they took the codes AMD is the victim of
theft a most dastardly crime sucks when it happens to you and i'm speaking
sarcastically like this because it's actually probably not that big of a deal
you see back in december a hacker was reportedly able to steal part of the
source code for AMD's navi 10 and 12 gpus as well as the rdna 2 based
graphics chips that will be used in the upcoming xbox series x and ps5 the
hacker posted the info to github before AMD was able to take it down with a dmca
request so what could a potential bad guy do with this leaked info well you
can't really reverse engineer a competing GPU the only real downside to
all this is the possibility that a security exploit could be discovered in
the code but since AMD knows about the hack well let's just say this isn't
something to scream about in the streets because you shouldn't be on the streets
at all you should be inside come on enough is enough daryl game streaming is
on the rise but if any iOS users are looking to try it they'll be in for some
disappointment as usual apparently the guidelines for apple's app store
prohibits services that rely on streaming from the cloud so the apps for
playstation now google stadia and GeForce now are all not allowed project
x cloud though is currently undergoing a very limited test on iOS right now but
you can only play one game the halo master chief collection what a game it
is of course if you want to sign up for a locally based game subscription
service with apple well apple arcade has everything you might want i hear it's
just stupendous let's hope apple gets into the same spirit as other companies
who are making services free and collaborating during this pandemic come
on tim share the love take down the walls to your garden let me frolic in
your garden freely let my dog poop in your garden speaking of sharing love google gets the
idea they've pledged 800 million dollars and three million face masks to the
various businesses and groups fighting the covet 19 pandemic and google's
health-based sister company barely has just opened a free drive-through testing
facility actually many of them in california to
be fair apple just launched a coved screening app and website themselves and
the teleprompter's going so fast that i just can't keep up as for other free
stuff plex is making some live tv channels available for free for three
months comcast and verizon are giving away some on-demand content healthcare
workers in boston chicago and new york can get a free bike share pass from lyft
for 30 days and oh apple again is also
extending the free trial for final cut pro x and logic pro x to 90 days now
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of sketchy but at least they keep their promises they held their launch they
held their launch event for the p40 and p40 pro online yesterday just like they
said they were gonna do they've got uh 5g kiran 990 processors talking about
the phones now not the company up to five rear cameras 90 hertz displays and
zero google apps because huawei is still on america's naughty list so i can't
imagine many westerners uh going for these they have five cameras everything
has five cameras out as you hopefully know and really internalize
physical gatherings are being discouraged right now to say the least
so some people are turning to the newly released animal crossing new horizons
video game to have virtual parties social events and even weddings in game
wow i doubt they're legally binding though but
slack ceo stuart butterfield i believe is a nice canadian boy says his company
is working on integrating the work chat app's calling features with microsoft
teams meaning a team's user could call a slack user and vice versa just imagine
if this leads to an ecosystem where anyone can call anyone we'd have we'd
have some way to we need we need some way to identify each other
though like like a like a seven digit number or something yeah that could work
whoa whoa and if you don't if you don't answer it
when they call you you can have a machine that lets you record a voice
select tesla vehicles can now detect and stop at red lights when using autopilot
which is a sight better that a lot of people from surrey can do
we're not quite in the timeline where tesla has a million robo taxis on the
street as elon musk promised and we're not even close to the one where they
transform into alien fighting robots so obviously still a lot of work to do but
this is a good uh first step and a californian man has been arrested for
advertising a cure for covid19 in both pill and injectable form he allegedly
also claimed that former basketball star magic johnson was on his company's board
people i'm here to say that we don't have a tested vaccine yet and when we do
magic johnson will almost certainly not be involved although he is a very nice
gentleman
i know that it's time to kill this episode so that's what we'll
do come back on monday for more tech news from an episode that's alive and
who knows maybe this whole thing will sort itself out by then but this episode
will still be dead no zombie episodes once you're dead you're dead