the real winner in last night's debate tech news
google streamed their launch night in event at 11am local time because it's
2020 and day is night right now try to keep up we got an official unveiling of
the pixel 4 5g and the pixel 5 the phone
people care about curiously they both have the same processor a snapdragon 765
g which is actually a downgrade from the pixel 4 snapdragon 855 so maybe you do
care about it this is so stupid the pixel 5 has shed the pixel 4 silly
motion sensing radar in favor of a punch hole selfie cam and it's got a 5g
support it just won a 90hz screen ip68
water resistance finally reverse wireless charging for pixel buds it's
like reverse osmosis you know and eight gigabytes of RAM for 699 dollars for 499
dollars the pixel 4 a5g will get you a 60 hertz display just six piddly
gigabytes of RAM and a smaller battery but a larger screen and a headphone jack
why is the better one not bet it's just different why are they mutually exclusive we're all different james i'm
a pixel fanboy i'm mad but an even better deal might be the new chromecast
with google tv which all of us just heard about just
kidding there were like full reviews posted a week ago this one is 49 and
comes with a remote to control its google tv software which is like a ui
that runs on top of Android tv but it's not the Android app called google tv
which will replace google play movies and tv
it's also not the google tv that was cancelled in 2014 and it's it's also
won't run stadia until 2021 what i'm
assuming stadia will run on the new nest audio smart speaker because mark ronson
loved it how do you play stadium on a speaker
they're gonna cancel stadia anyway they'll just call it uh they'll call it
nest streaming some fresh leaks may have given us an
early look at the specs for AMD's upcoming zen 3 desktop cpus and big navi
graphics cards a combination of benchmarks and spec tables point to AMD
releasing ford cpus from the six core ryzen 5 5600x to the 16 core ryzen 9
5950x at their event on october 8th that's right it looks like there won't
be a desktop rosin 4000 series irritating everyone who buys these just
to display them on the shelf in a numeric order now you'll have to explain
why the 4 000 parts are missing to everyone who sees your little shelf the
shelf is ruined there goes my childhood we also got a
look at possible specs for the radiant rx 6900 xt nice 6800 xt and 67xt 6700xt
thanks to a data table that was apparently accidentally included in the
newegg insider newsletter super inside
i think that's what the kids call a big oof that's what i see on my twitter a lot
anyway i say that if it's legit the 6900xt will
have 5120 stream processors and 16
gigabytes of RAM which sounds like it could go toe-to-toe with the rtx 3080
but i still think the craziest thing about these gpus are the code names
dim gray cavefish sienna
sirchild cichlid tie slide i don't know is this
rupaul's drag race and if you thought apple and epic games
legal fight would soon be sorted out oh you sweet sweet summer child you naive
little wuss the preliminary hearing on monday was
only the beginning as it looks like the case won't be resolved until summer 2021
if the earth is even around at that time but google who's also being sued by epic
has actually made a change in response to epic's accusations the company has
announced that next year's Android 12 will make it easier to install and use
third-party app stores other than the play store something epic specifically
called for however starting next year google is also going to start actually
enforcing its policy requiring play store apps to use google pay for in-app
purchases which the company was pretty
chill about previously so six one half a dozen the other if
there's suddenly going to be a ton of app stores on Android well google needs
their cut and so do we which is why TechLinked yes tech link now costs 30 an
episode thank you i'm getting at least 50 cents of that
now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by the drop inter mechanical
keyboard it sounds for enter it's a new model from drop.com made with enthusiast
grade materials it's got an aluminum top plate plastic bottom plate and pbt
keycaps with double shot shine through you can get this bad boy in three colors
and equip it with your choice of mechanical switches so if all that speaks to you then speak back
pick up the phone dial now get it at drop.com
quick bits quickbits never changes
lenovo has put the world's first pc with a foldable display the x1 fold up for
pre-order and appropriately it looks like a bigger version of the galaxy fold
it's also running an Intel lakefield processor which
doesn't bode well for its overall performance but
i remember this thing being pretty cool at ces so maybe it will impress us with
its great attitude and 10 out of 10 personality lenovo also
launched the ultralight thinkpad x1 nano and the thinkbook 15 gen 2 a laptop with
a little slide out tray for its included wireless earbuds what or your hot
chocolate oh working from home means that there's a blurrier line between
work and home than ever before but microsoft wants to fix this by offering
its employees a virtual commute it will do things like remind workers about the
end of the work day and suggest wind down tasks like guided meditation
weird i was thinking something more like pretending to fly to work every day in
flight simulator but we can do the deep breathing thing if you want while you're
flying this is good it's nice silent retreat amazon has announced amazon one
a new system that will allow customers to pay for things with their hand print
it'll roll out initially at two amazon go stores in seattle and if you're
worried about hygiene you don't get to touch anything you just
you just hover your hand there like it's a high five from demolition man
israeli researchers have developed a wearable electrocenter
phallogram an eeg device that they claim can
predict epileptic seizures one hour before they happen with 97 accuracy i
wasn't expecting to read this this is crazy am i tom cruise speaking of tom
cruise for some reason first responders might be the first people to get jet
packs the famous iron man jet suit made by gravity industries is being tested by
the uk's great north air ambulance service as a
means of possibly getting medics to fly to victims who have been injured out in
nature somewhere preferably on precipices with eagles attacking them
and they just shoot up their all right
i guess if we as a society are giving out jet packs to people medical
professionals should get them first i mean i guess
i'll allow it tech reviewers should get them first
we must accept it riley and we also must accept that this episode is over so come
back on friday for more tech news because if you thought this stuff was
good oh man don't get me started on fridays
i could talk all day on a friday news
oh baby