look i'm not going to stand here and tell you that we're out of tech news because
we're not there's no reason i'd say
some of you may be tired of hearing about huawei but the scandal rages on
while the current controversy surrounds an american executive order banning
business with huawei some uk companies
have boarded the bandwagon ee and vodafone two of britain's largest
telecom companies have dropped huawei devices from their 5g launch plans and
british chip maker ARM has reportedly sent a memo to its staff with
instructions to suspend all business with the chinese company this move could
potentially prove to be the most disastrous since huawei's in-house kirin
processors are based on armed designs for which it pays license fees on the
software front things are looking a bit more promising huawei has said that
they're working with google on ways to mitigate the damage and the company is
reportedly making plans to debut its alternative os meant to replace Android
this fall there might even be legal measures that huawei could take in the us to argue the
ban is unconstitutional or otherwise illegal most coverage of the huawei
scandal though is focusing on what it means for huawei but there could also be
very negative effects for american companies like Intel qualcomm microsoft
and google who will be losing out on revenue they would otherwise collect
from huawei for licensing and component sales it all feels a bit like
overprotective parents not letting their kids play with each other if those kids
were also spying on the other kids toys and like collecting all their personal
kid data okay it's not a perfect analogy
AMD should call their upcoming CPU ryzen troll ripper yeah because if recent
leaks are to be leaved they might be up to their silly
naming shenanigans again this pr manager for graphics card oem sapphire has told
the chinese press that AMD will soon be revealing two new gpus based on the navi
architecture the avatar architecture the navi
the first one will have a full enabled xt chip with performance greater than
NVIDIA's rtx 2070 for 499 us the second
card will be a cut down version with performance greater than NVIDIA's rtx
2060 for 3.99 us but the real kicker
here is that some rumors claim these cards will be called the art x 3080 and
rx 3070 respectively and that's just
what that's wrong that's wrong AMD you've got some hard
thinking to do if this is true it's unclear when we'll see these gpus as
some rumors point to a launch at computex next week while AMD themselves
have already indicated that they'll present new products at their new
horizon gaming event at e3 in june either way it's not that far away and it
looks like we might be set for some big eye rolls give me a break here oh god
they got stuck up there and speaking of revolutionary new
hardware apple has quietly refreshed their macbook pro line with Intel 8th
gen and 9th gen processors complete with eight core options the company says the
new additions make macbook pro the world's best pro notebook which i'm sure
is true for some people alongside the upgrade for apple's laptops comes a
repair program for those same laptops which have suffered from the flex gate
display backlight issue and problems with the butterfly keyboard design
they're sticking with that hey apple says they've tweaked the keyboard a
second time to try to fix it and third time's the charm so there's there
definitely won't be any problems with this one swear to god it's definitely
not the general design that's the problem people just aren't using the
right or something yeah you know you're supposed to be a barista using it yeah
then it works
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google talked big about privacy at i o 2019 but the company just disclosed that
a small number of its g suite customers had their passwords stored in plain text
on the company's servers the blunder was caused by a faulty
password recovery feature implemented in 2005 that's a long time ago which has
since been removed and there's no evidence of improper access to the
affected passwords so the issue has apparently been fixed and google says
no consumer gmail accounts were affected but do we believe them
dewey i'm switching a huawei mail that's smart
the new Windows 10 may update is rolling
out although as part of microsoft's new cautious update strategy you probably
won't get it unless you specifically go check for updates and choose to install
it the update includes a new light theme
dark theme is so passe a new light theme the sandbox virtual
machine tool separated cortana and search functions new features for the
xbox game bar you ought to be 21 to enter
and most importantly the ability to pause
updates so you have to update to avoid future
updates you were so close microsoft tesla recently also updated its
autopilot software to allow lane changes without driver input so consumer reports
did a little testing end they were a little uh unimpressed
claiming tesla vehicles with the new update cut off other cars did not react
to brake lights or turn signals and improperly passed cars in the wrong lane
that's that's everything wrong that you can do they described using the new
system as being like supervising a child or a nascent artificial intelligence
oh i didn't know elon musk was in the car for these tests boom roasted oh i
see what you're saying there that's extraneous now the epic game store's problems persist
with reports that users are being blocked from purchasing too many games
in quick succession oh what a nice problem to have
of course people are doing this because the store doesn't have a shopping cart
system like steam where you can buy multiple games at once and not only that
a reddit user reported that after requesting a summary of the personal
information that epic has on them the company accidentally sent it to another
random person they apologized and the random person
swore they deleted the info so it's all good
no it's not epic how many epic fails can we endure
we're just humans several more probably and ford's vision
of the future of package delivery involves real-life pit droids from the
star wars prequels it's a lot of peace okay not exactly but they do have some
similarities to the digit robot which would arrive at a person's home folded
up in a van with a package the robot then unfolds itself picks up the package
delivers it to your door and then jumps back in the car and takes off like i
bought out of hell this would be a great option for robot delivery particularly
in the nicest white picket fence neighborhoods where riley grew up
because because if it's anywhere else these things are definitely going to get
pushed over and stolen or at least invited to tag football games
and it's time to push over this episode right right over the edge into the abyss
down into the void where my soul resides it's over folks
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