New Radeon GPUs INCOMING!?
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·2019-05-06
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ah yes yes it's there of james
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NVIDIA just released their 20 series touring graphics cards and it may be
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time for AMD to answer a number of sources have pointed out the likelihood
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of team red launching 12 nanometer refreshes of their polaris gpus in
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october Linux fan site forunix phoronix
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i don't know spotted a new pci id in the latest kernel that's not listed anywhere
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else and is part of the polaris family meanwhile chinese language site chip
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hell chappelle i don't know is also talking about a new launch of radiant
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cars next month since team green has only announced the rtx 2070 2080 and
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2080 ti it might be a good time for AMD
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to launch cards that would fill in the lower end gaps currently in NVIDIA's
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lineup provided they're any good AMD
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doesn't exactly have a stellar track record with their refresh launches but
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they keep doing anyways so uh
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such determination much perseverance inspiring i think we can all learn
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something from that wow oculus held their oculus connect
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conference today and actually announced something moderately exciting the 400 oculus quest
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is the company's new wireless standalone vr headset meaning it doesn't require a
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smartphone or a pc to work it's got two of the same controllers used in the
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desktop tethered rift headset and built-in sensors so no external tracking
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hardware is even required now the rift will still be the company's gold
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standard vr experience but the quest is reportedly a big step up in quality from
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the lower powered oculus go standalone device at the conference oculus also
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announced new more realistic vr avatars hybrid professional apps that allow you
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to work on a desktop and then switch to vr mode the addition of youtube vr to
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oculus and the manifold a 360 degree
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camera built by red in partnership with facebook that's a lot of companies it's
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all very fancy but it still appears that the highest end wireless vr setup you
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can get is an htc vive with a wireless adapter so i guess real life ready
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player one will still have to wait it's a shame but the book is really good is
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it actually not if you ask tyler you're reading it he's got problems i
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like it but i'm on page 70. what do i know i heard it was bad you're bad
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that's why i'm here
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and a bunch of news about spotify has popped up this week perhaps the most
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interesting tidbit is the fact that artists will now be able to upload their
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music directly to the service bypassing
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labels and distributors whoa doing so will be free and artists
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will even get 100 of the royalties from playback make it rain baby make it rain
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that kind of that looked weird it's unclear whether that'll be the case in
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the future but for now that's a heck of a deal for music producers especially if
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they already have an audience of their own and don't need labels to help them
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market new releases what was the other news about spotify
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well you can link your ancestry account to spotify so they'll create a playlist
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based on your ancestral history which is that's dope i always wanted to
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know what my great great great grandmother's favorite song was
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it's probably a hymn yeah if they even had songs yeah
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back then oh black and white music
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sucks and now it's time for quick [ __ ]
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brought to you by t-force they're giving away 16 Gigabyte kits of the new
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excalibur special edition RGB ddr4 RAM
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and believe me you want this freaking RAM they come in
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3 600 and 4 000 megahertz options support a variety of RGB software like
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ASUS or async and they feature a unique
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totem pattern design that will make your friends say what to flip i want that
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flipping RAM bro so so make your friends
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jealous and enter the giveaway at the link below okay
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on to the quick bits on monday we reported that chrome had added mandatory
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sign-in to the browser that sucked but google heard the backlash and has now
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made signing into the browser optional hooray automatic sign-in will still be
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on by default but you can switch it off in the settings not a perfect solution
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but acceptable just like my hosting
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and NVIDIA didn't announce when their rtx
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2070 would launch when they unveiled the card up until now we didn't know when
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NVIDIA's rtx 2070 would launch but now we know they have unveiled that the card
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will be available october 17th which is also the same day that marijuana is
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legalized across canada right on
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ray tracing
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the card will launch starting at 499 or
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599 for the founders edition and if you can stand living without ray tracing
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and that's tough you might almost certainly be better off looking for a
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discounted 1080 ti but what do i know i'm just discount riley oh hey
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they called me discount luke before on the WAN Show be nice to yourself yeah
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it's okay oh hey it's gonna be okay
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sony has finally caved to pressure from fans to allow cross-platform play
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between the ps4 and other consoles maybe
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sweet an open beta for fortnite has started allowing cross-platform gameplay
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progression and commerce across the ps4 xbox one nintendo switch Windows 10 mac
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and Android and iOS console players wanted to get pwned by
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pc players that badly huh well don't worry because the laser train has no
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brailing what is that your trick is that you yes
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you're the you're the train a laser wow
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it's a beam oh you can get on but you can't get off
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speaking of consoles xbox is working with razer to implement keyboard and
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mouse support in the coming weeks with racer also releasing new peripherals to
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celebrate the news i guess this potentially invalidates
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the last joke i made but uh we'll see what are you gonna do and
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images of the lg v40 thin q or think as
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the reasonable people pronounce it have leaked confirming that the phone does
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indeed have five cameras three on the back and two on the front the phone is
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expected to launch october third which is about a week before the google pixel
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announcement made by google hardware event so
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get wrecked google with a photo taking ability beyond anything humans have ever
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seen that's what more cameras means right if
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you have more cameras yeah that's better photos
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yeah usually more photos you get five photos if you press the
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button does that work it's five times better photos oh five times better
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photos yeah automatically
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well if you were wanting more stories today sort of disappoint you but there's
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none there are none there are no more stories we could potentially mention
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but don't worry we'll be back on friday so subscribe to TechLinked for way more
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tech news than you can possibly handle whoa
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whoa that james guy is crazy