can you hear that the very wind is whispering its secrets to me and for
some reason the wind always whispers about tech news nothing else lg is
working on a wacky new phone design with not folding but swiveling screens a
report from korea news outlet et news describes a concept device called the lg
wing which features a 6.8 inch display that rotates sideways to reveal a second
4-inch display underneath and then under that screen is a
no i'm just kidding there's just two screens this design ostensibly allows
the user to use an on-screen keyboard while still enjoying whatever landscape
content is playing on the main display there's also a graphic that indicates
the second screen could be useful to display bar graphs the report says the wing is
expected to launch in the second half of this year so we'll have to see whether
this thing actually comes out and confirms once and for all that phones
have officially jumped the shark you might say lg is just winging it at this
point i added that one on my own riley takes no responsibility for it this morning
epic games announced unreal engine 5 in the form of a jaw-dropping live demo
running on the playstation 5 as part of the new five club initiative that last
part isn't real i'm sorry unreal engine demos are always visually impressive but
this one actually brings along some new tech that could have a big impact on
game development ue5 allows developers to import a super high detail model like
a statue made of 33 million triangles
without having to manually render its details into flat textures a process
known as baking and game devs i know it's more complicated than that i'm
sorry more importantly doing this won't incur a huge performance hit i mean do
you know how many triangles we're talking here like like so many triangles
epic also announced that developers can use unreal engine for free until their
game makes one million dollars in revenue and that that policy is being
extended retroactively for any games that launched after january 1st 2020.
wow i mean i would have taken the sick looking tech demo running on playstation
5 all by itself but the like free unreal engine and triangle stuff that's just
the cherry on top and zoom might be addressing its security problems but the
company's efforts will not help you if you click a fake zoom link yep hackers
are spreading fake links to zoom google meet and microsoft teams meetings in
elaborate new phishing scams according to a report from checkpoint research the
bad guys are registering domains that pose as the official services sending
out invite emails to victims who then click the link and accidentally download
malware oof i guess it's time for all of us to switch to vr meetings it's not
even really a joke spatial the vr conferencing app has just made its
collaboration platform free to use on the oculus quest iphone Android and
through a web browser and this is happening just as everyone's tired of
being zoom bombed although it's only a matter of time before spacial gets a
hundred tiny knuckles avatars popping up saying they no do weigh
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cash which lets you buy and then resell games for 25 of the original price when
you are done with them and then when you're not gaming you can use your pc to
mine a platform exclusive credit called iron which you can then use to buy more
games okay first of all who benefits from reselling digital games and second
is this a cryptocurrency thing first the backwards compatibility snafu and now
this what's going on over there team red queebie the short form mobile focused
video streaming service is reportedly not doing too well and company executive
jeffrey katzenberg blames everything that has gone wrong on the coronavirus i
mean it is true a service meant to be watched on the go launched just as
people were told not to go anywhere ever and i feel a little bad
but we really need another video service guys the fbi has officially accused
china's government of sponsoring hacking attacks meant to steal covet 19 vaccine
research presumably whichever country comes up with a vaccine first would have
bragging rights about being a more advanced country and saving the day
which is obviously the whole point of making a vaccine so hey good job china i
guess in other news the chinese government is also dropping rocket parts
in africa reports from the african
country cote d'ivoire described chunks of metal falling from the sky right
along the trajectory where the core of china's long march 5b rocket was falling
back to earth after it inadvertently entered an unstable orbit china is going
to be launching a lot of rockets as they build their space station so um
hopefully this doesn't become a regular occurrence and NVIDIA ceo jensen huang
shared a little video of himself removing what he called the world's
largest graphics card from his oven at home the unit is probably a server-based
product that we will hear more about tomorrow at the gtc keynote but
honestly that's not what's got me curious what i want to know is hey
jensen where's your leather jacket i thought it was actually fused to your
spine all right that's it for this one guys come back on friday for more tech
news hopefully by then the wind will have something new to whisper
it's always whispering that wind