Amazon Prime day may be over but you can call me optimist because it's a prime
day for news about technology no sooner did Apple launch a MacBook
with an unlocked core i-96 core
processor than tech nerds found a problem with it intrepid youtuber Dave
Lee has found that the core I nine macbook performs worse than the core i7
version in many instances because of its
extensive thermal throttling in fact while rendering a video the CPU wasn't
even able to maintain its a base clock speed of 2.9 gigahertz only once mr. Lee
put the laptop in the freezer did it render faster than the core i7 another
prime example of Apple's form over
function design refusing to add more powerful cooling to it's beautifully
slimming device so go watch Dave's full video down below and hopefully they will
fix this in the next model huh
I'm just kidding the European Commission has fine Google 4.3 for billion euros or
5 billion u.s. dollars and that is no laughing matter hahaha for
anti-competitive behavior regarding the Android platform I mean that is a lot of
money but then Google did make nine point four billion dollars in the first
quarter of 2018 alone so they're probably gonna get through this
the behavior in question involves Google requiring manufacturers to pre install
apps like Google search and Chrome in
order to access the Google Play Store you can make an Android variant without
those apps but you would lose access to the Play Store which is what Amazon did
with fire OS which they run on their tablets the Commission's ruling means
that Google may be forced to include the
Google Play Store in Android weather device manufacturers and carriers
pre-installed google apps or not but
that might mean that google would need to charge for Android and that's not a
threat Europe that's a promise may be specula speculatively and USB type-c is
can it's crusade against all other connectors with the announcement of a
new standard for VR a big old gang of companies that always cooperate
including NVIDIA valve and AMD also Microsoft have announced their
collaboration on a physical connector standard known as virtual link right now
virtual link is just like a regular link but it's only in your mind no just
kidding right now VR headsets often have separate cables for power video and
audio not to mention other data so virtual link using USB-C would combine
all of those streams into one whether they want to or not the standard is
expected to show up on next-gen VR and augmented reality headsets but not those
from Sony or Intel they have not joined the virtual link club quite possibly
because they think the name is terrible but I mean like have you got a better
one the de goggle cable headset Connect
vr troopers really sweet
yeah yeah it's time to be honest and
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the bits that aren't fast the Xbox too
is coming ha just kidding Microsoft doesn't know how to count but seriously
they are bringing some kind of new Xbox hardware to Gamescom in Germany in
August maybe a psvr competitor maybe another Kinect ha ha just kidding about
that to a waterpark in earning Germany
has opened VR slide which is exactly what it sounds like a waterslide with
built in via is this really a good idea the headset is water-resistant but like
maybe I'm being old-fashioned here but what was wrong with regular what isn't
that the point of a waterslide and if if I wanted a VR waterslide experience why
wouldn't I just sit in my chair wearing a VR headset and having somebody
like splash water and you know we should try that later that sounds fun
rolls-royce is developing little swarms of robots to crawl inside engines and
fix problems are they German because that seems like a German solution to a
problem you know what instead of making it so that you can get the wrench on the
nut why don't we just make a new wrench they're aiming to make the BOTS as small
as fifteen millimeters across and I'm sure you've already thought of the
scenario where these things go rogue and think that our bodies our engines and go
inside and try to fix stuff but but bit but they don't fix it they just make it
worse way worse GE has unveiled the smart countertop
microwave which is a microwave but smart and goes on your counter bullet okay
regular microwaves can go on your countertop but it but the point is they can cook food after you scan the foods
packaging with your phone which I'm sure is so much easier than just kind of
looking at about what mass of food you have and I think of all the free time
we're gonna have now for virtual waterslides and finally Swiss
researchers are working on a system that allows drone pilots to use their body to
command the tiny aircrafts rather than a
joystick I can think of some parts of my body that could substitute for this
finger that's right what do you think participants were better able to
complete flying challenges using the new system compared to traditional to
traditional controls so soon we can look
stupid doing things in real life exactly the way that we do in VR and that's it
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