have you ever gotten a christmas or a birthday gift that you wish you could
get rid of well AMD is attempting to get a handful
of folks to look at the shiny new Intel CPU that they just won
in the same way that they'd look at an ugly reindeer sweater Intel recently
gave away over 8 000 core i7 8086 processors to celebrate
their 50th anniversary but AMD is
crashing the party by announcing that the first 40 contest winners who get in
touch with them will be able to trade in their core i7s for a ryzen threadripper
1950x with 16 cores that is 10 more than
the 8086 though it should be noted that the i7 single threaded performance still
puts it ahead in many benchmarks nonetheless it is a tantalizing
proposition for content creators or just anyone who wants more cores than their
neighbors so if you're interested the offer opens on june 25th and
unsurprisingly is for u.s residents only
but something that isn't just for americans is the two new services that
youtube opened up today the video hosting giant is rolling out youtube
music and youtube premium not just in
the united states but also canada mexico australia new zealand south korea
and 11 european countries youtube music is a full-fledged audio streaming
service designed to compete with spotify and apple music and they are touting its
search feature that is supposedly more intelligent than what their competitors
are providing as a selling point even claiming that queries like
that hipster song with the whistling will work thanks to machine learning or
something music comes in a free ad supported
version and a paid version for 9.99 a month while premium the other new
offering includes youtube music as well as ad-free video viewing and a number of
youtube original shows for 11.99 a month
though they haven't talked that much about the original shows in the uh in
the advertising materials probably because most of them aren't very good a
report from kid guru this morning mentioned that many users of ASUS and
acer's new fancy 4k 144hz displays
look rather blurry once they turn them up north of 120 hertz as it turns out
this is due to a technique called chroma subsampling a form of image compression
that is necessary because the displayport 1.4 spec simply doesn't have
the bandwidth to support a 4k 144 hertz
signal without compression although a non-tech did report last month that
chroma sub sampling was being utilized by both monitors many gamers are crying
foul because neither ASUS nor acer were particularly transparent about the issue
instead pushing the 4k 144 angle in
their marketing copy i guess next time maybe they should screen it a little
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officer used google translate to ask permission to search his car but it came
out in spanish as can i search for the car
after the man said yes a large amount of cocaine and meth was found in the
vehicle but a judge threw out the drug
evidence earlier this month ruling that the botched translation caused the
driver's consent to be invalid huh makes
me wonder like what if he'd been caught a few years from now after google's ai
improves its uh espanola speaking of being caught pokemon go has finally
given players the ability to trade pokemon with other trainers it comes
with a few caveats though you can't trade unless you're at level 10 and you
can only trade with people you add as friends and only when they're within 100
meters of you someone should tell the casuals over at the antec that this
isn't how it worked in the tv show the iphone 3gs is for some reason back on
store shelves in south korea the mobile phone carrier sk telling sk to link t
link somehow found a huge cache of brand
new 3gs's that it somehow didn't get around to selling back in the day they
will cost you about 44 000 won each which is not nearly as much as it sounds
like that's only about 40 american dollars for this unused piece of
electronics history moving back stateside foxconn has
announced that it will base its north american headquarters in milwaukee not
far from a factory that the company acquired where it plans to employ 13 000
people to make displays just remember this so you won't have a heart attack
next time you see made in the usa on the back of like a monitor or something and
speaking of foxes the fox networks
are trying to jazz up commercial breaks in an age where everyone is getting used
to streaming content without two minutes of ads by letting brands sponsor
inspirational commercials focused on people who have overcome some illness or
physical limitation in what they call brand storytelling
not quite sure how well this will go over but it might be an improvement over watching
a sales pitch for an embarrassing prescription
hearing the story of someone whose life was changed by an embarrassing prescription what is the difference here
all right since i've got to go take care of some embarrassing medications of my
own wow i can't believe they wrote that in there uh we are all out of time for
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