AMD to Intel: Your Giveaways SUCK
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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have you ever gotten a christmas or a birthday gift that you wish you could
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get rid of well AMD is attempting to get a handful
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of folks to look at the shiny new Intel CPU that they just won
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in the same way that they'd look at an ugly reindeer sweater Intel recently
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gave away over 8 000 core i7 8086 processors to celebrate
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their 50th anniversary but AMD is
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crashing the party by announcing that the first 40 contest winners who get in
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touch with them will be able to trade in their core i7s for a ryzen threadripper
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1950x with 16 cores that is 10 more than
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the 8086 though it should be noted that the i7 single threaded performance still
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puts it ahead in many benchmarks nonetheless it is a tantalizing
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proposition for content creators or just anyone who wants more cores than their
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neighbors so if you're interested the offer opens on june 25th and
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unsurprisingly is for u.s residents only
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but something that isn't just for americans is the two new services that
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youtube opened up today the video hosting giant is rolling out youtube
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music and youtube premium not just in
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the united states but also canada mexico australia new zealand south korea
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and 11 european countries youtube music is a full-fledged audio streaming
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service designed to compete with spotify and apple music and they are touting its
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search feature that is supposedly more intelligent than what their competitors
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are providing as a selling point even claiming that queries like
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that hipster song with the whistling will work thanks to machine learning or
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something music comes in a free ad supported
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version and a paid version for 9.99 a month while premium the other new
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offering includes youtube music as well as ad-free video viewing and a number of
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youtube original shows for 11.99 a month
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though they haven't talked that much about the original shows in the uh in
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the advertising materials probably because most of them aren't very good a
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report from kid guru this morning mentioned that many users of ASUS and
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acer's new fancy 4k 144hz displays
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look rather blurry once they turn them up north of 120 hertz as it turns out
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this is due to a technique called chroma subsampling a form of image compression
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that is necessary because the displayport 1.4 spec simply doesn't have
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the bandwidth to support a 4k 144 hertz
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signal without compression although a non-tech did report last month that
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chroma sub sampling was being utilized by both monitors many gamers are crying
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foul because neither ASUS nor acer were particularly transparent about the issue
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instead pushing the 4k 144 angle in
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their marketing copy i guess next time maybe they should screen it a little
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frustrating but one inaccurate translation has one man counting his
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blessings after police in kansas pulled over a man who only spoke spanish the
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officer used google translate to ask permission to search his car but it came
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out in spanish as can i search for the car
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after the man said yes a large amount of cocaine and meth was found in the
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vehicle but a judge threw out the drug
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evidence earlier this month ruling that the botched translation caused the
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driver's consent to be invalid huh makes
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me wonder like what if he'd been caught a few years from now after google's ai
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improves its uh espanola speaking of being caught pokemon go has finally
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given players the ability to trade pokemon with other trainers it comes
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with a few caveats though you can't trade unless you're at level 10 and you
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can only trade with people you add as friends and only when they're within 100
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meters of you someone should tell the casuals over at the antec that this
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isn't how it worked in the tv show the iphone 3gs is for some reason back on
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store shelves in south korea the mobile phone carrier sk telling sk to link t
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link somehow found a huge cache of brand
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new 3gs's that it somehow didn't get around to selling back in the day they
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will cost you about 44 000 won each which is not nearly as much as it sounds
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like that's only about 40 american dollars for this unused piece of
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electronics history moving back stateside foxconn has
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announced that it will base its north american headquarters in milwaukee not
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far from a factory that the company acquired where it plans to employ 13 000
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people to make displays just remember this so you won't have a heart attack
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next time you see made in the usa on the back of like a monitor or something and
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speaking of foxes the fox networks
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are trying to jazz up commercial breaks in an age where everyone is getting used
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to streaming content without two minutes of ads by letting brands sponsor
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inspirational commercials focused on people who have overcome some illness or
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physical limitation in what they call brand storytelling
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not quite sure how well this will go over but it might be an improvement over watching
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a sales pitch for an embarrassing prescription
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hearing the story of someone whose life was changed by an embarrassing prescription what is the difference here
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all right since i've got to go take care of some embarrassing medications of my
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own wow i can't believe they wrote that in there uh we are all out of time for
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today so get subscribed we'll see you right back here on wednesday
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or a different day if you're over the international dateline i don't know time
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