riley why do you do so much tech news i never met a tech news i didn't like it
seems like the number of cores we can get on our home pcs has been rising
rapidly the past few years or should i say risin
oh i love that joke and it looks like AMD is going to be pushing the envelope
yet again turns out those leaks about the threadripper 3990x were true because
AMD has now officially announced the chip it'll arrive next year with 64
physical cores and 128 threads the chip
is also expected to have a TDP of 280 watts so you'll need quite a bit of
cooling horsepower to keep the CPU from getting too hot of course i don't think
there's going to be that huge of a home market for a chip with that many cores
and AMD itself even says they're targeting hollywood type content
creators with a new release but you can always buy the chip anyway and create
a massive dent in your bank account as it'll probably go for at least two grand
you hollywood types i mean it'll be expensive but it'll be so fulfilling
like that massive hole in my finances i did that google has responded to a major
criticism of its new stadia cloud gaming platform which has come under fire since
its recent launch for missing features and a relatively small game library
there's that too one of those complaints has been over the resolutions and frame rates gamers
are actually getting instead of the 4k60 that was promised for many titles games
are running at either 1080 or 1440p sometimes at frame rates lower than 60.
i mean destiny 2 even runs at a lower resolution than it does on console plus
graphics settings for stadia seem to be set at around medium instead of high or
ultra even though the gpus used by stadius servers are according to google
way beefier than the ones in the xbox one x and ps4 pro in their response
google's basically passed the buck onto developers saying it's up to them to
achieve the best image quality and frame rate and the devs will continue to
improve those things on stadium without the need for game patches or downloads
so games will look better later google
promises so the fact that the tesla cyber trucks Windows were shattered with
a metal ball during its launch event is the talk of the internet at the moment
huh yikes let's give it a single yike except
they broke two Windows elon musk himself has an explanation for
just went wrong with the truck's supposedly shatterproof Windows it turns
out that before the ball was thrown the truck's lead designer took a
sledgehammer to the door which we all saw to show off how tough it was and
while the door itself looked no worse for the wear the impact actually cracked
the bottom of the glass weakening it and setting tesla up for a gigantic egg on
its face moment of course the back window shattered as well even though
that door wasn't hit with a hammer but maybe tesla's designs are just too
advanced for us mere mortals to understand fully this is really strong
we should have got the other guy to throw the ball we got our strongest guy
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although the decline of the desktop pc market has left some gamers wondering
what might become of their favorite hobby it looks like the actual higher
end of the market that includes gaming pcs is doing fine as a new report has
shown that discrete graphics cards are now in over 32 percent of pcs up over
five percent in just one quarter in all add-in board shipments are up over 42
percent i guess it helps that all those crypto miners aren't inflating demand
anymore those rascals those scallywags
john love john's vocabulary was cools although Intel has looked like it's
given up trying to be a player in the 5g smartphone scene the company is now
going to try and bring 5g to pcs instead
in a partnership with mediatek Intel will be creating 5g modems for desktops
and laptops which we should start seeing in 2021 as we hopefully move toward a
future without all those messy wires maybe stadia will be a bit better over
5g i don't know it can only help if you're a skilled bug pirate google's bug
bounty program pogram program is now offering a cool million dollars if you
can find a weakness in its titan m security chip which features inside its
pixel 3 and pixel 4 smartphones there are smaller but still quite princely
bounties for other Android vulnerabilities so get hacking and maybe
you won't have to rent out your basement to those weird smelling tenants just to
pay your mortgage anymore just kidding this is vancouver
you still have to do it yep if you're living in or visiting london
you may not see ubers on the streets in the near future the city has decided not
to renew uber's license as it has a history of operating unlicensed and
uninsured vehicles in the area uber plans to appeal and can offer rides in
the meantime but if the worst happens
i mean what will people do what did you do before uber wait
take a lift
and if you want to snag a decent deal on a well-reviewed mini console the sega
genesis mini can be had for 50 bucks as an early cyber monday offer available at
a number of major chain stores it comes with 42 games but notably no sonic 3.
rumor has it that it has something to do with the fact michael jackson was
involved with the music i guess he didn't have gamers in mind
when he said don't stop till you get enough
awkward and we don't want you to stop until you get enough tech news but
that's what we got to do right now so come back on wednesday and then we
won't stop then wait no one invited me to be on tackling dogs too short