look when you've got tech news you don't need friends who wrote that
you need friends riley so all of us are probably thankful that we have our games
to keep us busy during the current pandemic but one major game retailer is
being accused of taking things a little too far last week we reported on how
gamestop was trying to argue that they were an essential business that needed
to stay open during the outbreak and now according to boston globe report they're
now telling employees to wrap their hands in plastic bags and keep working
the idea is that store workers should wrap their hands in a bag stick their
arms out the front door which is only open a crack and get the customer's
credit card then run the cart without touching it turn the bag inside out so
the card stays inside stick the purchase inside and hand it
out the door although not the only store to offer
curbside pickup during this crisis there are concerns isn't a proper safety
measure it's almost as dangerous as plunking down 60 bucks for another star
wars title oh
although apparently jedi ordered for all in order was pretty good good delivery
riley laptop cpus have traditionally run at
lower clock speeds in their desktop counterparts but Intel's upcoming offerings for gaming and editing laptops
is throwing caution to the literal wind that will be coming out of your laptop
the core i9 0 hk sure that's a bad one will serve as
the flagship of Intel's newest CPU lineup and it's going to boost to a
total of 5.3 gigahertz that's
really fast and although it's obviously not an exact comparison it's even higher
in the boost clock on their current top-end desktop processor chip the core
i9 9900k the 1098-0 hk will feature 8 cores 16
threads and an unlocked multiplier and although we're not sure about pricing
yet it's probably going to be pretty freaking expensive as this chip is
expected to launch early next month so hopefully it isn't an april fool's prank
but pretty late april yeah especially since AMD just
absolutely stomped them in mobile shifting to the war against the
coronavirus one pretty cool piece of tech to help us identify new cases could
be making its way to the clinic near you soon it's called the id now from abbott
Labs and it's a gadget about the size of a toaster that can provide positive or
negative result in less than 15 minutes rather than hours or days and because
it's small it can be used in clinics and offices instead of just hospitals the id
now works using rna amplification it can take a very small piece of genetic
material from the virus and replicate it until it has been detected avid expects
to deliver around 50 000 id now devices every day beginning next week as the
virus continues to spread despite social distancing measures on that note make
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now for the quick bits the coronavirus has probably taken a toll on your dating
life but fear not there's a new dating app designed specifically for the times
it's called quarantined together and works by asking you every day if you've
washed your hands if you say yes the app will match you
with another user and after 15 minutes it'll let you video chat here's hoping
we figure out the real recipe for love is shared passion for hygiene
tell me about it have been flying around about oneplus new devices and now we
finally have the release date for the oneplus 8 and oneplus 8 pro april 14th
the phones will reportedly have 5g support and the pro model will also get
wireless charging which could make it more competitive with competing flagship
devices you can catch a live stream of the launch event on youtube on the 14th
in case you haven't gotten tired of sitting at home watching things already
there's so many things to watch like the tech news it looks like you mario fans will be
getting quite a treat this year as nintendo will reportedly be planning hd
remasters of several old favorites these include super mario 64 super mario
sunshine and super mario galaxy for the switch
mario mario yeah same thing although there are rumblings
that the new paper mario game is in the works for the holidays but seeing as the
35th year for mario it's not too surprising nintendo could be offering us
a little more but i was personally holding out for a mario branded plunger
he jumps out of toilets right sure some of you may have gotten a
pleasant surprise when you received a disc copy of square enix's final fantasy
which number is that seven remake ahead of schedule
a statement from the company noted that the pandemic forced square enix to
adjust shipping so while it's great for those who got the game early they've
also been asked not to spoil it for those that have not been so lucky no i
don't want to know what happens in the game that was already released 20 years
ago or whatever 23 years yeah i think you're good for
spoilers and you may have noticed that for the time being you can't upload
custom gamer picks on xbox live unsurprisingly custom uploads are
typically reviewed by moderation teams but with so many people currently
staying at home and playing xbox microsoft staff can't keep up a good
reminder not to ruin things for everyone by uploading photos of well
just let your imagination run here a bit i thought we can't upload photos right
now we can't no because people are bad
so that's the show for today so come back on wednesday for more tech news i
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