the tech news will never stop that is unless we get a cease and desist
from the government telling us that we're a non-essential business
hey we'll see got him after almost 13 years today valve finally released
another half-life game half-life alex is a vr only title but it works with almost
every vr headset on the market including the full htc vive lineup the valve index
obviously Windows mixed reality headsets and even oculus headsets that is the
desktop compatible ones no thanks to oculus themselves and so far the fans
seem to love it with a 93 score on metacritic and overwhelmingly positive
feedback on steam beyond the game's appeal as a
good game alex also seems to represent an evolutionary step for vr as the most
high profile aaa full-length vr game to hit shelves and by shelves i of course
mean virtual shelves the real ones have long been cleaned of games toilet paper
and all kinds of other accessories covid19 is causing a big reaction in the
tech industry and well really all industries but there are some great
resources now being made available to the public google's dedicated covid19
site has information on symptoms prevention treatment and helpful news
updates which can be tailored specifically to your state in the u.s at
least microsoft and the cdc have developed an ai powered chat bot that
can help you determine whether your symptoms are severe enough to go to the hospital and even siri now has a symptom
checking questionnaire making the voice assistant
actually useful what wow good job siri
that was weird to say but if you're just self-isolating and
running out of things to do there's a number of free things available steam is
giving away some games amazon is streaming kids shows on prime video for
free and apple is giving away ebooks and audio books there's never been a better
time to stay at home so stay at home stay home and information
concerning Intel's upcoming mainstream rocket lake s platform has leaked an
official looking diagram indicates team blue will catch up to AMD's ryzen 3000
series with pci express 4.0 support with
up to 20 lanes available they'll almost catch up rocket lake s processors will
apparently also feature integrated graphics built on Intel's xe
architecture which is also powering the company's upcoming dedicated graphics
cards sorry throw in support for Thunderbolt 4
and usb 3.2 gen 2x2
and hey we might just need some processors that are actually worth
buying and this thing sounds pretty great just need to rename usb now now it's
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has released dlss 2.0 and
it actually seems like they've been working on it since they've released
dlss it increased both image quality and
game performance apparently the ai model used for dlss is now the same for all
games rather than having to create a different profile for each game so many
more games should support the feature this time around i should probably take
a look at it myself before i say it's truly awesome though i mean they said
dlss was gonna be great and fool me once shame on uh you
fooled me twice shame on your mother
a zero day vulnerability is being actively exploited by hackers according
to microsoft and there is no patch available yet but redmond doesn't think
it's time to panic just yet because they're only seeing limited targeted
attacks so far but like here's the thing i mean come on we're already dealing
with a virus in the real world i guess hackers are just as bored as us
regular people and google has straight up cancelled
their i o developer conference the tech giant had previously said the event
would move to an online only model but now the whole thing has just been
taken off the calendar all together as google focuses on helping people
affected by the coronavirus do they really have that many people working on that coronavirus site i kind of doubt it
i'm sure they can find a way to distribute product announcements somehow
i mean their google they'll probably just like beam it into our brains
speaking of helping people the folding at home network which allows regular
people like you and me to contribute their computers horsepower to medical
research is now more powerful than the world's top seven super computers
combined that is thanks to over 400 000 new
volunteers who have joined in over the past couple of weeks so excellent work
folders fold on and also especially excellent work ltd folding team we
overtook those pcmr no good
well also do-gooders but you know good people but but but they're bad we should
take them out yep we've got more folders than them now
and car racing is now a virtual affair with some professional formula one
nascar and indy car racers facing off against gamers in the sim racing game
eye racing maybe we should just keep it this way like after everything calms
down you know like like driving is actually more dangerous than the
coronavirus statistically speaking
like yeah do you see those explosions when they crash in like next week it's
gonna be dangerous to continue this episode any further too because we're
out of news and we could end up talking about liking car explosions that's very
terrible actually so come back on wednesday for more tech news unless
we're ordered to stop by the government