you know they always say if you like it then you should have put a ring on it
and i do like tech news it's not really fetishized when i do it
is it leaked specs for Intel's mysterious
upcoming discrete graphics cards are here a registry entry from the eurasian
economic union listed a development kit with 96 execution units which sounds
pretty impressive until you realize that that's the same number of eu's in the
integrated graphics for Intel's upcoming tiger lake desktop cpus and those things
are not going to be taken on the rtx 2080 anytime soon unless you're just
into watching massacres now it would appear that this dg1 card is essentially
then a discrete desktop version of team
blue's own integrated graphics but then
wait there's more a Linux driver from back in october indicated that Intel is
working on multi-GPU support combining the horsepower of a CPU's integrated
graphics with a discrete graphics card because that worked
so freaking well when AMD did it so
maybe Intel's initial cards will be something like optane and they'll be
like to accelerate low spec systems and
that'll be good maybe i don't know i'm really looking for
positives here because Intel needs a win
like i'm starting to actually pity them
notorious leaker ice universe who has a pretty good track record for phone
related predictions claims that samsung will not be calling its next flagship
the galaxy s11 because we live in a postmodern nihilist hellscape and
numbers are just a construct the phone might end up being called the galaxy s20
i'm actually not sure whether this is worse or better than microsoft skipping
Windows 9 and apple skipping the iphone 9 like it almost makes more sense to
skip 10 than to skip one
i guess i don't know nothing means anything one silver lining here though
maybe the introduction of a new pro version of the galaxy buds to combat
apple's airpods pro i mean we love the galaxy buds but they had a few
shortcomings samsung just needs to add some active noise cancellation make them
cheaper and i'd be into it as long as
they come with the phone for free and a chinese hacking group known as apt-20
has apparently managed to circumvent two-factor authentication in attacks on
industrial and government facilities sms message-based two-factor systems have
been compromised before but this attack involved stealing an rsa secure id
software token from a hacked system which can then be used to generate a
one-time security code now normally such
tokens require a physical piece of hardware like a usb key to be connected
to the computer that's being logged into but the hacking group was somehow able
to bypass that restriction targets of the attack are reportedly
located in nearly a dozen countries including brazil china france and the us
i don't know exactly what the takeaway is here but companies are tracking your
every move and your every attempt at security is a hilarious joke who needs
password merry christmas ladies and gentlemen now it's time for the buck
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idea for a robot that can scuttle around parking lots charging electric cars so
owners wouldn't have to worry about parking in designated charging spas
it's certainly a cool idea but so far it appears to be only that an idea i mean
should i make a big announcement and like a cgi video every time i think of
something cool wait actually we have people that can do that
maybe i should do it owners of 2019 and 2020 mazdas are experiencing sudden
stops as their car smart braking systems are reportedly hallucinating the
existence of obstacles in their hey you have a 29
oh boy we're a mazda fanboy over here mazda has recalled more than 35 000 of
the vehicles and so far no injuries or deaths have been reported
i mean if my car is going to have an acid trip i'd rather
imagine a fake obstacle than imagine a fake like
freeway so that's good the wall street journal published a
report on christmas day alleging that huawei received as much as 75 billion
dollars in aid from the chinese government adding fuel to rumors that
the company is basically an extension of the communist party of course many
countries financially back home-grown tech companies but usually the aid they
receive is slightly less than a small loan of 75 billion
huawei has basically denied any um
wrongdoing and their tweet got i don't know i got at least 200 likes i think
rivian has shown off a pretty slick new feature for their electric pickup truck
the tank turn which allows the vehicle's wheels to spin independently of each
other rotating the truck without needing to move forward or backward
and the truck's Windows didn't even shatter much in the process
your turn your move elon and speaking of teslas haptic suit maker tesla suit has
unveiled a new glove that's designed for extended reality which will not only
track the position of a user's hands in vr or ar but also provide force feedback
okay now we're inventing more new force powers that was my biggest issue with
that movie spoiler alert there's a new force power like in rise of skywalker
like every 10 minutes they just pull a new force move out of their ass and
they're like oh the force does this now see you can't do that when you set up a
universe and create a set of rules you have to actually follow them because if
you don't follow rules then there's never any stakes nothing bad can ever
happen to the protagonists as long as they're gonna magically have a solution
to it and you just have to kind of sit and eat a couple pieces of popcorn and
wait for it to materialize if you think they're actually in any danger because
you know what all the force does is allow you to like move things from a
distance and maybe you know have some control over people's minds a little bit
and predict stuff like a bit but not that much then there's actual stakes
something could actually go wrong but if you can just blow lightning up at the
sky or like you know project your presence
somewhere else or fly through space or whatever i mean that was the last one
but it was a problem with the whole trilogy quite frankly and you know leia
is a jedi master now what anyway the point is uh these gloves make
it feel like virtual objects are actually in your hand so you can put one
on your wish list for next year if you're into being relentlessly mocked by
your family while you play vr games while they're all you know participating
in the real world and when you know it that's it for this episode of TechLinked but tell you what come back on
monday and we'll see if we can sort out some more tech news for you enjoy that
eggnog while it lasts ladies and gentlemen what'd you think of star wars
oh i thought it was great freaking great
brilliant film changed cinema forever