This 300 inch (7.6m) TV draws over 9000W!
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·2020-05-05
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Linus has always wanted to write one of these, so
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ha, now I have to read what he puts on the prompter, which is uh fibbity
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wibbity floppity schmoopity buckaroo buns. It's time for the tech news. If
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you've never heard of The Wall, well, ha, okay, zoomer. Just kidding. I'm
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actually talking about Samsung's updated version of their The Wall micro LED TV.
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It's a giant display made of multiple seamless panels studded with micro LEDs,
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which offer up to the deep blacks of OLED without the risk of burning. it's a
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modular design, it can be configured into any number of shapes and sizes, a
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feature Samsung is leveraging by increasing the maximum size to a
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staggering 292 in at 8K resolution. As
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long as you've got the million or so dollars it would cost to buy and power
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64 of the modular panels that consume 150 watts each. Closer to the realm of
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attainability is the new 75-in 4K micro LED display that they unveiled this
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year. Not because you'll be able to afford it when they finally announce pricing or anything like that, but
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rather because its stunning 58 pixel per inch density means that Samsung's
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ability to tightly pack in micro LEDs
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has improved by nearly 4x since they first showed off The Wall. And as new
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things improve, well, prices tend to fall for the old stuff, right? Just like
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they have been for OLED. Prices have been falling for the last few years at
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luxury sizes like 65 and 77 in,
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but LG and Sony both just announced that we can also expect a new smaller size in
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their 2020 lineup. Exact pricing hasn't been given, but at just 48 in, the new
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LG CX and Sony A9 models are expected to be priced significantly lower than their
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55-in family members, while also offering the inky blacks, impressive
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pixel response times, and accurate colors that OLEDs are first known for.
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Man, you can basically use this thing as a computer monitor as long as your desk
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is deep enough. Facebook is in the news again, and this time they're altering
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their policy regarding deepfakes just in time for the 2020 US election race to
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really start heating up. According to their manipulated media policy, parody
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and satirical content is okay, but any video content meeting the following
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criteria will be removed. If it's a synthesized product of AI or machine
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learning techniques that appears authentic, or if it's been edited in a
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way that would likely mislead the average person to believe that the
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subject said words that they didn't actually say. Well, that's a start, but
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I say they haven't gone far enough. Did you know that just under half of all
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people are below-average? What about them? I've got something for
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them. A heaping helping of the quick bits brought to you by Seasonic. Your
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Seasonic. You can learn all about their products online or through our link
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below. Now for the quick bits. Not content to let AMD have all the
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headlines, this year Intel partnered with Razer to show off the tiny Tomahawk
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modular gaming PC featuring their compute element. What's a compute
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element, you ask? Good question. Just like a normal gaming PC, you can choose
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your own case, memory, storage, power supply, and graphics card, and then the
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compute element is kind of like a motherboard. It's got all the IO, the
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CPU goes on it, and it connects the rest of the components together, so it's a
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motherboard. The difference is that you don't need to screw it into your case,
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and when it's time to upgrade, you just rip your old one out and plonk in a new
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one. Well, that's kind of cool. Good thing they're based on pricey mobile
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processors, or building PCs would be too simple and I'd be out of a job. I don't
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get that at all, but all right. With everyone else focused on peppering their
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phones with as many cameras as they physically can, OnePlus is on a secret
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mission to remove them all. The OnePlus Concept One is an aptly named concept
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device that uses electrochemical glass, the kind you might see on fancy sunroofs
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and energy-efficient Windows, to dim the light coming into the rear cameras under
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overly bright conditions or even hide them outright when they're not in use.
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Combined with the pop-up selfie camera, this means no visible lenses whatsoever.
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Take that, Big Brother. I need a heckler to say I can still hear you, though.
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Take that, Big Brother. I can still hear you, though. Oh, you.
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Well, they tried. Intel ended up revealing more than they intended in a
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reply on Twitter in late December. Performance engineer Frank Ober offered
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to provide a developer with a upcoming Optane SSD, boasting that it's PCI Gen 4
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capable, suggesting that Intel is very close to shipping their next-generation
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3D XPoint memory. One small problem. What motherboard do you expect him to
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use, Frank? Intel undoubtedly has unreleased PCI Gen 4 hardware in their
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own Labs, but ironically, to get the most out of this new speed bump, Intel's
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customers in the data center will be forced to go Team Red.
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Little bit awkward. And finally, Sony has unveiled the logo for the
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PlayStation 5. Thank you, Sony. You're so generous. Inspired by Microsoft's
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ongoing descent into branding madness over the last couple of decades and the
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constant mockery they received, over at Sony figured they'd take the safe path
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and keep it simple, so it's a PS4 logo with a five taped over top of it,
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basically. Unfortunately, Sony appeared to have underestimated the gaming
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community's deep-rooted passion for trash talk, so the memes are coming hard
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and heavy. Some of these are great. Thank you, guys. You brightened my day.
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Keep it up. Just like TechLinked brightens your day every day, or at
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least uh this week it does. Normally, it's just three days of the week, but
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hey, how much brightness do you need? This is at least 1,000 nits. See you
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tomorrow, nerds.