friday's here and if you were looking forward to the Windows 10 october update
hitting your pc this weekend because you've got frankly nothing better going
on you may want to take pause because a
pretty major issue has been discovered the update is apparently randomly
deleting users personal files according
to several reports now some folks say that they've simply
had personal data directories like the documents folder shunted over to a
separate drive or a different folder or
for some reason the recycle bin but others are saying they've had files
outright deleted with one user posting to the microsoft community website
claiming that 23 years worth of files
220 gigabytes have vanished without a
trace can you hold this for me i wasn't going to read that stuff anyway although
microsoft says it's investigating the reports there's no word yet on when a
fix might be coming so in the meantime back up your data just in case like
clippy's gone rogue and we're all in for it apple has long
been notorious for having products that have been difficult to repair unless you
send your busted iphone or imac or
i-router or whatever it is back to apple itself or to an authorized service
provider but they've taken things one step
further recently according to reports as a new security chip called the t2 which
is present on the 2018 versions of the macbook pro and the imac pro
actually totally locks down the system
if an unauthorized repair is even attempted
so users won't be able to get back into their max until a proprietary apple
software utility is run to restore functionality meaning you have to take
the system directly to apple or to an authorized repair shop anyway it appears
that most attempts at hardware replacement will trigger a system
lockdown including trying to replace the logic board the display storage or even
human interface devices like the keyboard or touchpad hey but it's easy
to use yeah nintendo would probably be none too happy by the way if you have a
game boy emulator on your phone but in the near future this might no longer be
necessary as nintendo has filed a patent for a smartphone case that looks almost
exactly like the popular handheld console of yesterday
i guess no one let them know those have existed for a while now this case though
is different it's folio style so it has an outer flap that folds over and
features a screen cutout a directional pad two main buttons and select and
start buttons along with a conductive material that lines the inside so that a
smartphone screen would register these button presses nintendo hasn't announced
any app support for the case yet and the patent strictly stuck to describing the
case itself with no mention of accompanying software but it does appear
as though nintendo is trying to offer another way for gamers to enjoy the
classics if they don't want to plunk down money for a switch what are we talking about switch doesn't even have a
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description now if you've been waiting around for your rtx 2080 ti NVIDIA has
finally provided an update on where the heck they all are wisconsin what are
they doing in wisconsin no one no just kidding the company has announced that
pre-orders with an original shipping date in september will actually ship by
october 5th so that's i gave my watch away but that's today while other orders
with the ship date of october will ship out no later than october 10th the good
news for you is you won't have to wait around for the Windows 10 updates that
support ray tracing once you do get your card but you might just lose all your
files big news came out the other day
indicating china has been putting tiny
microchips into servers affecting as many as 30 us companies and compromising
their security now although amazon and apple were among the firms named both
companies have strongly denied that they had been affected regardless on the
heels of what happened with zte you can be sure that the u.s authorities are
going to be none too pleased either way though apparently they've known about
this for quite some time now
what else do they know what we know is that although it's been
long rumored AMD has finally confirmed that chips based on the seven nanometer
process will be shown off at the 2019 consumer electronics show in las vegas
coming up in january AMD is hoping that the new chips can put
a dent into Intel's massive market share lead as Intel has been having problems
moving off the 14 nanometer process for quite some time
the original nintendo switch has could your job just be could you be replaced
by just one of those like sound boards yes yes
the original nintendo switch has proved to be quite popular but wanting to keep
the hype train chugging along it appears nintendo will be releasing a second
updated version of the switch sometime in 2019. it's a phone case details on
what the new console will look like are slim at this point but it does look like
it could be getting a better lcd display that will be both brighter and more
power efficient to extend the switch's relatively poor battery life
and do you remember the national park from pokemon gold and silver well if
you're a pokemon go player capturing pokemon in a national park could soon be
a reality as niantic is going to be hosting pogo do people call it that pogo
events in u.s national parks in honor of the 50th anniversary of the u.s national
trails and wild and scenic rivers acts you can also visit a river or a trail
before the end of the year post about it on instagram and receive a special patch
and a postcard in the mail wow it's like the newest technology augmented reality
with the oldest technology actual mail
and they're coming together and they're making a a deformed
child that you know is like shiny and
space-age looking but then just takes forever to get anywhere can barely move
you know anyway that's it for today be sure to practice save file management
and uh subscribe and we'll see you next week hopefully things hopefully all your
files are still there your youtube files are still there don't worry that's
stored in the cloud so as long as google's not running Windows 10 then it
should be okay