you know this show's kind of a big deal now we even have our own TechLinked
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jesse wait where are the rest of them you're not one person that's not
AMD released a new version of Radeon software on tuesday that brought support
for team red's long-awaited fidelity fx super resolution technology which is
supposed to help increase frame rates in games with minimal sacrifices to quality
isn't that how things normally work when you just change the settings and according to our very own Anthony fsr
basically succeeds 4k ultra quality looks the best while at lower qualities
things start to look a little mushy but the technology is free for anyone to
implement so hopefully we see the tech improve over time as it's included in
games that people will actually play and not godfall
unfortunately this release came alongside AMD dropping support for
Radeon gpus older than the 400 series as well as Windows 7 and any 32-bit
versions of that same operating system ah right when fsr may have made some old
gpus viable again there's something going on here i think these companies
want us to buy new things instead of keeping old things forever but they
won't let us buy the new things
it has to make sense microsoft has become the second company
in the world to reach a two trillion dollar market cap after apple hit the
milestone first back in august stop this trade please stop and no it's not
because of xbox games pass even though that's awesome it's because of growing
demand for the company's azure cloud services during the pandemic which is
all very interesting but i'd rather talk about the xbox stuff because microsoft
has begun rolling out series x hardware for use in xbox cloud gaming as noticed
by users who found new high quality options in certain games now you can
appreciate the prettier graphics as you die in game because your character threw
a grenade a full second too late the latency isn't that
bad yeah it's just i you tested them all they weren't that
bad the latency okay but for xbox players who prefer playing
off the physical console microsoft also announced three designed for xbox
monitors for from philips ASUS and acer
which will work great with an xbox and a ps5 and a pc and basically anything
because they're not designed for it they have xbox badges they're very fancy very
much yeah and john mcafee the notorious creator of
the mcafee antivirus software and international man of mystery has
reportedly been found dead in the barcelona prison where he was being held
did you not hear this the local justice department indicated it was likely a
suicide but the story is taking on an epstein-esque quality with many
theorizing that mcafee may still be alive the news broke mere hours after a
spanish court had approved mcafee's extradition back to the us for tax
evasion charges and mcafee has previously claimed that in the future if
it ever looks like he killed himself it was probably the government he also
faked a heart attack in guatemala one time to escape the authority so who knows what the heck is going on if i
ever die the meme lord may be gone but the meme
lives on hold on i gotta change my shirt real quick
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past the eu has prioritized protecting users from companies that collect their
data but now they're investigating google's flock system because it allows
google to hide user data from other advertisers well which is it europe i
guess the deal is that if your data is going to be collected then it has to be
collected equally by all parties i'm sorry we have to send these nudes to the
whole county it's only fair equal distribution if
you're tired of google's hijinks you might want to try out brave search which
was just launched by the makers of the privacy-focused brave browser and is
based on braves own index of the web independent from google's although if
brave search can't find what you're looking for it might still pull from
other engines including bing so just be aware you may have that on your
conscience interacting with bing in any way
epic games has made its easy anti-cheat and cross-platform voice chat services
available for free to all developers even if they release their games on
steam free games free services epic strategy for dominance seems to involve
waving free things in front in everyone's face until they finally like you and it might pay off although it
seems like the free thing that apple got was a lawsuit
square enix has fixed a bizarre bug in marvel's avengers that displayed the ip
addresses of playstation 5 players on screen which would make live streaming
the game somewhat dangerous if anyone was streaming marvel's avengers i've got
some zingers today they're not great but
it's unlike me and NVIDIA has released canvas it's ai powered app that
generates photorealistic landscape images from disgustingly simple doodles
barely resembling images you'll need an rtx GPU to use the app if you're looking
for a way to get a false sense of accomplishment i drew that
on the fridge see that would be nice because it's a
toddler hmm i guess that's the use case you totally finished watching this
episode nice job yeah come on fact on friday for more
tech news and the techlink hype squad will cheer you on even more
man we went from one to zero this is just it's going downhill here okay