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you up to this weekend the pizza party oh that's cool because amd decided their
friday plans involved launching a ridiculous four thousand dollar desktop
cpu with no real competitor
no the threadripper 3990x is the first
64 core processor for the high-end desktop space and it's available now
for 3990 us dollars apparently it's in a
league of its own as intel's closest competitor in terms of price is the xeon
w3275 with a mere 28 cores
get out of here bush league and it's also 500 bucks more expensive and
doesn't come near the 3990x in terms of performance so go away the one big issue
as linus and anthony explained in the full review over on ltt is that it's
limited to 256 gigs of memory which hey
that seems like a lot to normies like us but for the market that this chip is
targeting that's actually kind of low with other hed cpus supporting up to one
terabyte of ram so i guess this is the part of amd's story where they're kind
of going a bit mad with power you know they're buying fancy sport cars mansions
and uh-oh maybe some mistakes are made that anger the wrong type of people and
the stage is set for like a scarface style shootout you know you gotta be
careful here elisa all right oh yeah that's yeah that's not good
motorola has officially launched the new razer phone with a foldable display and
um things aren't looking too hot one of the first questions people will always
ask about any foldable devices it's how durable it is and the razer is putting
up a not great showing so far in-store
models are showing vertical lines across the screen as well as just straight up
broken displays and a fold test by cnet
found that after 27 000 folds the hinge
mechanism started clicking weirdly and resisted being folded now hey that's
like a day for me yeah well you'll find out here in a second now that sounds
like a lot of folds but apparently the average iphone user unlocks their phone
to facetime their barista around 80 times a day so 27 000 folds that
translate to about a year of use a day for james look i'm not writing the thing
off yet but it's 1500 bucks
i wanted to at least stand up to me throwing at the wall in frustration
every time i try to check the sports ball scores and facial recognition
startup clearview ai is being told to back off by tech giants like facebook
google and linkedin you see clearview has built a database of faces based off
publicly available photos on social media they say that such a database can
help and has helped law enforcement to quickly identify persons of interest
however the tech big boys think that scraping faces this way violates their
policies and have demanded that clearview stop the practice with
linkedin going so far as to send a cease and desist letter but clearview says
they're perfectly within their rights to catalog publicly available photos since
americans have a first amendment right to public information and really what
they're doing isn't that different from what google does index and direct people
towards the information they're searching for which on the one hand is
like yeah okay fine but on the other hand it's
like yeah really though not really i'll see you at
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it's evergreek with amd knocking it out of the park
right now everyone's starting to turn on intel even apple code from the latest
mac os beta contains references to several amd processors including picasso
renoir and van gogh apus it's a vertical
renaissance everybody cheered when ea brought their
games back to steam after keeping them locked on their own origin store for a
while but now the cheering has died down
because the prices for ea games on steam has been jacked up in the uk canada
europe brazil and russia in some cases the steam prices are double the origin
ones well frankly i'm thinking uh i'm thankful for
this because i was confused for a bit there are we supposed to hate ea or not
i know i do well i'm right back with i'm right back with you
come on whoa look at this crazy thing it's a
laptop called the peevo book with a screen that can rotate from landscape to
portrait mode it's made by taiwan's compile electronics which usually they
usually don't make their own laptops so we may see designs like this coming soon
from companies like dell or hp this is gonna be for like when the smartphone
generation kids are in the workforce and then everyone's just typing on like
smartphone laptops vertical screens so they can
check their snapchats and spreadsheets at the same time chrome is rolling out
new features that allow users to block select ads deemed too heavy or intrusive
and you can also block those pop-ups that ask you to enable notifications
because why would i stop asking
but in case you forgot chrome is also taking away features namely flash later
this year so thankfully flashpoint is a huge archive of thousands of flash games
that you can download yourself if you want to just pretend that you never aged
past 14 for a little bit and big news james
ford has created a jacket for cyclists that can display emoji on the back
cool right the jacket can signal to cars what the
cyclist intends to do like turn or slow down
it can anything you want but it can also display the writer's mood you can put
like spaces on it like oh happy face sad face but who's gonna be riding around
telling like everyone that you're having a bad day like watch out
did you see the season finale
all right and i have to say no thanks what tomorrow tech news for today
because this episode's over and i can't talk anymore clearly so i'll see you
next time hopefully i'll be more eloquent i'm sorry