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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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hey guys welcome back been keeping some tech news nice and warm for you come on
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where were you keeping it warm that's not important if you want to make
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your gtx graphics card run a little warm
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you can install the latest driver and try and run ray tracing yep after
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promising they do so NVIDIA has enabled support for rtx features in last gen
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pascal cards anything higher tier than the six gig version of the gtx 1060 and
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the gtx 1660 will be able to try their hand at ray tracing despite their lack
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of dedicated rtx hardware NVIDIA has released some benchmark numbers
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alongside the driver which shows that while a 1080 ti might get you somewhat
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playable frame rates using medium ray tracing settings as a whole rtx on older
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cards is not super recommended what NVIDIA recommends is buying an rtx card
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yeah i think that should get you the best graphics and probably make you
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better at games and get more kills in the popular battle royale game yeah that
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should do it oh it happens to cost more too yes oh yeah but that's just what you
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need if you want to test it out for yourself and don't have a game that supports rtx you can download NVIDIA's
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star wars based demo for free speaking of star wars what well
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did you did you see him palpatine is a skywalker
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oh no you spoiled it have you not seen the trailer yet
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okay but that's not in the trailer i just made that up the episode 9 trailer
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isn't the only thing papa disney dropped today we got details about the upcoming
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disney plus streaming service it will cost 6.99 a month a major power move
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after netflix upped the price for their most popular plan from 11 to 13
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i mean don't get me wrong i like netflix but as much as i don't like the fact
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that disney went and made their own service pixar marvel disney plus new tv shows
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for those franchises and a ton of backlog to delve into riley it's seven
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dollars because no adults are gonna pay more for their kids shows than their own
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shows that's a good point grow up riley i love pixar look i'm not gonna buy it
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right away guys okay never pre-order but who's the skywalker is that what they're
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gonna call the new jedi is that the thing what is it okay back to some actual tech
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news at their next at acer event in new york the company announced a whole bunch
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of new products acer did that is first off the predator helio 700 gaming laptop
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which features a 17 inch ips display full size rtx 2080 and the hyperdrift
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keyboard which slides down to expose cooling fans and also forms a wrist rest
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yeah interesting next up is the concept
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d line which is meant for creative professionals and includes fancy wood
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panel desktops and monitors plus convertible laptops with swiveling
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screens like the concept d9 acer also
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unveiled the predator cg437k a 43-inch 4k 144 hertz display which is
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a smaller cousin to acer's existing 65 inch bfgd but this is an lfgd it's not
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big it's it's large what it's vented now that's large that's a
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tall tv it's a venti tv and finally there's the upgraded ojo mixed reality
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headset with twin 2160 by 2160 displays
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the same configuration as hp's reverb headset nice acer we get it okay you
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make a lot of cool stuff you can calm down now ever heard of playing hard to
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seriously facebook has just been awarded a patent for a system that would use ai
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to collect users photos that contained commercial products and sell them to
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companies to use an ads on facebook so if you had a photo of yourself drinking
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a coke facebook would offer that photo to coca-cola who would pay facebook to
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promote it as sponsored content this isn't an actual feature yet but just is
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it a bad sign that this kind of thing just does not surprise me anymore when
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will you learn when will you stop it japanese tech company sharp has shown
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off a few interesting display technologies today including an
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all-in-one pc with a 32-inch 8k HDR
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display with a 120 hertz refresh rate
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and it's not even a prototype either this will be a commercial aio you can
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buy i don't know what kind of GPU it's running but geez sharp also showed off a
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folding phone prototype that folds down to half smartphone size instead of
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folding out to tablet size like those motorola
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razer reboot patents we saw a while back after spacex did successfully launch and
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retrieve the three separate boost stages of the falcon heavy that happened
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yesterday they delayed it nasa has decided to work with the company on the
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double asteroid redirection test or dart
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it's a mission intended to launch a spacecraft at the near-earth asteroid
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didimos as a trial run for defending earth from potential asteroids on a
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collision course the mission is set for 2022 so hopefully bruce willis has a gap
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in his schedule or i doubt this will work speaking of space space ill and
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israeli space flight startup has announced that their bereshit spacecraft
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has failed to make a soft landing on the moon and instead crashed into it at 130
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meters per second after its main engine failed the project
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was built on a shoestring budget of 100 million dollars a small budget of 100
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million and was an attempt to win google's lunar x prize which they
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apparently qualified for despite the crash google gave them one million bucks
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sorry your lander crashed here's one million dollars and researchers at mit have developed
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row cycle a robot with a sense of touch that it will use to sort recycling into
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different categories hey that's pretty good huh james james loves recycling
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rose cycle can sort things with 85 accuracy when objects are stationary but
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63 accuracy when objects are moving like on a conveyor belt way better than
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people is it oh so they got some work to
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do to get the bot ready for prime time and if they can't do that then it will
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be recycled ooh the irony and that's it for this episode
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of tech link guys thanks for watching we'll see you back here on monday for
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more tech news unless you have other plans which is fine but you can watch
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the video anytime so that's not really an excuse i'll be waiting