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tech news is important it's how you stay informed your mother and i have decided

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you're going to tech news no i want to be a doctor there's been a

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steady flow of leaks related to Intel's long-awaited arc gaming graphics cards

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for years but the latest one may contain some legitimate reasons to board the

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hype train just make sure you take your bucket of salt with you

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yes that means don't believe them it's a euphemism

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reasonably trustworthy twitter leaker happy sack posted an ashes of the

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singularity benchmark depicting what is likely an Intel arc alchemist GPU

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achieving performance in the same ballpark as an rtx 3070 or 3070 ti now

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there are a lot of caveats like the fact that the test system was running a very

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CPU intensive game in 1080p with a core

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i9 12 900k and 32 gigabytes of RAM but

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2021 has been a terrible year for gamers in need of a hardware upgrade so can you

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blame us for having some hope for a new GPU competitor that could drive prices

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down without anything it's christmas i'll take it

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duckduckgo a search engine no one uses has announced plans to release a desktop

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version of their privacy-focused mobile browser in 2021 continuing to take on

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google's data hungry dominance of the web and i think they can win yeah i

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think google's going to go out of business i like it

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accordingly the duckduckgo desktop browser will not be based on chromium

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like basically every other alternative web browser except for mozilla but

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instead it'll run on os provided rendering engines to avoid the cruft and

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clutter found in chrome oh man i run on craft i love crush wait what no you

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don't look bad oh it sounds like a crouton crust

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in other browser news vivaldi based on chromium just launched the first full

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web browser for Android automotive which seems kind of dangerous

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but it can only be used while parked and Android automotive can only be found on

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like five cars right now so i go back to worrying about tesla's for now and a new

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google drive policy began rolling out last week that restricts users from

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sharing uploaded content that violates his terms of service which would seem

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totally normal if drive was a public platform and not an ostensibly private

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cloud storage service a restricted files owner will still be

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able to access it but it won't be publicly accessible to anyone else the

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new policy raises the same questions as apple's icloud scanning system

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no human is supposed to see file contents by default but what if a file

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is restricted wrongfully you know what if i'm trying to email my

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veterinarian pictures of whatever the hell is going on with my cat's junk and

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they get blocked what if i'm trying to send those pictures to my friends

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because it's kind of funny seriously i do not know what's up with my cat

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someone help me please anyone oh let me see

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i know all about cats it can open wound

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now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by build redux the pc builder striving to bring pc gaming to the

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masses with no price markups you'll pay the same price for components that you'd

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pay if you bought them yourself just with a flat 75 fee to have the pc built

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for you by a pc building expert they went to pc building school and they got

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a pretty huge d in building pcs that's a phd baby they're huge nerds just select

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your budget pick the games that you want to run and see how they perform right on

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the website and then let redux take care of the rest all builds come with a two

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year warranty so click on the link in the video description and start creating

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your pc today quick bits and that's the last thing i'll say on

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this subject i've spoken amazon web services the

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cloud hosting service underpinning ba swast of the internet had another outage

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this morning affecting slack imgur hulu

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the epic game store and amazon itself it's the third outage this month but the

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reason for the continued issues is unclear is it a networking issue like

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they said when they fir when the first one happened or are mole people chewing

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on the Ethernet cables do they have copic we need to prepare

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mole mole covered it'll end us all moment speaking of which hugo barra

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who's not a mole person but a former hardware executive at meta and google

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has launched a company called detect that sells rapid at-home molecular cova

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tests which look like something you'd buy off the google store which means you

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wouldn't buy it while honestly any at-home tests are

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welcome at this point hopefully is not susceptible to a similar vulnerability

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now fixed that allowed f-secure researcher ken gannon to change the

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result of elum's bluetooth connected tests

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but i'm sure it's safe this guy worked at meta and google

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both of them simultaneously we've tried super ultra

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wide monitors that are basically two 16 by nine panels fused horizontally but lg

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is switching it up by stacking them vertically that's right lg's new dual

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lipa i mean dual up 28 mq 780 is a 27.6

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inch display with a 16 by 18 aspect

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ratio and a 2560 by 2880 resolution

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which is perfect because it's a shape only squares who care about productivity

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would want to buy not quite a square it's just a little

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it's a squat angle ah honor has announced that they're throwing their

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hat into the foldable phone ring with a device called the magic v a teaser image

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depicts something that looks kind of like a samsung galaxy z full device but

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that could be just intentionally mysterious like

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the name magic v the boys like a little mystery

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and a marketplace for nft game items called fractal owned by twitch

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co-founder justin cann is reimbursing members of its discord after they were

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scammed out of 150 000 worth of solana cryptocurrency this is why people

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distrust and hate nfts and crypto god damn it stop it

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apparently the scammer posted a link in the fractal discord which was clicked by users who

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also connected their crypto wallets that is you gotta look out for that guys that

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is classic it's a classic move it's a bit like handing your real-life wallet

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to a roundo who says they'll put money in it but hey no risk no gain that's the grind set get

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back to work it's kind of like how we're all used to fishing attacks now and we

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can spot them but five years ago maybe not and you don't even get any fish

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all right that's it come back on friday for a special christmas special

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it's gonna be jolly as hell in here ho ho