Now, what's the name of that feeling you get? You know, when you're like you kind
of see stars and your left ARM starts to go a little bit numb and you kind of
short of breath. Yeah. Are you okay? No. No, that's not the one. No, it's the uh
tech news. Hey, AMD released the RX 5600 XT yesterday,
calling it the ultimate graphics card for 1080p gaming. And it seems like that
might just be true. At $279, the card
slots in right between the GTX 1660Ti
and the RTX 2060, performing slightly better on average than NVIDIA's
competitors, especially after board partners released BIOS updates that
bumped performance up a bit. NVIDIA seemed to know that the 5600 XT was
going to be good, though, and they slashed the price of the RTX 2060 by $50
down to $299 just a few days before AMD's launch, which is what AMD did to
NVIDIA when Team Green released the first Super Cards.
What's that smell? Smells like Justice. The price drop makes the RX 5600 XT a
bit harder to recommend if you also care about getting some of the special team
green features like endbank encoding, but overall it is not a bad pick. So, go
watch our full review over on LT. It's got Anthony in it. He loves you. Facial
recognition is cool and all, but the EU and Google think that we might be
getting a little bit ahead of ourselves with it. The new leadership of the EU
are drafting a document that would propose banning the use of facial
recognition in public spaces for up to 5 years until proper regulations can be
put in place to minimize the risks of using the technology. Google actually
agrees with CEO Sundar Pachai saying at a conference in Brussels that there
should perhaps be a waiting period while governments figure out how to avoid
letting facial recognition undermine civil liberties and potentially
discriminate against people because of algorithmic bias. But Microsoft,
they're having none of that. Probably because they're the ones working on the
technology. Chief legal officer Brad Smith compared a ban to using a meat
cleaver instead of a scalpel to solve the problem, saying that the only way to
make the tech better is to actually continue developing it. And while that
makes some sense, this guy was also just talking about meat cleavers a second
ago. I don't know if he can be trusted. Scary. And a report claims to have
evidence that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, hacked the
phone of Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. Bezos commissioned FTI
Consulting to make a report after he became suspicious of a video bin Salman
sent to him over WhatsApp in 2018. FTI
found that shortly after Bezos received the video, his phone started uploading
unprecedented volumes of data to an unknown source, indicating that the
video file was infected with some sort of malware. Some analysts believe Bezos
was hacked because of the Washington Post's coverage of Saudi Arabia, which
was sometimes less than favorable. Go
figure. The scandal has gained enough steam to prompt a call for investigation
from human rights experts at the UN. So hopefully we'll get more information
about what exactly happened soon. Just
goes to show you guys be careful about opening attachments even when they come
from heads of state. Actually, I guess especially when they come from heads of
state of Saudi Arabia. Now it's time for
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doesn't watch Techlink and didn't get our recommendation to upgrade to Windows
10 because they now have to pay Microsoft €800,000
in fees for Windows 7 extended security updates just this year. To be fair, I'm
sure it is hard to upgrade over 33,000 workstations, but also, you know, hey,
we could probably do it. You know, Germany, call us up. Epic collab, right?
most ambitious crossover Marvel Avengers. Yeah, that's right.
Thanks to some sneaky internet dwellers, we've gotten one of the most thrilling
leaks you could ever lay eyes on. Pictures of the back of the Xbox Series
X. The most thrilling leaks. Wow. That's right. Look at those ports.
There's USB, Ethernet, HDMI, and a big
old mystery port probably for diagnostics or firmware updates. Wow.
All those years I thought the Xbox Series X was going to be just the
another console. I guess even I, the one
and only Lionus, can truly be wrong. Wow.
Microsoft is being a little bit sneaky themselves. Reddit users have spotted a
change in the Office 365 Pro Plus installer, which businesses use to
install Office. Go figure. That would inject a Chrome extension that changes
the default search engine to Bing.
Gross. Code has also been found in the latest Windows Insider build that would
make ads for Office pop up inside Wordpad. You wrote that. That's not too
bad. That's terrible. No, that's you. You wrote that.
I DID NOT WRITE THAT. You wrote the script.
No, I am. Do I look like Ron Burgundy to
you? A little bit. Oh, there he is. GM
self-driving startup Cruz has shown off the Origin, an electric shuttle ban SUV
thing with sliding doors and completely symmetrical ends. It is purpose-built to
be autonomous and intended for use by ride sharing companies. Launch price,
who knows? But it looks futuristic and not as dumb as a Cybert truck. So, wow,
exciting. That's a good point. And Apple may be gearing up to launch the successor to
the iPhone SE in March to serve the small but still there contingent of
iPhone users who like using phones that are slightly smaller than the average
purse. And that's it for tech news today. But wait, don't go anywhere. You
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