it's your lucky day friday the 13th and it's going to be full of your favorite
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apple remembered yesterday that their computers are occasionally used by real
professionals and refreshed their macbook pro lineup with 8th gen
processors including up to a 6 core core
i9 or core i7 CPU you can also now add a
4 terabyte SSD up to 32 gigs of ddr4 RAM oh it turns
out that is possible if you put a little bit bigger battery in it and a Radeon
560x if you want to max out your build
at 6 700 us dollars that is
fancy the new models have a third generation butterfly keyboard that is
quieter but it still doesn't fix its affinity for getting dust and crap stuck
under the keys if you crap on your keyboard although in fairness to apple
any keyboard would probably break if you crapped on it apple also worked with
blackmagic to design an even fancier external GPU enclosure with an
included Radeon 580 for 700
apple's refresh could have been inspired by the fact that pc shipments actually
increased this year according to market analyst firms gartner and idc with
business and gaming machines leading the charge
it's great to see apple still wanting to claim the top spot even if they only get
there through sheer expensiveness speaking of new Intel processors the
xeon e family of cpus were announced today targeted at entry-level
workstations and replacing the e3 v6
processors the 10 new coffee lake based chips from the 4 core 4 thread e2124
to the 6 core 12 thread e2180g
apparently sport a 1.36 time performance
improvement over their predecessors the reception right now seems to be one of
mild confusion and annoyance as the new chips aren't that much of an upgrade
they muddy the waters with a new naming scheme and
they're coming literally months after the desktop versions that
are basically the same thing not to mention that AMD has some pretty
compelling alternatives but hey new processors lots of cool numbers and
tables to look at that's exciting
and magic leap has announced their troubled augmented reality developer
headset will begin shipping by september they also showed off the hardware itself
along with some videos of the headset supposedly in action a demo showing a 3d
character throwing objects at the user was pretty disappointing given the
levels of hype that the magic leap 1 has garnered with both consumers and the
investors who have put a lot of money into this company also the headset does
not look like anything you could wear as part of normal life i mean not that i'm
not judging what your life is maybe your life includes bad steampunk
cosplay which is fine oh i can't believe it i
wish that was cool very rude it's time for super short info packs
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check out pia at the link below fujitsu wants to join Intel in making
non-volatile RAM so they're working with dell cisco and kingston that is quite
the who's who list on what they call nram using the world's nerdiest material
that's right baby it's carbon nanotubes
is the newest flying car prototype to grace the internet it's being developed
by a californian company opener and being tested in canada oh that's
probably not around here you'll apparently be able to fly it
without a pilot's license which of course we think is a
fabulous idea watch out new variants of
the spectre processor vulnerability have been found dubbed spectre 1.1 and 1.2
i love engineers developers are working on mitigating
possible damage a new chrome build will protect against attacks but we'll use
and this is painful 10 more RAM in the process i mean were they
just gonna roll out this patch anyway are they just bl are they just blaming
the bug for this excuse this isn't chrome it's like a it's like
a memory vampire it thirsts it thirsts for your megabytes
it wears socks instead it does not so chrome is not cool enough to wear
socks and sandals want to play pokemon go but think it's a
little too kitty there's a new ar game on the block the walking dead our world
has just launched so you can bump into people on the street while you're both
doing something that is way cooler speaking of cool india it's
hot there india has approved rules that completely ban any form of data blocking
throttling and zero rating for most internet services after a net neutrality
movement started in part by opposition to facebook's free basics program which
only offered access to approved site nice job india thank you teach us your
ways that is with respect to net neutrality not necessarily whatsapp mob
murders and the hashtag wholesome gaming pc giveaway has launched on the pc
mastery subreddit all you have to do is enter to comment no all you have to do
is comment to enter by posting with a story of when you were a wholesome gamer
which will probably lead to people lying about nice things they did which is
decidedly not whole what the hell were they thinking ah life is pain ah okay on
that sunny note this episode is now over so
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