Edge just wants to be Chrome...
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,171 words · ~5 min read
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all right time for whoa that's a really cool hat james
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ltstore.com some people in life just don't ever want
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to compromise kind of like lioness doesn't compromise with his footwear
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nope and these are the people Gigabyte is clearly targeting with its new aorus
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rtx 2080 ti gaming box
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yeah auris although external GPU enclosures have been around for a few
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years now Gigabyte is going all out with its newest offering not only does it
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feature a 2080 ti but it's also liquid cooled making it the first device of its
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kind according to Gigabyte i guess we could trust them like other enclosures
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it connects via Thunderbolt 3 and also comes with a 450 watt power supply built
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into the unit and yes there's RGB lighting so no need to worry about
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aesthetics or a need to worry about aesthetics
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depending on what you want no availability or pricing information just
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yet but seeing as how the 2080 ti on its own is a pretty expensive piece of kit i
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wouldn't expect anyone to cut you a black friday deal on it that's
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reasonable microsoft's new chromium-powered edge browser finally
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has a release date january 15th yeah
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you're excited can't wait although the
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previous version of microsoft edge was hailed as being better than internet
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explorer that was frankly a pretty low bar and edge's new engine still couldn't
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compete meaningfully with chrome in terms of popularity the new browser
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should be quicker and have better security but perhaps most importantly
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microsoft is rolling out a new logo for it which should reduce confusion with
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internet explorer substantially though it looks suspiciously like a chrome icon
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colored to look like an ocean wave and contorted to resemble a lowercase e
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though microsoft did at least announce that internet explorer will no longer be
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pre-installed on new computers rest in peace i guess yeah yeah internet
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explorer deserves respect hey one less thing to uninstall it's true do you want
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to pair your fancy new OLED tv with a high-end graphics card well do ya
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answer the question i don't have either of those well although it was previously
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announced that lg's new 2019 OLED tv lineup would support g-sync NVIDIA is
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now offering a driver update to enable the variable refresh rate technology
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that works to prevent screen tearing g-sync lg also wants to be ready for
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consoles that support variable refresh rates and the new tvs already support
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this through HDMI 2.1 so it's nice to see them throw a bone to the pcmr as
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well really appreciate it the update is version 441.12
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so that was keeping track
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oh i'm on 441.11 ah
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and it should be available soon through GeForce experience assuming it isn't
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showing up already for you of course this is only exciting news if you're
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actually hooking up a high-end computer to an OLED display unlike most of us
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pros what's a pro
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proletariat proletariats today's quick
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it what he wanted me to call it google has finally pushed out an update for
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maps that allows you to use incognito mode on Android if you don't want the
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app saving places you've looked up travel to or the routes you take like if
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you're a newer detective gotta go to hell's kitchen i got a lot
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of important secret places it should definitely be easier than going back and
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manually deleting all the shady places you tend to go to which reminds me i
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need to enable it as soon as i'm done filming this episode
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serious color calibration on your monitor typically requires an external
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calibrator you lay on top of the screen but dell thinks it has a sleek
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all-in-one solution as it's just announced a 4k display with a built-in
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color colorometer
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what is that chloramine chloramine
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have you heard of that before colorimeter offering 100 adobe RGB and a
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picture by picture mode that can show two different color spaces it's clearly
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aimed at professionals especially with a two thousand dollar price tag
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you can get it on the 15th of january just in time to edit those terrible
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family photos you took over the holidays my family's hugging yourself
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tesla's autopilot is about to be updated with a crucial feature although it could
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previously pick out other cars to keep you from careening into your fellow
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drivers it can now identify traffic cones and other pylons thanks to a
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software update pretty cool if you live in a place like vancouver and there's
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always construction going on that makes you late to work and then you have to
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deal with getting a subsequent
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from Linus he does that all the time such a Linus thing
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photoshop is finally here for the ipad after over a year of anticipation
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unsurprisingly while it lacks some of the features the full fat desktop
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version has adobe denies that it's extremely stripped down as the code base
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is very similar to the full version there's a bunch of dormant code in there
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not doing anything trust me it's there and more features should be coming in
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subsequent updates you can pick up a subscription for 10 bucks a month if you
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want to put your ipad through its paces with something other than your snapchat
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addiction and facebook is slapping a fresh coat of paint on its brand amidst
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a number of high-profile controversies good luck
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unlike the rounded word mark that hasn't changed much since facebook's inception
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in 2004 the new one is in a minimalist
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all caps font and will be shared across all of facebook's services such as
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instagram and whatsapp maybe
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not telling people that they are you think they'd want people to not think
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facebook's involved oh but it's okay we're we're respectable now i've talked
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to congress uh that's our show for today i guess come back wednesday for more
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tech news and maybe we'll change our logo as well no we won't i love our logo
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what is this disrespecting lloyd like that