you know tech news isn't always sunshine and lollipops in fact it literally never
is what would sunshine and lollipops have
to do with technology why would anybody think that i mean
i don't know if you like asking why
why well today's first story should provide some great opportunities the industry
group that develops usb specifications the usbif today announced a new usb
revision and they somehow managed to
screw up the naming scheme even worse than before so right now usb 3.1 gen 1
refers to connections that support transfer speeds up to 5 gigabits per
second we used to call that usb 3.0 and
then usb 3.1 gen2 supports up to 10
gigabits per second we used to call that 3.1
so you would think that a new standard that supports 20 gigabits per second
would be called usb 3.1 gen 3 then nope
that's far too simple and intuitive 3.1
gen 1 is being rebranded you have got to be kidding me to 3.2 gen 1
3.1 gen 2 is now 3.2 gen 2 and the new
20 gigabit standard is called usb 3.2
gen 2x2 are you kidding me
the usbif says that this is because the new standard uses two 10 gigabit per
second connection side by side oh
oh well i get it well oh that makes perfect sense wow thankfully the
consumer branding will just call it super speed usb 20 gigabits per second
you know what forget it i'm going back to firewire
yeah and burning cds and moving them between computers because i refuse to
support this microsoft has talked a lot in the past
about linking the gaming ecosystems of Windows and the xbox and it looks like
they are finally doing just that by running xbox games
on Windows Windows 10 preview builds have been asking users to play a special
version of state of decay and report any issues that they find and after poking
around some users found that the game package is a dot xvc file
that's the same one that gets used for xbox one games
so downloading the game also pulls from microsoft's xbox distribution servers
not the usual Windows store distribution servers so while the setup is more
complicated than simply hitting run on an xbox game file it does look like
microsoft is laying the groundwork to
play xbox games on Windows 10. xbox head
phil spencer also recently said he'll be announcing some exciting news for pc
gamers at e3 2019 so if you connect the dots it should become obvious that
illuminati confirmed and earlier this week the sd association
announced the new microsd express standard for memory cards now most of
the reports focused on how this would enable one terabyte microsd cards and
that is awesome except that we already have those and there's another detail
that seemed to slip through mostly unnoticed the new
standard it's going to be pci express with NVMe
support which could allow microsd cards to reach transfer speeds of close to one
Gigabyte per second that would not only enable super fast phone storage but it
would also enable super fast nintendo switch storage and super fast tablet
storage and super fast camera storage but small
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there must be something in the tech industry water that's making companies
give their products stupid names NVIDIA is reportedly planning to continue its
gtx 16 series really is this why you
wanted me to host today you just wanted me to get like completely triggered
oh okay so it's gonna be a gtx 1660
non-ti and a 1650 at 229 and 179 us
dollars respectively respectedly i respect nothing respectively the 60 and
60 is expected to launch in the next couple of weeks so keep your eyes open
if you're interested speaking of interested everyone interested in not dying just had their
job get a little bit harder the kalashnikov the company best known for
creating the ak-47 has unveiled another cheap accessible weapon kamikaze drones
the kub uav can carry a payload at 78
miles an hour for 30 minutes before it attacks its targets with much higher
accuracy than diy explosive drones so that's nice what a tremendous news day
wait what's that oh you want more airborne death machines
that's fantastic because boeing australia has unveiled its prototype
autonomous fighter jet called the loyal
wingmen so named because robots can't be
women yeah it's sexist
sexist uh so-called sorry because it's designed to function as a companion
fighter for regular jets flown by actual human pilots wait did they not watch the
movie stealth i know i've never seen the movie stealth but it's in the script so
bummer facebook has been rolling out its patreon-like fan subscriptions feature
to more creators but people have been noticing that the offer is kind of a
deal facebook would take up to 30
of subscription revenue with basically no warning and so that's
compared to patreon's 5 and they also
demand a non-exclusive transferable sub-licensable royalty-free worldwide
license to use creators content even if they stop using the service there's a
bunch of other stuff that's not in here too like the fact that they can offer free trials and that's basically just on
the creator kind of like remember when apple music did that where they were
offering free trials and then just not paying musicians for the playbacks yeah
that worked out really great really good people were happy see how
this goes yeah at mwc this week energizer unveiled the
most beastly phone anyone's ever seen in terms of battery at least and also
physical size the energizer powermax p18k pop really
the kpop has an eighteen thousand milliamp hour
why
it's 1.8 centimeters thick so that's about three and a half iphones stacked
together and i mean like i know i asked for phones that would
last a week on battery but like yeah i feel like frankenstein and like his
monster you know what have you done well what's done
is done and this episode is done thanks
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