Nvidia stuck with 300,000 GPUs???
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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were you looking forward to buying a shiny new zte phone after zte phone
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after the trump administration decided to let them off the hook for providing
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us-made hardware to north korea and iran well
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you might want temper your excitement a little bit as the u.s senate has
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overwhelmingly voted to put the import ban on zte phones back in place by a
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vote of 85 to i don't remember the last time this many senators agreed on
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something since caesar was stabbed to death
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anyway the ban still needs to be approved by
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the house and while president trump could veto the bill remember that
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two-thirds of congress can override a veto if you think back to high school
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civics which might be likely if the senate vote is any indication the
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senators that voted for the ban cited national security concerns over jobs as
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their rationales but maybe it's all a conspiracy to increase apple's market
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share one phone maker that probably won't be banned from us shelves anytime
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soon though is samsung who is looking at implementing a sound emitting display
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into their upcoming galaxy s10 instead
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of speaker samsung wants to use small vibrations within the display itself to
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create sound when a user presses the phone against his or her ear eliminating
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the need for that top speaker the technician technic technology is also
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coming to the vivo nex as phone makers are looking to pull as many tricks out
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of their bags as possible to make their devices as bezel-free as possible and of
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course avoid having to incorporate a controversial
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notch not that controversial notch a previous
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report indicated that the front of the galaxy s10 will be 93 screen so this
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fancy speakerless design could go a long way toward making that a reality now if
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only we could find a way to bury the selfie cam under the screen instead of
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putting it on a very breakable looking
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pop-up piece meanwhile NVIDIA is suddenly apparently
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stuck with a bunch of excess product that
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i hope they don't have to bury in the desert atari style a report from taiwan
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indicates that a major as yet unidentified board partner has sent back
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allegedly 300 000 gpus not because of any kind of
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defect but simply because they had way too many of them the blame for the glut
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of gpus is being placed on NVIDIA's overestimation of not only demand from
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gamers but also on how long the GPU crypto mining rush would last and since
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NVIDIA has a history of being stingy with how many gpus it hands out to board
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partners this news is a pretty good indicator of just how badly NVIDIA may
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have messed this one up with some speculating that this is part of the
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reason that it's taking so long for us to see new team green graphics cards on
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the market i wonder if they could just use all of those extra gpus to mine
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themselves the revenue they lost now it's time for quick bits brought to
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anyone else who just needs some tech products memory express is your go-to
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10 percent of the difference both in store and online check out the link
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below for all the details so ddos attacks are often carried out as
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pranks but one arizona man has earned a 20-month prison stay for his trouble or
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the trouble he caused as it were he was convicted of ddosing government
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infrastructure in madison wisconsin including
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dispatch uh i don't think it's just a prank bro
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it's just a prank it's gonna smooth things over with someone who's waiting
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impatiently for those heart-zapping paddles elsewhere in the city
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speaking of death you wrote heart zapping paddles in there don't give me
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crap about it speaking of death google's neural
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networks are now able to predict whether a patient admitted to a hospital will
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die after a patient has been in the hospital
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for 24 hours google's ai is predicting
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outcomes with 95 accuracy using medical
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histories doctor's notes and vital signs
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i wonder how long it will be before ok google is my aunt about to buy the
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farm becomes a real voice command on a far lighter note Android's messages
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app is about to get another layer of fanciness as you're now able to go to
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messages.Android.com scan a qr code with your phone and send and receive text on
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the desktop finally finally
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another nice feature to go with google migrating the app to rcs especially if
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you still haven't gotten the hang of tapity tapping on your phone screen in
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just the right spot unfortunately facebook's messenger app is also adding
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functionality but it's probably not what anybody wants
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as they are set to roll out auto playing video ads in the app after finding that
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less intrusive ads didn't affect usage patterns but i can't imagine that users
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will be too pleased after commercials for stuff they don't want start eating
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into their data limits on the subject of ads the popular mobile browser brave
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which is notable for blocking ads and trackers is now going to offer specific
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ads but with an interesting twist you
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will be opting into the ads and you will get paid
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70 of the gross ad revenue through a
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cryptocurrency xj could this be any more convoluted and sketchy sounding no word
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yet on how much an average user could end up receiving but i don't think for
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me personally you could pay me enough to sit through
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that what's a computer spot from apple again
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and that's it for the news join us again on friday to see what exciting ad will
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make you sit through right before quick bits unless you're on Floatplane in
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which case here's a quick message for you about Floatplane you can go to
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Floatplane.com and no wait no don't turn it off hold on
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i think it won't affect their usage patterns let's just keep going