staying up to date with the tech news is really important
after all isn't that what makes us human
no well oh i suppose
face unlock on phones is a cool feature but it seems that google forgot that
there's this vulnerable period of time where people have to do this thing
called sleep because the pixel 4's face unlock
feature does not attempt to detect whether your eyes are open unlike
apple's face id bbc reporter chris fox identified the issue and posted proof in
a video later confirming with google that the current version of face unlock
is one that will ship to customers
although the company says they'll improve face unlock over time which
that's not going to help if your kid is like ah i want to buy all the things
bam hopefully they don't take long enough for every pixel 4 owner's roommate to
wreak havoc on their digital lives while they're sleeping well you know what
that's that's kind of similar to what i just said yeah it is yeah that's fine
yeah you're supposed to say wait what about the good roommates well there are no good children okay but google isn't
the only one having trouble with biometrics samsung has acknowledged a
flaw in this galaxy s10 under display fingerprint reader that lets any
fingerprint unlock the phone through a silicone cover or screen
protector what yeah yeah
i mean yeah yeah fingerprint it's just detecting that there's a fingerprint there right
yeah yeah samsung says they'll push an update out next week
until then though better hold your phones tighter than your hopes of
maintaining a semblance of privacy in 2019 oh that's real that cuts real deep
yeah so not very tight no and the smartphone news just keeps on rolling in
motorola is apparently gearing up to unveil their foldable razer phone
remember those yeah wow
i was actually working at a call center at the time when the first razor came
out and everybody wanted one and then it became a really cheap phone that nobody
wanted anymore the company sent invites to the press for an event on november
13th with a gif that is how it's said
showing what looks like the shell of the original razer flip phone peeling away
to reveal a hinge reminiscent of samsung's galaxy fold the text reads
unoriginal unlike any other it's the
most original original you've ever seen
motorola actually confirmed back in february that they were working on a
foldable device and we've also seen a number of official looking renders
showing a phone that folds in half to become smaller rather than a
tablet-sized device that folds down to the size of a regular phone the phone
was originally dated for summer but i guess they wanted samsung
to just kind of clear the path first
do the work right yeah gotta have a meat shield and
videocards.com doing their thing once again they've
leaked information regarding the launch of AMD's third gen threadripper cpus a
source at AMD reportedly provided documents claiming that the threadripper
3960x 3970x 3990x and compatible
motherboards would be announced on november 5th with the launch two weeks
later saved for the 3990x which would launch in january 2020 some somewhat
like the 3950. yeah a lot better names
than team blue gotta say less digits less digits they
should have started over video cards notes that these dates were accurate a
few weeks ago but they're unsure if the plan has changed other leaks have also
pointed to a november launch for the mainstream non-threadripper 3950x
and leaked benchmarks for that part shows it beating the 2nd gen
threadripper 2950x so it looks like we're about to have some real bangers on
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they go down easy amazon and newegg
appear to have leaked two of NVIDIA's next shield devices
one of them looks pretty much exactly like the old shield Android console but
the other one is a small tube with a Ethernet connection HDMI and microsd
card ports on the other side it's like a chromecast
i don't i don't know why you ask what i don't know both come with a clunky remote with a
dedicated netflix button straight out of 2014. remember boxee box i had one of
those and will apparently launch on october 28th google has made some bold
promises with stadia like claiming the wireless controller will connect
directly to stadia servers which is really
apparently that will only be true for the tv-based streaming a stadia
explainer video said that if you're playing on a computer or phone you'll
need to plug the controller in not only that but you won't be able to stream
games over mobile data listen google if i want to use up all my
gigs playing destiny for 15 minutes that is my right
honestly sometimes you disgust me other times
google's alright as their fellow alphabet subsidiary wing has just
launched america's first commercial drone delivery service in christiansburg
virginia local residents will be able to have fedex
what the hell is fedex express
can you people please not name things terribly like that fedex
local residents will be able to have fedex express walgreens and sugar
magnolia orders delivered by unmanned drones i don't know what sugar magnolia
sells but it definitely sounds like something i'd want lowered down to me
from a hovering robot i really don't know if that's true
but uh if you
were suckered into buying an AMD fx bulldozer or a piledriver CPU well you
can claim some of AMD sweet green that they've made from selling so many ryzen
processors as we previously reported AMD settled a lawsuit that claimed the
company falsely advertised its eight core fx processors and customers can now
claim a cash settlement of up to three hundred dollars per CPU what wow that's
a whole CPU in any event that's how much money your
emotional torment from being lied to about core counts is worth right yeah
and the us air force is switching to ssds in its nuclear weapons holy sh
what have they been using tape and no longer using the eight inch floppy disks
they've had since the 1970s people think that corporate culture is
slow might seem crazy that they've held on
this long but apparently you can't hack these floppy disks because they were so
freaking old so time to hire some old geezers for
bodyguards they're more experienced all right well that's about enough of this
come back on monday for some more tech news i'm sure there will be some
if there's not we can just talk about the kardashians oh my that's gross i've
been waiting really this whole time i have so much to say
i mean okay there's a lot to say about them there is i'm not sure if most most
of it is like you know advertiser friendly content but
yeah that yep that's it we're out