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why would I want to go outside I got all the tech news I need right here tastes

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good Dennis so we're all stuck inside for a while but at least it's a good

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time to catch up on whatever videos you like to watch right well if you're in

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Europe you might notice there's something off about your visual binge

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watching experience as Netflix Amazon and YouTube are all reducing video

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quality after European Regulators noted that more people sitting at home

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streaming highres video could put strain on networks whatever that's what I'm

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paying you for Netflix is keeping high def and 4K streams available but is

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reducing bit rates similar to Amazon Prime videos approach while YouTube is

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defaulting to 480p within the European Union for 30 days 480 hey we're just

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going back to uh standard unsubscribe to this porn website

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quality it looks like YouTube is still allowing you to switch back to a higher

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quality manually but it's unclear exactly how much quality loss the

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average user will perceive on the service you know normies let us know in

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the comments if you've noticed a difference over in Europe you know other

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than the world being cancelled if you look out your window you just see like

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test tone it's canceled NVIDIA made a huge deal about Ray tracing when they

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debuted their RTX series gpus but of course developers had to write games

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that supported it first before you and I could enjoy it all the Sparkles but you

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may be seeing more of them in the near future as Microsoft has rolled out

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direct X12 ultimate which supports new raate tracing methods that are expected

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not only to run more efficiently but be easier and more flexible for developers

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developers developers one cool feature is that while raate tracing the Shader

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on your GPU won't have to talk directly to the CPU as much ultimately putting

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less of a load on your PC the new direct X is being supported by both NVIDIA and

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AMD and it's also expected to be used by developers working on games for the new

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Xbox series X so you can at least have some nice looking games if the outbreak

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has hurt your dating life and dating is no game developers developers developers

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developers developers on that subject you're definitely not alone if you've

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been spending the Lion Share of your time during the pandemic sitting inside

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gaming alone this week Verizon announced that us residents had played 75% more

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video games than the previous week 75 with web traffic overall going up by 1

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that's crazy actually well makes sense now they have the time to get more head

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shots head shots live streaming is also getting a big boost with twitch

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experiencing a 10% increase in traffic as people attempt to find ways to

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socialize without going outside of course some of us were already quite

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good at that anyway funnily enough more mainstream social media sites didn't see

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a traffic increase since I guess people don't have much to post about except for

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those memes about toilet paper hoarding yeah can we stop that now it's old now

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but you know I would leave my house for the quick bits hey if you need more

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games to play during the pandemic but are short on cash check out good old

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games as gog.com has put together a new list of free old school games for you to

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play and they're also DRM free sick a lot of them are from before the year

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2000s so uh Jake if you're watching check it out if you want a bit of

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nostalgia or if you want to just go back in time because you were born after the

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year 2000 as with many Gatherings the game developers conference got cancelled

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but it's still on scheduled to be held this year it was originally supposed to

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take place this month but new dates of August 4th through 6th are now on the

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calendar out in San Francisco with registration to open in the near future

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though I still might uh I you got to be

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able to get a plane ticket you know if you are planning to pass the time with silly Instagram post to your friends you

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might be a little disappointed to know that you might not see any new filter

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options for a while Facebook has sent many of its human reviewers home from

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work so there won't be anyone around to approve new effects for the time being

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which sucks because I was really looking forward to making my head look like a

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big one company that's not on board with the shutdowns is GameStop at least the

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locations outside of California as the company has told its employees to tell

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the cops they're an essential business their stated rationale is that GameStop

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sells things that can assist with distance learning and remote work and so

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they need to stay open uh for the time being while many Americans are working

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or studying from home I'm sure this is in no way related to them trying to make

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money off of people that really want to use their quarantine time to play games

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like Animal Crossing and doom probably they're relaxing this is essential I

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need to make my garden perfect Tom Nook

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needs me and razor razor razor has been

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known for making a few offbeat products like that Infamous toaster but now

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they're pressing some of their production capacity into service to make paper masks to help the stop the spread

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of the Corona virus the company plans to make and donate a million masks but it's

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unclear whether each one will also come with a free leather jacket but it's

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unclear whether each one of them will also come with a free uh noise maker I I

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mean razor blade oh got that's it for

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today guys we're going to blast off so have a safe and lonely weekend and come

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back on Monday to join your real friends your virtual luxurious Tech friends from

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abroad we love you you're all I have