it's wednesday so wedge your eyeballs to the screen for a few minutes to catch up
on the tech news the sd association unveiled a new specification today
called sd express so imaginative which might actually give
SATA ssds a run for their money if you
can believe that not only will the new cards be capable
of transferring data at nearly one Gigabyte per second thanks to their use
of pci express and the NVMe protocol but
they can be built in capacities of up to 128
terabytes that is 32 times larger than
the most spacious consumer ssds today
and although a 120 terabyte sd card
might seem like overkill ever rising video resolutions and the internet of
things and ai devices like autonomous
cars might mean that we will see gadgets down the road
that can take advantage of them but no word yet of course on pricing or
availability get ready to see some more expensive
gaming monitors in the near future though NVIDIA g-sync has always been a
pricey add-on but NVIDIA has been rolling out a new version of the g-sync
module that can support HDR
currently they sit inside two gaming monitors one from ASUS and one from acer
that go for about two thousand dollars a
pop and a report from pc perspective indicates that the likely cost of the
HDR compatible module is somewhere around five hundred dollars
a full one-fourth of the retail price of
a 4k 120 or 144 depending on who you ask
hertz monitor this is a market increase from the 200 that regular g-sync modules
used to cost manufacturers speaking of the way things used to be
are you still rocking a phone with just dual back cameras like a chump thinking
man this just isn't enough well
no i'm not well you yes all dozens of
you might be interested in a phone with five cameras because
why not a report from Android police claims that
lg's next flagship phone will indeed have this many lenses possibly with two
in the front to enable depth detection for selfies and the like and then three
rear cameras for additional zoom or depth of field functionality and
not to be outdone their rival samsung is
also looking at a triple rear camera setup for its next top of the line
galaxy according to a report from korea based et news we are expecting to see
this new lg model later this year and while the galaxy might not arrive until
early 2019 i think we can all agree that
it's pretty funny that we're talking about a product called the galaxy from
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now on to the rapid small morsels the
iOS 12 public beta is now available for download welcome news for those who
wanted to try its plethora of new features without paying 99 for the less
polished developer preview the full version is expected in september just in
time for incredibly vain selfies with a backdrop of fall foliage
if you find yourself in south korea don't try to sell video game cheats as
one man who sold overwatch cheats for a total of about a hundred and eighty
thousand us dollars who is paying for game cheats
he was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence and two years of
probation although this shouldn't be that surprising considering that esports
are important enough over there to make up part of the
soul of korea oh wow who wrote this
don't look at me the state of florida is creating a
position for a so-called cryptocurrency
czar in order to figure out how financial
laws apply to bitcoin and other digital currencies
and to crack down on schemes involving crypto given the state's large retiree
population that they feel might be vulnerable to such scams
with all that said i don't know how much i trust a state government that
accidentally made all computers and smartphones illegal a few years back
your wi-fi might be getting a little safer as the wi-fi alliance just rolled
out wpa 3 the successor to the currently
widespread wpa2 security standard that
was thought to be quite secure until the
crack that's crack with a k vulnerability reared its ugly head back
in 2016. it also promises a way to choose easy to remember passwords so
that's great news because i guess i can keep using socks and sandals 6969
and for a bit of potentially disappointing news a report from germany
claims that some monitor manufacturers are using 4k panels in their 1440p
monitors when they're a little short on 1440p panels yes no
this might sound like a good idea like hey
extra case right but it's actually terrible because it
means that when you're running at what you think is the native resolution of
your monitor you are actually going to be like down sampling it which can cause
the entire image to be blurry especially for text and
don't expect to be been able to be able to enable 4k functionality somehow
because it is locked down in the firmware don't you just love
not being able to use the things that you don't own or that you do own i mean
i don't have one of those monitors i don't own it but maybe you do and that's
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