INTEL is making NEW CONSUMER GPUs???
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·2019-05-06
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haven't gotten tired yet of the NVIDIA versus AMD fanboy wars in every comment
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section everywhere well that's great because a new
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challenger approaches and that challenger is none other than Intel who
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just announced that their first ever
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sort of discrete GPU is going to be hitting the market sometime in 2020. now
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although Intel isn't exactly completely new to the world of graphics processing
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with their integrated gpus having become a mainstay in pcs for a very long time
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and as i alluded to before they did in fact have a discrete GPU back in 1998.
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this news represents a significant pivot in Intel's business which started late
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last year when Intel brought raja kaduri on board from AMD where he was in charge
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of the development of their Radeon GPU line currently we don't have any details
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no pricing no performance no branding we don't even know what color the shroud's
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going to be but what we do know is that Intel is planning to roll out high-end
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gpus whatever that means
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and that's not the only major shake-up today as apple is rumored to get this
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actually be ditching its proprietary
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lightning connector
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according to a report from digi times next year's new iphone will probably
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support usbc instead of the lightning
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connector that we've been stuck with since the release of the iphone 5 way
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back in 2012. now this isn't confirmed
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and this rumor is based on sources at the suppliers of the iphone's components
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so it could just be a a big what's a word for a boondoggle a
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boondoggle is that is that a could be a boondoggle chase but it might not be too
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surprising considering that apple's macbooks have featured a single usb-c
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port and nothing else for quite some time now so fingers crossed that this
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rumor is true when iOS users won't have to keep buying cables that are not only
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useless for anything except i devices but that break more easily than an
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expensive gadget that Linus is trying not to drop really
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and although washington dc has just dropped its 2015 net neutrality
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protections following an fcc order washington state has become the first in
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the union to tell a jeep pie to uh
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go by himself like in the face with its
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own state level net neutrality law taking effect earlier this week the
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state of washington was actually quite proactive on the matter having passed
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the law around three months ago in anticipation of the new federal rules so
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the protections are the usual fare of a ban on blocking or slowing down certain
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services as well as making paid fast
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lanes unlawful for any isp providing
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service in washington more states are expected to follow suit in the near
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future though the fcc will probably be taking any states that pass similar laws
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to court because i guess they just really like bad press
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all right so the big story in the gaming world right now is that nintendo has
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finally announced super smash bros ultimate for the switch and this is huge
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it will feature every character that has ever fought in a smash bros game except
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waluigi but like anyway they're bringing the total number
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of playable characters to 65 once the game drops on december 7th a huge number
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and only a little bit disappointing because just waluigi and three more
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would have been pretty nice and wouldn't it be nice if you could cram more memory into your laptop lenovo
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certainly thinks so as they just announced a new thinkpad that will
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feature up to 128 gigs of RAM really
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it's aimed at workstation users but
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it'll also enable uh terrible habits like opening up hundreds of needless
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browser tabs all at once which is uh
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making me feel pretty warm and fuzzy right now speaking of browsers the only
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way to get a chrome extension after this year will be to install one through the
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official web store google is removing the ability to install extensions from
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elsewhere on all platforms even in the
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developer options by the end of this year so this move is intended to help
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with malware prevention but you might have to forget about that you know
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homebrew auto pirated video downloader 9000 extension that you were cooking up
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in your basement just kidding you probably weren't but
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mcafee recently announced that it discovered that cortana could be a
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vector for those aforementioned basement hackers as it was revealed that the
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digital assistant could be exploited to run malicious code from the lock screen
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though since we know Windows pcs don't exactly become impregnable just by
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locking them it might not be that surprising to you but microsoft is
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working on it anyway and has released a patch for the issue so go download it to
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keep cortana from spilling all of the juicy little secrets that you've told
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her finally if you're one of the lucky folks who owns an autonomous car please
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please please make sure you're still paying attention tesla is updating its
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autopilot system to nag drivers even
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more often who aren't holding the steering wheel after a number of
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accidents resulting from what tesla described as carelessness on the part of
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drivers so it looks like elon musk is about to find out whether accident risk
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or annoying ux will be a bigger drag on
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his bottom line speaking of bottom lines that's the
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bottom line for today and we'll see you again friday for all the news that's fit
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