a light shines to the west
the tech news calls will you
answer full reviews for Intel's 11th gen rocket
lake desktop processors are out including the one that i did over on our
technology related youtube channel Linus tech tips what what's that oh i don't
know it seems uh a little bit niche you know
it's none of those tech news over there yeah mostly about dropping things and
tips about how to drop things more more efficiently you know while the core i5
11600k has gotten a decent performance upgrade over its predecessor the 10600k
the new core i9 eleven 900k has not
i'm not even there's a question mark on there i'm not even going to say it
it trades blows with the 10900k and doesn't manage to beat AMD's ryzen 9
5900x in most scenarios but that's fine pat gelsinger wasn't around for the
development of these chips okay this is the last lackluster launch from Intel
the next ones the next ones are going to be good
yeah yeah yeah yeah but there's there's a cherry on top of this sad story
remember when Intel did that big marketing blitz about how ryzen laptops
wait 10 seconds before boosting the full power well the developers behind the
custom power management app rise and adjust or add the abj
the ryzen edge have figured out how to remove it so Intel's 12th gen chips
better be real good because they're running out of ways to make their processors seem competitive they're blue
though they are blue it's easier on the eyes
that's the opposite blue light is good for the brain
a researcher has conducted a study measuring how much data Android phones
collect compared to iphones and concluded that Android sends 20 times
more data back to google then iOS sends back to apple the studies
author douglas leath from trinity college in ireland says that Android
collects data for more apps and services than iOS even when users have opted out
in the os settings in response google released a statement saying they
identified flaws in the researcher's methodology for measuring data volume
and disagree with the paper's claims oh
okay okay my mistake here's uh more of my
data as an apology thank you a good thing i use an iphone google says
that Android is compatible with many more apps services and devices so they
have more data to send oh wow thank you
and more love to give and i've got to admit that that kind of makes sense but
20 times google it might be time to admit you have a
data problem we're putting in rehab no more data and microsoft has won a
nearly 22 billion dollar with a b
government contract to supply the us army with augmented reality headsets
over the next 10 years the company has been working with the army to develop
what it calls an integrated visual augmentation system or i guess as the
army's going to call it ivas for versions of the hololens and i guess
the army liked it because you don't just drop 22 billion dollars on something you
only feel okay about like that's love money like what's next a marriage
contract get a room you two to be fair there
aren't a ton of other ar companies that the army could partner with they're
probably not eager to try out niantic's ar glasses which the company's ceo
teased this week along with a trailer for a concept game called urban legends
although some gi is definitely going to find a way to install pokemon go on his
standard issue holloman's
there's uh there was a squirrel over there across the river you better go go
catch it vulpix in the in the lz
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oh my god NVIDIA has finally enabled beta support for GPU passthrough to
Windows virtual machines running on the Linux pc in slightly more plain english that
means that Windows virtual machines on your Linux computer will be able to use
your graphics card this was technically possible before arguably kind of easy
but it's going to be even easier now and wait are you falling asleep guys this is
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louis rossman has had enough the electronics repair guy hand youtuber has
started a gofundme campaign to get a right to repair legislation passed
through the direct ballot initiative rossman wants to hire the same firm that
got right to repairs laws passed in massachusetts so if you believe in the
cause go check it out this story really should have been before the ifixit it
really should have been that's not bad yeah yeah apple may be
working on an apple car but google is one step ahead sort of not really fion
has partnered with the web giant to integrate the google assistant into a
special version of the fiat 500 it comes with a free nest hub which you can ask
for information on the car's fuel level and you can tell it to lock your car
doors too it's called the fiat 500 family hey google i'm sure it sounds
better in italian i'm not even going to try the accent
family hey google
paypal has announced checkout with crypto a new feature that will allow
customers to pay with cryptocurrency on any site that supports paypal at launch
bitcoin litecoin ethereum and bitcoin cash are supported no word on dogecoin
just yet but i'm sure they'll see the benefit to adding that one because it's
the cutest cryptocurrencies and also it was a meme
oh it's so adorable and it's not april fool's here yet but some companies have
already jumped the gun with hilarious pranks including volkswagen who said
that they were changing the company's name to volkswagen
like the electricity i i like rockcats better they announced the burst he a
gaming mouse with helium pockets making the mouse lighter than air
that actually is a dumb idea but i love it if you think these are really dumb
google agrees since they've canceled their usual foolish hijinks for the
second year in a row it's because you're not actually allowed to joke
during a pandemic we're not allowed to continue this episode any longer either
come back on friday for more tech news when you shall be called upon
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