aha i caught you you were just about to watch this youtube video weren't you
man i'm good so smart Intel has released
their balls to the wall unlocked 28 core processor called the xeon
dash 3175x for our cool 3 grand the chip also
supports hyper threading so it has a full 56 threads with the cores running
at a peak frequency of 4.5 gigahertz
making this on paper at least Intel's biggest and fastest chip ever and it's
also got hexa channel ddr4 support up to 192 gigabytes worth now obviously the
w3175x isn't meant for consumers like you and
me but rather for in Intel's worlds select highly threaded and computing
intensive applications like architectural and industrial design and
professional content creation so now what we do here we're not pros
and for i guess super rich people who can afford to buy a single processor for
the same price as an overpowered gaming rig but can you really put a price on a
processor you can in case you haven't heard or
don't care steam the epic game store and pc gamers
all over the world are a bit mad at each other right now and that's because metro
exodus the game that was set to release february 15th on steam is now going to
release on the epic game store instead for 10 cheaper existing pre-orders will
be delivered through steam and it is technically a timed exclusive so it
could return to the steam store in a year's time for example but
the whole thing has left a bit of a sour taste in everyone's collective mouth the
game's developer thq nordic tweeted that the decision to switch was made by their
publisher koch media and they had no say on the
details or timing of the deal with epic games valve has said that they think the
move was unfair to consumers and most gamers seem to agree but epic games is
making the case that timed exclusives are good for the industry and that it's
not healthy for valve to operate without any real competition and they have a
point but there's got to be a better way to do this other than stealing a game
right from under its release date not like this epic not like this
and facebook surprise is back in the news again for what else breaches of
privacy except this time the company was paying people in exchange for collecting
their info facebook has admitted to paying users from the age 13 to 35 up to
20 a month plus referral fees to install an app called facebook research on both
iOS and Android as part of facebook's project atlas initiative the app would
decrypt and analyze users phone activity and would even ask them to screenshot
their amazon order history page in response to the news apple has blocked
the app on iOS as well as other facebook apps that the company's employees use
for beta testing and internal affairs the app is still reportedly functioning
on Android the story is just the latest privacy kerfuffle for facebook but the
company may actually be trying to change its ways they just hired three veteran
privacy activists including need cardozo former attorney of the electronic
frontier foundation who has been very critical of facebook's privacy issues in
the past bold move maybe he'll turn the facebook
ship around or he's on a secret mission to destroy the company from the inside
godspeed cardozo godspeed
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thanks Linus now for the quick bits apple may be on facebook's case but they
had a privacy issue of their own this week a bug in facetime's group calling
feature allowed the caller to listen into the recipient's device before that
person even answered the phone the bug was apparently in the wild for at least
a week before apple shut down the group calling feature while they fixed the
problem and one lawyer has even sued apple because the bug allowed someone to
listen in on a confidential call with a client it just goes to show parties can
be fun if all the guests who are invited actually get let into the party you
don't you just talk to them through the door if you're just having you're having a
party and then other people are like hey i can hear what you're saying
you're having a party they're invited they knock on the door you stand by the
door and listen them banter in the hall
last week xiaomi gave a sneak peek at a double folding phone that it's
developing but now a patent from Intel has emerged showing a similar design
unlike the xiaomi device Intel's would consist of three equally sized portions
so the device could be folded into a triangle or a mini laptop kind of
situation can't wait for gen 3 or 4 of the folding phone designs we'll be
texting each other on paper airplanes irobot the popular maker of roomba
autonomous vacuum cleaners has moved outdoors that's right kids there's
finally a lawnmower roomba it's actually called the irobot terra robot mower and
it will use technology called imprint smart mapping to make sure it only cuts
up your grass no free rides
and even if it does go over your cat by accident who needs a cat when you've got
roombas way more useful and just as cute
i don't know about that james never rub your face on a lawnmower they'll purr
gopro has added the ability to store unlimited amounts of uncompressed video
footage with their gopro plus online service previously users could store
unlimited photos and up to 35 hours of full quality footage but this i just i
mean wow this is just a whole new level of holy toledo oh my goodness
wowie and amazon is looking to soothe the anger of new york city citizens
about the company's new headquarters in the city uh they're gonna do that by
funding computer science courses in more than 130 schools across nyc because when
people are mad at you usually throwing money at them helps this isn't quite
that it's a step up from that but wow life lessons learned something new
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