hi i'm riley welcome to techlinks
last week AMD took the wraps off their threadripper 3960x and 3970x processors
but while those parts boast 24 and 32 cores respectively
that ain't nothing compared to big mama AMD may be announcing a
3990x with 64 cores and 128 threads real
soon you see MSI released a video recently demoing its creator trx40
motherboard and in one clip the video shows a pc with task manager open
showing the number of threads there's 16 columns and eight rows and i'm no
mathematician so how many threads is that taryn uh i wasn't paying attention
yeah it's classic i already said how much it was it's 128. it's 128. come on
MSI of course promptly took down the video but not before it was captured and
immortalized on the internet so keep your eyes and ears peeled for the
official announcement of this behemoth soon although it's probably going to be
over three thousand dollars quick how many dollars per thread
i don't know i thought you were good at tech no you're a smart guy uh no the
youtube verse has been all riled up recently
over changes made to the video site's terms of service which indicate that
youtube could deactivate channels if they're not commercially viable the
uproar was sparked by a line in the tos that previously said youtube may
terminate its legal agreement with you if the provision of the service to you
by youtube is in youtube's opinion no
longer commercially viable now the line reads youtube may terminate your access
or your google account's access to all or part of the service if youtube
believes in its sole discretion that provision of the service to you is no
longer commercially viable so
the new language has sparked concern though among users that youtube could
start banning people who use adblock since that directly takes away from
youtube's revenue and creators revenue as well i might add but youtube says
that they're not changing anything about how youtube works just making sure the
terms are up to date the company got into a separate pot of hot water though
over the bands its automated systems handed out to markiplier fans who
spammed emotes in the chat during a live playthrough of the creators a heist with
markiplier interactive show those accounts have now been reinstated but
not before the whole thing added fuel to the anti-youtube fire
hmm but that fire keeps me warm
honey i live for the drama but here's something that we maybe
should be concerned about google has allegedly been collecting the private
health data of millions of americans across 21 states it's all part of an
initiative called project nightingale and includes things like lab results
doctor diagnoses hospitalization records and more the wall street journal says
google is getting the data from st louis based ascension the second largest
health company in the u.s and that 150 google employees have access to it now
this all sounds kind of scandalous but apparently it's all completely legal and
according to google patient privacy is being prioritized in project nightingale
the ultimate goal is apparently to aggregate disparate patient data and
host it all in one place which no joke i was literally just talking to
someone the other day about how we need a central system like that
and i'd rather have google do it than facebook
but yeah
anyways no time to ponder the nature and morality of privacy it's time for the
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better do the quick bits now you might have gotten excited by rumors
that apple would be releasing its ar headset next year but sorry mac people
you'll have to wait until 2022 that's when cupertino is reportedly planning on
launching it followed by a pair of smart glasses in 2023 hopefully apple can roll
them out with a smoother reception than google got with the google glass
it's an apple product people will want to have their picture taken i'm sure the
alliance for creativity and entertainment a benign sounding
coalition with netflix amazon disney and hbo among its members are trying to
figure out how to stop people from sharing their streaming service
passwords possible solutions include requiring
customers to change passwords periodically and receiving two-factor
codes on their phones but as one analyst noted young people aren't going to pay
for these services anyways because young people are poor mostly so if you make it
harder for them to share passwords they might just pirate stuff
tough situation speaking of young people things the centers for disease control
say they have identified a possible culprit in the recent outbreak of
vaping-related injuries a chemical called vitamin e acetate has been found
in the lungs of 29 affected patients it's used in foods supplements and skin
creams but it's also a known additive to dilute vape liquid that contains
thc the active ingredient in cannabis
while this is a promising development the cdc says there are likely more
factors at play so in the meantime don't go by vaping products off the
street in fact not just in the meantime ever
in fact you know what don't even vape it upsets me that's where i get my moral
code what does what would riley do sony has filed a patent for a game
cartridge uh in 2019
there are no other details that hint at what this cartridge could be intended
for sony has denied rumors that they're working on a new ps vita handheld and
the playstation 5 will use blu-ray discs for its physical games format unless
neither of those are true and sony
is making a 2019 sega genesis
i've got to call the papers
and spacex has shot some more of its starlink internet providing satellites
into orbit marking the first time the company has reused a rocket fairing and
the fourth time this particular falcon 9 rocket has taken off and landed
successfully the satellites will be added to the existing 60 that were flown
up there earlier this year and if you look up on a cloudless night
you might be able to see them there's a lot of satellites up there you
can see something yeah taryn enough of this nonsense what i'm not doing it
anymore okay come back on wednesday for more tech news i promise it'll be worth
your while oh and we'll probably be doing that one million subscriber uh q a
video that uh we've mentioned on twitter at some point so hold on to your
britches for that and if you got questions i guess tweet
them at us