einstein once said the formula for success in life is a equals x plus y
plus z x being work y being play and z of
course being the tech news which is super weird because none of those words
start with those letters but how smart could einstein really be yeah that's a
good point it looks like AMD may be taking a page
from NVIDIA and making graphics cards specifically designed to mine
cryptocurrency in what is ostensibly an attempt to allow some gamers to buy one
freaking GPU geez come on
apparently the new drivers for AMD gpus appear to have a feature that disables
display core next and video core next which basically means they wouldn't be
able to output video a weird feature to have on a video card but hey that's
crypto mining for you i mean have you ever even held a bitcoin it feels great
the card itself looks to be based on the navi 12 processor which came out last
year and was used in some apple systems no word yet on when AMD's mining cards
might be available but hopefully they'll be more effective distracting the miners
than NVIDIA's efforts which didn't really stop the rtx 3060 from being sold
out almost immediately please miners we
just want a few frames just a handful my minecraft pigs are starving
the world is racing to distribute covid vaccines so it's not too surprising that
they're hot targets for theft dutch newspaper divolk volkskront is it
volkscrunk kront anyways that newspaper reports that a cyberattack suffered by
the european medicines agency in december came from chinese and russian
state-sponsored hackers and that data on treatments of vaccines were taken
hackers hackers both countries governments deny any part in the hack of
course but whoever it was they had access to vaccine-related data for over
a month meaning they could see how much of the pfizer vaccine was being bought
and where it was headed we don't know yet what the motive may have been it may
have been to see what countries were more in dire need and exploit that information somehow but fingers crossed
that the hacks won't affect vaccine distribution i got to get stuck so i can
go breathe all over my family and friends again they miss my droplets
oh right it hasn't happened yet sorry smell it do you have like mint are you
an owner of a shiny new xbox series xrs
but have had controller issues lately you're not the only one as even though
microsoft focused on making lowering controller latency a priority for the
new systems many users are reporting that controllers aren't even responding
at all specifically button presses often simply do not register and it appears
the yellow y button is the most effective
fifa players have helped bring the issue to microsoft's attention as the why
button is important in that game for through balls which are harder presses
that can quickly get the ball to a teammate up the field yeah sports you
ever heard of it nope microsoft for their part has
responded to this situation saying they're actively working on a solution
in the meantime there's nothing wrong with digging out your old 20
that gamepad and we all got 20 of those nope i don't i'm a minimalist now it's
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thank you if you quick bits once you've quick bits them all yep wow
wow the new super nintendo world in osaka now has an official opening date
march 18th or just 10 days from now although it was supposed to open on
february 4th that date was pushed back for pandemic related reasons especially
as osaka was hit especially hard predictably the park will have hygiene
measures in place and you need to wear a mask but since you're a super nintendo
world you could just pretend you're shy guy
don't talk to me leave me alone six feet it's the end of
an error for apple as the imac pro is soon to be no more although the
standalone mac pro without the built-in monitor doesn't appear to be going
anywhere the imac version is now only being offered while supplies last so if
you've got five thousand dollars lying around go grab a piece of history before
it disappears at least this one doesn't require a thousand dollar monitor stand
eureka that's a negative for me although smart glasses haven't exactly
been the most popular wearable category razer is throwing its hat into the ring
with its new anzu smart glasses am i pronouncing that right anzu anzu
designed to help prevent eye strain they filter blue light and also provide the
user with open ear audio as well as a microphone ipx4 water resistance and up
to five hours of battery life unfortunately they're 200 bucks so i
wouldn't feel bad about just pairing your usual headphones with five dollar
gas station shades but they're not artificially intelligent true to no
one's surprise the multiplayer mode for watchdog's legion for pc is delayed
again apparently the game simply crashes when you try to play it on certain
graphics cards unfortunately there's no timetable for a fix but console players
should still have multiplayer mode in the very near future while we wait for a
fix we can sit back and appreciate the irony of how many bugs there have been
in a game about hacking who's we are people playing this game i don't know
anyone you wrote this
this is news and you know how web browsers on devices
other than pcs and phones generally suck well microsoft is trying to change that
as it's testing chromium-based edge on xbox you won't even have to have the
newest versions of the console as the browser should also support xbox one
right now the browser is fairly buggy as it goes through testing but once the
final product rolls out we'll probably have a living room browser you'll
actually want to use or you could just keep using your laptop
yeah probably gonna do that same
so that's our show so point your browser back here on wednesday for more tech
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