oh tech news
my god have you ever beheld something so
glorious
since AMD left Intel in the price to performance dust with the ryzen 3000
launch team blue has picked up the old
real world performance refrain you see AMD often uses synthetic benchmarks like
cinebench to demonstrate their processor superiority but at ifa 2019 Intel once
again argued that users shouldn't be tricked by these numbers since they
don't represent real world real-world real-world performance that's how they
talk when they're upset yeah Intel wants the tech press and oems to accept their
help to develop realistic usage performance testing using stuff like
Windows media player okay league of legends and photoshop and
if that means Intel's processors look better i'm sure that's just incidental
to the benefit that users will be seeing from more accurate numbers yeah that
sounds about right i'm being sarcastic we want a real world let's use Windows
media player samsung is delaying
pre-orders of the galaxy fold again so to lay this all out they've
launched pre-orders discovered the obvious fact that people are diamond will remove something that looks like a
screen protector canceled the pre-orders and delayed the phone
announced a new launch window and have now cancelled that
okay this story has more ups and downs than a pogo stick kids use those still right
well there's another twist the phone actually launched already in korea and
promptly sold out but for us
effectively that means nothing and i can say us i don't think there's a single
person in korea watching this episode
comment if you are oh anyways the extra work that samsung did on the phone
seems to have improved it according to end gadget with a reinforced structure
and a display that doesn't shout feel me
feel me so huawei's mate x will actually have a competitor when it launches next
month the fold is supposed to launch again in the us in the coming weeks but
it's not coming to canada at all what ever
it's just not coming we'd be really upset by this if we weren't canadian but
we are so it's okay samsung yeah stuff happens you know it's fine but get em
next time yeah try again and deep fakes
aren't just fun in games anymore we've now experienced the first high
profile case of the technology being used to steal
huge huge amounts of money last week the wall street journal
reported that an executive of a uk energy company received a call from
someone he thought was his boss but was actually a digitally reproduced deep
faith the voice was reportedly indistinguishable from the real thing
especially when you're drunk this is wall street and so the executive did
what he was instructed and wired 220
dollars into an offshore account normal wall street stuff the thieves actually
called the same guy up again to try and arrange another transfer but he got
suspicious and called his actual boss wait a second let me call you right back
but by then it was too late he'd already been
defect we've seen a lot of handwringing about the potential of defects uh doing
harm and well it turns out the potential was real
it was real fake it's it's fortuitous
that microsoft and facebook are teaming up to launch the deep fake detection
challenge the dtc i'm going to call it which will offer 10 million dollars in
research grants to develop deep fake detecting technology which will
basically just serve as an adversarial neural network to improve defect
technology probably but anyway we're gonna we're gonna develop that technology and then after that we'll
have to develop deep fake detection faking faking and we'll be so busy with
this new arms race that'll be easy for the robbers the robots to take over and
we'll have deep faked ourselves now it's time for quick bits brought to you by
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face around these parts quick bits ifa 2019 is in full swing and there's a
ton of products being announced including nokia feature phones
lenovo laptops and monitors motorola phones
a slightly altered huawei p30 pro that's a blatant attempt to get around the
Android van huawei's noise canceling airpod rip-offs
i can't make that noise anymore but i would for that one and a dual screen
attachment for the lg g8 are you gonna talk about them
i just did right now 5g is kind of a high-end type thing but it's about to
enter the mainstream 5g modems are being directly integrated into samsung's new
exynos 980 and huawei's current 990 5g
mobile processors plus qualcomm says their chipsets will have integrated 5g
next year but if you can't wait samsung has already announced a mid-range 5g phone
the galaxy a90 buy it
buy it and go find the 5g chase your dreams coverage is okay if you can stand
out in the middle of the street take care Android 10 promises to speed
up security updates for phones and it can't come to non-pixels soon enough and
i have a pixel so i already got it checkpoint research has discovered a
spoofing attack that can infect a device just by having an end user open a link
in a text message oh god we're doomed and another vulnerability in an Android
video driver that was also disclosed this week could give attackers access to
the os kernel so update your phones and if you
can't request that in patching uh request
acquiesce yeah requests
nintendo is teasing what looks like another newfangled weirdo fitness
doohickey for the switch involving a
stretchy handheld ring and a thigh-high strap into which you insert the
console's joy-cons to track your movements
and i say it's about time for nintendo to get weird again you know lava was
cool but making stuff out of cardboard is just too normal i just want to flail around
on the floor in front of my friends with silicone all over me
it looks like i'll be able to do just that and microsoft will not be testing
its project x cloud streaming service in north america opting to go with korea
instead because they have excellent 5g coverage and high bandwidth and low
latency yeah okay yeah it all sounds pretty i can't pretend
i'm not hurt though so thanks for dropping by and come back
again on monday for more tech news if i'm not here it's because i'm i'm still
waiting around to get peeled because that's what i do on the weekends