i don't know about you but i'm ready for a healthy heaping dose of tech news
jeremy would you just call me john
jamiroquai that's not important
at AMD's next horizon gaming event at e3
the company took the wraps off the Radeon rx 5700 and 5700 xt as well as
their ryzen 3000 lineup yeah oh he was
excited you've been waiting
all right the rx 5700 xt will be going up against
NVIDIA's rtx 2070 in performance while
undercutting its price by 50 at 449 while the rx 5700 will face off against
the rtx 2060 at a cheaper price point as well of 3.79 there's also a fancy
anniversary edition of the xt that's clocked a little higher for 4.99 now
there's no ray tracing to be seen but AMD did show off intelligent sharpening
yep which can make game visuals more crisp with virtually no performance
impact on the verizon side we got a very promising set of chips from the six core
ryzen 5 3600 to the ryzen 9 3950x
the first mainstream processor with 16 cores and 32 threads we're gonna have to
wait until july 7th when AMD will launch all of these gpus and cpus to get
real-world benchmarks but i don't think anyone could argue that dr lisa sue is
telling the whole tech industry they need to go in for a checkup because they
haven't been to the clinic in like 10 years they've probably got some weird
growths somewhere they should probably get looked at the doctor is it ah yeah
but hold on just a minute because NVIDIA just isn't going to take these blows
lying down that's not like NVIDIA they blow standing up
remember that super teaser that NVIDIA posted a while back we've now got some
ideas what it might mean thanks to sources inside the company now these are
rumors so get your salt shaker out but NVIDIA is reportedly going to release
supercharged versions of the rtx 2060
2070 2080 and 2080 ti
with the 2080 ti super having a completely new chip
now those super versions would come out at the same price point as their
non-super counterparts counterports yep
with the original rtx cards being bumped down in price i wouldn't normally pay
much attention to rumors like this but i did this time because if it's true
it basically nullifies the competitiveness of the rx 5700 series
unless they also do a price drop
so the leaks say we could see the super cards announced in june but given
NVIDIA's love for gamescom it might be as late as august i didn't have a joke
for that it's just kind of crazy speaking of leaks the internet was
riddled with ones concerning google's upcoming pixel 4 and its probable
multi-rear camera setup renders were posted showing a square-shaped rear
camera bump similar to the one seen in leaks of the iphone 11 and google
apparently had enough of it so they just went ahead and posted a teaser image of
the pixel 4 on twitter confirming the square camera bump design
yeah we did it we did it yes
leaks work google has resisted including multiple
rear cameras in previous pixels but i guess they've given in to peer pressure
this time let's just hope apple doesn't go jumping off any bridges
google did not however comment on the other rumors about gesture sensing
features on the pixel 4. those rumors might make some sense since google's
project solely has been working on a tiny chip to enable touchless
interaction with mobile devices hopefully those gestures are
customizable because i've always wanted to literally shoo away incoming calls
you know project solo like you could go oh i'm getting nap no no later
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quick bits
yeah there were too many game trailers and announcements and stuff for me to
properly sum up here from e3 but i'll tell you what i was most tickled by
new super smash bros ultimate characters
the hero from dragon quest is coming to the game and he's joined by finally
banjo-kazooie what you wanted me to talk about rainbow six quarantine yeah
yeah those are cool too
banjo-kazooie though
but also at e3 ubisoft announced their own version of xbox game pass you play
plus with over a hundred games accessible for 15 bucks a month it'll be
available for Windows pc this fall and on stadia
in 2020. wait
what bad news for china nintendo and google
are reportedly moving at least some of the production of switch consoles and
nest devices respectively out of china and into southeast asia meanwhile
taiwanese company foxconn who's the manufacturer behind many apple devices
also said the company has enough capacity to make every iphone outside of
china and that apple might do just that and we have the american trade war to
thank or curse depending on depending on where you're
sitting gamers aren't happy using regular old keyboards mice or monitors
and now we have our very own web browser
opera is currently beta testing opera gx
that's how you know it's for gamers gamerx
opera gx allows users to control how much of their CPU and memory the browser
is using so you can leave it open and not have it steal all the RAM away from
your game so that's pretty cool but the gamer cred you'll get from your friends
for using it that's bonus that's an extra life
uber will begin testing drone food delivery this summer as part of its uber
elevate program
food food bird no bluebird
no elevate yeah
customers in the san diego area will be able to order food from mcdonald's and
only mcdonald's for the test and have a drone deliver it to a drop-off location
at which point an uber driver will pick it up and complete the delivery
so it's it's not as cool as it sounds but there are drones involved and drones are cool
so it's not dumb and french tech company
OLED com will demo its light-powered li-fi
wireless internet onboard a passenger plane at the international paris air
show next week li-fi could enable in-flight internet speeds of up to 100
megabits per second per seat the fastest available on us flights is currently
around 15 megabits per second now there won't be any lan parties in the sky just
yet as this is maybe yeah this is just a demo but uh yeah
well they're not they're not making the internet that goes to the plane faster
it's just once it's there it's a bit of a bottleneck issue all
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