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delicious and you know what the meat in this sandwich is today well Intel just
dropped a bunch of product announcements now we first heard about the company's
cascade lake xeon ap processors back in november where Intel announced that they
would be producing a dual die chip with
48 cores and 96 threads but
turns out the joke was on us because the top tier platinum
9282 model will actually have 56 cores
and 112 threads Intel is also refreshing
the xeon sp line with cascade lake architecture which brings with it
support for octane memory also accordingly Intel is finally launching
optane dc persistent memory in the form
of 128 256 or
512 Gigabyte dimms which servers will be
able to use alongside traditional ddr4
finally also announced today was the Intel 800 series a pci express card that
will support 100 gigabit Ethernet and finally again
perhaps most interesting was Intel's agilex
agelex an fpga built on their 10 nanometer
process with support for ddr5 and pci
express 5.0 pci 5.0 i can't wait to game
on that i didn't even know that was a thing yet
valve has confirmed that all those leaks leaky valve about their vr headset that
sprang up a few days ago are legit
twitter user wario 64 discovered a steam
page that was inadvertently set live with the valve index set to be unveiled
on may 1st and then released on june 15th now there weren't many notable
details listed except for a mention of displayport 1.2 and usb 3 connectors so
i guess that virtual link connector isn't going to stick um and also valve's
prototype knuckle vr controllers are being renamed to index controllers and
then will presumably launch alongside the headset
previous leaks have indicated that the index will have some sort of
front-facing connector for various immersion enhancing attachments like a
smellotron so you know what maybe maybe just maybe we
will finally be able to directly inhale gordon freeman's musk
although they have to make a new half-life for that
doesn't matter to me i'm excited facebook this week was reportedly asking
new users to enter their email password
in order to register for the social network that would be the password for
their actual email not their password
for their facebook account that's associated with their email address
facebook's reasoning for this was that rather than you waiting to get a
confirmation email then click the link to confirm
facebook could just check your email for you and automatically confirm your
account yeah oh that makes sense
the company said they weren't storing users email passwords but like this is
facebook
do i have to say anything else the feature has now been disabled but like
for crying out loud like maybe this is the reason mark zuckerberg just wrote an
op-ed in the washington post asking governments to regulate facebook
we can't do it ourselves we're out of control we can't stop
we're like the gambler with the addiction
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unanimously celebrated when borderlands 3 was announced last week but those
cheers have now turned into size
as gearbox announced that the game will be a six-month epic game store exclusive
epic games has successfully introduced competition into the pc gaming store
landscape along with a split in the pc
gaming community was it worth it tim
i really hope it was come on personally i think it was probably worth it because
many many buckets of million dollar bills but but was it
yes yes it was and Intel has poached yet
another executive from a rival tech company this time it's george davis the
now former chief financial officer of qualcomm who will fill the same role at
Intel i mean soon enough Intel's going to have absorbed enough tech companies
to form like one super
tech company that will reign over silicon valley as like the ultimate
philosopher king that maybe
maybe they'll eventually make a graphics card oh no it's happening already
and apple just released their second gen airpods but they've already gone in one
up to themselves with the beats powerbeats pro true wireless earbuds
they've got better battery life the same h1 chip responsible for the airpods
upgrades and a more secure fit so your 200 investment doesn't fall out of your
ears i mean first they cancel the air power and now this it seems like apple
is like it's like it's like pikachu you know
it uses thing that it does and it hurts itself
and it's confusion you know yeah okay yeah yeah sure speaking of confusion i
was a little confused i thought that was our last topic but it's there's so much tech news today verizon has activated
part of its true 5g network a week ahead
of schedule users in parts of chicago and minneapolis will be able to take
advantage of the service although they will need a motorola moto z3 with the 5g
moto mod or i mean or they could use
att's 5g service with any phone because
not 5g oh oops
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