now look everybody just calm down there's no need to be scared of tech
news you just have to stand up straight
look it right in the eyes and show it who's the alpha james is in here you
gotta show it who's the alpha ah no no wait i'm not the alpha
after they were already leaked to the moon and back samsung finally took the
wraps off their newest flagship phones the galaxy note 10 and 10 plus starting
at 9 49 and 1099 respectively both phones are
powered by the seven nanometer qualcomm snapdragon 855 rather than the exynos
9825 that samsung just announced for some reason maybe qualcomm was like
holding them hostage with patent lawsuits or something i don't know but
here's the rundown the null plus gets a few bonuses other than its slightly
larger nearly bezel-less 6.8 inch
display including 45 watt super fast charging over USB-C 12 watt wireless
charging 12 gigs of RAM and a slightly larger 4300 milliamp hour battery
samsung apparently did go through with their stupid decision to remove the
headphone jack and i'm gonna get right back to crying about that after we
finish filming the camera has some interesting new ar features including
the ability to scan physical objects to create a 3d model and ar doodles which
is kind of like google's tilt brush vr but in a phone app and the s pen now has
gyro sensors to go along with its wireless charging and stuff so you can
use motion controls with your camera remotely in addition to just using the
pen as a shutter button like we used to be able to do back in the old days
samsung also talked about the galaxy watch active 2 the tab s6 and the
snapdragon 855 powered Windows 10 running galaxy book s but frankly those
are all far less interesting and i'm done talking about them now
nope i'm done i'm done toshiba has unveiled a new form factor
for NVMe ssds called xfm express it's
like radio but not like radio at all it's actually uh more like an sd card
than it is like radio but unlike a micro
sd card these new ssds will not be hot
swappable instead they're gonna have a specialized mount with a metal cover
which can only be accessed by opening up
the system that the card is installed in so these xfm express cards could
theoretically have a bandwidth of up to four gigabytes per second with the next
gen units expected to reach eight gigabytes per second
so that looks pretty cool but uh seeing as toshiba is rebranding their storage
division to kioxia yeah this fall
they might want to take a second look at the name of the cards because i look at it and i just see like
xfmx fmx yeah
radio turns out putting internet connectivity
in every doohookie that we own from lamps to baby toys might not have been
the best idea microsoft says that they have detected attacks on common internet
of things devices like printers and office phones by hackers that are
allegedly working for the russian government according to officials from
the microsoft threat intelligence center the hackers apparently are using these
iot devices as an initial point of ingress from which they can attempt to
gain further access to other devices on the network well
the joke's on them because i've got all my stupid iot devices segregated on
their own network and i'm just going to disconnect it from
the internet as soon as they break in there and then they'll be stuck oh
that's cool they'll be stuck inside my iot network it's like a black mirror
yeah it's like it's like a special hell of baby monitors
and doorbells i just got the xm radio
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cork barks that sounds nasty Intel has released a bunch of details
about their 14 nanometer cooper lake server processors which will have models
with up to apparently 56 cores
now that was also true of its predecessor cascade lake ap but whereas
those processors were soldered to the motherboard cooper lake will be socketed
and will even be able to accommodate future 10 nanometer ice lake processors
on its lga 4198 socket when they launch
it in 2020. i wish i could say that AMD
was shaking in their epic boots but
they don't wear i've never seen dr sue wear boots and if she did wear boots i'm
sure they'd be made for walking and that's just what they'd do
watch out spacex has gotten a lot of praise for landing and reusing their
rockets so another space flight company rocket lab is apparently going to try
their hand at it albeit with a slightly different
approach as the startup's rocket re-enters the
atmosphere it will deploy a parachute which will then be hooked by a
helicopter that comes out to meet it the
chopper will then return with its little present and uh yeah that's a little
jankier but you know what i say whatever we got to do to make our way to building
a real millennium falcon you know so stepping stones look what a couple years
a couple more years and oh wait really another spectre
vulnerability is not what you should say
because apparently microsoft already patched it one year ago bitdefender
identified and reported a serious flaw in all Intel cpus since 2012 and now
that the flaw has been patched they are announcing it to the public so if your
Windows pc got the july security update you're protected and the vulnerability
is apparently unfeasible to exploit on other operating systems plus you know
macs don't get viruses so yeah they're great
nintendo reportedly isn't stopping at the switch light or the rumored switch
pro according to the wall street journal the company is planning even more switch
models down the road i think they're going to call them switchbacks
what because it's down the road don't worry about it these future switches may come
with sharp exo displays featuring resolutions higher than 1080p and we can
only hope that they come with some exciting new code names as well like
switch heavy switch xtreme the mega
switch switch and in a games industry infected with
mystery loot boxes nintendo sony and microsoft have announced in partnership
with the esa that they will now require games to disclose the probabilities of
obtaining randomized items from such boxes the rules are expected to be
implemented in 2020 and rocket league developer psionics which is now owned by
epic games has gone one further saying they will phase out mystery crates
completely by the end of the year see riley there's hope you love rocket
league there's hope for the system i thought i was feeling fine why did you want to
burn the whole thing down i didn't want to do that
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