hey hey hey hey lighten up baby i'm gonna do some tech
news okay AMD had already softened Intel
up after the launch of their ryzen 3000 series processors but team red is now
preparing the knockout punch this is a very very
slow boxing match yesterday AMD officially unveiled the first two third
gen threadripper cpus the 24 core 48
thread 3960x for 13.99 us dollars and the 32
core 64 thread 3970x
for 2 grand they're going to launch on november 25th
alongside the new king of the mainstream horizon lineup the ryzen 9 39 50 x the
first 16 core mainstream desktop processor AMD says that despite the high
core count it will still offer the highest single thread performance of any
ryzen CPU while keeping the same 105
watt TDP of their other high spec ryzens
and if some leaked geekbench members are to be believed the 3950x even beats
Intel's 10th gen hedt part the core i9
10980xe in both single and multi-core
performance despite having two fewer cores
wow but guys let's not forget the real star of
the show here the athlon 3000g this 49
dual core quad threaded part is going to shred everyone else in its price point
when it launches on november 19th look guys just because you think it can't
doesn't mean it won't never underestimate the little guy yeah
that's right u.s carriers t-mobile and sprint have
been trying to get approval for their merger for a year and a half and now
they're trying to sweeten the deal with a bunch of promises that they'll be able
to fulfill if regulators let it go through the two companies announced that
after their merger they will offer free home internet to 10 million low-income
households for five years and throw in a
free tablet or laptop although they'll only have a hundred gigs of data per
year the new t-mobile as the company will apparently be called will also
offer free unlimited 5g access to every
public and non-profit u.s state and local police fire and ems agency and
they will provide a new 15 per month prepaid plan with two gigs of data
now the merger has been approved by the federal government but it currently
faces 16 lawsuits from various states concerned about the move reducing
competition as the number of nationwide wireless carriers would go from four
down to three that is a 25 reduction
as a reminder of what a lack of competition can lead to at t recently
gave its mobile share customers an extra 15 gigs of data along with a 10 price
increase boom that you can't opt out of well at least we'll get some free stuff
on our way down the slippery slope
and this week saw the release of some interesting ai tools research nonprofit
openai has made the text generating gpt2
software available to the public the system can actually write articles based
on a human prompt that are impressively well formulated even if they are mostly
inaccurate seems like they it learned too much from
the humans it was ain't based on
right so research with gpt2 showed that humans find its outputs convincing so
it's been described as something of a fake news generator openai previously
said that the tool was simply too dangerous to release to the public i
mean think of the facebook posts but now they say that there was no evidence of
misuse in their research well i guess not yet anyway in slightly more
optimistic news google released teachable machine 2.0 this week which
lets users train an ai using images video and audio for custom machine
learning applications so maybe we could like train an ai to detect whether an
article was written by an ai you know keep them focused on each other so that
way like skynet never happens it's gonna happen anyway
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the link in the video description crunchy buns why are they called that i
don't know they're crunchy steam's cloud gaming service might be
more complicated than a simple competitor to google stadia or xcloud
the latest steam client beta makes reference to steam cloud gaming
supporting multiple other cloud providers including NVIDIA's GeForce now
game streaming service so then what is it called when you access one streaming
service through another streaming service
hype hyper streaming streamception
lag bagging the first GPU upgrade kits are now available for the alienware 51m
gaming laptop now dell promised that you would be able to upgrade and now
you can you can stick in an rtx 2070 or
2080 along with a new cooler if you so choose the 51m was already available
with those GPU options but the upgrades are available for those who bought a
lower tier model of one of the beefiest gaming laptops ever and then only
realized later that they had a bunch of money burning a hole in their pocket
that's just bad planning yesterday tons of people in the u.s and
canada received text messages that had been sent way back in february and had
been presumed to be lost in the ether carriers say that the glitch was caused
by message service provider cineverse man that's that's a great name for the
ai that takes over the world isn't it while the company was performing
internal maintenance more than 150 000
previously undelivered messages were sent so if you got a message from your
ex or whatever don't reply
they still don't deserve you in an interview this week bill gates said that
Windows phone could have been the dominant mobile operating system if it
wasn't for those darn kids except that he was actually talking
about an antitrust investigation that microsoft faced in the early 2000s when
Android was taking hold and that might actually be true or it might be that
bill was just in a sour mood from having to deal with all the people on twitter
who want to take his money and apparently eat him and that's it we've
done it everybody we've reached the timeline where we have 8k 360 degree
video cameras yes at 589 the kandao oppo
uku cam the ak is taking on the 5.7 k insta 361x and
you can pre-order it now so what are you waiting for don't let your friends be
the first ones with 8k 360-degree cameras who is asking for these
yeah it's not a competition i'll tell you something right now guys this
episode's over so come back on monday for more tech news or my name isn't
kandao cucam it's not
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