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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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look i know that it's been a whole day since the last TechLinked
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but we're here now we're here
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and that's what matters yesterday microsoft just decided to
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throw a metric butt ton of announcements and unveilings in our face from surface
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devices to Windows updates so we better get to it there's no time for jokes
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james get your head in the game man come on
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the new surface pro 6 puts a new Intel 8th gen core CPU up to 16 gigs of RAM
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and a one terabyte SSD in the same chassis as last year's surface pro
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yeah i know starting at 8.99 the surface laptop 2 does essentially the same thing
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but starts at 9.99 and both models are getting a fancy black version nice the
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surface studio 2 also gets an updated processor a 38 brighter screen wow and a
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2 terabyte SSD option microsoft also unveiled the surface headphones for 350
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dollars because releasing headphones is what you do when you have pretty good
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brand strength i guess is that show me the money
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xiaomi has brand strength headphones do they do headphones everybody does little
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rice is what xiaomi means did you know that yes okay these ones are wireless
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with cortana and adjustable levels of noise cancellation using the earcup dial
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no official word on the pocket size dual screen surface andromeda device unless
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you count microsoft chief product designer panos panet telling the verge
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that the company is still working on unconventional designs and that
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andromeda is his baby as long as he
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doesn't think it's a real baby trust me i've made that mistake one too many
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times but that's not all the microsoft news believe it or not
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ah the Windows 10 october update is rolling out now and it's bringing some
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actually pretty cool features with it the your phone app allows you to text
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and access files from your Android phone on desktop no iphone support yet or ever
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probably cloud clipboard gives access to your clipboard history lets you copy on
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one Windows 10 machine and paste on another and support is coming to
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swiftkey in the future so you can do the same with your phone finally yeah i know
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right but perhaps most exciting or not exciting at all depending on your
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situation is the rollout of microsoft's directx ray tracing tech which means
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that the carpet is laid out finally for games to start releasing rtx patches for
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NVIDIA's new graphics cards will we finally discover what life with ray
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tracing is like and want to go back in time and kill ourselves because we didn't have it until now
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only time will tell i probably don't probably don't want to do that that
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doesn't make any sense there's a few more over
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and under the hood updates in the update so check the news sources below for the
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roundup and this is less of a tech story than it is a gaming story but leaked
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footage of what looks like an awesome rpg set in the harry potter universe is
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apparently real sources have confirmed to eurogamer that the project is
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currently in development at utah-based avalanche software working under the
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publisher warner bros interactive the game is apparently set in the 1800s and
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follows a fifth year student who joins hogwarts late in the game uh what you
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don't like that no one likes the old guy in class what
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no see those mature students
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oh always raising their hands oh no he's not he's still in fifth year he doesn't join
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like the kindergarten hey guys
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that'll be a whole different story
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now i'm not a huge fan of the world of hogwarts or whatever but if this game
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could do for harry potter what knights of the old republic did for star wars
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games i'm sold now if i only had time to play video games am i right james
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who plays games we're adults we don't play games yeah we just work here
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exactly we live here i'm going to sleep
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speaking of video games they look pretty sick in an ultra wide monitor which is
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why you should enter lg's ultrawide festival 2018. lg is giving away
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ultrawide monitors and to celebrate they're embracing all creators who spend
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a lot of time in front of monitors creating the best content including alan
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walker world renowned dj and action movie kid a visual effects youtuber the
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festival has three events to participate in so go participate and get a chance to
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win an lg ultrawide monitor at the link below
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on to
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the quick bits the wi-fi alliance has decided logically in my opinion to stop
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this whole 802.11 abgn acax nonsense
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just switch to regular old numbers so 802.11n is now y54 802.11 ac is now y55
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and when 802.11 ax comes out next year it'll be wi-fi six there have been six
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wi-fi's exactly who knows how many more wi-fi's
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are out there personally i'm holding out to a wi-fi 10 or wi-fi x so some people
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call it and then what happens oh yeah naturally the wi-fi xs the max yeah
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that's the fastest biggest wi-fi and then your wi-fi will be able to sense
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your face razer has released the sela sila which
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is not yet another headset or keyboard but a high performance wi-fi router
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meant specifically to boost gaming network traffic it doesn't have wi-fi x
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no not yet if only it's got cool new razer design
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features like fast track multi-channel zero weight and mesh capability i don't
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have time to find out what those mean but they're probably awesome for gamers
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how do you even game on a normal router what are you a pleb look it's the
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unreleased Intel core i9 9900k listed on amazon for 582.50 in a really cool
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pentagonal sphere box pentagonal pentagonal pentagonal sphere box to
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refresh your memory it's got 8 cores 16 threads and a turbo clock of 5 gigahertz
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and it's supposed to launch before the end of the year it's going to be a good chip
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it's great to see it's going to be a good box too what maybe isn't good is a
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leak that implies Intel may be splitting their high-end desktop platform from the
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singular x299 into the z399 chipset
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sporting the lga 2066 socket and the higher-end x599 chipset with the lga
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3647 socket this is good i thought AMD
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and Intel were screwing around with naming schemes just like you know shooting the
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crap but it's good to see they've stopped pretending and just had full-on
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aneurysms with this what are names anyways you know
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just words but steel series thankfully is keeping it simple they've released
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the rival 650 wireless which will run for 10 hours on a 15 minute charge and
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has no lag giving logitech's lightspeed tech a run for its money the launch
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video for the mouse is also really great good stuff what did you think of it james is this a keyboard what are we a
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mouse it's a mouse unfortunately we're out of good stuff to talk about today
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