okay so we're gonna have to hurry through the tech news because i really
need to pee essential the company founded by one of the co-creators of
Android andy rubin released the essential ph1 phone in 2017 and now he's
giving us a look at the company's first follow-up and
it's a long boy literally the device has about the same
form factor as a tv remote being about the same length as a six inch smartphone
but at about half the width accordingly the phone appears to be running a
version of Android that's modified for such an interesting screen size to put
it kindly the device is codenamed project gem and will apparently be
available in a number of different shiny colors if it comes to market at all i
mean this development kind of makes sense now that all smartphones are
pretty much the same because what can we do to innovate other than making them
worse it's a natural cycle
tech companies usually make new consoles a pretty huge deal so it was kind of
surprising when sony nonchalantly was like
yeah the playstation 5 is going to be called playstation 5
and also that it'll launch at the end of 2020. system architect mark cerny also
released some new details about the controllers saying that in another
massive shock they will look largely like the dualshock 4 shot
but with new haptic feedback capabilities and triggers with
resistance that varies depending on the context in game cerney confirmed that
the ps5 will feature ray tracing support
in the GPU hardware a built-in 4k blu-ray player and that it will support
100 Gigabyte physical game discs
in a separate development a patent was discovered that indicates the next-gen
psvr will feature more built-in tracking
cameras and it could be untethered from the main console
all these details are exciting enough to make even a pc gamer wet their pants
wait are you doing that right i just have to pee no why did i say that tech
companies know that pcs are already modular but they still keep trying to
make modular pcs a thing Intel's latest
attempt is project element which is sort of like a remix
of razer's project christine from ces 2014.
like that system Intel's version consists of a backplane with multiple
connector slots into which you could place units like a CPU with GPU storage
network accelerator a motherboard yes a concept device was
shown at a small event in london that included a xeon CPU RAM
and m.2 storage on a dual slot pci
express card with usb Ethernet and HDMI
ports on the back uh presumably you could slot that into a backplane and
then add a GPU more storage or
yeah i think you probably see where i'm going with this it's a pc
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techlinked we'll have that link below you know if it weren't for quack bats
there might not be any bats at all AMD has quietly launched a pair of new
ryzen cpus the ryzen 9 3900 which is a paired down version of the 3900x and the
ryzen 5 3500x a paired down version of
the 3600x with no multi-threading there is a catch though the 3900 will only be
available to system builders and the 3500x is only launching in china why are
we even talking about this adobe has told venezuelan creative cloud users
that they can basically go themselves
your subscriptions are cancelled you get no refund we're complying with an order
from the white house to take your money and do absolutely nothing for you
so this uh sucks for venezuelans but it also kind of has the potential to suck
for everyone because this is a reminder of the predicament that we've gotten
ourselves into by creating a world that is dependent on subscription services
california is going to experience a massive power outage
on purpose to prevent its faulty power lines from starting wildfires pacific
gas and electric company is going to shut down the power for about 2.4
million residents of the golden state until as late as thursday evening tesla
is trying to do its customers a solid by warning them to fully charge their
vehicles before the outage hits so they can play console games on their vehicle
screen while they wait for the power to come back on i made that last part up
but they could do that wow 2019 you cool save us elan a german
victim of a ransomware attack managed to hack the hackers that hacked him
after paying the ransom to unlock his files tobias
well there's a special character missing in that name so whatever obtained 3 000
decryption keys for the ransomware and released them to the public hoping that
they would help others who were hit by the malware sweet sweet justice tobias
you are truly the best of us and speaking of the best we've finally done
it we grew space meat you see israeli company lf farms
conducted an experiment on board the international space station attempting
to grow an entire piece of edible beef from a few bovine cells
nice space meat barbecue just kidding you're not invited to my
house all right i've had about enough of this nonsense and i really need to pee so
come back friday for more tech news brb tornado i'm going first bang come on