whoa tech news now that's cool samsung
has gifted the world with a vision of our inevitable future the folding phone
yes the royale flex pie was technically the first one to see daylight but we can
probably safely forget about that at their developer conference this morning
samsung showed off their device although it had some sort of protector around it
and the lights were dimmed to only show the basic design it was all very
mysterious but it's essentially a small tablet style screen that folds in half
to reveal another screen on the outside and it looks actually pretty cool the
crease in the screen seems to disappear when it's open
samsung and google are apparently working together on Android updates that
will accommodate what google has dubbed foldables and samsung also demoed big
changes it's making to its custom Android skin called one ui that should
make operation easier on folding and big screen phones but samsung also teased
new screen designs the notched infinity u and infinity v the infinity o with a
floating camera and the notchless new infinity it would be cool if they solved
the notch problem in their own way but right now i feel like slider phones are the answer
i mean and i like feeling like i'm in the matrix movies that's always a bonus a
couple days ago Intel announced a 48 core xeon processor built on the 14
nanometer process and AMD was like oh that's oh that's
that's nice look what they did though that's wonderful
and then they were like whoa bam
and announced a 64 core epic processor
built on the seven nanometer process
the second gen chip named the epic roam will support multi-threading for a total
of 128 threads double the amount of the first-gen epic naples processor rome
uses a chiplets design sounds cute which pairs zen 2 CPU modules built on the 7
nanometer process with io components built on the 14 nanometer process which
will apparently lower the cost and make chip binning easier AMD also announced
the first two accelerator cards to use their previously announced 7 nanometer
vega GPU the Radeon instinct mi 60 and
mi 50. they're geared towards enterprise applications like machine learning and
apparently rather than taking that GPU and challenging NVIDIA in the gaming
space they're leaning into the blockchain so they're pushing GPU mining
modules for cryptocurrency yay
oh AMD that 64 core chip though really
great huh let's remember the good times guys
and if you were depending on hardware encryption to protect your data time to
use something else because apparently some ssds from at least samsung and
crucial but possibly more vendors do not encrypt data properly and don't even
have password protection okay but Windows bitlocker should still manage
encryption so at least you got protection there except no you don't
because bitlocker defaults to SSD encryption when it's available samsung
and crucial have both been notified and samsung has advised users to use
third-party software instead of hardware encryption or bitlocker until a fix is
released or hey you know what spread the love don't encrypt it all there's
probably loads of people who would benefit from reading your data go ahead
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doesn't want that i guess onto the quick bits qualcomm has
been a leader in mobile technologies particularly 5g networking and now
they'll have to share as a u.s federal judge has ruled that the company will
have to license its technology to rivals such as Intel and samsung that's going
to be a little awkward after the plentiful lawsuits between those
companies but i'm sure they can work it out you know start low and then
work your way up to hugs a company called furhat for some reason has
unveiled the world's most advanced social robot which consists of a head
that can look around and display facial expressions through light projection
this is great i mean boston dynamics are making robots that do amazing things
with their body and these guys made the head they can be like a
lamer voltron and i'll form the head
security researcher doug midori has discovered that for two and a half years
internet traffic from the us was directed by international communications
company china telecom to pass through china before it arrived at its
destination in violation of the internet's border gateway protocol it's
unclear whether the misdirect was intentional or not but regardless it is
concerning midori is looking further into the story along with other
researchers potentially even more concerning is the fact that sk hynix has
unveiled the world's first 96 layer 4d nand flash despite it having nothing at
all to do with 4d in the dimensional sense
what okay the the 40 apparently refers to the combination of 3d ctf or charge
trap flash design paired with periphery
undercell technology which somehow adds up to 4d
i'd say it needs the mist in your face or vibration in your seat to be truly 4d
otherwise it's nonsense did you ever do 4d in the theater
yeah you know what i'm talking about brandon knows
and after physics bugs in the fallout 76 beta were linked to manipulation of the
game's frame rate bethesda has released a fix which amounts to locking the
game's frame rate to 63. for some reason and capping the field of
view to 80 in third person and 90 in first person yep instead of changing the
fact that the game physics are linked to frame rate in the engine let's just lock
the frame rate talk about a band-aid solution
Linus was really upset about this but the tears just aren't coming for me but
maybe that's because this episode is over but don't you cry now there will be
more tech news on friday and we'll be here to give it to you gently
can you wait i i get that sounds weird
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