check news yes ah if you've been bored by the state of
laptops for the past little bit then good news the new blood's coming to town
okay all right this is a one take this is a one take AMD's mobile chips are
already out in the wild but now they're being joined by not only NVIDIA's RTX
super mobile gpus but Intel's 10th gen
Comet Lake H CPUs CPUs the super line so
far consists of the 2070 super and 280 super although a 2060 super might be on
the way later CPUs unfortunately early
numbers aren't looking great for Intel with a tiny lead in single core being
the main selling point as usual but regardless a swath of laptop
manufacturers have announced new models with updated internals including
Gigabyte Lenovo Acer and Razer whose new
blade comes with an optional 300 HZ display yeah wow ASUS has gone one
further though bringing a secondary display from its Zenbook Duo over to the
Rog line with the Rog zephrus Duo 15 which Alex already took a look at on
ShortCircuit yeah yeah whoa that got you excited I can only go up and you
really love ShortCircuit you know about that don't you guys it's like unboxings
without the Toronto accent don't on
Wednesday we covered a number of vulnerabilities in the video chat app
zoom and now the app CEO Eric s Yan said
the company will pause development on new features Fe as it works to fix the
existing flaws it's an admirably quick response to user backlash concerning
Zoom security issues but the statement comes as even more problems are being
discovered security researchers found that a tool called ZW dial Zoom War the
Z stands for Zoom Z di Z dial could
automatically find non-password protected Zoom meetings tools like this
could enable Zoom bombing where uninvited guests join Zoom meetings and
cause a rucket no for real people are doing that that's
what I'm doing this weekend and we're oh The Washington Post has also reported
that thousands of recorded Zoom meetings are floating around the internet
uploaded to servers by meeting members who didn't realize that they weren't
private am I missing something here I
literally had not heard of Zoom until a few weeks ago no one has well apparent
so I'm I'm so confused why aren't we using like the dozens of other video
chat apps and it's time for our usual Roundup of free stuff being made aail
able during the pandemic Google is giving out 4,000 Chromebooks and setting
up Wi-Fi for 100,000 households uh for
students in rural rural California and
they're temporarily increasing the data cap for Google F to 30
GB that's mobile data yeah there's a boatload of free
music resources available to wouldbe home producers right now and The Verge
has a thorough Roundup of all that Lyft is expanding the free Mobility Services
it's offering to healthcare workers with free scooter rides and now available in
Austin Denver DC La San Diego and Santa
Monica and Amazon Prime video will host a virtual Film Festival to make up for
the cancellation of South by Southwest with the films that we going to screen
at that Expo available on Prime for 10 days make sure you're prepared to walk
out of your makeshift theater though to show your disapproval of the films that
aren't sufficiently high brow I'm out of
here it's the quick bits I didn't have anything for that is SpaceX okay the
company has lost their third Starship prototype during a test meant to
simulate flight-like temperatures and pressures a video of the incident shows
the vehicle crumpling and folding over like it was just insulted
horribly Sal apparently this wasn't completely
unexpected but still goes to show Nicki Minaj maybe doesn't always know what
she's talking about do you get it my
anac cloud flare has released a new version of their 1.1.1 one DNS resolver
designed for families well that sounds 1.1.1 fun
oh oh no the 1.11.2 service will block servers known
to distribute malware and 1.11.1 do3 will block malware and adult
content could be a handy tool for parents wanting to prevent their kids
from seeing all the horrors of the world for a little bit longer get it handy oh
no it's starting speaking of Horrors Amazon is also launching a cloud gaming
service very soon the web giant has reportedly been working on Project tempo
for a while and the service's first big game a shooter called Crucible is slated
for release in May I mean Amazon's got good Cloud infrastructure and Crucible
apparently has anthropomorphic cats with guns so like I'm only imagining good
things here as long as that Tempo is at least 60 frames a
second there he is speaking of game streaming GeForce now is starting to add
TI to its Library instead of losing them but unfortunately the selection is still
not so great the service is getting Mount And Blade Two Banner Lord but the
rest of the
day that's like
my banner Lord but the rest of the titles are kind
of old are we heading for a world where Amazon has a good streaming service and
NVIDIA doesn't what's wrong with us and
Google is using ridiculously powerful big data sets to publish the co9
community Mobility reports which show how people in different communities have
responded to the pandemic in terms of how or whether they are moving around
businesses and governments could use the data to adapt better to the New World
Order and I don't want to call it that so if you're moving around we're going
to shame you summon the banner
Lord the co the the data Lord ah all
right that's enough of this come back on Monday for more Tech news or else