you know what Riley I I don't know what it is but I'm just feeling a little
extra super today like there's a bit of
more clock in my step NVIDIA shill yes
lonus Media Group parent company NVIDIA released the GeForce RTX 260 super and
2070 super yesterday after much teasing
leaking and eyebrow wiggling Anthony did a
review over on our lonus Tech tips channel so go check that out and
definitely buy line is Tech tip shirt but here's the summary NVIDIA is
discontinuing the original 2070 and 2080
and replacing them with the 2070 super
and 2080 super so the current gen lineup
goes rtx2060 RTX 2060 super RTX 2070
super RTX 2080 super and RTX 2080
TI nons super the new cards are bringing
performance boost of up to 25% compared
to their predecessors while keeping the same price points although the rules are
not Harden fast because the 2060 super is actually $50 more than the vanilla
2060 and I guess that is going to make it even harder for AMD to make a dent in
the market with the release of the upcoming Radeon 5700 and 5700 XT on July
7th this Sunday it is nice to see NVIDIA
give us more performance
for free sorry I coughed on the script
there and that they definitely weren't just holding extra pockets in their back
performance cards this whole time and only giving it to us now because AMD has
a competitive product coming out wow made it you made that make sense sort of
large parts of the internet have had trouble staying accessible in the past
couple of days Cloud flare experienced a major server overload yesterday that
caused multiple sites to go down including Discord Okay
Cupid pelaton and coindesk the overload
was caused by a bad software deploy
according to cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince which we're pretty sure means
that someone accidentally threw a USB key at the server 10 internet points if
you get the reference the issue was fixed within 30 minutes but then today
more connectivity issues have been affecting social platforms worldwide
including Facebook Instagram WhatsApp and Twitter at at the time of writing
the companies were looking into possible causes and fixes but there was one side
bonus at least for some users photos on Facebook were replaced with the tags
assigned to them by the AI so like a photo of me it's like one person spiky
hair stuck in '90s thanks for that and
Apple has rolled out a feature to the iOS 13 developer beta that is both nice
and kind of creepy FaceTime can now
alter video of your face so it looks as though you are staring directly into the
camera even if you're looking slightly down at the screen the feature is that's
actually really cool the feature is only available on the iPhone 10s and 10s Max
so it most likely uses a combination of those devices camera Tech and widely
available deep fake techniques some users who have tried it out report that
it's awesome to have a conversation that seems more natural thanks to proper eye
contact but wonder if the other person
is really looking at them like am I even looking at you right now I mean right
now I'm not I'm looking at Riley but but
now I am or am I epic games has made
many a gamer salty with their Relentless
drive to acquire exclusives for the epic
game store particularly for crowdfunded games that were previously platform
agnostic well epic is trying to mitigate the damage somewhat by paying for
refunds to backers of games like shenmu
3 so the developer won't be hurt by fan
backlash to me this is really a bit like starting a fire using dollar bills and
then hosing down the fire by smothering
it with more money yeah it's inefficient and expensive it makes sense but it
might just work speaking of just working you might want to cancel any upcoming
work trips to the shinjang region of
China as multiple reports claim the Chinese border officials have been
confiscating Travelers phones and and returning them with a surveillance app
installed the app may be used to scan phones for Content contempt for the
Chinese government excuse me for Content deemed Dangerous by the Chinese
government now as for myself I only trust my government to violate my
privacy also the US government and probably the Chinese government too so
so all of that a big no no mhm speaking of privacy violations Amazon has
divulged that Alexa voice recordings may be kept on file by the company even
after a user requests that they be deleted transcripts of the recordings
may be used for training voice assistants and they are get this not
anonymized see this would be scary but I
know Alexa and I know that she would never do anything nasty with my
information uh you don't know Alexa like
I do okay 5G has already rolled out to a
few places in America but now the EU is
getting in on the action vone has rolled out their 5G Network in 27 cities across
Europe so we're going to have to see whether the UK's weather satellites get
screwed up by the interference not that they need them we all know it's just
always rainy in the UK and Microsoft has been teasing
something to do with Windows 1.0 on their social feeds without really saying
anything about what it means could this be a special classic edition release of
the first version of Windows well there's a lot of 80s imagery um and then
stranger things season 3 releases on Netflix tomorrow so if I had to guess
I'd say it's going to be a tie-in of some kind whoa yeah this is the most am
ambitious crossover of all time Microsoft hold my beer Etc upside down
Edition and that's quite enough Tech news for one day let's not overdo it you
know too much of a good thing is still too much and uh sub subscribe to
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