hello friends it's me deep voice riley
because when you spend all weekend talking loudly on the show floor at ltx
you go through second puberty let me tell you
it's rough but ltx wasn't rough actually it was
awesome thanks everyone who traveled from all over the world and came up to
say hi to me and dennis and the whole team but enough lollygagging around it's
time for tech news want to say anything dennis
no he's scared
google is continuing its unusual practice of revealing details about the
upcoming pixel 4. after many rumors and leaks pointed to the device having some
sort of facial recognition and air gesture capabilities the company
released a video teaser confirming it showing a woman unlocking the phone with
her face and swiping through music tracks without actually touching
anything google also published a diagram of the pixel 4's various front-facing
sensors including a dot projector and ir cameras for the face unlock feature but
the big news is the presence of a radar chip made by project solely the google
division working on detecting extremely subtle hand and finger gestures that
could allow users to fully control mobile devices with virtually no
physical interaction and if that's the future we're looking
at that's exciting if it's not well
regular air swipe gestures have been around since 2013 in the samsung galaxy
s4 so not as exciting at least we know now why
google was going around giving people five bucks to scan their face it was
practice for the face unlock system not
because they need our face they already have it
they have all of us
the voice really adds to the delivery there all of us
speaking of google the company's Android os is being put in places it was never
meant to go the nintendo switch developer group switchroot has published
lineage os 15.1 for the switch a variant
of the Android oreo build used by NVIDIA shield tv units the port uses the hekate
bootloader which won't be compatible with every switch but tons of people
have already installed Android and are posting about it on social media the
general consensus is that while some things are understandably still a bit
janky games run surprisingly smooth on the switch and people are even using it
to play their pc games via in-home streaming we'll have to see whether
nintendo tolerates this little experiment or does what nintendo and
attempts to shut it down it might eat into the company's game sales if people
are streaming witcher 3 from their pc instead of buying it from the eshop as
one tweeter has already demonstrated and
Intel has unintentionally leaked some details about their upcoming discrete
graphics cards in a driver the company posted and then took down a non-tech
forum member spotted four code names with variations of the dg designation
for discrete graphics there appears to be one low-powered unit designated lp
and three high-powered units designated hp the information has caused the pc
hardware community to start speculating about what Intel could be planning for
their graphics cards if the numbers at the end of the codename which are thought to reveal the number of
execution units are any indication these might be mid-range cards in the same
general performance category as AMD's Radeon 5700 and 5700 xt
let's hope not though because those cards are actually a pretty good deal compared to NVIDIA's mid-range offerings
what we really need Intel to do is challenge NVIDIA at the top end because
they're just partying up there and thinking everything's fine ooh NVIDIA up
at the top you can't touch us until Intel comes in with the triple slammer
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well it's time to eat your quick bits
it's good for you dennis have you ever had quick bits
no no you've been here you edit them every
day basically i don't like quick bits you don't i like tin fits he likes tim
bits that's i have to agree with you france's defense minister florence parley said
the country is planning to launch satellites armed with lasers and
submachine guns dennis didn't even hear what i said
it's shocking but only to defend their satellites from other satellites except
it sounds like you guys are the first ones putting weapons in space so
if anything this is going to start a satellite arms race that can only culminate in robotic space sharks with
freaking laser beams on their heads is that what you want france
france don't just smoke your cigarette and look down your nose at me i'm
talking to you bethesda is acquiescing to the demands
of the people and removing the online login requirement for the re-release of
the first three doom games on current gen consoles the publisher says the
forced login was a mistake and was only meant to be there for slayers club
members to redeem rewards sure bethesda
we'll go with that
stanford researchers have developed a device they're calling a quantum
microphone capable of detecting the smallest units of sound known as
phonons rather than using a membrane to detect sound waves like normal audio
equipment does this device would capture phonons and measure them using an array
of nanomechanical resonators and could theoretically be used to build a quantum
computer using phonons instead of photons
guys i looked through this story but there's no mention of carbon nanotubes
none at all i tried i wanted to do it maybe one day
processor comparison site user benchmark has responded to complaints over the way
they adjusted their scoring method which appeared to favor Intel cpus the site's
statement points out that the scores for the ryzen 73800x and ryzen 5 3600x both
went up and that they'll be updating their scoring index in the near future
to account for the strengths of octa-core processors as soon as Intel
has more of them hey wait a sec and google's waymo self-driving division
has partnered with another alphabet company deepmind to use the latter's
evolutionary system in developing its ai deepmind creates many variations of the
same neural network has them compete against each other and the ones that
perform the best go on to receive further development but do we really
want ais from different companies cooperating with each other
this seems like a recipe for something and it ain't annie carol's baked plan
it's disaster it's a recipe for disaster that's what i was getting and this
episode will be a disaster if i carry on talking so it's over now come back on
wednesday for more tech news delivered by someone who doesn't sound like they
need to drink some herbal tea speaking of which i'm going to have some herbal
tea dennis you want some yes yes what kind
honey chamomile honey
okay