It's Samsung's Folding Phone! ... Sort Of!
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·2019-05-06
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whoa tech news now that's cool samsung
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has gifted the world with a vision of our inevitable future the folding phone
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yes the royale flex pie was technically the first one to see daylight but we can
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probably safely forget about that at their developer conference this morning
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samsung showed off their device although it had some sort of protector around it
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and the lights were dimmed to only show the basic design it was all very
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mysterious but it's essentially a small tablet style screen that folds in half
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to reveal another screen on the outside and it looks actually pretty cool the
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crease in the screen seems to disappear when it's open
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samsung and google are apparently working together on Android updates that
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will accommodate what google has dubbed foldables and samsung also demoed big
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changes it's making to its custom Android skin called one ui that should
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make operation easier on folding and big screen phones but samsung also teased
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new screen designs the notched infinity u and infinity v the infinity o with a
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floating camera and the notchless new infinity it would be cool if they solved
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the notch problem in their own way but right now i feel like slider phones are the answer
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i mean and i like feeling like i'm in the matrix movies that's always a bonus a
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couple days ago Intel announced a 48 core xeon processor built on the 14
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nanometer process and AMD was like oh that's oh that's
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that's nice look what they did though that's wonderful
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and then they were like whoa bam
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and announced a 64 core epic processor
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built on the seven nanometer process
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the second gen chip named the epic roam will support multi-threading for a total
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of 128 threads double the amount of the first-gen epic naples processor rome
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uses a chiplets design sounds cute which pairs zen 2 CPU modules built on the 7
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nanometer process with io components built on the 14 nanometer process which
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will apparently lower the cost and make chip binning easier AMD also announced
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the first two accelerator cards to use their previously announced 7 nanometer
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vega GPU the Radeon instinct mi 60 and
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mi 50. they're geared towards enterprise applications like machine learning and
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apparently rather than taking that GPU and challenging NVIDIA in the gaming
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space they're leaning into the blockchain so they're pushing GPU mining
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modules for cryptocurrency yay
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oh AMD that 64 core chip though really
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great huh let's remember the good times guys
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and if you were depending on hardware encryption to protect your data time to
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use something else because apparently some ssds from at least samsung and
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crucial but possibly more vendors do not encrypt data properly and don't even
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have password protection okay but Windows bitlocker should still manage
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encryption so at least you got protection there except no you don't
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because bitlocker defaults to SSD encryption when it's available samsung
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and crucial have both been notified and samsung has advised users to use
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third-party software instead of hardware encryption or bitlocker until a fix is
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released or hey you know what spread the love don't encrypt it all there's
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doesn't want that i guess onto the quick bits qualcomm has
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been a leader in mobile technologies particularly 5g networking and now
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they'll have to share as a u.s federal judge has ruled that the company will
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have to license its technology to rivals such as Intel and samsung that's going
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to be a little awkward after the plentiful lawsuits between those
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companies but i'm sure they can work it out you know start low and then
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work your way up to hugs a company called furhat for some reason has
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unveiled the world's most advanced social robot which consists of a head
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that can look around and display facial expressions through light projection
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this is great i mean boston dynamics are making robots that do amazing things
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with their body and these guys made the head they can be like a
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lamer voltron and i'll form the head
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security researcher doug midori has discovered that for two and a half years
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internet traffic from the us was directed by international communications
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company china telecom to pass through china before it arrived at its
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destination in violation of the internet's border gateway protocol it's
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unclear whether the misdirect was intentional or not but regardless it is
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concerning midori is looking further into the story along with other
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researchers potentially even more concerning is the fact that sk hynix has
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unveiled the world's first 96 layer 4d nand flash despite it having nothing at
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all to do with 4d in the dimensional sense
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what okay the the 40 apparently refers to the combination of 3d ctf or charge
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trap flash design paired with periphery
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undercell technology which somehow adds up to 4d
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i'd say it needs the mist in your face or vibration in your seat to be truly 4d
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otherwise it's nonsense did you ever do 4d in the theater
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yeah you know what i'm talking about brandon knows
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and after physics bugs in the fallout 76 beta were linked to manipulation of the
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game's frame rate bethesda has released a fix which amounts to locking the
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game's frame rate to 63. for some reason and capping the field of
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view to 80 in third person and 90 in first person yep instead of changing the
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fact that the game physics are linked to frame rate in the engine let's just lock
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the frame rate talk about a band-aid solution
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Linus was really upset about this but the tears just aren't coming for me but
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