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no new photos and videos of google's unreleased pixel 3 xl have hit the web
along with detailed info because nothing is sacred anymore what's the point the
xl has a huge notch all glass body no headphone jack two selfie cameras on the
front and one camera on the back along with a fingerprint reader it's got a
2960x1440 display four gigs of RAM and a qualcomm chip that is most likely a
snapdragon 845 inside the box is what looks like a wired usb type-c version of
the pixel buds along with a usb-c to 3.5
millimeter dongle usb-c to usb-a adapter
and the actual charging cable we still have yet to see any cool software tricks
google might have up its sleeve but for me seeing all this is kind of like hearing
the snape kills dumbledore right before i start the sorcerer's stone sorry if i
ruined it you had like 13 years this has been a long time coming magic leap the
initially much hyped and subsequently much less hyped augmented reality
startup has finally released the developer version of their headset the
magic leap one creator edition for 2295
us the headset itself is actually called the lightwear it relies on a small
wearable computer called the light pack powered by an NVIDIA system on chip and
there's also a handheld controller called the control
it's taking off the e on the r there just really makes it a lot quicker to
say early impressions of the mixed reality getup are
mixed the experience is apparently not that
much different from microsoft's hololens which launched more than two years ago
software seems to be limited to a handful of demos including one that puts
visuals to music from cigarose that's kinda cool and project create a creative
game with various modules and on top of that right before magic leap launched
the headset the company's vp of marketing left the company so it's
not obvious what the future of magic leap holds or whether it brings anything
to the table that wasn't there already other than
a mediocre 3d model because you can put a 3d model like on
the table i'm being very harsh why
why can't i be nice i don't know something's wrong with me inside and
this is a main story just because i'm super hyped about it nintendo released a
ton of new details about super smash bros ultimate first switch yes yes
castlevania mainstay simon belfond is coming as a playable character along
with richter as an echo fighter that's like a copy of the character with slight
variation belfont it's belmont you just it's
misspoke it's simon belmont apparently it's simon
belmont not bellefonte i guess i'm not as big a fan of as i thought i was dark
samus and fire emblem's crom are also coming as echo fighters and of all
characters they're putting donkey kong's villain king k rool in as a playable
character as well okay so that means ultimate so far has 73
playable fighters 103 stages and 800
music tracks that you can put into playlists and listen to while you while
the switch's screen is off if you're into that i don't even have a joke about
all this stuff i'm just really excited i don't even have a switch yet speaking of
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lenovo has inadvertently published detailed specs of AMD's unannounced
ryzen 3 2300x and ryzen 5 2500x cpus in
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they're unlocked because a budget shouldn't get in an enthusiast way
security firm trustwave has released a tool called social mapper which can use
facial recognition to track one person across multiple social networks and
although that sounds creepy the idea is that bad hacker people already have
tools like this so this one is intended to help security professionals
keep up but can't you just release it like privately to those professionals
and then you know instead of releasing it publicly that's
anki's cosmo robot is getting an upgrade now called vector it no longer needs a
phone connection has an hd 120 degree camera and responds to alexa style
commands its character interactions are designed by former pixar employees and
it's on kickstarter now for 200 bucks us is it possible to love a robot
of course it is the mechanics are kind of weird though samsung and Intel are
both launching qlc ssds the first one is a four terabyte SATA SSD and the second
is an NVMe m.2 sd SSD that is in up to
two terabyte capacities while qlc is slightly slower than tlc it's much more
dense meaning that more qlc in the market is better for price to capacity
ratios if you didn't know qlc stands for
quender loving care not sure why and ea rep said in a recent
interview that the company has created a moral compass to help it avoid repeating
the mistakes made with star wars battlefront 2 like the pay to win loot
box system which permanently damaged the game's reputation in the community it's
almost like a lot of star wars fans have brains and maybe shouldn't be treated as
dumb masses of people with endless pockets of cash to hand over to disney
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