THIS is Google's Controller!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,390 words · ~6 min read
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monday's here and i hope you yes you have a lot of really great
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things to look forward to this week because
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i just care and also because new cpus
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from Intel isn't going to be one of them a recent report has indicated that there
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is still a pretty big gap between the supply and the demand for Intel cpus
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especially on the lower end since Intel has recently been focusing on more
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powerful parts that can command larger profits meanwhile rival AMD has enjoyed
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a boost in sales thanks to Intel struggles with cheap laptops helping
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team red make up some ground the bigger news though is that the report also
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indicates that these shortages may prompt Intel to go directly to the seven
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nanometer process down the road as the company is dealing with both current gen
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shortages and their long-running issues of getting 10 nanometer parts off the
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assembly line Intel's current chips should be
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available later on in the summer though which is the perfect season to shut
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yourself indoors and play video games hey wait a second now it's no secret
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that google has been trying to get their fingers into every part of the tech
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industry and a new patent reveals that the rumors of google working on a game
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console appear to be true
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the patent is for a rather standard looking controller that bears some
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resemblance to sony's dual shock with two sticks and a straight line along the
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bottom of the device it didn't take long for mockups for what the finished
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product might look like to make their way around on social media but there
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aren't any official photos or renderings from google at this time so it might not
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look as stupid as this the controller is rumored to be
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a part of project yeti which everybody's talking about but no one's seen haha get
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it a streaming game service that google has reportedly been building for a while
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get it reports but no photos gdc is coming up later in march and we'll
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hopefully get some more details then and i'm personally really looking forward to
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playing search engine simulator 2019 only on gbox
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and also any computer looks like NVIDIA is making good use of
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the high prices they've been charging for graphics cards as team green just
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spent a cool 6.9
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billion dollars on melanox technologies
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a firm that focuses on large-scale cloud computing although melanox isn't exactly
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a household name for gamers NVIDIA is hoping that this acquisition will
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bolster its presence in the enterprise market after all about one third of
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NVIDIA sales are actually in the data center and server space and over 250 of
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the world's fastest super computers are powered by NVIDIA and or mellanox parts
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mostly the interconnects for the ladder there NVIDIA's focus on parallel
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computing has led them to become a major player in the data center market though
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i wonder if they persuaded melanox's executives with another rtx on
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do you remember adobe shockwave
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shockwave that browser plug-in that powered so many of your favorite games
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back in your middle school computer lab well shockwave for Windows is going to
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become dead in less than a month's time with
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the software giant discontinuing it on april 9th fortunately html5 has somewhat
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filled in the gap and enabled us to waste time on our browsers with you know
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games much more efficiently than we used to is addictinggames.com they used to have
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this great game called pearl harbor and there is still like a stupid flash
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game called pearl harbor i think but this one was way better you were like
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this plane and you went back and forth and back and forth and you dropped your
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bombs and stuff it was great so you know how NVIDIA driver updates
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always come with 3d vision for some reason well
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you're no longer gonna have to uncheck that little box NVIDIA has gotten the
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message that no one actually cares about
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desktop-based 3d because well vr exists
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so the 3d vision drivers are going to be discontinued after next month now i'm
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guessing that those expensive 3d glasses that you had to buy um you're probably
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wondering what to do with them well imagine this for a second
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deal with it sunglasses for for halloween
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halloween yeah very cool now if you use tap to pay you've probably seen how it
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only works up to a certain amount so some miscreant can't just read your card
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without you knowing and then go and spend all your money but one bank in the
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uk is trying to change all that as nat
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west is building fingerprint readers into its debit cards in an attempt to
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ensure that only the authorized user is
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actually able to make a payment now it's only a pilot project for now as they
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work out the kinks which is good because when you add a shoddy fingerprint reader
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onto a tap card the time it takes to actually pay for things might make you
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wish you had just stuck with cash now it's not exactly headline news when
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china banned something but the communist party's most recent prohibition might
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catch the eyes of streamers the government is considering a proposal to
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ban anyone under 18 years old from hosting a live streamed video and
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apparently it's been teenage mothers of all things that have caught the ire of
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the party as some within the party have considered videos featuring them a
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promotion of teen pregnancy
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have babies please
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what and the controversy surrounding
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copyrights over fortnight dances has been put on hold i can't do it but don't
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worry about it no one cares at least for now after supreme court
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ruling held that if you want to sue for copyright infringement you have to
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register your work with the us copyright office first and it remains an open
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question as to whether the copyright office will even agree to the requests
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of the actors and entertainers involved to register their dance moves as they
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may not be complex enough to be recognized i think we can all agree that
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alphonse's dance carlton the carlton i don't know what it
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looks like but i i don't remember that show was a
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long time ago even i was
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don't have to remember that stuff who wants to remember that stuff i can't even remember like dances and stuff so
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it's like
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no i knew that was the floss it just wasn't a very good one
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yeah backpacking
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i've never been seen wearing a backpack so it couldn't be