uh tech links number 69 to infinity and beyond
you know this whole putting on the techlink shirt over top of my other
shirt isn't really going to work as well now that it's winter
i think you look great Intel has apparently gotten sick of everyone
talking about how AMD is just killing it with their cpus right now and how Intel
just can't get their 10 nanometer process sorted out because they just
came out swinging with a bunch of exciting announcements at an event
called Intel architecture days or iad
it kind of sounds like a sponsored event at disneyland or something doesn't it
first Intel announced the 10 nanometer sunny cove CPU core which is expected to
be used in the company's ice lake u processors early next year bringing
improvements in cryptography ai and machine learning and of course overall
speed second Intel announced foverose 3d die
stacking which allows not just memory but processor components to be stacked
on top of each other with more and faster interconnects than other stacking
technologies third Intel's integrated graphics is now
on its 11th generation and should offer up twice the performance of their
current built-in graphics meaning that finally it might not be garbage and
lastly Intel has announced that their upcoming discrete gpus formerly
codenamed arctic sound
will be officially branded z
or wait that's x with a superscript e it
x to x to the power of e is it
i really want to get excited about this but i'm going to have to know how to pronounce it first you guys
samsung is reevaluating its decision to collaborate with fashion brand supreme
really well it's because they weren't ever
actually collaborating with supreme let me explain earlier this week samsung
china held a launch event for the galaxy a8s
at that event they announced a creative partnership with supreme women
people
problem is there are two companies called supreme
in the world the original is based in new york and doesn't actually own the
rights to their brand the second one is called supreme italia and sells products
with the supreme name and logo which is technically legal because of the whole
no copyright thing after the real supreme released a
statement saying they are not part of the collab samsung china released
statement saying that the collab was indeed with supreme italia and that they
are currently re-evaluating this cooperation i mean
did they get confused they also said that they deeply regret the
inconvenience cause like they might they might not have known that they were
talking to the wrong supreme which is the real supreme but not the one that
owns the copyright was this a corporate case of catfishing i think so
it's a stranger the truth is stranger than fiction a huge report in the new
york times on monday looked at how dozens of companies track smartphone
users locations then sell that data to
advertisers now if you're the type of person who's
really smart and watches TechLinked every day this probably won't be a
surprise to you basically any app you install will collect some form of
usually anonymous data but the report found that even seemingly
innocuous apps like the weather channel or gas buddy can track your location
with pinpoint accuracy and while the data is technically
anonymous the times reporters were able to easily
track users back to their homes which would be an obvious way to
identify them the reporters were even able to track
president trump in one instance so then
what can you do to protect yourself not a whole heck of a lot
i mean this might actually have been a good segue into a vpn app but instead
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don't say this often enough great job game developer
also bad job because epic games yes that
same company we just mentioned is hosting the competitive winter royale
fortnite tournament with a one million dollar prize
however the game just got the infinity blade a weapon that basically makes its
wielder incredibly powerful and nigh unstoppable and yeah it showed up in the
tournament the community the competitors in the tournament and well basically that's
everyone but they were understandably unhappy because this pretty much breaks
the competitive structure of the game i mean that's kind of life though isn't it you know you win some you lose some some
days you're winning and then suddenly you lose because everything got imba
yeah and this is the last time we're going to talk about samsung galaxy s10
leaks for real this time but leaker ice
universe has posted a photo of what is supposedly the upcoming flagship
complete with a dual camera cutout in the top corner of the screen that's not
quite as bad as it sounds like it's not two cutouts each with a camera it's one
cutout with two cameras but either way there's going to be a cut out and that's
it oh well the line was silenced until
february but i'm not talking yeah but now you need to keep talking then i did finally
one thing we can talk about is this bonkers new vr headset made by a company
called vrgineers
virgineers sounds like uh i never said it out loud i would hate to
damage their virgin ears ah with the joke about virginia's
the unit boasts a 180 degree field of view dual 2560 by 1440 OLED displays and
integrated leap motion hand tracking also it's huge and cost five thousand
eight hundred dollars i mean you know that's one strategy for vr headsets most
companies are trying to figure out how to lower the prices and make them palatable and these guys are like well
hey if we make it six thousand dollars we don't have to sell that many of them
hey and we know that the way your pc looks
is the most important thing about it and so does Corsair they have finally done
it they've announced RGB memory modules that don't actually have any RAM in them
yep they're just empty RGB equipped plastic cards that you can stick in your
motherboard so you have more RGB goodness in there because who needs
actual RAM when you can just have more bling you know it's a thought that
counts merry christmas and that's all i can handle for today was the bear bit of
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the shirts i could take off before i run out oh he still has it stop teasing