look i get it you might not actually want any tech news right now
wait
why would they be here then i don't know this is tech news apple may be about to
start taking the pro part of macbook pro
a bit more seriously as code in the latest beta build of macOS catalina
references a pro mode but it's not just
something to make apple users feel better about dropping a big wad of cash
on their new laptop this mode would apparently be similar to the high
performance modes found in gaming laptops as other bits of code mention
apps running faster but at the expense of reduced battery life and increased
fan noise the available evidence also suggests
pro mode would only be found in models with the new thermal design found in the
16-inch macbook pro now obviously a feature like this would be great for
avoiding the kind of thermal throttling issues that we saw in the 2018 core i9
macbook pro but it would also potentially make playing games a lot
better on macOS what
can't wait to try apple arcade let's all have a moment of silence for Windows 7.
it was too soon Windows 7 died a peaceful death this morning or at least
would have if all you people weren't still running it it's dead jim unless
you're a corporate customer who's paying for extended support you are now being
left behind without security and feature updates we even did a whole video about
this on Linus tech tips last year and to help scare you guys into upgrading look
the nsa just found a vulnerability in Windows that could be exploited to
validate fake certificates and even allow remote code execution attacks they
reported it to microsoft instead of exploiting it themselves which is
actually a nice change from the norm for the nsa and microsoft released a patch
so everyone listening who has an operating system that can actively
receive security patches please download the latest update for the rest of you
stay strong out there in the wasteland and in one of the most wtf stories that
i've ever encountered scientists have made living robots that were designed by
ai and then constructed using stem cells
from frog embryos see i told you it was weird
so a supercomputer at the university of vermont was tasked with designing a new
organism using individual cells as building blocks and then running them
through an evolutionary simulation as in the most successful designs carry
forward and are iterated on once the design was finalized biologists at tufts
university in massachusetts assembled the robots using frog skin cells for
structure and then heart muscle cells for locomotion the resulting computer
generated organisms are less than a millimeter in length they repair
themselves after injury and can live for about a week or as long as their
implanted food source lasts they cannot reproduce because they don't
have organs for that can you imagine like here's your job you know dr jeffrey
sinshire make a fake robot frog penis
yeah they don't have brains and they hopefully aren't going to turn us all
into zombies but they are intended to eventually venture inside humans doing
things like scraping arteries for plaque
or delivering medicinal payloads to a specific organ
what i am not ready for this future yet i
know it was weird i was like what we're there already and we're there at the
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bringing out the high-end parts from their navi-based graphics card lineup as
an eec listing shows entries for an rx 5800 xt 5900
59.50 i can't amp it up any more than that
59.50 xp wow
that's all we really had to go on for now although dr lisa sue did say that we
would get gpus with ray tracing in 2020
so i guess we know that and we also know that these Radeon parts
probably won't live up to the success of their ryzen counterparts but that
doesn't mean we can't pull for him yeah you know i i believe you can do it
because i never learn apple is expected to wise up and replace the lightning
connector in iphones with usb type-c eventually but if they don't the eu
might actually force them to lawmakers in the european parliament are
discussing legislation that would require all mobile phones and portable
electronic devices to use the same charger but knowing apple they'll probably wait
until the very last second but i guess in a way that is a sort of courage yeah
omg ninja is getting a fortnight skin no i'm not talking about that oh just
kidding that's not a story oh good even more leaks are revealing more details
about the upcoming samsung galaxy s20 this time courtesy of xda developers the
phone will apparently feature a 120 hertz screen 12 or 16 gigs of RAM
a 4500 milliamp hour battery and of course
no headphone jack i think we'll always continue to say
that devices have no headphone jack even when it's vanished off the face of the
earth because that's that's how we roll and the us
government is once again pressuring apple to provide a way to unlock the
iphones of mass shooters apple says they have been helping the fbi by providing
icloud data that was backed up before the phone was locked but the feds appear
to be asking for an unlocking tool so they could just access the data
themselves so far apple has
not agreed to do that and the tweets
don't seem to be really making much of a difference because
why would they yeah you know keep at it if doing something over and over again
doesn't work just keep doing it that's what i say just like the tech news we'll
be back to you with more tech news on friday yeah we will right
we will definitely