hey here's the thing guys just because you're self-isolating doesn't mean you
have to be isolated from the tech news
hey today we're getting a little x-rated x
for xbox of course microsoft has just
released a whole bunch of specs for the new xbox series x so let's jump right in
you'll find a 7 nanometer soc based on the zen 2 and rdna 2 architectures from
AMD with the CPU running at 3.8 gigahertz or 3.6 if multi-threading is
turned on while the ray tracing GPU will have 52 compute units and 16 gigabytes
of gddr6 memory there's also a one terabyte SSD using an NVMe interface
which should drastically cut down on loading times and a demo they put out
today had state of decay 2 loading in about one third of the time that it did
on the xbox one x it also showed the ability to quickly suspend and swap up
to five games at once because if you're not playing five games simultaneously
are you even alive that's boring frankly
there's also a new low latency controller with an updated d-pad and
better ergonomics so maybe i'll finally be able to throw out my stockpile of
bengay do you know what that is yeah of course i've never heard of this apple's
a13 system on a chip impressed phone enthusiasts when it came out as it blew
even the fastest Android chips at the time out of the water and now we've got
some news about the upcoming a14 which is reportedly going to break the three
gigahertz barrier running at 3.1 gigahertz that is a whole 100 megahertz
more than the 3 gigahertz barrier and a 400 mhz improvement over the a13 for an
estimated performance improvement of around 25 in single core benchmarks and
33 in multi-core ones according to geekbench 5 tests we might even find the
new a14 or something like it inside of
some upcoming portable mac computers
there have already been reports of a new mac with an ARM based CPU instead of an
x86 one from Intel or AMD coming in about a year's time which could mean
improvements in battery life thermal performance and apple's giant
ego profits the all apple pc think of it we did it
all now everyone's staying at home for the time being meaning that gaming is
experiencing a surge in popularity steam
reported that it broke a record over the weekend with 20.3 million concurrent
users on the service at the same time that's what concurrent
means nearly six and a half million of those were actually even gaming wow
to no one's surprise the most popular games involved some form of human
interaction albeit over a distance with games like csgo pubg and dota 2 topping
the charts that's human interaction i don't know additionally call of duty's
new battle royale game entitled war zone was very popular over the weekend with
the game already boasting one and a half million players
and with the current crisis 50 wow really oh i thought that was a decimal
in there 15 million players uh well total not at the same time wow and with
the current crisis steam might be in a position to break its own record again
very soon so uh yay mr newell
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chat app has been notorious for bugs such as inconsistent notification
behavior like for me this phone doesn't get a notification this one does go
ahead riley try it what is that anyway
today it went down completely for a couple of hours apparently the outage
was due to tons of folks from europe logged in at one time since so many
people are working from home right now now microsoft seems to have mostly
resolved the issue but some folks are still having problems as of the time of
writing someone should tell microsoft that they're not being much of a
team player right now buzz buzz nothing
oh really look at that see look teams notification no teams notification
same bloody account if you're planning to visit apple store
anytime soon you might be in for a wait as the company is closing every store
outside of china taiwan hong kong and macau until the 27th of march for
reasons that i would think are fairly obvious by now speaking of which make
sure you're disinfecting your iphones especially if you need to take them into
an apple store once they reopen in fact disconnect it but disconnected in fact
disinfect it when you get it back too because even geniuses can forget to wash
their hands according to a cnet report there's been
a rash of people falsely accusing uber
drivers of driving under the influence in order to get free rides as
compensation apparently uber usually sides with
customers to prevent getting in hot water with state regulators for not
investigating claims of duis closely enough so the system is ripe for abuse
some drivers are even resorting to buying their own dash cams and paying
for toxicology tests to prove their innocence
guys come on just pay for your ride a major
manufacturer of tips for cable boxes is trying to sue netflix for cutting into
its bottom line wow broadcom is accusing netflix of patent
infringement which they say has resulted in more people choosing netflix over
cable companies with broadcom powered set-top boxes or hey maybe it's that
people don't want to pay a hundred dollars a month for a ton of channels
they don't want what a freaking idea google has a little bit of egg on their
face after it turns out a recent service interruption was caused by some wheels
on one of its server racks that gave out the server rack in question remained
tilted for a while after the wheels collapsed causing the cpus to overheat
and throttle it's funny how the simplest things can bring down some of our most
amazing technologies as anyone who's ever spilled water on a laptop or thrown
a usb key at a server can attest to well that's it for our show today come back
wednesday because quite frankly what else do you have to
do hey youtube got em hey
don't touch your eyes go scrub your eyes out let's hope