Half-Life is BACK!
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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all the tech news we're talking about today has already happened but don't
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worry our engineers are working on it and one day we too will achieve negative
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latency that's right chillins stadia launched
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yesterday for those who pre-ordered the founders edition like us
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or it was supposed to launch anyway a lot of founders did not receive the
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access code they needed to play on november 19th google later clarified
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that some may not get their codes until the end of the day today for those who
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have gotten access however it's been a bit of a mixed bag we have had a decent
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experience with latency here in the office but if we're being honest we have
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literal god-tier internet so others though have complained about
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significant graphics quality differences versus the xbox one and ps4 pro
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experience apparently google's 4k resolution is simply 1080p upscaled to
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4k and when you compress that to stream at
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60fps it turns out it it pretty much looks like 1080p again the claw phone
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mount for the stadia controller apparently scratches the controller i
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guess they never tested these things the launch issues have prompted speculation
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over how google will move forward with stadia jason schreier's sources say that
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the pre-orders for the service were below google's expectations which is
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scary considering google's track record of killing underperforming services well
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gamersnexus tried to beat them to the punch by destroying their stadia
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controller and they found even that difficult
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time to boot up the old wii u
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do you remember what the heck is that oh it's the best but hey there's still some
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good news in the gaming world if you have a vr headset that is valve
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confirmed the flagship full-length vr game that they've been working on
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is in fact a half-life game called half-life 3s like it's half-life
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alex whatever we're getting we're getting the trailer on thursday which is
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tomorrow at 10 a.m pacific time fans are super excited as a whole but there's
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also a contingent that is extremely disappointed that the next major
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half-life installment will require that players have a vr headset
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the game is also reportedly a prequel taking place between half-life 1 and 2
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so it's not technically half-life 3 confirmed either
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but you gotta admit it's nice to see valve making a full-length game once
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again and not like yet another game mode or pack of skins for dota 2. i can only
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imagine how tyler from valve news network feels right now that guy must be stoked vindicated i was
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right these guys know how to sell vr headsets hey
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and welcome to the future humans a terminator had an accent so does this
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futuristic robot doctors at the university of maryland school of
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medicine have placed a human into suspended animation for the first time
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it's happening the technique is officially called emergency preservation
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and resuscitation or epr and it involves replacing a person's blood with ice
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called saline solution which isn't that just cryonics which rapidly cools their
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body as low as 10 degrees celsius which
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is still pretty balmy and springy if you ask me normally cells die within five
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minutes without oxygen but epr slows cellular processes down to a crawl which
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gives doctors up to two hours to operate on a person with a fatal injury the
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technique is being tested on patients who arrive at the hospital with intense
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injuries like a stab wound or gunshot or something whose survival rates would
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normally be less than five percent full results of the trial will be available
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sometime in 2020 but even then the doctors don't expect this tech to show
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up in spaceships anytime soon one team member
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said we're not trying to send people off to saturn but he didn't say anything
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about the moons of jupiter ganymede titan that's the best one wait
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titan saturn io is saturn now it's time for the quick
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techlinked you can check that out at the link below
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the tech link below quick bits
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hardly lower here's your friendly reminder to do a sanity check before you
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click attention grabbing emails a number of users have recently fallen victim to
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ransomware disguised as a Windows update sent via
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email microsoft does not update Windows via email links they update it with
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annoying full screen prompts that stop you from doing whatever you're in the
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middle of doing there's a difference a prolific vulnerability in Android camera apps was
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discovered earlier this week that had allowed attackers to record video audio
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and images from affected users phones the malware apparently easily bypassed
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Android's permission restrictions and was able to track gps location
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and i have one of those ah that's that's bad google and samsung have fixed the
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vulnerability but other Android phones may still be susceptible to attacks
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any kind of attacks still vulnerable to punching ah roundhouse kicks hyukens
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other people running with scissors and you just happen to get into the hallway at the wrong time
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get an iphone guys if you've got an oculus quest
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can i blame you time to plug it into your pc because now it's not only a
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mobile vr headset it's also a pc powered one the beta for oculus link is out
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although there are some specific hardware requirements including a high quality usb cable and the ability to not
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care about the fact that you look like an absolute dweeb
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and you're using your inside out tracking wireless headset now
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with the cable but whatever we do it for the frames huawei is
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apparently trying to ease concerns about the company's security by announcing a
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bug bounty program which will pay even
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more than similar programs from google and samsung
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that china money although i'm not sure the concern with huawei is external
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hacking but rather internal sharing
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with the big pooh bear they're trying their best and cryptocurrency monero
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told its users that they should tread lightly after hackers compromised the
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official monero website leading some crypto heads to download infected code
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that stole their coins it's not clear whether the vulnerabilities that led to
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the hack have been fixed so in the meantime just trade using wheat or fur
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like a normal person would ya well our tech news prediction algorithms have run
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dry for today so come back on friday when we're done buffering and then
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it'll be smooth and latency free just like on a consular pc i didn't even read
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what you wrote i just thought you were trying to connect it back to the well now i can't say
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all right
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but in the next episode no one's gonna know