all the tech news we're talking about today has already happened but don't
worry our engineers are working on it and one day we too will achieve negative
latency that's right chillins stadia launched
yesterday for those who pre-ordered the founders edition like us
or it was supposed to launch anyway a lot of founders did not receive the
access code they needed to play on november 19th google later clarified
that some may not get their codes until the end of the day today for those who
have gotten access however it's been a bit of a mixed bag we have had a decent
experience with latency here in the office but if we're being honest we have
literal god-tier internet so others though have complained about
significant graphics quality differences versus the xbox one and ps4 pro
experience apparently google's 4k resolution is simply 1080p upscaled to
4k and when you compress that to stream at
60fps it turns out it it pretty much looks like 1080p again the claw phone
mount for the stadia controller apparently scratches the controller i
guess they never tested these things the launch issues have prompted speculation
over how google will move forward with stadia jason schreier's sources say that
the pre-orders for the service were below google's expectations which is
scary considering google's track record of killing underperforming services well
gamersnexus tried to beat them to the punch by destroying their stadia
controller and they found even that difficult
time to boot up the old wii u
do you remember what the heck is that oh it's the best but hey there's still some
good news in the gaming world if you have a vr headset that is valve
confirmed the flagship full-length vr game that they've been working on
is in fact a half-life game called half-life 3s like it's half-life
alex whatever we're getting we're getting the trailer on thursday which is
tomorrow at 10 a.m pacific time fans are super excited as a whole but there's
also a contingent that is extremely disappointed that the next major
half-life installment will require that players have a vr headset
the game is also reportedly a prequel taking place between half-life 1 and 2
so it's not technically half-life 3 confirmed either
but you gotta admit it's nice to see valve making a full-length game once
again and not like yet another game mode or pack of skins for dota 2. i can only
imagine how tyler from valve news network feels right now that guy must be stoked vindicated i was
right these guys know how to sell vr headsets hey
and welcome to the future humans a terminator had an accent so does this
futuristic robot doctors at the university of maryland school of
medicine have placed a human into suspended animation for the first time
it's happening the technique is officially called emergency preservation
and resuscitation or epr and it involves replacing a person's blood with ice
called saline solution which isn't that just cryonics which rapidly cools their
body as low as 10 degrees celsius which
is still pretty balmy and springy if you ask me normally cells die within five
minutes without oxygen but epr slows cellular processes down to a crawl which
gives doctors up to two hours to operate on a person with a fatal injury the
technique is being tested on patients who arrive at the hospital with intense
injuries like a stab wound or gunshot or something whose survival rates would
normally be less than five percent full results of the trial will be available
sometime in 2020 but even then the doctors don't expect this tech to show
up in spaceships anytime soon one team member
said we're not trying to send people off to saturn but he didn't say anything
about the moons of jupiter ganymede titan that's the best one wait
titan saturn io is saturn now it's time for the quick
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the tech link below quick bits
hardly lower here's your friendly reminder to do a sanity check before you
click attention grabbing emails a number of users have recently fallen victim to
ransomware disguised as a Windows update sent via
email microsoft does not update Windows via email links they update it with
annoying full screen prompts that stop you from doing whatever you're in the
middle of doing there's a difference a prolific vulnerability in Android camera apps was
discovered earlier this week that had allowed attackers to record video audio
and images from affected users phones the malware apparently easily bypassed
Android's permission restrictions and was able to track gps location
and i have one of those ah that's that's bad google and samsung have fixed the
vulnerability but other Android phones may still be susceptible to attacks
any kind of attacks still vulnerable to punching ah roundhouse kicks hyukens
other people running with scissors and you just happen to get into the hallway at the wrong time
get an iphone guys if you've got an oculus quest
can i blame you time to plug it into your pc because now it's not only a
mobile vr headset it's also a pc powered one the beta for oculus link is out
although there are some specific hardware requirements including a high quality usb cable and the ability to not
care about the fact that you look like an absolute dweeb
and you're using your inside out tracking wireless headset now
with the cable but whatever we do it for the frames huawei is
apparently trying to ease concerns about the company's security by announcing a
bug bounty program which will pay even
more than similar programs from google and samsung
that china money although i'm not sure the concern with huawei is external
hacking but rather internal sharing
with the big pooh bear they're trying their best and cryptocurrency monero
told its users that they should tread lightly after hackers compromised the
official monero website leading some crypto heads to download infected code
that stole their coins it's not clear whether the vulnerabilities that led to
the hack have been fixed so in the meantime just trade using wheat or fur
like a normal person would ya well our tech news prediction algorithms have run
dry for today so come back on friday when we're done buffering and then
it'll be smooth and latency free just like on a consular pc i didn't even read
what you wrote i just thought you were trying to connect it back to the well now i can't say
all right
but in the next episode no one's gonna know