you ready to party it's not really a party not important
let's do it we didn't really mention this on monday for
some reason but AMD and Intel both launched their flagship high-end desktop
or hedt cpus this week they did it on
monday interestingly the embargo for reviews of Intel's chip ended at
midnight on sunday six hours before AMD's embargo expired monday morning
perhaps because they knew that their 18 core core i9 10 980 xe wasn't going to
look so good against AMD's Threadripper 3960x and 3970x with 24 and 32 cores
respect Linus let loose a solid rant in his review on Linus tech
tips uh he was really upset always fun to watch
anyways the story is pretty similar to the one we've been telling for the past
year or so AMD's multi-core chips are getting so good it's getting pretty hard
to justify buying Intel i mean we should have seen this coming it's called thread
ripper not thread friendship thread get along no thread
fatality in january NVIDIA finally caved and
opened up its g-sync ecosystem a bit by certifying select free sync monitors as
g-sync compatible allowing owners of g-force graphics cards to use the
variable refresh rate technology on previously unsupported displays since
then the list of compatible models has grown steadily but now NVIDIA is ready
to open up its heart even more so much progress team green has
announced that future g-sync monitors will support both variable refresh rate
over HDMI and adaptive sync the technology that freesync is based on
over a displayport apparently this capability will now only be available in
new g-sync monitors not existing ones but still once this change rolls out
it'll allow owners of AMD graphics cards and consoles to experience vrr on both
freesync and g-sync monitors meaning the whole competing closed ecosystem of
g-stink versus freesync will be over
do the thing like from episode star wars episode one
peace what part is that
you know anyways
i don't make it past energy beam hallway and europe has gone and done it again
they've run out of internet ip addresses
the non-profit foundation that allocates ip addresses rousseau ip europeanus or
ripe actually serves europe the middle east and parts of central asia and
they've warned against this outcome for a while now there's a limited amount
about 4.2 billion of possible ipv4 addresses which is the current
mainstream standard if internet service providers switch to ipv6 there could be
340 undecillion addresses available
that's a 10 followed by 36 or 66 zeros
depending on where you live the point is more
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amazon's voice assistant a-l-e-x-a is going to show up in even more internet
of things type devices soon and she'll also be able to express more emotion and
one day we will be lovers programmers developing for alexa can now have the
assistant sound happy or disappointed depending on the context so even if
she's saying something depressing i'm playing a single hand in what looks
like a losing game and for a while you can forget that life is pain
speaking of creepy amazon moves the web giant has stopped a product sampling
program that sent customers free products recommended by a machine
learning program based on their purchased history i can already guess
why the access program it's nice getting gifts from people you know but it's kind
of weird getting a gift from a robot you've never met before because it's
been watching your every move
after a member of ford's r d team challenged elon tusk to a ford versus
cyber truck rematch and elon agreed ford
the company has backed out of the contest
wimps a spokesperson said ford has always focused on serving our truck
customers regardless of what others say or do oh
that may have been a subtle dig at elon's uh constant tweeting but it still
makes them look a little bit ford chicken
that joke was built forward rough
new york they're set to be the latest american
city to ban vape products that aren't strictly tobacco-flavored as city
council passed a bill to that effect yesterday i mean it kind of makes sense
the only legal flavors of regular cigarettes in the states are tobacco and
menthol but it definitely makes being part of the vape niche a little less
wild you know like
and the latest target demographic for virtual reality
cows sorry what yeah a farm in russia gave its dairy cows vr headsets that
place them in a sunny grassy field instead of their real cold
gray russian reality in an attempt to reduce their anxiety and therefore
produce better and more milk but i don't think they knew what they were doing
it's only a matter of time before we're looking at the first bovine beet saver
champion it's gonna happen they're taking over would they hold it like this
or like this six okay
it's only a matter of time before this episode ended on a weird conceptual joke
uh but we got there come back on friday and have more and better uh hey
tech news we'll be in vr the whole time
that's all you know the mood tricks