They're the SAME now...!!
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,123 words · ~5 min read
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you ready to party it's not really a party not important
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let's do it we didn't really mention this on monday for
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some reason but AMD and Intel both launched their flagship high-end desktop
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or hedt cpus this week they did it on
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monday interestingly the embargo for reviews of Intel's chip ended at
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midnight on sunday six hours before AMD's embargo expired monday morning
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perhaps because they knew that their 18 core core i9 10 980 xe wasn't going to
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look so good against AMD's Threadripper 3960x and 3970x with 24 and 32 cores
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respect Linus let loose a solid rant in his review on Linus tech
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tips uh he was really upset always fun to watch
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anyways the story is pretty similar to the one we've been telling for the past
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year or so AMD's multi-core chips are getting so good it's getting pretty hard
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to justify buying Intel i mean we should have seen this coming it's called thread
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ripper not thread friendship thread get along no thread
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fatality in january NVIDIA finally caved and
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opened up its g-sync ecosystem a bit by certifying select free sync monitors as
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g-sync compatible allowing owners of g-force graphics cards to use the
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variable refresh rate technology on previously unsupported displays since
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then the list of compatible models has grown steadily but now NVIDIA is ready
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to open up its heart even more so much progress team green has
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announced that future g-sync monitors will support both variable refresh rate
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over HDMI and adaptive sync the technology that freesync is based on
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over a displayport apparently this capability will now only be available in
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new g-sync monitors not existing ones but still once this change rolls out
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it'll allow owners of AMD graphics cards and consoles to experience vrr on both
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freesync and g-sync monitors meaning the whole competing closed ecosystem of
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g-stink versus freesync will be over
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do the thing like from episode star wars episode one
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peace what part is that
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you know anyways
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i don't make it past energy beam hallway and europe has gone and done it again
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they've run out of internet ip addresses
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the non-profit foundation that allocates ip addresses rousseau ip europeanus or
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ripe actually serves europe the middle east and parts of central asia and
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they've warned against this outcome for a while now there's a limited amount
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about 4.2 billion of possible ipv4 addresses which is the current
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mainstream standard if internet service providers switch to ipv6 there could be
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340 undecillion addresses available
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that's a 10 followed by 36 or 66 zeros
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depending on where you live the point is more
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it's more okay now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by privacy.com
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slash techlink so better do that check them out there or at the link below
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amazon's voice assistant a-l-e-x-a is going to show up in even more internet
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of things type devices soon and she'll also be able to express more emotion and
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one day we will be lovers programmers developing for alexa can now have the
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assistant sound happy or disappointed depending on the context so even if
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she's saying something depressing i'm playing a single hand in what looks
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like a losing game and for a while you can forget that life is pain
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speaking of creepy amazon moves the web giant has stopped a product sampling
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program that sent customers free products recommended by a machine
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learning program based on their purchased history i can already guess
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why the access program it's nice getting gifts from people you know but it's kind
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of weird getting a gift from a robot you've never met before because it's
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been watching your every move
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after a member of ford's r d team challenged elon tusk to a ford versus
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cyber truck rematch and elon agreed ford
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the company has backed out of the contest
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wimps a spokesperson said ford has always focused on serving our truck
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customers regardless of what others say or do oh
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that may have been a subtle dig at elon's uh constant tweeting but it still
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makes them look a little bit ford chicken
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that joke was built forward rough
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new york they're set to be the latest american
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city to ban vape products that aren't strictly tobacco-flavored as city
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council passed a bill to that effect yesterday i mean it kind of makes sense
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the only legal flavors of regular cigarettes in the states are tobacco and
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menthol but it definitely makes being part of the vape niche a little less
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wild you know like
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and the latest target demographic for virtual reality
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cows sorry what yeah a farm in russia gave its dairy cows vr headsets that
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place them in a sunny grassy field instead of their real cold
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gray russian reality in an attempt to reduce their anxiety and therefore
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produce better and more milk but i don't think they knew what they were doing
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it's only a matter of time before we're looking at the first bovine beet saver
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champion it's gonna happen they're taking over would they hold it like this
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or like this six okay
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it's only a matter of time before this episode ended on a weird conceptual joke
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uh but we got there come back on friday and have more and better uh hey
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tech news we'll be in vr the whole time
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that's all you know the mood tricks