what's the intro again i don't know hey there's no intro today but
i don't know onto the tech news well it's been a long october for microsoft
but the Windows 10 october update is finally coming out
again but it's halfway through november you might say and you'd be right you
always were the smart one and if you didn't know microsoft did release the
update in october initially but pulled it after it deleted users files which we
talked about in this TechLinked episode now those issues have apparently been
resolved and fixed and users who have their system set to automatically update
immediately should be getting the update the new update first with a wider
rollout following sometime later the update brings with it a dark theme for
the file explorer the your phone app that lets you interact with your phone
from your desktop clipboard history so you'll have an entire timeline of things
saved to your clipboard and more so it looks like Windows 10 is actually
getting some pretty cool stuff hopefully it'll let us keep our data this time
it's not really a fair trade-off it's not too much to ask either yeah did i
just have it come on microsoft can i get it NVIDIA made a pretty big deal about
ray tracing when they launched their rtx graphics cards but the actual feature
was nowhere to be found until now the
Windows october update which we just talked a bunch about aka Windows 10 1809
also brings with its support for directx ray tracing aka dxr which is now enabled
in battlefield 5 the game so are the brand new sparkly graphics life changing
after all well they're certainly frame rate changing as early performance tests
by tech powerup and guru 3d show ray tracing cutting the game's FPS in half
god now there are there are levels of dxr you can enable low medium high and
ultra but with dxr ultra the top-end rtx
2080 ti barely manages to hit 60fps at
1080p that's the world's most powerful gaming
card here's hoping that performance improves with a bit of
good old-fashioned optimization but i think it's fair to say that if this is
what ray tracing looks like i think i'm fine living a bit more of my
life without it we'll see how my life goes though i need it you never know i i
need it get out of here now
all this rtx nonsense has really put some pressure on AMD however to come up
with a similar graphic solution involving ray tracing well AMD's senior
vice president of engineering david wang has given an interview stating that the
company is in fact focused on other priorities for the time being
however wang also said that AMD will definitely respond to NVIDIA and
microsoft's ray tracing technology eventually but it won't be a mainstream
phenomenon until some form of the tech is offered on the entire range of gpus
from the low end to the high end and you know what i think he's got a point it's
hard for me to get excited about rtx when a it's arguably a subtle difference
in graphical quality there i said it out loud and b it only runs at 1080p 60 on
the highest and graphics card i'm still mad ah come on
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TechLinked i'll do the quick beats
the us army is getting into esports yep
the military has published a form that civilians can use to sign up for an
official team to play fortnite call of duty tekken league of legends overwatch
and more army officials say the initiative's goal is to better the army
brand okay and increase recruitment so hopefully people don't sign up thinking
they're gonna be virtual soldiers and boom you wake up and you're actually in
afghanistan sucka that'll be kind of cool though how'd
they do it it's a magic trick that's technically pretty impressive
and an iphone 10 owner has updated their device to iOS 12.1
only to get a bit of a rude surprise in return after plugging the phone in
during the update the owner said his iphone started smoking and exploded
that's what you get for smoking apple has responded saying that this is
definitely not expected behavior i should hope not
that's uh we didn't plan for that you know what i'm actually surprised they
even admitted that what that's not expected yeah
they didn't just own it well we're courageous yeah that's a feature
actually our phones are lit the self-defense mechanism our phones
are fire so you say you love the 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack you say you're sad about it disappearing from phones yeah
will you prove your love for it by purchasing a 150 headphone jack adapter
well that's what essential is offering for the essential phone it's got an
audio dac and an amp inside but still 150 bucks to show the world
you're serious about using that dang
jack god buy it you hypocrites
google's project phi has continued to prove itself as probably the best mobile
network provider by adding an always-on
vpn to the service that will operate on both wi-fi and lte
project phi if you can get it you probably should that should be their
slogan i'd buy it if i could get it if you can get it yeah
you probably should and by now nintendo sony and sega are all releasing classic
meanie versions of their old consoles so
why should pc be left out a company called unit e is asking the same
questions as it has developed a tiny unit they're calling the pc classic it
will run floppy disks aka sd cards and will have HDMI and composite video ports
and today november 14th is now officially the day when the
classic console trend jumped the shark
we did it and now it's time for this episode to
end before we jump the shark subscribe for more tech news because
we'll be back on friday and trust me i got a good feeling about it yeah shark
dad jumped i get it you ju cause you jumped whoo jumped it see ya the shark
it's a broadcast term it comes from an episode of happy days yeah