it's monday and hopefully you've got some excitement to start your week Intel
certainly tried to drum up some of its own at its desktop launch event in new
york this morning as the company announced a new lineup of desktop chips
focused on gaming and content creation highlights included a new 28 core 56
thread xeon and an updated x-series lineup with 68 platform pci express 3.0
lanes bigger cache sizes and soldered thermal interface material to help with
overclocking the biggest news for gamers was probably the 9th gen core chips for
desktop with the flagship and much rumored and leaked i9 9900k featuring 8
cores 16 threads and a clock speed of 5 gigahertz as well as the aforementioned
soldered tim although you'll have to wait until november and december for the
x-series and xeon parts respectively the new core i9s can be pre-ordered today
with availability and shipping on october 19th well i guess we'll have to
wait for the oh
james isn't here i'm here oh dennis
yeah yes i'm not i'm leaving though oh
so am i so as we reported in our last episode the Windows 10 october update
has come under fire after many users have claimed that the update is randomly
deleting their personal files although microsoft is calling the user reports
isolated they've decided to yank the october update and stop rolling it out
while they attempt to fix the issue and have even claimed that microsoft support
can recover those deleted files even though
everybody else can't seem to see why that would be possible although losing
important personal data without warning is certainly cause for alarm just by
itself users are also reporting that certain apps from the Windows store
including the edge web browser no longer connect to the internet after the update
was installed we don't know yet when the issues will be fixed but we can only
hope that the update to the update will be a little less
disappointing another flagship phone launch is just around the corner we've
already got the iphone 10s the google pixel 3 is all but certain to be
announced tomorrow and now the oneplus 6t will be shown off to the world on
october 30th according to an official announcement from the company rumors
about its features are currently circulating including the ever popular
notch albeit one smaller than what you'd find in an iphone usbc and the ability
to unlock using facial recognition interestingly the phone will also have a
fingerprint reader buried inside the screen however oneplus will be ditching
the headphone jack so be prepared to dongle yourself
thanks apple the oneplus 6t will probably set you back around 500 us
dollars but more details will be forthcoming at the launch event in new
york at the end of the month and now it's time for quick bits brought to you
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australia you might find that your apple watch is behaving as if it's just been
on the receiving end of a kangaroo's foot as many apple watch fours in
australia are suffering from reboot loops after the recent daylight saving
times uh clock adjustment apparently because the virtual watch face can't
deal with a day that appears to be an hour short and it's not even clear if a
fix is coming that's dumb if you've ever been tempted
to cheat at fortnite this might be enough to dissuade you attackers are
intentionally targeting would-be cheaters but not as some sort of weird
vigilante crusade rather they're using youtube videos to distribute what are
supposedly cheats such as aimbots but are actually exes that have stolen user
data as well as cryptocurrency so remember that cheaters never win i mean
they sometimes win no i'm sure many of you have been looking forward to playing
assassin's creed odyssey but many users are still having issues as ubisoft
servers have been hit with several ddos attacks although ubisoft said the
problem has been dealt with lots of users are still having connection
problems especially frustrating as it's a single player game that requires an
internet connection spacex has pulled off its first ever ground landing on the
u.s west coast with its falcon 9 rocket landing safely in california although
this isn't elon musk's first landing near the pacific coast it's the first
that's on good old terra firma instead of out on the ocean that means land i
guess this marks a nice milestone for the company as it shows it won't have to
rely on waterborne drone ships in order to land its craft and in case you don't
already feel like your smartphone has a mind of its own it can now crawl around
your table thanks to the moby lim robotic ARM which attaches via usb and
can be programmed to your heart's content although it can provide haptic
feedback and manipulate real-world objects watching it scoot its way across
your desk really is delightfully unnerving
that's it for today guys to come back on wednesday for more tech news that's sure
to satisfy rather than unnerve
hopefully that's the goal love you guys so much see you later see
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