it's 10 seconds to midnight midnight being tech news
and 10 seconds being right now oh no
is it actually 10 seconds to midnight right now
we have no time to find out okay if you've been paying attention to trends
in the cpu market you'll know that it's becoming more and more common to see
consumer processors with tons of cores on them but raw clock speeds just keep
getting faster as well intel's upcoming high-end core i9 10 900k not really high
but set to launch this spring reportedly has a turbo clock of a whopping 5.1
gigahertz out of the box according to a leak found on the 3dmark database and
could go even higher without a manual overclock if good cpu heatsink is paired
with it although clock speed on its own isn't a great indicator of performance
these days it still might raise a few eyebrows considering that it wasn't long
ago that multi-core designs tended to sacrifice that pure megahertz for
thermal management however we don't yet know the tdp so hopefully
you won't have to keep your shiny new rig inside of a meat locker it's not
advisable either way i think the meat locker thing is it's not going to be
enough although there were rumors of a new revision of the nintendo switch
coming this year wow there were rumors of that last year too an official
announcement from nintendo's ceo has put those rumors to bed 99. this might be a
little disappointing to nintendo fans though from nintendo's point of view
they simply may not feel compelled to dump time and money into developing a
new model although the switch's hardware is considerably weaker than what we'll
see in the upcoming playstation 5 and xbox series x the switch's appeal isn't
based on its graphical capabilities it's based on its cuteness
plus sales of consoles and games are still very strong so i don't expect them
to switch to a much more powerful gpu anytime soon
switch yeah you get it
yeah that's the game yep that's that's the one although blackberry phones were
everywhere in the mid-2000s especially in the business world it looks like
they're finally going to be put out to pasture quite soon although the actual
company blackberry limited hasn't actually been making the phones themselves for a long time blackberry
branded phones manufactured by tcl are still available however tcl just
announced that the sales of the blackberry devices that they make will
end on august 31st the move isn't too
surprising as the rebranded blackberries haven't been selling particularly well
and haven't impressed reviewers just a little too tart the brand might live on
if it can find another partner to manufacture the phone and they should
still be around in south asia where a different company is responsible for
production but if you live anywhere else and really want a fruit-themed phone
well you might have to bite the bullet and go with apple oh my gosh
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contractors and you might have to pay an extra fee though for californians it may
be worth not sitting in traffic especially if you're going straight up
the five toward 99 north before hopping on the 110. you know what i don't know
what those numbers mean but i've been to san francisco i don't
want to go back traffic is just ridiculous yeah that's
what i'm talking about don't take the 99. voting in elections over the
internet has long been a bit of a pipe dream in most places but some folks in
one u.s state may get their shot at it for the upcoming presidential election
west virginia west virginia's governor
is expected to sign a bill to compel local authorities to allow voters with
disabilities to cast ballots online although the state doesn't have tons of
time to work out security issues the limited number of people who will
actually vote this way make it a useful litmus test maybe people will actually
pay attention to the canadian elections if the tech ever makes it uh
oh canadian elections no
remind me the switch has just made nintendo an extra 260 thousand dollars
but not in the way you'd think a hacker who breached nintendo's servers to
download confidential information about the console was fined that amount of
money and also faces prison time for both hacking as well as sex crime
charges that's a spicy combo he was actually
caught once and asked not to do it again because that works right
but guess what he started hacking again in 2018 so yeah
maybe you don't screw up your second chances you've been given right everybody deserves one but hacking's so
fun yeah it kind of is but you know you
gotta you gotta prison a startup in scotland thinks it has an
interesting new way to get satellites into orbit skyrora not only uses 3d
printed rockets for thrusts but also uses rocket fuel made from recycled
plastic how does that work the engine should be able to get small satellites
into low earth orbit a little over 300 miles above the surface and promises 45
percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than kerosene so i guess you can say
this is all pretty cool
and the artist just pranked some people in berlin by carrying around 99
smartphones not lovely ones that had google maps up
and running in a little red wagon with that many phones in one place on one
street at a time it fooled google maps into thinking there was a traffic jam
google didn't seem upset at all in its official response and it could actually
make a valuable point into how google can fix its systems to deliver more
accurate results of course here in vancouver which is one giant perpetual
traffic jam can confirm the situation may have made far less of
a point we live hell
basically we're yeah you know you know the the viking
hill was niflheim and it was supposed to be like just frozen over that's that's
what canada is well yeah well that's our show come on back wednesday for more
free flowing tech news whatever dude
just let it flow