haven't gotten tired yet of the NVIDIA versus AMD fanboy wars in every comment
section everywhere well that's great because a new
challenger approaches and that challenger is none other than Intel who
just announced that their first ever
sort of discrete GPU is going to be hitting the market sometime in 2020. now
although Intel isn't exactly completely new to the world of graphics processing
with their integrated gpus having become a mainstay in pcs for a very long time
and as i alluded to before they did in fact have a discrete GPU back in 1998.
this news represents a significant pivot in Intel's business which started late
last year when Intel brought raja kaduri on board from AMD where he was in charge
of the development of their Radeon GPU line currently we don't have any details
no pricing no performance no branding we don't even know what color the shroud's
going to be but what we do know is that Intel is planning to roll out high-end
gpus whatever that means
and that's not the only major shake-up today as apple is rumored to get this
actually be ditching its proprietary
lightning connector
according to a report from digi times next year's new iphone will probably
support usbc instead of the lightning
connector that we've been stuck with since the release of the iphone 5 way
back in 2012. now this isn't confirmed
and this rumor is based on sources at the suppliers of the iphone's components
so it could just be a a big what's a word for a boondoggle a
boondoggle is that is that a could be a boondoggle chase but it might not be too
surprising considering that apple's macbooks have featured a single usb-c
port and nothing else for quite some time now so fingers crossed that this
rumor is true when iOS users won't have to keep buying cables that are not only
useless for anything except i devices but that break more easily than an
expensive gadget that Linus is trying not to drop really
and although washington dc has just dropped its 2015 net neutrality
protections following an fcc order washington state has become the first in
the union to tell a jeep pie to uh
go by himself like in the face with its
own state level net neutrality law taking effect earlier this week the
state of washington was actually quite proactive on the matter having passed
the law around three months ago in anticipation of the new federal rules so
the protections are the usual fare of a ban on blocking or slowing down certain
services as well as making paid fast
lanes unlawful for any isp providing
service in washington more states are expected to follow suit in the near
future though the fcc will probably be taking any states that pass similar laws
to court because i guess they just really like bad press
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all right so the big story in the gaming world right now is that nintendo has
finally announced super smash bros ultimate for the switch and this is huge
it will feature every character that has ever fought in a smash bros game except
waluigi but like anyway they're bringing the total number
of playable characters to 65 once the game drops on december 7th a huge number
and only a little bit disappointing because just waluigi and three more
would have been pretty nice and wouldn't it be nice if you could cram more memory into your laptop lenovo
certainly thinks so as they just announced a new thinkpad that will
feature up to 128 gigs of RAM really
it's aimed at workstation users but
it'll also enable uh terrible habits like opening up hundreds of needless
browser tabs all at once which is uh
making me feel pretty warm and fuzzy right now speaking of browsers the only
way to get a chrome extension after this year will be to install one through the
official web store google is removing the ability to install extensions from
elsewhere on all platforms even in the
developer options by the end of this year so this move is intended to help
with malware prevention but you might have to forget about that you know
homebrew auto pirated video downloader 9000 extension that you were cooking up
in your basement just kidding you probably weren't but
mcafee recently announced that it discovered that cortana could be a
vector for those aforementioned basement hackers as it was revealed that the
digital assistant could be exploited to run malicious code from the lock screen
though since we know Windows pcs don't exactly become impregnable just by
locking them it might not be that surprising to you but microsoft is
working on it anyway and has released a patch for the issue so go download it to
keep cortana from spilling all of the juicy little secrets that you've told
her finally if you're one of the lucky folks who owns an autonomous car please
please please make sure you're still paying attention tesla is updating its
autopilot system to nag drivers even
more often who aren't holding the steering wheel after a number of
accidents resulting from what tesla described as carelessness on the part of
drivers so it looks like elon musk is about to find out whether accident risk
or annoying ux will be a bigger drag on
his bottom line speaking of bottom lines that's the
bottom line for today and we'll see you again friday for all the news that's fit
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