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the tech news will never stop that is unless we get a cease and desist

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from the government telling us that we're a non-essential business

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hey we'll see got him after almost 13 years today valve finally released

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another half-life game half-life alex is a vr only title but it works with almost

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every vr headset on the market including the full htc vive lineup the valve index

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obviously Windows mixed reality headsets and even oculus headsets that is the

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desktop compatible ones no thanks to oculus themselves and so far the fans

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seem to love it with a 93 score on metacritic and overwhelmingly positive

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feedback on steam beyond the game's appeal as a

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good game alex also seems to represent an evolutionary step for vr as the most

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high profile aaa full-length vr game to hit shelves and by shelves i of course

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mean virtual shelves the real ones have long been cleaned of games toilet paper

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and all kinds of other accessories covid19 is causing a big reaction in the

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tech industry and well really all industries but there are some great

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resources now being made available to the public google's dedicated covid19

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site has information on symptoms prevention treatment and helpful news

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updates which can be tailored specifically to your state in the u.s at

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least microsoft and the cdc have developed an ai powered chat bot that

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can help you determine whether your symptoms are severe enough to go to the hospital and even siri now has a symptom

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checking questionnaire making the voice assistant

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actually useful what wow good job siri

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that was weird to say but if you're just self-isolating and

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running out of things to do there's a number of free things available steam is

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giving away some games amazon is streaming kids shows on prime video for

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free and apple is giving away ebooks and audio books there's never been a better

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time to stay at home so stay at home stay home and information

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concerning Intel's upcoming mainstream rocket lake s platform has leaked an

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official looking diagram indicates team blue will catch up to AMD's ryzen 3000

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series with pci express 4.0 support with

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up to 20 lanes available they'll almost catch up rocket lake s processors will

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apparently also feature integrated graphics built on Intel's xe

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architecture which is also powering the company's upcoming dedicated graphics

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cards sorry throw in support for Thunderbolt 4

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and usb 3.2 gen 2x2

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and hey we might just need some processors that are actually worth

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buying and this thing sounds pretty great just need to rename usb now now it's

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john why don't you set yourself a goal to improve yourself a little bit every

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day i think i've already called out john so let's go with craig

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way to go craig i think you'd probably like introduction

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to neural networks you can learn how wiring up just 50 neurons can build a

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network that's capable of classifying handwritten digits oh man that's so

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craig just check out that course and many many

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will get 20 off a premium subscription on to the clubs domingo okay NVIDIA

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has released dlss 2.0 and

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it actually seems like they've been working on it since they've released

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dlss it increased both image quality and

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game performance apparently the ai model used for dlss is now the same for all

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games rather than having to create a different profile for each game so many

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more games should support the feature this time around i should probably take

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a look at it myself before i say it's truly awesome though i mean they said

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dlss was gonna be great and fool me once shame on uh you

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fooled me twice shame on your mother

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a zero day vulnerability is being actively exploited by hackers according

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to microsoft and there is no patch available yet but redmond doesn't think

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it's time to panic just yet because they're only seeing limited targeted

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attacks so far but like here's the thing i mean come on we're already dealing

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with a virus in the real world i guess hackers are just as bored as us

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regular people and google has straight up cancelled

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their i o developer conference the tech giant had previously said the event

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would move to an online only model but now the whole thing has just been

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taken off the calendar all together as google focuses on helping people

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affected by the coronavirus do they really have that many people working on that coronavirus site i kind of doubt it

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i'm sure they can find a way to distribute product announcements somehow

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i mean their google they'll probably just like beam it into our brains

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speaking of helping people the folding at home network which allows regular

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people like you and me to contribute their computers horsepower to medical

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research is now more powerful than the world's top seven super computers

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combined that is thanks to over 400 000 new

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volunteers who have joined in over the past couple of weeks so excellent work

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folders fold on and also especially excellent work ltd folding team we

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overtook those pcmr no good

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well also do-gooders but you know good people but but but they're bad we should

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take them out yep we've got more folders than them now

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and car racing is now a virtual affair with some professional formula one

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nascar and indy car racers facing off against gamers in the sim racing game

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eye racing maybe we should just keep it this way like after everything calms

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down you know like like driving is actually more dangerous than the

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coronavirus statistically speaking

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like yeah do you see those explosions when they crash in like next week it's

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gonna be dangerous to continue this episode any further too because we're

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out of news and we could end up talking about liking car explosions that's very

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terrible actually so come back on wednesday for more tech news unless

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we're ordered to stop by the government