oh man i was streaming last night and i was
just like oh you know what i i just feel too tired to be entertaining right now
and it was fine but now it's TechLinked and TechLinked is supposed to be
entertaining and i'm still feeling it or rather that is that i'm not feeling it
but it's okay because it's not entertainment it's the news
here i go a number of details about potential upcoming surface devices have been let
loose in a new book by brad sams a
gentleman with two first names he's a writer for thoreau who has covered
microsoft's brands for years and among the claims made in the book are a 2020
release of a surface studio display that
would be compatible with the detachable modular pcs currently planned for
microsoft's large surface hub displays sams also claims that's singular sams
not more than one sam that the company's dual screen andromeda device is in fact
still in development and targeting a late 2019 launch while the next batch of
surface pcs may include some AMD powered
models and finally finally usb type c he
also reiterated the rumor that a diskless xbox one model and a revamped
cheaper xbox one s are coming next year
but all of this info came from a book
what year is it come on baby if you stayed at a marriott hotel sometime in
the last four years you might want to pay attention as the international chain
just announced that up to 500
million of its guests may have had their personal information compromised bloody
hell i was out of myriad on tuesday
the company was made aware in september that an attempt was made to access a
database containing info from as far back as 2014
and a subsequent investigation found that there was indeed a breach names
addresses dates of birth passport numbers
why are you storing those email addresses and phone numbers may
have all been accessed in the attack the hack is even bigger than last year's
equifax hack which affected 148 million
people just like equifax marriott has set up a
dedicated website for guests to get information and take steps to protect
themselves on their own because marriott
won't really be doing anything for you you know what their mattresses may be
wonderful but i'm still pissed yeah phones with a
camera hole punched in the display they're real and they're coming we've
gotten the first real images of devices using the new design one from huawei and
one from lenovo huawei's device is called the nova 4 and the chinese tech
giant showed it off during a live stream celebrating the 18th birthday of chinese
singer jackson yee oh jackson is 18 already yeah wow the
years just fly by don't they wow lenovo's device meanwhile is called the
z5s and it appeared in leaked photos showing the camera cut out positioned in
the center of the notification bar rather than off to the side but that
wait a minute what is the purpose of not having a notch if you have a hole because the
video is for watching video it's going to be in the middle here yeah i mean why not just have the whole notch
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it would work just as well hololens is joining the army microsoft has secured a
480 million dollar contract to add its
augmented reality headsets to the military's armory the contract appears
to indicate that hololens will be used primarily for training purposes not as a
heads-up display in the field but then how will we ever find out who the next
luke skywalker is look you've switched off your targeting computer nintendo is
finally hitting its much-maligned creators program which
sounded creators program sounds great
but was actually really stupid and heavily restricted the publishing and
streaming of the company's games the program shuts down at the end of
december and nintendo has released new much less prohibitive guidelines so
nintendo's pg gates have opened now it's only a matter of time before we get
blood spattered smash brothers you know that you know that isn't happening oh
yeah vivo a company now known for pushing the envelope of phone design has
teased the next two a phone with displays on both the front and the back
along with an interesting led ring on the rear it's a solution also employed
by the nubia x in pursuit of a camera-free front display it's a little
over the top but uh hey if it works my selfie game will have never been
stronger i actually think this is a great idea why do we have crappy front-facing cameras we just have one
camera and a crappy rear-facing display brilliant i thought you didn't like it
no i love it tired of shuffling around getting stuff done with your boring old
meat bag body then hop into the toyota thr-3 a humanoid robot that can be
controlled wirelessly by a human in an exoskeleton rig don't worry too much
about that you have to be doing the movement i guess if you're in an
exoskeleton rig but you don't have to be so strong previous versions of the thr-3
depended on wires but now the robot can be sent anywhere to cause whatever havoc
you prefer the operator wears a vr headset so they
can stare into the eyes of their victims as they crush their skulls very exciting
stuff and after fallout 76's rocky beta
the launch was well rocky and beta
players have been complaining about the game's empty world and janky mechanics
but the cherry on top really is the 200
fallout 76 power armor edition a collector's version that was supposed to
come with a canvas bag for the life-sized helmet included in the box
but you know what you guys can can i have something can i have something to
throw down i need something to throw down hit me with that tape beautiful you
know what canvas is not nylon and nylon is not
canvas and they are not the same thing and it wasn't canvas it was nylon
bethesda responded to complaints about the bag by saying that the original
canvas bag was a prototype and was too
expensive to make they also gave affected players 500 atoms which sounds
like even less than it actually is it's
the in-game currency but that isn't even enough to buy a canvas bag in-game so
you know what here can i can i have that back for a second yeah
you know what people want their canvas
bethesda what's the point of having pow a power armor helmet when you can't
store it in canvas yeah i wanna i could keep going about this for hours but i'm
just i'm too mad nylon of all the materials i wouldn't even take a nylon
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