i forgot to write an intro sorry james
you're here really and you're and you're standing here i'm sorry
unbelievable the shooter that notoriously betrayed steam metro exodus
is launching this friday on the epic game store but along with any emotional
baggage it will also be bringing support for NVIDIA's rtx features the game will
only be the second to feature ray tracing after battlefield 5 and only the
third to feature deep learning super sampling after battlefield and final
fantasy xv some tech outlets have been testing out the features on pre-release
versions of the game including tech jesus himself steve from gamer's nexus
and it looks like ray tracing will have just as small an effect on graphics as
it did in battlefield speaking of battlefield v that game has just
received dlss support now and a preview
version of the unreal engine has also been updated with ray tracing so it
looks like rtx may be turning into more of a real thing that we might actually
all get to experience someday unless of just something in meme land wow
really eventually i guess smart watches are dead you say it was
all just a gimmick you say well you should stop saying these things and let
me do it i've got a script to help me out the npd group and analytics firm has
said that smart watch sales went up more than 60 percent in the us last year
totaling nearly five billion dollars according to the report sixteen percent
of the u.s population owns a smart watch with that number going up to a quarter
for people between the ages of 18 and 34. wow however 88 percent of smart
watch sales were accounted for by apple samsung and fitbit so while you might
not want to say that smart watches are dead you can say that about where os
watches where you have my permission
also still don't want a smart watch you can now get sony smartwatch strap called
the wienerwist
actually nevermind and researchers have unfortunately identified a method for
running malware on Intel based systems that completely bypasses antivirus
software the attack vector was identified partially by one of the researchers behind the discovery of the
spectre vulnerability daniel gruss at graz university of technology and it
involves using the software guard extension feature introduced with
skylake processors sgx enables apps to use virtual enclaves where data can be
protected by requiring to be encrypted and decrypted in order to be stored in
red respectively by hiding malicious code inside an sgx enclave it could hide
from anti-virus software Intel has responded to the research thanking those
involved and saying the best defense is only to run code from trusted sources so
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now that i'm all hopped up on caffeine the wall street journal reports that
apple is in talks with news publishers to develop a subscription tier for the
apple news app subscribers would pay around 10 bucks a month to access an
unlimited amount of content from news sites that charge for access like those
pesky wall street journal the only catch is apple wants a 50 cut
of the revenue oh that's like half that's that's like two quarters oh
geez louise and rocket league is set to release an update next week that will
not only allow players from playstation 4 xbox one nintendo switch and pc to
play against each other but also to party up and enter online matchmaking
together hey yeah this is what the world needs my friends love community harmony
and the ability to open news no matter what potato they play on hey have you
heard of vf vfemale have you no worries me either
it's not really a thing anymore that's why it was an email provider that was
completely destroyed by an unknown hacker who somehow got access to the
company's service and methodically reformatted every hard drive they could
find it's a horrible story and also a great reminder to keep offline backups
of your data or just keep offline altogether and also to make sure you
change your passwords when you fire someone yeah
ncix oh researchers in russia singapore
hong kong and mit in the usa have demonstrated a new method that could
open up all kinds of new materials for use in creating processors which is
important given that we're coming up against the limits of what silicon
can do the researchers were even able to conduct tests using nanometer sized
needles made of diamond god why is this
important it's not but diamond needle cpus that sounds really good i'll
and it's time to say goodbye to one of the titans of space exploration
the opportunity mars rover nasa declared
the rover dead today eight months after its last contact following a massive
dust storm on the red planet it's believed that dust covered the rover's
solar panels giving it no opportunity to
charge its batteries i'm sorry too soon yeah
and it's too soon to end this episode but we have to do it anyway because
riley hasn't eaten lunch yet it's the most important meal of the day they say
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