am i in focus you just don't even care do you your
face doesn't matter like this wow it's a holiday monday which means that as long
as you're not dennis or the guy who runs the company you get to
be at home but i'm here talking about tech news but hey it could be worse at
least i'm not the head of it at chip manufacturer tsmc which was hit hard
this weekend by a computer virus that was so bad they had to shut down their
factories tsmc is one of the world's largest chip manufacturers and handles
fabrication for big names like NVIDIA
and apple okay those are only like five and six digit names but but as big a
name as you could possibly think of that means that having this much downtime
could actually delay iphones and GeForce
graphics cards from hitting store shelves near you to make matters worse
it appears that the virus got loose after someone at the company was just
being careless while installing software
tsmc though has been rather cagey about the specifics which makes me wonder if
someone was visiting uh unauthorized websites
like linustechtips.com and also other ones
where you get viruses you don't get those there the official announcement for AMD's second generation thread
ripper chips has been announced who announces announcements who writes
this stuff anyway the new chips will be available in two products tiers each
containing two different tiers no models
excuse me models the x series will be marketed towards gamers and so-called
enthusiasts i think that's just an industry code word for people with more
money than sense with 12 and 16 core skus while the wx series will be
targeted at content creators and will be available with either 24 or 32 cores of
course AMD is quick to point out that by virtue of having more cores than more
expensive Intel competitors they beat out team blue and multi-threaded
applications for less money yet it should be noted that they will still lag
behind Intel a bit when it comes to gaming it'll be interesting to see what
independent benchmarks say when two of the chips are released later this month
with two more coming in october if you're a left-handed gamer you're
probably familiar with how frustrating it can be for you to find a gaming mouse
designed for lefties but razer is trying to give you another option by
crowdfunding a southpaw naga trinity
which is geared towards mmo and moba players with an interchangeable side
panel allowing the user to attach a different number of macro buttons
depending on which game they're playing razer says they're using kickstarter to
get the project off the ground because they're entirely out of that sweet
venture capital money no excuse me sorry they're saying because producing a left-handed mouse
isn't as simple as flipping the original design really they're seeking nearly a
million dollars by the end of august and so far less than 30 grand has been
pledged so if you're a left-hander that had your heart set on this you clearly
um don't exist because no one's no one's done it ambidextrous mice
they're they're a middle middle-of-the-road solution i guess
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pia it's got servers in 28 countries to help you get around geo blocking they've
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below dennis are you yawning back there the tech news is this boring today
okay wait wait pay attention because i got something big if you've been in the
market for an SSD or a laptop with an SSD built in well you might be in luck
because the prices of flash memory should continue to fall as the year goes
on thanks to oversupply caused by relatively low demand for smartphones
one analyst pointed out that this might be due to how similar current phones are
to each other lowering consumer excitement i mean wasn't emoji enough
for you it's got meme right in it on
that subject the pixel 3 and pixel 3 xl from google look like they are just
around the corner with a leaked advertisement revealing that the new
phones will either be revealed or released for sale on october the 4th the
leak was first spotted by youtuber brandon lee no not that one in an ad
directed towards canadian creative wait wait a minute
here's some good news for the cash strapped among you valve is going to
start putting flash sales back on the steam platform it'll be up to the
specific developer to determine how long any such sale would last with choices
from 6 to 12 hours so we'll see whether
this ends up being good for both gamers and vendors or if it'll just give us all
horrible feelings of buyer's remorse whenever we miss out finally so you know
how facebook keeps making the news for data leaks well they now want to add
your banking information to their messenger app
the idea is that messenger will be able to give account holders quick
information such as account balances and fraud alerts through the app
which does sound useful but i would hate for
some shady analyst to use my savings balance to try and figure out who i'm
going to vote for so i'm not sure how actually i'm 100 sure how i feel about
this i will not be signing up for that wow and guess what it turns out that the p
in Android p stands for pi as was announced today alongside its
release to pixel devices non-pixel phones will have to wait until later in
the year to receive the update over the air and just in case you're wondering
google is keeping with the dessert theme as an illustration from google shows the
adorable Android mascot enjoying a slice of what's obviously cherry pie and not
chicken pot pie unless those red lumps are actually
chicken hearts or something which does seem possible
anyway that's it for the news today so tune in wednesday for another serving of
delicious chicken hearts i mean excuse me tack linked with both a golden brown
crust and the savory filling that keeps you coming back for more dennis oh wait
that's just me isn't it more dennis