riley it's your birthday we got you a gift i don't think so the
tech news hey
three times a week for your entire life google has demonstrated a bit of a
nightmare situation by releasing software updates that bricked google
home minis users have been complaining of
unresponsive home mini units on reddit in the google support forum since last
month and google finally responded this week saying the home slash nest team is
working on a fix while a preventative fix has been rolled out to the devices
that are still working turns out the ones that are bricked cannot be fixed so
google is straight up just replacing them now this is cool of google like
thanks for the support but also the idea that our devices could
receive a software update and just never work again is kind of scary unless
the affected users are getting a new nest mini with the three times bigger
bass totally fine with that point to self big
big bass guy what the
are you a big bass guy i'm a big bass guy i love the bass i'm all about that
bass no bass the big four cell carriers in the
u.s verizon a t t-mobile and sprint have
jointly announced the cross-carrier messaging initiative or ccmi today the
project's goal is to finally bring rich communication service or rcs messaging
to everything other than apple devices rcs is viewed as the replacement for sms
with features like typing indicators better group chat and support for larger
file attachments all of which apple's imessage already has but Android users
have been left out in the cold poor Android users
google has tried to get carriers to adopt rcs for years and finally decided
to try and force it through the Android messages app that initiative is
apparently separate from the ccmi which will have its own app
further muddying the messaging waters on Android awesome sick
love it and we should probably remain skeptical
carriers usually don't cooperate in the interest of consumers unless they have
something to gain businesses love it
the ccmi company said rcs will provide
consumers with the ability to chat with their favorite brands finally i can tell
colonel sanders how i really feel how do you feel finger licking good
about four years ago Intel retreated from the tablet and smartphone processor
market in disgrace competitors like NVIDIA qualcomm and ARM had proved that
Intel's atom line just wasn't up to snuff in terms of power or efficiency
well roll out the red carpet because Intel is attempting a glorious comeback
with its new tremont tremont yeah turnip i don't know dave it's french maybe you
can pronounce it i'm gonna get flamed in the comments
okay fine tremont i'm gonna say tremont tremont processors will be used in iot
and data center products but also in mobile devices microsoft's recently
announced dual screen surface neo tablet will be among them although the surface
neo has tremont cores in addition to higher power isolate cores as part of
its lakefield processor so i don't know if that counts as a home run seems like
Intel will not feel great about qualcomm encroaching on its territory with
snapdragon based laptops so it's decided to mount a tentative counter strike poor
Intel besieged to the top end by AMD and the low end by qualcomm they just wanted
to run a monopoly in peace what's so what's wrong with that and
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google can't stop making ridiculously bold claims about stadia after news came
out that the service might feature negative latency stadia games and
entertainment head jade raymond said it could also include story-based games
with ai characters that have believable human interactions instead of
pre-written dialogue enabled by google's natural language systems like duplex
that's gonna be fantastic just all google assistants in this world
world my voice exciting i i can't wait
i'm thrilled can't wait to be asked by thragnock the orc chief if i can borrow
him borrow him what is thragnoc if i can borrow him for
a table of three what is this
happy birthday samsung's galaxy fold is launched and we might get a motorola
razer in a few weeks but it looks like there's another player in the folding
phone race tcl the company most known for budget tvs has revealed a prototype
with not one but two folds wow going from smartphone size to a 10
inch tablet but this is only the beginning yes feel the folds flow
through you give in to your eggs this is
scary watch out watch out how do i say this
the gtx 1660 super appears to be on the
verge of release showing up in the final fantasy 15 Windows benchmark as is
tradition before a GPU launches wow that's not tradition at all is it it is
these days oh yeah true with the leaks leaks everywhere
the card's performance comes in at just below the 1660 ti so i guess super is
ranked below ti i don't know that's confusing oh and a 1650 super is
reportedly coming soon too because why not is apparently what NVIDIA is asking
themselves micron who co-developed 3d cross point memory with Intel has
finally released their own product using the technology the x100 PCIe SSD is
apparently the world's fastest SSD with sequential read write speeds of up to
nine gigabytes per second why'd you capitalize that it's only aimed at the
data center for now why though i'd i'd like to have one that'd be nice wait did
you say gigabytes gigabytes per second and self-driving technology
is coming along nicely or at least i hope it is since hyundai is launching an
autonomous taxi service called bot ride in california next week meanwhile toyota
is planning to test itself driving tech at the tokyo olympic games next year i
mean that might be for the best if anyone's going to survive a robot
induced car crash it's olympians
spring out do a backflip and they're good to go all right that's about enough of this
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have a great birthday riley