so it's friday and i hope your weekend plans evolve a trip to coffee lake
because Intel is going to be delivering an eight cup um eight core coffee-like
CPU for the mainstream desktop platform in september according to a report from
pc watch the new chip will be an i7 that won't require an enthusiast x-series
chipset as Intel's past octa-core parts have it's more than likely the new
processor is an effort to keep up with AMD's ryzen refresh and i'm sure that
those of you who have followed the CPU wars for a long time can appreciate the
irony of Intel trying to compete by just strapping more cords onto a chip the
same report indicated that Intel's 2066 enthusiast platform will also be getting
a 22 core CPU in september but hopefully
you won't need to jury rig an industrial water chiller to it this time
damn yeah that's what i said too meanwhile something that certainly won't
need liquid cooling is samsung's new foldable smartphone which we've just
possibly learned a few more details about to get right to it it's not going
to be cheap speaking to the korea times an industry analyst is expecting a
launch price in the neighborhood of 2 million korean won which works out to
about 1800 us dollars this premium will get you a device that will have a 7.3
inch OLED screen when fully open but reduced to 4.5 inches when it's folded
up hopefully for samsung this significant shrinkage won't dissuade
customers from paying nearly twice as much as they did for the iphone 10 when
it hits the market sometime next year but something that might be hitting
shelves a little sooner is NVIDIA's new touring GPU lineup with a july 30th
launch date haven't been rumored for the past week but today we've got some new
details as to what to expect according to a report from tweettown the top end
card will cost either 9.99 or 14.99
depending on how much gddr6 memory you want and another report from tom's
hardware indicates the new chips will be very much vr focused as not only should
they have the performance to drive 4k titles at over 120 frames per second but
they'll use a special yet proprietary vr
connector that can push even higher refresh rates to a vr headset
unfortunately we still don't know exactly what the numbering scheme for the new lineup will be the reports
suggest gtx 1185 1190 or maybe something
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amazon wasn't the only player in the field of just walk out shopping for very
long as a reuters report indicates that microsoft is showing their own amazon go
like technology to retail giants like walmart possibly as a response to
amazon's technology rolling out at whole foods but i'm mostly wondering what
effect this will have on black friday parking lot violence if you're still
running Windows xp or for some masochistic reason Windows vista you can
forget about downloading any new steam games after the end of this year as
valve is planning to drop support for those operating systems on january 1st
possibly bad news for a few folks using xp for better compatibility with older
games though i'm sure it's good news for the folks over at gog.com the merger
between a t and time warner is now complete only a couple of days after a
federal judge gave the companies the green light and with net neutrality
protections recently repealed in the u.s people are already concerned about
another huge isp acquiring a company that owns properties like hbo and cnn so
you might know who to blame if your gains start to lag because your neighbor's really into the sopranos and
speaking of organized crime some law enforcement officials are a little
miffed that apple is preparing to have iphones disable their ability to be read
as a data device over usb by default if
the phone has been sitting around for an hour without being unlocked this will
make it harder for police to use snooping tools that rely on the usb
connection with one prosecutor down in louisiana even claiming that apple was
protecting criminal activity i'm guessing he wasn't referring to the
repair policies hey and finally comcast revealed today that
it isn't throttling the internet speeds of power users anymore
and essentially hasn't been for over a year citing the fact that heavy use
doesn't currently cause network congestion and while this is certainly
good news it's also further confirmation that data caps are of no purpose other
than to line the pockets of some suits at comcast hq and that's it for today so
tune back in on monday as your views help us line our own pockets so we can
buy neat stuff like food and housing
okay bye