tech news moves fast so let's just take a minute and rediscover our zen
there it is right in my sacrum
chakras chakras riley AMD's launch of the rx
5600 xt this week has been
not so zen to say the least while we gave it a pretty good reception here at
LTT that looks promising that looks very
promising some issues have since sprung up
concerning the card's performance boosting v BIOS updates which AMD
released to board partners after the launch while most of the BIOS updates
are easy enough to install the problem is that not all cards boost equally some
cards get boost to GPU clocks and memory while others don't the rog strikes top
from ASUS and the MSI gaming z are the only variants from those companies whose
memory can be boosted to 14 gigabits per second up from 12. and all this is
happening while the evga rtx 2060 ko
which is an NVIDIA card was discovered by gamersnexus to have a tu-104 inside
the same GPU as the rtx 2080 so users
could potentially get up to a 47 performance boost
in productivity apps not gaming per se so that combined with the 2060s price
drop is putting a bit of a damper on what was supposed to be a pretty good
launch week guys for AMD's rx 5600 xt
it's just it's not fair my pelvic floor is angry rocket league
players on macs and Linux are also pointing out some unfairness this week
all 12 of them because the game's developer psyonix who
was recently acquired by epic games announced that multiplayer support on
mac and Linux will be removed after our final patch in march
but it's okay guys all dozens of you you
can still play local split screen and train against bots
yeah you're not interested well fine psyonix says you can get a refund
however reddit users report that no one actually seems to be getting refunds
when they ask for them apparently because of a mismatch between psyonix
and steems's steamses refund policies
psionics says they're removing multiplayer support on mac and Linux
specifically as part of an initiative to add new technologies to the game
i know i made fun of the small player base a second ago
but for those 12 people if you're still here listening this has got to suck
time to get a Windows pci yes hey hey
and despite the eu literally just
announcing they were considering a ban on facial recognition london's
metropolitan police have begun rolling out the technology oh wait but are they
even in the eu london they're getting facial recognition in public spaces live facial
recognition or lfr will be enabled in key areas throughout the city scanning
the faces of civilians in an attempt to detect wanted criminals all you unwanted
criminals we don't care about your face the police
say any images that don't trigger an alert will be deleted immediately and
that it will be up to the officers whether to stop someone based on a
potential match that's reassuring until the officers themselves are ai
while far no doubt has the potential to catch suspects the solution being used
by met police was previously found to have an inaccuracy rate of 81 percent
which is pretty high as in it was wrong uh
four out of five times we might as well get gregor from alfrest
and to point out who he thinks is a bit dodgy i don't know this
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so check it out well we're back for some quick bits okay AMD had a tough week
with the Radeon thing but ryzen is still going strong against Intel however team
blue might not be dead in the water just yet a leaked geekbench result shows a
quad core tiger lake u processor that's
a mobile part outscoring the ryzen 9 3950x in single core performance by a
decent margin Intel what do we do
when we fall off the horse kill it and eat it if you're in
oh sonos had a tough week of their own
everybody's just getting screwed here the company faced backlash from users
concerned that their smart speakers would stop working well don't worry your
legacy sonos devices might not receive updates anymore but they'll keep working
just fine until sonos says so
also if you have one older device in your setup
none of your other ones will receive updates this is confusing
do they have a product called the one no what i think they might whatever
a 15 year old satellite manufactured by boeing and owned by directv somehow is
at risk of exploding because of damage to its batteries so directv is asking
the fcc for permission to move it out of its standard orbit to prevent damage to
other orbiting objects but it remains unclear whether they want to move it
down to burn up in earth's atmosphere
that would be fun or up to go away into
space as some kind of pollution that we don't care about right now but may come
back to haunt us in the future i'm not sure which one is better
but you know who is better sandra apple has defended
their continuing use of the lightning connector in iphones after the eu called
for the implementation of a universal charging standard across mobile devices
apple says to switch to usbc from lightning now could cause waste and
stifle innovation no one no one would be able to have the courage
to create an entire spectrum of cool new dongle designs right think of the
dongles ah europe you're small-minded
and and and google recently changed the design of their serp or search engine
results page to make ads a lot less distinguishable from real search results
thanks google that is understandably upsetting to a lot of people
so google is responding to those criticisms by pledging to experiment
with other designs that maybe make ads more obvious again oh you want to be
able to tell the difference between the thing you're actually searching for and
the paid result i'm google and i'm just uh good
incredulous and uh
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