Most Consumers Prefer AMD!?
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,088 words · ~5 min read
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it's black friday but since there's an unfortunate lack of news about brawls at
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walmart we're gonna settle for news about tech starting with the processor
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industry it looks like there's even more good news for AMD is a recent survey by
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the european hardware association indicated that 60 of respondents wanted
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an AMD CPU for their next rig as opposed
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to Intel only 60 the survey asked 10 000
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european users and indicated a 20
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increase in preference for team red over just last year when 40 percent leaned
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towards the uh AMD side there was also a small but noticeable uptick for AMD's
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graphics offerings going from 19 to 23
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even over in the us eight of the top 10 best-selling cpus are from AMD i don't
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think we've seen a red scare like this since the cold war here's a deal for
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something that you might not actually want all that much valve is now selling its remaining steam
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controllers for just five dollars the idea was originally quite innovative
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sounding as the device was extremely customizable with numerous options for
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controlling games such as playing a fighting game only with motion controls
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it did end up being a little overwhelming for reviewers who mostly
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said they preferred more conventional analog sticks but it still sold over
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half a million units in the six months following its release in 2015. it
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appears that it failed to catch on with a larger audience though due to the
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difficulty of getting used to the touchpad so uh there you go if you want to try it
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out the discount will be available until december 3rd or until supplies last and
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even if you hate it well at least you get to own an infamous piece of tech
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history to go along with your virtual boy when you think of bank robbery you
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probably picture a bunch of dudes with masks and guns
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but a recent cyber heist netted thieves 49 million dollars without the need for
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all that messy you know pointing guns at people a cryptocurrency
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exchange in south korea lost 342
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000 ethereum coins earlier this week due to theft and while the exchange is
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planning to replace those coins it has suspended both deposits and withdrawals
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this week so i hope you weren't planning to use your
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ethereum account to pay for any of your holiday shopping this is just the latest
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in a series of larcenies involving crypto as a similar amount of money was
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stolen from a bitcoin exchange back in june
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so as always guys you should really be using an offline wallet you know like in
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shipping until december the 1st on to the buck quacks get my out of this
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if you tried to use facebook or instagram yesterday you may have encountered some difficulties as both
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services sustained outages worldwide
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facebook was mom on the actual cause other than to say that it was an issue
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with your mom no just kidding but she is probably the only one who noticed
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because it's facebook they said there was something wrong with their central
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software systems whatever the heck that means maybe it
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was too many people posting pictures of turkey and the hits just keep on coming
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for google stadia this time in the form of an nba 2k20 bug
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although one of stadia's main selling points is that all the updates are handled server side meaning that gamers
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won't have to wait around for patches to download nba2k20 players are still
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getting stuck on a screen that says updates are downloading google has
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confirmed that this is an error oh well that's good
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and that downloading updates is not actually necessary it just sounds like
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they don't understand that ball is life is that is that a thing although ford's
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weird mustang electric suv thing caught a lot of flack when it came out mostly
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due to the fact that it doesn't resemble a mustang at all that wasn't enough to
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dissuade the market in general as it's now sold out in the united states
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because ford only had so many batteries to go around only 50 000 of these
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monstrosities will be made in year one and yes john wrote today's episode and
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he's a mustang owner with very strong opinions on this okay thank you john for
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throwing that in there what are your opinions we don't know if you really
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want to participate in black friday but are really cash trapped hulu is
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currently running a special special hulu is currently running a special
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where you'll get a year of streaming for only two bucks a month although it's for
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their ad supported version that notoriously has lots of ads to deal with
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um but whatever i guess it's still an enticing offer considering that it's
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about the price of a coke and huawei is now suing the us government over an fcc
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order that banned the company along with fellow chinese manufacturer zte from
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benefiting from the universal service fund which is
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basically money that the wireless carriers can use to subsidize phones for
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lower income customers since this is just the latest development in a
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protracted battle between huawei and uncle sam folks with huawei phones in
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the us can still use them for now but if you're looking to upgrade you might want
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to get your next phone from a company that the us isn't currently beefing with
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so that's our show have a great weekend and come back on monday for some more
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beefy cyber news get it it's cyber monday we're gonna
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cyber it's not gonna be what let's
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