Ugh, what a launch...
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·2020-05-05
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tech news moves fast so let's just take a minute and rediscover our zen
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there it is right in my sacrum
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chakras chakras riley AMD's launch of the rx
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5600 xt this week has been
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not so zen to say the least while we gave it a pretty good reception here at
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LTT that looks promising that looks very
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promising some issues have since sprung up
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concerning the card's performance boosting v BIOS updates which AMD
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released to board partners after the launch while most of the BIOS updates
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are easy enough to install the problem is that not all cards boost equally some
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cards get boost to GPU clocks and memory while others don't the rog strikes top
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from ASUS and the MSI gaming z are the only variants from those companies whose
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memory can be boosted to 14 gigabits per second up from 12. and all this is
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happening while the evga rtx 2060 ko
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which is an NVIDIA card was discovered by gamersnexus to have a tu-104 inside
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the same GPU as the rtx 2080 so users
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could potentially get up to a 47 performance boost
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in productivity apps not gaming per se so that combined with the 2060s price
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drop is putting a bit of a damper on what was supposed to be a pretty good
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launch week guys for AMD's rx 5600 xt
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it's just it's not fair my pelvic floor is angry rocket league
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players on macs and Linux are also pointing out some unfairness this week
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all 12 of them because the game's developer psyonix who
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was recently acquired by epic games announced that multiplayer support on
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mac and Linux will be removed after our final patch in march
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but it's okay guys all dozens of you you
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can still play local split screen and train against bots
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yeah you're not interested well fine psyonix says you can get a refund
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however reddit users report that no one actually seems to be getting refunds
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when they ask for them apparently because of a mismatch between psyonix
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and steems's steamses refund policies
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psionics says they're removing multiplayer support on mac and Linux
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specifically as part of an initiative to add new technologies to the game
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i know i made fun of the small player base a second ago
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but for those 12 people if you're still here listening this has got to suck
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time to get a Windows pci yes hey hey
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and despite the eu literally just
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announcing they were considering a ban on facial recognition london's
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metropolitan police have begun rolling out the technology oh wait but are they
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even in the eu london they're getting facial recognition in public spaces live facial
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recognition or lfr will be enabled in key areas throughout the city scanning
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the faces of civilians in an attempt to detect wanted criminals all you unwanted
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criminals we don't care about your face the police
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say any images that don't trigger an alert will be deleted immediately and
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that it will be up to the officers whether to stop someone based on a
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potential match that's reassuring until the officers themselves are ai
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while far no doubt has the potential to catch suspects the solution being used
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by met police was previously found to have an inaccuracy rate of 81 percent
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which is pretty high as in it was wrong uh
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four out of five times we might as well get gregor from alfrest
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and to point out who he thinks is a bit dodgy i don't know this
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so check it out well we're back for some quick bits okay AMD had a tough week
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with the Radeon thing but ryzen is still going strong against Intel however team
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blue might not be dead in the water just yet a leaked geekbench result shows a
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quad core tiger lake u processor that's
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a mobile part outscoring the ryzen 9 3950x in single core performance by a
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decent margin Intel what do we do
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when we fall off the horse kill it and eat it if you're in
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oh sonos had a tough week of their own
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everybody's just getting screwed here the company faced backlash from users
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concerned that their smart speakers would stop working well don't worry your
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legacy sonos devices might not receive updates anymore but they'll keep working
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just fine until sonos says so
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also if you have one older device in your setup
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none of your other ones will receive updates this is confusing
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do they have a product called the one no what i think they might whatever
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a 15 year old satellite manufactured by boeing and owned by directv somehow is
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at risk of exploding because of damage to its batteries so directv is asking
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the fcc for permission to move it out of its standard orbit to prevent damage to
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other orbiting objects but it remains unclear whether they want to move it
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down to burn up in earth's atmosphere
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that would be fun or up to go away into
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space as some kind of pollution that we don't care about right now but may come
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back to haunt us in the future i'm not sure which one is better
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but you know who is better sandra apple has defended
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their continuing use of the lightning connector in iphones after the eu called
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for the implementation of a universal charging standard across mobile devices
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apple says to switch to usbc from lightning now could cause waste and
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stifle innovation no one no one would be able to have the courage
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to create an entire spectrum of cool new dongle designs right think of the
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dongles ah europe you're small-minded
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and and and google recently changed the design of their serp or search engine
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results page to make ads a lot less distinguishable from real search results
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thanks google that is understandably upsetting to a lot of people
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so google is responding to those criticisms by pledging to experiment
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with other designs that maybe make ads more obvious again oh you want to be
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able to tell the difference between the thing you're actually searching for and
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the paid result i'm google and i'm just uh good
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incredulous and uh
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i think i have to talk in this voice recipe
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well guys uh see you later whatever come
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back next time hey this is my big voice hey you coming
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you want some answers okay i don't know the answer to this one
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but uh how about you use microsoft edge
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he's locked in my basement