okay and oh oh no shoot
we were gonna surprise you but you got here early
all right put it all away we'll get you next time laptops laptops
laptops there's new laptops with new specs and a new attitude because Intel
just launched their h-series variants of their 11th gen tiger lake mobile
processors along with some bold claims like that one of their mid-tier core i5s
beats one of AMD's top-tier ryzen nines in
sorry what is that far cry new dawn and
grid 2019. okay and rainbow six siege and a total
war game okay all right Intel are you sure that has nothing to do with that
the laptop that you were testing also had one of the new rtx 3050 and 3050 ti
mobile gpus which also just launched in laptops from various manufacturers i
don't know maybe you should double check if these new fancy new laptop cpus still
aren't your cup of tea though a fresh leak points to november as the launch
window for Intel's 12th gen alder lake s cpus should we review one of those
laptops on TechLinked wait we don't do that here circuit ah yes believe it or
not htc is still making new vr headsets
the company just announced the vive pro 2 and the vive focus 3 with the first
one being obviously an upgrade to the vive pro one and a half no no the five
pro uh it's got a new 5k screen and it
runs at 120 hertz but the 13.99 full kit still
comes with the original vive wands which
nostalgia yeah as for the vive focus 3
it's pretty interesting it's powered by the same snapdragon xr2 chip as the
oculus quest 2 but with a wider 120
degree field of view higher resolution 5k display
and a 90 hertz refresh rate by default
but then both of these headsets are geared more towards business users with
the vive focus 3 actually locked out of running any consumer facing software
because htc doesn't want any concern for
our business customers that their users would access consumer content you might
go on tick-tock okay so you can put on this headset and
embody a virtual character in tron world but you can't have fun with it
if you look like you're having fun then we're going to turn it off
so i mean if you're really trying to get into vr without a facebook account though word is that sony's upgraded psvr
headset is also going to be sick and it's the opposite no business allowed at
all just gaming they're very strict
speaking of being strict germany has issued a three-month emergency ban
on facebook collecting data from whatsapp users the move comes in the
lead up to may 15th the day that facebook says that whatsapp users must
must agree to the chat app's new terms of service or have the app's
functionality slowly fade away like half of humanity after the
snap the german regulator responsible for the
ban says that the new whatsapp terms are overly broad and unclear
and it is vital to stop potential misuse of the data from interfering with
germany's upcoming elections facebook says that the ban is
based on a misunderstanding and that they are still going to roll out the
rule so um good luck to anyone who's trying to message each other using the
many many other messaging services that are available wait no they can just do
that yeah there's lots more yeah they could their signal now it's time for the
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links video ShortCircuit xiaomi is no longer blacklisted by the us government
after the two parties agreed to resolve their ongoing litigation although a
white house spokesperson did say that the biden administration is still
deeply concerned about potential u.s investments in companies linked to the
chinese military so seems like everything will be cool as long as
xiaomi doesn't announce like a tank or something
yeah with two screens samsung is reportedly gearing up to launch their
ARM-based exynos CPU coupled with an AMD
Radeon GPU and apparently it will not be
in a phone as some people like me expected and hoped but rather in a
laptop in the second half of this year this is wild i mean NVIDIA is working on
putting one of their gpus in an ARM-powered laptop with a mediatek CPU
and then we got samsung working on this 2021 might just be the year that we get
ARM laptops that are worth buying that aren't made by apple
wow i don't know darkseid the hacking group behind the colonial pipeline
ransomware attack has published a statement on its dark website saying
that they are apolitical and that by hacking colonial they were only trying
to make money not create problems for society
oh sorry guys we misunderstood
we thought you were trying to like cause major disruptions by making everyone
think there's going to be a gas shortage causing people to load up their trucks
with all the gas they can carry which in turn causes an actual gas shortage
but oh you were just you were just trying to make a bug
no no worries then
researchers at the howard hughes medical institute demonstrated the amazing
potential of neural implants this week when a paralyzed man managed to type
about 90 characters a minute by
imagining that he was writing them by hand are you kidding me
wow participants can achieve around 25
characters a minute with existing brain computer interfaces which involve
selecting letters on a virtual keyboard with a mind controlled cursor so this is
this is a significant improvement like hooray science
okay just read my mind right like what am i thinking uh money money money money
NVIDIA video money and bungie is letting
another destiny 2 glitch slide so that players can have some fun with it the
developer accidentally enabled cross play between pc and console yesterday
but we'll wait until later this week to disable it as it won't be fully ready
for prime time until later this year see this is what we need more of in the
world why are so many people hacking pipelines instead of hacking
cross-platform multiplayer i just like doing it and i just like doing the end
of this episode um otherwise people might get sick of the tech news so take
a break come back on friday and by that time we'll be all set up with your
surprise yeah hopefully yeah or will surprise you by never referencing this
joke ever again
was that on planet no