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historically there hasn't been a whole lot of variety in the motherboard market
in terms of which manufacturer to buy from but there's some big news as it
looks like one major company is finally gonna start providing boards for fans of
team red evga has just released a video teaser for its dark series of
motherboards that don't bother with RGB lighting or other ostentatious bling but
the trailer very obviously put a ryzen logo behind the dark emblem suggesting
that we'll be seeing evga make AMD compatible boards for the first time in
a very very long time the move makes sense considering AMD has been
experiencing a surge in popularity ever since 1st gen ryzen and it's never smart
to ignore a huge swath of your potential market just ask the folks at blackberry
who thought serious professionals wouldn't be interested in the iphone
wait they were right actually yeah amazon has made plenty of headlines
recently for the way it treats its workers and now another piece of
embarrassing news has come out as a bloomberg report has revealed that the
tech giant is hiring and firing drivers
through an algorithm the affected workers are part of amazon's flex
delivery program a gig based contract employment scheme where people can
deliver packages on their own time kind of like uber but for amazon orders
while it might make some sense to automate the hr process for these types
of roles the rub is that many drivers are reportedly being fired for
on-the-job mishaps that aren't their fault such as flat tire
closed gates at a delivery location or even faulty amazon lockers as the
algorithm thinks drivers simply aren't making deliveries on time well it's not
wrong true it's just out of their control terminated drivers reportedly
have very little recourse as they have to pay 200 bucks just to appeal
and even that isn't a sure thing i mean we already have to deal with terrible
human bosses enough not talking about you of course Linus
you're great you're fantastic thank you he's not human
he is a robot if anybody knows how to clone lines you let us know despite how
much technology has advanced over the last few decades we still aren't driving
flying cars everywhere but it looks like we might finally have something close to
a real proof of concept as an honest-to-goodness flying car has
completed a test flight between two cities in slovakia dubbed the air car
the front half of the prototype looks a lot like a standard car with the rest of
the body featuring wings and an empanadage
and what does that even mean who wrote this
it runs on regular gasoline it can fly about 600 miles or a thousand kilometers
at an altitude of 8 200 feet or 2 500
meters according to its inventor during the flight the air car got up to speeds
of about 105 mph or 170 kph so while
it's not as fast as taking a commercial aircraft it's a heck of a lot faster
than sitting in rush hour in bratislava we've all been there you know
of course with how bad the drivers are here in vancouver i really wonder about
the wisdom of giving them all a pair of wings
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gaming on to the quick bits you know how microsoft is only including 8th gen
Intel and zen 2 and newer cpus on his compatibility list for Windows 11. well
microsoft has come out today and said you won't need any specific CPU to run
the preview build for Windows insiders and they may end up backtracking and
allowing more cpus to run win11 in the future they love us what were we just
saying about ignoring a huge swath of your potential market don't do it don't
do it bad lg is rolling out firmware updates for
its 2021 oleds to support 4k 120 hertz
with dolby vision boom got him the update is aimed at xbox
series x owners whose consoles have the ability to output dolby vision at 4k 120
though there aren't any supported games out for the platform yet
lg is also looking at updating its 2020 OLED sets and qnet displays should also
be getting the update hopefully compatible games will follow soon before
lg releases another alphabet soup tv lineup it's a joke
hey that's a little dig at lg xbox cloud streaming is now available
not only via web browser to everyone but also on all compatible iOS devices
previously desktop users had to download an app so this will make getting onto
the service a little easier plus xbox is now caught up to google stadia in terms
of availability on apple devices i guess google's only real advantage in
streaming is now gone bye-bye see ya and
if you're flying on united anytime soon the airline just announced that
bluetooth audio will be available on some of their planes starting in 2025
removing the necessity of getting tangled with a cable in a cramped
airplane seat or even worse having to use the complimentary headphones that
sound like charlie brown's teacher
i have to wonder why it's taking that long to add such a simple feature
but i guess you can always entertain yourself in the meantime by doing the crossover puzzle and the in-flight
magazine that someone's already probably filled out i put on the face mask that's
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