Macbooks could catch FIRE!?
TechLinked
·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,283 words · ~6 min read
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Linus is live streaming right now so unfortunately i have to do all of the
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whole TechLinked episode in this kind of sultry voice is that okay what hm
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what's that AMD is rising up
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you booed before i even said it that's because it's an old joke they're rising
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up back on the street and and by the street
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i mean the leaked benchmarks scores for AMD's upcoming 400 ryzen 7 3800x have
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surfaced on geekbench and things look pretty good Intel's 480 dollar core i9
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9900k beat the 3800x by just one percent
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in single threaded performance but the 3800x beat the 900k
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by 5 in a multi-thread test
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did you get that the 9900k is more expensive
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but it got beat okay okay james has got it this isn't
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strictly speaking a fair comparison but it certainly serves to keep up the hype
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for the ryzen 3000 launch in a couple weeks Intel seems to acknowledge the
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threat digi times reports the company plans to cut pricing of its 8th and 9th
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gen processors by 10 to 15
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that would drop the 9900k down to just a few dollars more than the 3800x not only
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making the price to performance proposition more attractive but also
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making it more apparent than ever that Intel they're in some deep
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google's pixel slate had a less than enthusiastic reception from the tech
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community and google didn't like how that made them feel deep inside so the
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company has dropped development of the two smaller pixel tablets it was working
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on and will no longer be producing first party tablets for the foreseeable future
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see you see you later this is all according to google reps who confirmed
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the details with the press the company will however continue development on
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pixelbook style laptops and will work with third-party manufacturers to
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continue support for chrome os tablets honestly google
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that's fine there's nothing wrong with admitting that you screwed up
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like really bad
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the pixel slate speakers were actually really good though did you ever hear
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them who cares though i care
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and light-based wireless internet or li-fi has been taking its sweet time
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getting to the general public but now one of the first commercial products to
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use it has been announced signify the company formerly known as philips hue
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did you know yeah i didn't has unveiled
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true li-fi a range of lights and usb dongle transceivers that will enable
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data speeds of up to second there's also a fixed
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point-to-point system that can reach up to 250 megabits per second the true
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li-fi line is targeted at professional markets like office buildings where
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there may be tons of wi-fi interference so rather than fumbling with your wi-fi
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settings you could just plug in your usb dongle and get internet from the led
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tubes in the ceiling that's why they glow so bright
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until i walk between your computer and the light yeah well
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if you can get to my dongle i keep i keep my dongle secret i can
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block your dongle i can block any dongle now it's time for quick bits is that
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person apple has issued a voluntary recall for
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its 15-inch 2015 macbook pro with retina display due to the battery posing a fire
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safety risk users can put in their serial number what's that yes yes
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users can put in their serial number on apple's website to see if their machine
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is affected if it is they can bring it into an apple store and then wait up to
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two weeks to get it back as much as i'd love to see apple products go up in
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flames i wouldn't why did i write that if you have a 2015 macbook you should
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probably get it checked out for safety look i they're fine don't bring that on my
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plane you have a plane the u.s has added more chinese tech
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companies to the list of entities banned from doing business with american
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companies the most recognizable among them is
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probably thattick the joint
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that's its name the joint venture between AMD and the
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chinese government to produce chinese processors based on AMD's designs you've
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heard of that i won't try to pronounce the names of the other companies on the list but some of them build
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supercomputers using Intel and NVIDIA parts
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i guess they can try maybe using
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huawei processors now speaking of chinese companies vivo has
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unveiled their new flash charge technology which can operate at 120
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watts and charge a 4 000 milliamp hour battery to a 100 percent in
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i'm waiting just 13 minutes
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seconds i come for the exciting tech games riley now you might only get five
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charging cycles out of your phone before it self combusts but hey what's the
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point of keeping a phone for years if it's just charging half the time live
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life in the fast lane like me i do so many crazy things
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what's what's that amazon hasn't yet rolled out their
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delivery drones they're never gonna roll them up riley they fly
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but once they do fly out the company will be looking to provide surveillance
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as a service to customers so you'd pay
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amazon to have its delivery drones look for possible security threats on your
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property like open garage doors broken Windows or fire when they fly overhead
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so they not only want to film me and my kids that i don't have but
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they also want me to pay for it you know while my neighbor gets included
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in the footage for free not in my up yard
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up yard well it's not your backyard it's above you that's not
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that no and you might have heard all this fuss about young people growing horns or
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spikes in their head supposedly because of smartphone use but the actual study
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doesn't make any sort of claim about the skull protrusions being correlated to or
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caused by phones as marius hm points out
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on the Linus tectum forums the original researchers don't link the growths to
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technology but to changes in trends of human posture so don't worry about
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growing horns guys unless you want that
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in which case i'm so i'm sorry
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get that
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could be the books it could be the newspapers
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i'm just saying all right that's it for tackling guys thanks for watching and
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stopping
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see on monday