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now there's an age-old debate about whether apple products live up to the
hype but a new report suggests that apple has been pulling the wool or could
it be apple skin over our eyes with regard to
battery life on the iphone a consumer
advocacy group based in the uk is claiming that after testing nine iphone
models literally all of them fell significantly short of apple's claimed
battery life with respect to talk time
now according to the report the iphone 10r showed the biggest discrepancy
between the actual talk time and apple spec sheet only lasting about 16 and a
half hours instead of the advertised 25.
now apple put out a rather generic statement about how it stands behind its
claims in response but to be fair to
them the uk watchdog group didn't reveal its testing methodology so
maybe the issue is that they were i don't know uh holding it wrong
now if you were excited to get your paws on AMD's new third gen threadripper chip
you might be in for a bit of a wait it's gonna be a heavy one
a couple of months ago AMD indicated that their latest behemoth in their
high-end desktop lineup would be ready sometime in 2019 but the focus seems to
be firmly on the higher volume more consumer-oriented 3rd gen ryzen series
which should be dropping sometime this summer although both the upcoming ryzen
and threadripper chips will be using the seven nanometer manufacturing process
there is some speculation that this new process might not have the capacity to
handle all of the new chips that AMD is pushing out especially when you consider
that AMD is also using it for their new server processors and for their gpus so
here's the deal then if you really need to rip threads before 2020 you can go to
your local fabric store and get a seam ripper which is lame not quite
the same thing but hey you can make cool cut off jeans
now remember when the best looking desktop mac that you could buy looked
kind of like darth vader's
garbage can well i think it's safe to assume that apple learned from pushing
out a design that not only looked kind of funny but was very difficult to
upgrade much to the chagrin of their professional level customers so we're
all excited to see what apple has up its sleeve at next month's worldwide
developer conference probably not this look uh where sources say that apple
will be coming out with a new mac pro along with an HDR mini led monitor to go
alongside it no word yet on what the new system will
look like but i'm calling it now
it's gonna look like a dumpster when you upgrade it yeah
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facebook is reportedly using large numbers of paid contractors to look at
users facebook posts regardless of their
privacy settings to help develop ai systems
now although it might be understandable that facebook wants better insights into
user behavior the timing is just pretty
unfortunate on the heels of zucks the future is private talk so it's like
the future is private except when we don't want it to be and we pay other
people to make it not private hey look at these oculus headsets
microsoft's new chromium-based edge browser will come with an internet
explorer mode for folks who just gosh darn miss internet explorer no who
really need to access legacy sites that don't play nicely with modern browsers
although the feature honestly does kind of make sense
especially for enterprise users who might need to work with older standards
or access internal systems that are just not available on the world wide web
anyway so why bother upgrading them it's just uh
it's just funny because it turns out that ie is actually proving to be harder
to kill than a nokia 3310 why won't you
die now the internet was in an uproar recently over just how awful the
realistic cgi sonic the hedgehog it really was just
stupendously bad wasn't it so how awful the realistic sonic looked
in the in the trailer for the upcoming live action movie so much so that the
director actually relented and promised
fans a redesign so the film which is being produced by paramount is set to
hit theaters in november so i'm guessing that the uh the studio folks in charge
of the character design gotta you might say
go really fast gotta go fast yeah i got whatever whatever whatever i'm gonna
watch detective pikachu i'm not even gonna watch the sonic one because they
got pikachu right in the first place and isn't it voiced by ryan reynolds how can
you not watch pikachu voiced by ryan reynolds read the next story all right
oh another movie starring a furry cgi character is coming out in a mere four
days i'm talking of course about detective pikachu and there's now a
pokemon go tie-in to help promote the film starting tomorrow the detective
pikachu character might photobomb you
while using the app and you'll get other goodies like double the xp and special
themed avatars this special event will last for a week so go
dust off your pokemon go because like
who actually plays that game anymore and then just make sure you don't trespass
in your reclusive neighbor's backyard because you know i actually see a lot of people
playing it and that's it for now come back on wednesday where we will trespass
upon your our neighbor's brains for five minutes leaving behind a lovely uh
steaming pile of tech news in our place