought risk to their data centers
10:26 - Epic strikes back at Apple’s iOS “security” defense in appeals court
11:18 - iPhone 15 USB-C rumor calls out high-speed data transfers as a Pro-only feature
12:25 - Nvidia hit with class action suit over melting RTX 4090 GPU adapters
12:34 - Nvidia thinks RTX 4090 cables melted because they weren’t fully plugged in
14:49 - Apple AirPods Can Work as More Affordable Hearing Aids, Study Finds
16:22 - Apple launches Emergency SOS via satellite in US and Canada
17:46 - Cloud computing: Microsoft and Nvidia are building a 'massive' AI supercomputer
18:42 - Microsoft’s Xbox streaming console ‘Keystone’ was pushed back because of its price
19:21 - Apple to buy chips from Arizona factory, CEO Tim Cook reportedly says
20:10 - US safety watchdog warns against Onewheel boards after reported ejection injuries
21:01 - Blizzard will pull 'World of Warcraft' from China as NetEase deal ends
22:06 - Google rolls out new features across Maps, Search and Shopping
24:10 - Internet providers play tricks to raise your bill. Here are the worst.
26:43 - Fortnite Maker Says Google Paid Activision Millions Not to Launch Rival App Store
27:30 - Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco: Democrats scrutinize the company's dominance
29:59 - Ford CEO: 40% Less Labor To Build Electric Vehicles
30:49 - Amazon Clinic to provide virtual healthcare for allergies, acne and more
32:30 - Elon Musk restores Donald Trump's Twitter account
35:50 - Meta fires several employees, security guards for 'hijacking user accounts'
36:46 - Facebook fact-checkers will stop checking Trump after presidential bid announcement
37:22 - Musk emails remaining Twitter staff to find “anyone who actually writes software”

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A Look at the INTEL ARC A770

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A new challenger appears in the GPU arena! But do they have what it takes to compete? Wendell investigates!

https://www.newegg.com/intel-21p01j00ba/p/N82E16814883001

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The Level1 Show November 25 2022: All I Want For Christmas Is The Divine Right to Rule 👑

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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Highlights From NASA’s Artemis Moon Rocket Launch
0:59 - The first cubesat to fly and operate at the Moon has successfully arrived
1:44 - The Daocheng Solar Radio Telescope is fully constructed
3:04 - Nasa space telescope reveals celestial hourglass formed by embryonic star
3:40 - India successfully launches first privately made rocket
4:12 - Intel unveils real-time deepfake detector, claims 96% accuracy rate
4:52 - Waymo is using its self-driving taxis to create real-time weather maps
5:58 - Why Meta’s latest large language model only survived three days online
7:40 - Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI prawn generators
9:23 - Lab-grown meat is OK for human consumption, FDA says
10:57 - The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks
11:55 - Record number of parents miss work as respiratory illnesses spike in kids
12:54 - Cows fed hemp produced milk with THC, researchers say
15:00 - Fentanyl vaccine could eliminate drug's 'high'
16:12 - World population reaches 8 billion
17:45 - Fans paid to attend World Cup by Qatar have daily allowance cancelled
18:23 - FIFA head says fans 'will survive' without beer at World Cup
19:26 - Eli Lilly CEO says insulin tweet flap “probably” signals need to bring down cost
20:06 - Customs seize so much cocaine in Belgium that incinerators can no longer keep up
20:30 - Indiana man dies after falling into manure lagoon on dairy farm
21:34 - Chinese man, 50, runs marathon in under 3.5 hours while smoking cigarettes
22:58 - Young Dolph murder suspect releases song 'No Statements' from jail
24:22 - Astronomer locked out of Twitter for three months after video of meteor flagged as 'intimate content'
25:29 - Herschel Walker explains vampires & werewolves
26:27 - Mariah Carey is not the sole "Queen of Christmas," trademark board says
27:05 - Crypto insider weighs in on FTX executives’ sex lives, alleged substance use
28:52 - Disney Is Trying To Build The First Ever Roller Coaster That Jumps Off The Track And Flies Through The Air - Engineers Say It's 'Theoretically' Possible
31:13 - Lost dog 'hands itself in' at Loughborough Police Station

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The Level1 Show November 22 2022: The Truth Was Out There

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0:00 - Intro
1:27 - Comcast and co. will have to slap ‘nutrition labels’ on their internet soon
3:59 - Banking giants and New York Fed start 12-week digital dollar pilot
5:17 - U.S. House committee to hold hearing on FTX collapse and crypto fall out
6:05 - FBI, Air Force Agents Raid UFO Blogger Joerg Arnu's Houses
7:52 - FBI is 'extremely concerned' about China's influence through TikTok
8:27 - Ticketmaster’s Parent Company Said to Face Justice Department Investigation
10:19 - US govt: Iranian hackers breached federal agency using Log4Shell exploit
11:15 - California AG issues warning-ladened guidance for public interested in buying crypto
12:51 - Google Agrees to $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States
13:55 - Dell reaches $1 billion settlement over disputed 2018 stock swap
15:13 - Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes sentenced to over 11 years in prison
16:38 - Declassified document shows Trump tweeted an image from a spy satellite
19:10 - Chinese takeover of biggest UK chip plant blocked by government
19:50 - Two Russian Nationals Charged with Running Massive E-Book Piracy Website
20:33 - Everyone is bullying the UK government in its own Discord server
21:38 - Italy court rejects Google's appeal against watchdog fine, accepts Apple's one
22:13 - Italy outlaws facial recognition tech, except to fight crime
22:53 - Police dismantle pirated TV streaming network with 500,000 users
24:13 - China tops U.S. to take research crown at global chip conference
25:06 - Japan's inflation hits 40-year high as weak yen fans import costs
25:41 - USB-C will be mandatory for all smart devices sold in India
26:01 - El Salvador Plans to Buy More Bitcoin Despite Losing Millions
27:21 - Australia to consider banning ransomware payments - The Record by Recorded Future
28:24 - Microsoft: Hackers are using this 'concerning' tactic to dodge multi-factor authentication
29:29 - Researchers Quietly Cracked Zeppelin Ransomware Keys
30:23 - Study: Almost 50% of macOS malware only comes from one app
31:21 - Netflix gives account holders the ability to kick freeloaders
33:00 - Ubisoft and Riot Games are working together to combat toxic chats
34:28 - Studies find automatic braking can cut crashes over 40%
35:22 - Xbox proactively suspended up to 4.78M accounts in just six months

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Calling All Tinkerers! What Would YOU Do With x86/Raspberry Pi? feat. Seeed reTerminal

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Wendell's IoT journey continues with the reTerminal from Seeed!

Check out the forum thread: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/co-inventing-with-community-what-do-you…

Check out the Seeed reTerminal here: https://www.seeedstudio.com/ReTerminal-with-CM4-p-4904.html

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The 4090 is HERE! But Is It Worth It?

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Level1 Show - Live This Week

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Join us for the links and fun this week, Live! :D

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192 Cores of EPYC Domination!

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AMD EPYC 192 Cores of pure amazingness reviewed in this short 43-minute video... wait! How long!!??

Wendell's got the ins and outs of this new server-level cpu. Benchmarks, first impressions, predictions of the future!

Find Benchmarks here: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/new-epyc-genoa-announced-benchmarks-fro…

0:00 Intro
2:11 Quick Overview
6:50 Testing and Benchmarks
15:46 AMD Listening to Customers
18:38 AVX512
20:20 Neural Magic
21:51 ZenDNN
24:29 CXL
29:32 Chiplets and IO
35:29 A little bit of Microsoft
39:08 Pricing and Summary

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The Level1 Show November 11 2022: Return to Stargazing After A Word From Our Sponsors

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0:00 - Intro
1:08 - SpaceX is now building a Raptor engine a day, NASA says
2:03 - SpaceX launches first Falcon Heavy mission since 2019 from Florida
2:47 - China launches final module to complete Tiangong space station
4:17 - Amazon May Turn to Its SpaceX Rival for Satellite Launches
5:20 - Scientists Find Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Hiding in the Sun’s Glare
6:45 - Surprise! Black holes can behave like quantum particles
7:51 - Google’s AI image model Imagen is getting a very limited public outing
9:13 - Google’s new prototype AI tool does the writing for you
10:39 - Exhibit aims to present AI images as real art
12:53 - OpenAI will give roughly 10 AI startups $1M each and early access to its systems
13:31 - Lego to discontinue Mindstorms robot line after a 24-year run
15:08 - 500 drones will create a flying Candy Crush ad above NYC
16:51 - Denver firefighters disciplined for getting living woman pronounced dead
18:17 - Nationwide catalytic converter theft ring made hundreds of millions of dollars, feds say
19:35 - Ikea sues indie game developer over survival horror game set in furniture store
22:10 - Queenslander with disability left to crawl off plane after Jetstar staff refuse to let her use transfer wheelchair without charge
24:12 - Ford Transit Trail 2023 targets boom in RV 'van life'
25:59 - 'BagGate' cheating scandal rocks professional cornhole world
28:24 - Fact check: No litter boxes for furries at SLO County schools
28:58 - NASCAR driver stuns racing world with a move learned from Nintendo GameCube
30:07 - The 'superheroes' catching drug dealers in Peru
31:33 - Giant runaway Christmas baubles tumble through London street wreaking havoc
32:40 - Heidi Klum unrecognizable in elaborate giant worm costume at her New York City Halloween bash
35:09 - Norwegian Man Now Identifies as a Disabled Woman, Uses Wheelchair "Almost All The Time"
36:52 - Dog runs through Mexican town with human head found at ATM
37:27 - Paintballs to be shot at Dutch wolves in bid to make them less tame
38:46 - First-ever study shows bumble bees 'play'

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