happy april fool's day but here on techlink we're not fooling around the
tech news we're talking about today is real
or is it it is
as is tradition tech companies celebrated the day by announcing
imaginary products you might expect to see in a black mirror episode NVIDIA's
offering is a holographic desktop gaming assistant named ron or ran that channels
your anger into supportive messages for your team and even provides ai-generated
comebacks to trolls troll destroyer
he'll automatically link all the relevant facts and he never has to eat
sleep or bathe making him an equal match for your average online troll meanwhile
oneplus announced a 3d printable car powered by 20 ordinary phone chargers
that you drive with an app sega teased us with a sonic themed battle royale
game featuring 4 million characters which actually seems somewhat realistic
and sounds like a game i would want to play and google even promised us an
automatic screen cleaner for mobile gadgets but one piece of april fool's
frivolity you can actually enjoy there's a travel themed snake game on google
maps you can check out after you're done watching me flap my gums that's it
that's how you know john wrote this script
i'm just flapping my gums we've already known for a while that Intel is planning
to release its own discrete GPU but we've just gotten some new information
on what to expect from leaks of an internal Intel event the plans describe
cards that feature multiple gpus as part of Intel's xe lineup with the e being
replaced by the number of gpus in that specific model so a dual GPU card would
be designated x with a little two and so
on i mean it's not accurate by standard notation
guidelines but okay whatever while the first card we get is expected to have
two gpus we could see an eight GPU skew
by 2023 that's a little much the dual
GPU card will reportedly feature 32 gigabytes of crosspoint video memory
over 6 000 stream processors per GPU
and 8 terabytes of bandwidth for 699 dollars when it hits the market in june
2020. wow uh considering the card is supposed to be flagshipped here the
pricing seems relatively competitive which is sad to think about seven
hundred dollars is affordable as long as it's RGB i'm in hell yeah dude can i say
hell yeah and Intel's new gpus are no doubt
getting a boost from the company's new hire tom peterson
i think it's pete thomason right sorry pete thomason not to be confused with
the tom peterson from cheap trick is that a band do you know what that is get
better references john peterson has been a fixture at NVIDIA since 2015 where he
was a top engineer and the director of technical marketing for team green's
GeForce lineup Intel brought peterson on to join their game experience team which
probably means that he'll be involved in helping get Intel's new discrete gpus to
market next year this move isn't the first notable addition to Intel's
fledgling discrete graphics team however as team blue also hired chris hooke a
former marketing director at AMD and rival of peter pan that guy was born to
be in marketing chris hook hey i got a hook for you
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long ago it was
time for quick bits it wasn't long ago that the impossible
burger was a hard to find luxury item but that looks to be changing in an
announcement today that wasn't an april fool's prank burger king launched the
impossible whopper aka
the impassa whopper
it'll show up in several dozen restaurants around the st louis area
following impossible's partnership with white castle back in january it's good
news but i hope impossible burger is noticing that the wider their
availability spreads the less sense their name makes
it's obviously possible once i don't like you today gmail is
getting a very welcome feature that lets you schedule emails to be sent in the
future if you don't feel like lighting up someone's inbox of weird times
although you can accomplish this with third-party browser extensions it's
always nice to see a cleaner native solution i'm going to be using it all
the time to deliver positive messages to my co-workers right when they walk into
the office about how they could make me look better on camera
wow john wrote that but it's true i'm very selfish although we mentioned a
notable Intel higher earlier folks farther down the food chain at the
company are getting hit with layoffs particularly in it administration
interestingly the layoffs don't seem to be about cost cutting but rather a
restructuring as Intel reportedly is attempting to shift to having more of
its operation in-house rather than handled by external contractors
seems like for that scenario you'd need more people at your company not less but
what do i know it's all relative yeah who am i tom peterson if you're
interested in snagging a cut-rate pixel 2 you'll have to look to a reseller as
google has just stopped selling the devices although the pixel 2 has only
been on the market for about a year and a half it isn't super surprising as
google is trying to get people to buy the shiny new pixel 3 instead personally
i don't keep any new phone for more than two months before getting the latest
thing i can otherwise my self-esteem starts to suffer
you look less valuable and here's a reminder that even
celebrities are susceptible to phishing scams as an american man recently pled
guilty to charges stemming from a string of incidents in which he scammed
entertainers and athletes out of their apple credentials accessing private
information and stealing money it's unclear how much time he'll be looking
at but maybe he can use his skills to sweet talk the prison commissary out of
a few extra bags of doritos that's what i'm talking about well
that's it for today guys there's no more words in front of the camera for me to
read so come back wednesday where will sweet talk you
into watching more tech news hopefully we don't have to sweet talk
you hopefully it's entertaining enough
sweet sweet sweet sweet sweets tend to see you later
that was so nonsensical you know