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i have to i have to come back i have to come back into to do the hosting though
after much leaking AMD's Radeon rx 590 is official and reviews are out except
for Linus's review it'll be up on the weekend you can't rush art got em
got Linus yeah anyways for the 590 AMD is squeezing as
much as they can out of their more than two-year-old polaris architecture
they've shrunk the process used for the GPU to 12 nanometer from 14 nanometer
and clocked it higher which appears to boost its performance to about 12
percent faster than the rx 580 and nine percent faster than the reference gtx
1060 although you could likely find overclocked 1060s that break that rule
at an msrp of 280 usd it's comfortably
positioned between the gtx 1060 and 1070. a niche that's all the more
important given NVIDIA's lack of announcements concerning their mid-range
20 series gpus and it's being bundled with devil may cry 5 the division 2 and
resident evil 2 so the 590 apparently is
decent let's cross our fingers that this is the last time we see polaris however
which is not something you'd hear coming out of a sailor's mouth that's for sure
that's your joke that's it's polaris that's brutal speaking of 20 series gpus
NVIDIA has finally partially identified what could have caused all those issues
reported by rtx 2080 ti owners in a tiny
blog post on the GeForce forums a moderator known as tim
at NVIDIA said that limited test escapes from
early boards caused the issues some customers have experienced which
included black screens system crashes and artifacting as bits and pieces on
the Linus tech tips forums explains test escapes refer to parts of the graphics
card's pcb that are tested off-site so if there's a problem with them it might
not become apparent until after launch that's still
pretty vague but at least NVIDIA has identified that it's an early batch of
the cards that are experiencing problems so hopefully later batches will be fine
addressing this issue won't fix the fact that enabling ray tracing tanks
performance by two or three times but hey at least they won't catch on fire right
you gotta take the small victories i'm just disappointed that guy's twitter
handle isn't tim vidya tim vidya swing and i missed him that
was a good one get him next time tim and speaking of fire facebook is embroiled
in a scandal do you like that one that's good yeah
you like that one yeah you didn't like polaris keep it going it's the north
star so the new york times released a report accusing facebook of a couple key
things that they knew about russian interference in the u.s election as
early as spring 2016 and that they hired the pr firm definers public affairs to
conduct a campaign that would shift the public's anger away from facebook's
mistakes and towards their competitors perhaps in not quite so legal ways
facebook ceo mark zuckerberg responded to the report by of course denying any
knowledge of russian interference that early and also denying that he or ceo
sheryl sandberg even knew that the pr firm was hired at all facebook promptly
fired the firm following the new york times report the story has renewed calls
for facebook to undergo some sort of regulation from washington and this new
crisis is apparently so intense that the company's top lawyer colin stretch was
called off his resignation from the company to help sort things out his
name's funny yeah it's a funny name
that's the end of that story it's a funny name see ya speaking of tweets
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google pixel fans were disappointed after we didn't see a pixel 3 light at
google's event last month after it was heavily rumored but now photos of what
looks like a pixel 3 light have been posted by russian tech blog rosettekid i
don't think that's how you say it which was also responsible for a ton of legit
pixel 3 leaks prior to the launch of that phone it looks like a smaller pixel
3 with a headphone jack and a snapdragon
670 inside oh
a bunch of pixel phone i don't want to get my hopes up that this is real
i've been hurt before by james a techcrunch report revealed that a
massive database of text messages which included two-factor authentication codes
password reset links and more have been leaked as a result of being stored on a
server with no password by a company called
vovox and that's why you use an authenticator app seriously guys use
lastpass or google authenticator or something do it
after the episode verizon has sort of addressed the lack of dual sim card
functionality in north american phones by launching the my numbers app which
lets you put as many as four extra phone numbers on your existing sim it's not
quite the same as having two distinct cards which can be on different carriers
and plans but it's a start sony is not going to e3
meaning we won't be seeing any playstation 5 announcements at one of the game industry's biggest trade shows
they're also skipping their playstation experience event guess they don't have
much to say microsoft on the other hand is still going although they pretty much
make big announcements about anything halo's getting an update to fix a bug
better hold a news conference
halo yeah
and sharp has unveiled a phone with not one notch but two
yes the aquos r2 compact has a camera
notch at the top and a home button notch
at the bottom they not understand the phone industry
as a whole is trying to get rid of the notch
they thought it was like a fun game it's like ooh we're doing notches cool
i get it it's like this right
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