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it looks like NVIDIA is finally going to get over the hump and drop its next-gen
touring graphics cards for consumers through a teaser video entitled before
the game NVIDIA has teased the arrival of the new
gpus on the 20th of august the top end card will almost certainly be called the
GeForce rtx 2080 with the r indicating
that the card will have better support for ray tracing including microsoft's
new directx ray tracing API it isn't
clear yet though if gtx branded cards will still exist alongside rtx perhaps
as a stack of lower end products without the extra ray tracing support but no
word yet on pricing the 2070 2060 and so
on are expected in the months following i'm still confused about that slogan
though is it b for the game like not
against games or is it b for the game
like dedicate your very soul to the game
i don't think it's for i don't think it's before the game the rapper that
doesn't make any sense if you normally enjoy TechLinked or anything else on
youtube on a smartphone you might want to check out a new web page from youtube
called device report the streaming giant has set up the page to give users a list
of smartphones that it calls signature devices according to youtube
these phones have undergone internal testing for reliability and performance
and also support a number of features that are prerequisites
prerequisites for inclusion in the program
prerequisites so these
features are 4k decoding HDR support 360
degree video high frame rates the use of modern codecs and a flare for the
sophisticated things in life unsurprisingly flagship devices such as
the google pixel 2 samsung galaxy s9 and lg v30 made the list but no iphones are
anywhere to be found which is strange because if any phone is a flair for
fanciness it's iphones Intel has another black eye
when it comes to processor security as it still tries to deal with fixing the
spectre and meltdown bugs that made headlines earlier this year a new
vulnerability called foreshadow has reared its ugly head such fun names
for these super dangerous security problems
the next one will be called like mooncake or something like spectre and
meltdown foreshadow exploits a predictive feature called speculative
execution but foreshadow is a little different in that it can attack a secure
enclave which are parts of the CPU that are separated from the rest of the chip
so that any malware affecting the os can't touch sensitive data or code
although the issue can be resolved somewhat with microcode updates it
appears that unsurprisingly it'll come with a performance hit the good news is
that if you're in the market for a new CPU Intel's new 9th gen parts should fix
the problem when they come out later this year although technically if this were a
thriller movie that could be foreshadowing for them not fixing the
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anyways it's time for quick bits the uk's advertising standards authority has
called amazon out for marking products with one day delivery and then failing
to actually deliver them in one day amazon clarified that it means one day
after dispatch but i'm sure that's not much comfort to those who are kept
waiting for their toilet paper shipment and who need help with a dispatch of
their own potty humor a new law has been signed
that limits the number of drivers that can work for ride-sharing companies like
uber or lyft in new york city it's the latest in a long-running battle between
ride-sharing apps and taxi services but if it becomes too difficult to hail a
ride i hear that watching the rats scurry around the subway can be pretty
entertaining it's not gonna help you get anywhere
though john wrote the script that sounds fun though 5g is getting
close to showing up on smartphones as samsung has recently released a new
modem for mobile devices that can achieve speeds of up to six gigabits per
second whoa whoa but even if your carrier won't support 5g right off the
bat the modem can still get up to over 1.5 gigabits over lte advanced although
real world speeds will probably be a fair bit slower it looks like we're
getting closer to the incredibly important dream of snapchat in 4k that
sounded like sarcasm the market for video games in china appears to be
stagnating as the authorities in beijing haven't approved any new games for
months now a trend which could continue as there is currently a freeze on new
approvals caused by a reorganization within the chinese government the good
old people's republic screens games for what it considers subversive content
before they can be published and while some babies are thrown out with a bath
water they're also opposed to loot boxes so maybe they could find some common
ground with western gamers over the whole battlefront 2 debacle
and anhoyzer boosh i think that's how you say it is
deploying a number of wi-fi enabled fridges containing free bud light around
the cleveland ohio area which are
kept chained up by internet connected magnets the fridges are only unlocked if
the cleveland browns can find a way to win a game
and wow you guys got that joke and if you aren't an nfl fan the cruel joke
here is that the long-suffering browns have only managed four victories in the
last three seasons and that's not very many
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