that's what the tech link has been missing a bit of the old james juice ew james
juice for the tech link seems like huawei and oppo have been doing all the
innovating in phone design recently samsung may have just got some of their
street cred back the company just launched the galaxy a80 which features a
sliding rotating camera the front of the
device is all screen baby that's what samsung calls infinity display but the
rear holds a triple lens camera setup when it's time for a selfie the camera
section slides up and flips forward
samsung also unveiled the galaxy a70 which is a step down from the a80 with
its teardrop notch and non-rotating
sucky camera the a80 is cool but it means that i can no longer secretly film
people as i'm pretending to take a selfie and for that reason i just can't
support them i'm sorry that's the right option creep's gonna creep it's time
once again to talk about a weird yet interesting robot thing engineers at uc
berkeley have taken the wraps off of blue a robot that's really just a pair
of arms attached to a metal rod much like me a pair of strong
powerful arms that make me feel safe in their embrace but blue can also
manipulate an untold number of household objects and can be trained to do so by
having a human pilot with a vr headset and controllers guide it through the
motions and while similar sets of arms and pincers can cost around four hundred
thousand dollars trust me i i've explored the pincer market blues
creators are aiming for a five thousand dollar price tag relatively cheap
still a lot sure i'd get one of those things just to fold my laundry riley
thanks for asking oh i see what you're saying here and google's drone delivery company wing
has been in testing with a limited number of residents in canberra
australia for 18 months but now wing has received regulatory approval from the
local government to begin commercial operations the city's general population
can now use wing to have food drinks and other goods delivered to their residents
via drone in a matter of minutes
the drones can only operate during the day and are banned from crossing major
roads and must maintain a minimum height
i guess unless they're landing uh but apparently that won't stop any old bloke
or sheila from getting their vegemite oh it's so gross
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NVIDIA's gtx 1650 graphics card
will apparently be here very soon as leaks have popped up showing the zotac
version of the card as well as specs pointing to a mobile version the renders
of the desktop version don't appear to show a power connector so it might be a
great option for low power systems provided you don't care about NVIDIA's
disgusting immoral naming strategy i'm still upset bad taste in my mouth
google has developed a bluetooth based protocol that would allow you to use
your Android phone in place of a usb security key or dongle to log into
chrome they literally just announced their own titan bluetooth dongles a few
months ago and now they've made them absolute and that's google for you know
a warning might be good next time you're gonna shut down a project google what
did you buy one hundreds i'm swimming in these dongles what i buy
all these dongles for i got dongles coming on my yin yang
whatever spacex is the most fun thing you can do in space with another person
spacex will launch the arab sat 6a telecom satellite into orbit later today
marking the first commercial flight of its falcon heavy booster rocket all
three rocket components of the falcon will attempt to land back on earth after
the launch which actually it's probably already happened by the time you watch
this uh let me know how it goes Intel laid out
some more details about its obtained memory h10 m.2 module today after first
showing it off back at ces it combines a small amount of obtained memory with a
larger store of more traditional qlc nand memory which apparently makes
things like opening documents and launching games and opening large media
files significantly faster compared to normal ssds all i gotta say is if it's
anything like previous opt-in products well it'll be moderately interesting
and youtube is taking a cue from netflix and planning to offer interactive choose
your own adventure style videos in all likelihood this is an attempt to make
youtube originals that people actually care about because i haven't cared yet i
just hope we won't have to suddenly write five different endings for every
TechLinked episode like this one
the that's a cliffhanger and that one james died no one knows what happens to
james in that one or this one where i'm like oh my god my dreams have come true
that's the ultimate mega happy ending uh there's another one where i just kill
riley