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information about their nextg gpus except their names has only made everyone more curious about them a lesson they already would have learned had they ever brought a bag of nuts into the squirrel pen you get you guys don't have those even AMD's GPU board Partners seem confused about what's going on powercolor allowed Leo and the kit Guru team to look at their RX 970s while pretending that they weren't come in Matt come close and look at the invisible non-existent graphics cards meanwhile Tom's Hardware seems to have inadvertently published a photo of the the navi 48 chip powering the gpus leading leaky Twitter guy David Wong to estimate the die size at around 390 mm squared which is slightly larger than the ad 103 chip powering NVIDIA's RTX 480 we have gotten one concrete piece of information though ASUS revealed both RX 970 variants have 16 GB of vram which they apparently weren't supposed to reveal as they took down the page shortly after AMD is kind of acting like that friend who 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use code TechLink to check out Dear journal the smart toilets found me and said they'd let me live if I gave them quick bits I said never and now I'm dead lesson learned all right time for good oldfashioned wacky CES stuff Swip it has unveiled a machine that can essentially reload your phone's battery with a fully charged one in about 2 seconds although it's not your phone's internal battery swipp its's link case compatible with iPhone and Android has a battery inside which is swapped out for a fresh one when you dip it into the Hub a toaster looking device that stores and charges extra batteries when it all looks pretty Sleek in swipp its's marketing materials but as demonstrated by Allison Johnson from The Verge it actually sounds like a 20-year-old printer but that's a small price to pay to avoid buying anker's new solar panel beach umbrella which is build as an alternative to lugging a battery back up to the beach I mean maybe you're supposed to be touching grass but there's no 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wait till you see Robo Rock's vacuum with a robot ARM in it but not right now that's for the that's for the weirdest Tech at CES episode on Friday I'm saving it a company called Halliday showed off their smart glasses which estu more popular wave guide built-in displays for their own Digi window design it can be controlled either by voice or a control ring on your finger which can of course summon an AI agent I'm sure there's more cool things about these glasses but I was so distracted by the voiceovers in the trailer I think it's retro Revival people want that nostalgic feel but with a modern twist that's the one I love it let's explore some design concept and Chinese car company byd has shown off their Yang Wang un9 electric sports car apparently it means like admire or something so I a fair you know anyway they showed off the car bunny hopping over obstacles at 120 kmph including a sizable pothole a bunch of spikes and worst of all a chalk rainbow wouldn't want to disappoint the 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