ah yes yes it's there of james
NVIDIA just released their 20 series touring graphics cards and it may be
time for AMD to answer a number of sources have pointed out the likelihood
of team red launching 12 nanometer refreshes of their polaris gpus in
october Linux fan site forunix phoronix
i don't know spotted a new pci id in the latest kernel that's not listed anywhere
else and is part of the polaris family meanwhile chinese language site chip
hell chappelle i don't know is also talking about a new launch of radiant
cars next month since team green has only announced the rtx 2070 2080 and
2080 ti it might be a good time for AMD
to launch cards that would fill in the lower end gaps currently in NVIDIA's
lineup provided they're any good AMD
doesn't exactly have a stellar track record with their refresh launches but
they keep doing anyways so uh
such determination much perseverance inspiring i think we can all learn
something from that wow oculus held their oculus connect
conference today and actually announced something moderately exciting the 400 oculus quest
is the company's new wireless standalone vr headset meaning it doesn't require a
smartphone or a pc to work it's got two of the same controllers used in the
desktop tethered rift headset and built-in sensors so no external tracking
hardware is even required now the rift will still be the company's gold
standard vr experience but the quest is reportedly a big step up in quality from
the lower powered oculus go standalone device at the conference oculus also
announced new more realistic vr avatars hybrid professional apps that allow you
to work on a desktop and then switch to vr mode the addition of youtube vr to
oculus and the manifold a 360 degree
camera built by red in partnership with facebook that's a lot of companies it's
all very fancy but it still appears that the highest end wireless vr setup you
can get is an htc vive with a wireless adapter so i guess real life ready
player one will still have to wait it's a shame but the book is really good is
it actually not if you ask tyler you're reading it he's got problems i
like it but i'm on page 70. what do i know i heard it was bad you're bad
that's why i'm here
and a bunch of news about spotify has popped up this week perhaps the most
interesting tidbit is the fact that artists will now be able to upload their
music directly to the service bypassing
labels and distributors whoa doing so will be free and artists
will even get 100 of the royalties from playback make it rain baby make it rain
that kind of that looked weird it's unclear whether that'll be the case in
the future but for now that's a heck of a deal for music producers especially if
they already have an audience of their own and don't need labels to help them
market new releases what was the other news about spotify
well you can link your ancestry account to spotify so they'll create a playlist
based on your ancestral history which is that's dope i always wanted to
know what my great great great grandmother's favorite song was
it's probably a hymn yeah if they even had songs yeah
back then oh black and white music
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on to the quick bits on monday we reported that chrome had added mandatory
sign-in to the browser that sucked but google heard the backlash and has now
made signing into the browser optional hooray automatic sign-in will still be
on by default but you can switch it off in the settings not a perfect solution
but acceptable just like my hosting
and NVIDIA didn't announce when their rtx
2070 would launch when they unveiled the card up until now we didn't know when
NVIDIA's rtx 2070 would launch but now we know they have unveiled that the card
will be available october 17th which is also the same day that marijuana is
legalized across canada right on
ray tracing
the card will launch starting at 499 or
599 for the founders edition and if you can stand living without ray tracing
and that's tough you might almost certainly be better off looking for a
discounted 1080 ti but what do i know i'm just discount riley oh hey
they called me discount luke before on the WAN Show be nice to yourself yeah
it's okay oh hey it's gonna be okay
sony has finally caved to pressure from fans to allow cross-platform play
between the ps4 and other consoles maybe
sweet an open beta for fortnite has started allowing cross-platform gameplay
progression and commerce across the ps4 xbox one nintendo switch Windows 10 mac
and Android and iOS console players wanted to get pwned by
pc players that badly huh well don't worry because the laser train has no
brailing what is that your trick is that you yes
you're the you're the train a laser wow
it's a beam oh you can get on but you can't get off
speaking of consoles xbox is working with razer to implement keyboard and
mouse support in the coming weeks with racer also releasing new peripherals to
celebrate the news i guess this potentially invalidates
the last joke i made but uh we'll see what are you gonna do and
images of the lg v40 thin q or think as
the reasonable people pronounce it have leaked confirming that the phone does
indeed have five cameras three on the back and two on the front the phone is
expected to launch october third which is about a week before the google pixel
announcement made by google hardware event so
get wrecked google with a photo taking ability beyond anything humans have ever
seen that's what more cameras means right if
you have more cameras yeah that's better photos
yeah usually more photos you get five photos if you press the
button does that work it's five times better photos oh five times better
photos yeah automatically
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whoa that james guy is crazy