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happy april fool's day but here on techlink we're not fooling around the

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tech news we're talking about today is real

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or is it it is

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as is tradition tech companies celebrated the day by announcing

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imaginary products you might expect to see in a black mirror episode NVIDIA's

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offering is a holographic desktop gaming assistant named ron or ran that channels

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your anger into supportive messages for your team and even provides ai-generated

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comebacks to trolls troll destroyer

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he'll automatically link all the relevant facts and he never has to eat

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sleep or bathe making him an equal match for your average online troll meanwhile

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oneplus announced a 3d printable car powered by 20 ordinary phone chargers

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that you drive with an app sega teased us with a sonic themed battle royale

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game featuring 4 million characters which actually seems somewhat realistic

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and sounds like a game i would want to play and google even promised us an

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automatic screen cleaner for mobile gadgets but one piece of april fool's

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frivolity you can actually enjoy there's a travel themed snake game on google

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maps you can check out after you're done watching me flap my gums that's it

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that's how you know john wrote this script

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i'm just flapping my gums we've already known for a while that Intel is planning

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to release its own discrete GPU but we've just gotten some new information

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on what to expect from leaks of an internal Intel event the plans describe

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cards that feature multiple gpus as part of Intel's xe lineup with the e being

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replaced by the number of gpus in that specific model so a dual GPU card would

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be designated x with a little two and so

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on i mean it's not accurate by standard notation

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guidelines but okay whatever while the first card we get is expected to have

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two gpus we could see an eight GPU skew

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by 2023 that's a little much the dual

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GPU card will reportedly feature 32 gigabytes of crosspoint video memory

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over 6 000 stream processors per GPU

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and 8 terabytes of bandwidth for 699 dollars when it hits the market in june

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2020. wow uh considering the card is supposed to be flagshipped here the

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pricing seems relatively competitive which is sad to think about seven

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hundred dollars is affordable as long as it's RGB i'm in hell yeah dude can i say

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hell yeah and Intel's new gpus are no doubt

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getting a boost from the company's new hire tom peterson

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i think it's pete thomason right sorry pete thomason not to be confused with

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the tom peterson from cheap trick is that a band do you know what that is get

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better references john peterson has been a fixture at NVIDIA since 2015 where he

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was a top engineer and the director of technical marketing for team green's

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GeForce lineup Intel brought peterson on to join their game experience team which

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probably means that he'll be involved in helping get Intel's new discrete gpus to

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market next year this move isn't the first notable addition to Intel's

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fledgling discrete graphics team however as team blue also hired chris hooke a

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former marketing director at AMD and rival of peter pan that guy was born to

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be in marketing chris hook hey i got a hook for you

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long ago it was

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time for quick bits it wasn't long ago that the impossible

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burger was a hard to find luxury item but that looks to be changing in an

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announcement today that wasn't an april fool's prank burger king launched the

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impossible whopper aka

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the impassa whopper

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it'll show up in several dozen restaurants around the st louis area

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following impossible's partnership with white castle back in january it's good

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news but i hope impossible burger is noticing that the wider their

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availability spreads the less sense their name makes

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it's obviously possible once i don't like you today gmail is

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getting a very welcome feature that lets you schedule emails to be sent in the

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future if you don't feel like lighting up someone's inbox of weird times

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although you can accomplish this with third-party browser extensions it's

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always nice to see a cleaner native solution i'm going to be using it all

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the time to deliver positive messages to my co-workers right when they walk into

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the office about how they could make me look better on camera

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wow john wrote that but it's true i'm very selfish although we mentioned a

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notable Intel higher earlier folks farther down the food chain at the

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company are getting hit with layoffs particularly in it administration

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interestingly the layoffs don't seem to be about cost cutting but rather a

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restructuring as Intel reportedly is attempting to shift to having more of

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its operation in-house rather than handled by external contractors

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seems like for that scenario you'd need more people at your company not less but

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what do i know it's all relative yeah who am i tom peterson if you're

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interested in snagging a cut-rate pixel 2 you'll have to look to a reseller as

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google has just stopped selling the devices although the pixel 2 has only

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been on the market for about a year and a half it isn't super surprising as

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google is trying to get people to buy the shiny new pixel 3 instead personally

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i don't keep any new phone for more than two months before getting the latest

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thing i can otherwise my self-esteem starts to suffer

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you look less valuable and here's a reminder that even

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celebrities are susceptible to phishing scams as an american man recently pled

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guilty to charges stemming from a string of incidents in which he scammed

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entertainers and athletes out of their apple credentials accessing private

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information and stealing money it's unclear how much time he'll be looking

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at but maybe he can use his skills to sweet talk the prison commissary out of

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a few extra bags of doritos that's what i'm talking about well

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that's it for today guys there's no more words in front of the camera for me to

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read so come back wednesday where will sweet talk you

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into watching more tech news hopefully we don't have to sweet talk

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you hopefully it's entertaining enough

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sweet sweet sweet sweet sweets tend to see you later

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that was so nonsensical you know