hey guys welcome back been keeping some tech news nice and warm for you come on
where were you keeping it warm that's not important if you want to make
your gtx graphics card run a little warm
you can install the latest driver and try and run ray tracing yep after
promising they do so NVIDIA has enabled support for rtx features in last gen
pascal cards anything higher tier than the six gig version of the gtx 1060 and
the gtx 1660 will be able to try their hand at ray tracing despite their lack
of dedicated rtx hardware NVIDIA has released some benchmark numbers
alongside the driver which shows that while a 1080 ti might get you somewhat
playable frame rates using medium ray tracing settings as a whole rtx on older
cards is not super recommended what NVIDIA recommends is buying an rtx card
yeah i think that should get you the best graphics and probably make you
better at games and get more kills in the popular battle royale game yeah that
should do it oh it happens to cost more too yes oh yeah but that's just what you
need if you want to test it out for yourself and don't have a game that supports rtx you can download NVIDIA's
star wars based demo for free speaking of star wars what well
did you did you see him palpatine is a skywalker
oh no you spoiled it have you not seen the trailer yet
okay but that's not in the trailer i just made that up the episode 9 trailer
isn't the only thing papa disney dropped today we got details about the upcoming
disney plus streaming service it will cost 6.99 a month a major power move
after netflix upped the price for their most popular plan from 11 to 13
i mean don't get me wrong i like netflix but as much as i don't like the fact
that disney went and made their own service pixar marvel disney plus new tv shows
for those franchises and a ton of backlog to delve into riley it's seven
dollars because no adults are gonna pay more for their kids shows than their own
shows that's a good point grow up riley i love pixar look i'm not gonna buy it
right away guys okay never pre-order but who's the skywalker is that what they're
gonna call the new jedi is that the thing what is it okay back to some actual tech
news at their next at acer event in new york the company announced a whole bunch
of new products acer did that is first off the predator helio 700 gaming laptop
which features a 17 inch ips display full size rtx 2080 and the hyperdrift
keyboard which slides down to expose cooling fans and also forms a wrist rest
yeah interesting next up is the concept
d line which is meant for creative professionals and includes fancy wood
panel desktops and monitors plus convertible laptops with swiveling
screens like the concept d9 acer also
unveiled the predator cg437k a 43-inch 4k 144 hertz display which is
a smaller cousin to acer's existing 65 inch bfgd but this is an lfgd it's not
big it's it's large what it's vented now that's large that's a
tall tv it's a venti tv and finally there's the upgraded ojo mixed reality
headset with twin 2160 by 2160 displays
the same configuration as hp's reverb headset nice acer we get it okay you
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five please facebook are you dumb
seriously facebook has just been awarded a patent for a system that would use ai
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companies to use an ads on facebook so if you had a photo of yourself drinking
a coke facebook would offer that photo to coca-cola who would pay facebook to
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it a bad sign that this kind of thing just does not surprise me anymore when
will you learn when will you stop it japanese tech company sharp has shown
off a few interesting display technologies today including an
all-in-one pc with a 32-inch 8k HDR
display with a 120 hertz refresh rate
and it's not even a prototype either this will be a commercial aio you can
buy i don't know what kind of GPU it's running but geez sharp also showed off a
folding phone prototype that folds down to half smartphone size instead of
folding out to tablet size like those motorola
razer reboot patents we saw a while back after spacex did successfully launch and
retrieve the three separate boost stages of the falcon heavy that happened
yesterday they delayed it nasa has decided to work with the company on the
double asteroid redirection test or dart
it's a mission intended to launch a spacecraft at the near-earth asteroid
didimos as a trial run for defending earth from potential asteroids on a
collision course the mission is set for 2022 so hopefully bruce willis has a gap
in his schedule or i doubt this will work speaking of space space ill and
israeli space flight startup has announced that their bereshit spacecraft
has failed to make a soft landing on the moon and instead crashed into it at 130
meters per second after its main engine failed the project
was built on a shoestring budget of 100 million dollars a small budget of 100
million and was an attempt to win google's lunar x prize which they
apparently qualified for despite the crash google gave them one million bucks
sorry your lander crashed here's one million dollars and researchers at mit have developed
row cycle a robot with a sense of touch that it will use to sort recycling into
different categories hey that's pretty good huh james james loves recycling
rose cycle can sort things with 85 accuracy when objects are stationary but
63 accuracy when objects are moving like on a conveyor belt way better than
people is it oh so they got some work to
do to get the bot ready for prime time and if they can't do that then it will
be recycled ooh the irony and that's it for this episode
of tech link guys thanks for watching we'll see you back here on monday for
more tech news unless you have other plans which is fine but you can watch
the video anytime so that's not really an excuse i'll be waiting