Here comes the GTX 161691660 Ti!
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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oh what it can't be techlinked is real
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i'm finally here what riley you host the show all the
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time i know i was acting
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AMD's Radeon 7 is just a baby GPU having
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only been announced at ces last week but nasty rumors about it are still flying
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all over the place it's been speculated that the new chip will be in very
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limited supply at first according to tweakdown who might be tweaking on
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something so i don't know tweak town you know about tweaking it's pronounced
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tweekton tweekton according to tweekton an anonymous
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sources said that there won't even be 5000 cards to go around when the new
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Radeon goes up for sale there's also been a rumor that only reference
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editions of the card would be available but AMD has pushed back against the
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rumors saying third party boards would be available and that they expect supply
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to meet demand which is kind of a
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weird thing to say like if no one buys the cards if only 5 000 people want it
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yeah we got enough small demand small supply AMD has struggled in the past
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with having short supplies at launch like what happened with the rx vega
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lineup but hopefully this time things won't turn out like they did for that
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kfc in the uk when it ran out of chicken
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i was rattled do you remember that i was there mate oh
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you're from he's british there's some GPU news on the NVIDIA side as well as
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reports indicate that a new graphics card for folks who don't want or need
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ray tracing support is on its way the current rumors indicate the card will be
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called the gtx 1660 ti
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kind of a strange choice considering the flagship series model numbering jumped
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from 1000 to 2000 but to be fair that
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name is just a rumor for now we've also heard it called the gtx 1160 the
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6040 1337 whatever it ends up being called it
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will be based on a touring GPU the tu-116 to be exact with six gigs of
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gddr6 video memory while it won't have as many cuda cores as the top-end rtx
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lineup the better memory bandwidth and greater core count than the gtx 1060
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indicates this new card will still probably be a significant upgrade no
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word yet on pricing or availability but seeing as the 1060 is getting a bit long
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in the tooth it might be time soon for it to head off to the glue factory oh
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that's a bit morbid john john wrote this script also tooths don't get longer as
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you get older tooths two teeth
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toots you wrote oh i did right i wrote two things yeah yeah yeah yeah twitter
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has just made us all aware of a bug that's over four years old so it must
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have some pretty long teeth if you've been using twitter for Android
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you might want to check some of your old tweets if you've ever protected your
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account which is supposed to set your tweets to only be visible to those that
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you approve a software issue caused users who changed certain settings on
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the mobile app such as their email address to have their privacy settings
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reverted back to public without warning meaning their private tweets
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weren't private anymore twitter says that users who changed settings in this
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way between november 2014 all the way up to this month were potentially affected
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and that they've reached out to users that they know are facing this issue the
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bug has since been fixed but you still probably want to double check to make
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sure none of your hot takes about your employer are floating around there for
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general consumption that's not private that's public speaking of privacy it's
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time for quick bits presented by privacy you don't use the same password
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everywhere so why use the same card number everywhere when you shop online
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you numpty privacy.com gives you a brand new virtual card number for every
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purchase you make with just one click information is encrypted using split key
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encryption with partial keys held by separate employees so no single person
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can access the sensitive info on the server since they make a commission from
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online merchants it's completely free for you and new customers will get five
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dollars to spend on your first purchase that's free money
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go to privacy.com techlinked and sign up now
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if you're a fan of Windows phone those still exist and are stubbornly
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refusing to switch to Android or iOS be aware that security updates will be
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coming to an end in december the platform hasn't been getting
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non-security updates either since 2017 so if google and apple just weren't your
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cup of tea just pour one out for Windows phone boys lived a good life pour it out
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dude left a good life have the long running
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series of apple watches got you wondering when google might hit back
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with their own smartwatch lineup no
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yep well google has just bought some of fossil smartwatch tech for 40 million
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bucks to help boost its own wear os and while this doesn't necessarily mean
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we'll see a pixel equivalent on people's wrists it might help google become more
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competitive in the smartwatch space so let's all watch
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and see what happens
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don't you just hate it when you're driving down a stretch of road minding your own business so much so that you
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don't know what the speed limit is and boop suddenly you got a ticket
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well google maps hopes to alleviate this issue as it's finally showing users the
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speed limit in a handful of u.s cities a feature that some other gps services
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have had for some time hopefully we'll see it in more and more places as time
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goes on and we'll be able to avoid speeding tickets because we didn't know
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what the speed limit is spotify is releasing a car view option that greatly
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simplifies the interface for use while driving with larger buttons to play
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pause and skip songs unfortunately it only works via bluetooth at this time
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not an aux cable okay yeah fair enough hopefully this
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will cut down both on accidents and overzealous cops handing out tickets
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seriously one of our team members here just got a ticket for over 500 bucks
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just for double tapping to change a song are the royal coughers really that bear
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for the record it wasn't me it wasn't you no well john wrote this
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probably probably john and michigan has just
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become the third u.s state to give drivers an option for digital license
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plates instead of traditional metal plates mish ganders
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is apparently what you call people from michigan where they drop they lost an eye
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mishkinders anyways people from michigan can now opt
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for a display that could allow easy personalization display parking
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credentials send emergency alerts to other drivers and even help the cops
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alert the public that a vehicle is stolen ah cops
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i love the police pretty cool but seeing as they start at
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500 bucks i might instead spend the money on something i really want like
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curb feelers i don't know what curb feelers are i'm just imagining little
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fingers on the on the bottom of the crib there's a curb there that's our show
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guys so come back on monday for more tech news that you can feel like curb
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feelers ah