Phones need Cooling Fans Now!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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This is a hammer, but
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this is the tech news. It might be hard
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to believe that AMD has been around for 50 years. The golden anniversary been
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married for that long or had to shop for an anniversary gift for your
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grandparents. So, fittingly, AMD has released gold editions of both the Ryzen
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7 2700X and Radeon 7. While it doesn't
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look like either product will actually be gold colored, they will come in gold
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packaging with a CPU featuring the CEO Lisa Sue's signature. Both products will
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come with copies of The Division 2 and World War Z, as well as a commemorative
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t-shirt. You should pick up both a CPU and graphics card right now. If you have
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a gold system, I guess, but it's not even gold. Why did they even do this?
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Like, we made a freaking gold CPU. Come on, AMD. Now, despite Samsung's folding
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phone, well, folding due to high failure rates, other phone manufacturers think
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they can pull it off. A new foldable Motorola Razor might be in the works.
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And the newest revision looks to feature a screen that folds vertically,
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hearkening back to the days when having a flip phone made you the cool kid in
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high school. Do you remember that? These were awesome. They were so sick. Keep in
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mind, these rendered images of the new Razer aren't official, but seeing
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Motorola filed a patent in 2018 for a similar device, this could be very close
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to the real deal. There's no word when it might come to market, but it's
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speculated to be cheaper than the Galaxy Fold. So, if nothing else, at least when
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you break it, it'll be easier to replace. You buy two instead of one.
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Yeah. Just skip the middleman. Just H.
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But maybe instead of a foldable phone, you want one that uh blows. Yeah. Oh,
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like with the fan on the inside. Okay. The Chinese company Nubia is coming out
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with just such a fan phone dubbed the Red Magic 3. Although other phone
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manufacturers have had external fan attachments for gaming orientated
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devices, the Red Magic 3 appears to be the first one that has a real internal
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fan built in. Its internal specs look pretty solid for a flagship tier device,
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including a 90 Hz display. And seeing that the overheating has been a
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legitimate issue with other gaming phones, this might turn out to be a
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pretty o cool cool idea. Yay. Got it. It's set
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to launch in Europe, Canada, and the US in late May. Just in time to put the
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phone's fan to the test outside in 30° heat. Nothing, Colton. It's going to be
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Come on. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it is good. On to the quick bits. Driving can
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be expensive, but Jaguar Land Rover wants to pay you for driving their cars,
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and not just by sticking tacky ads all over the side. Instead, the automaker is
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starting a program that will pay drivers in crypto for sending info about traffic
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and road conditions to help aid in both navigation services and local transit
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authorities. Jaguar also wants drivers to be able to use said crypto to
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automatically pay for things like tolls and beverages. So, sharing this info
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might save you a minute the next time you go to Tims or somewhere that
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actually has respectable coffee. Oh, come on. Tims is great. It's garbage.
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Ever since Burger King got them. Next time you're using Chrome browser on your
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smartphone or tablet, be wary that you might notice something funny happening
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with the address bar. One developer recently noticed that it would be quite
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easy for an attacker to replace it with a fake address bar once you start
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scrolling. Hopefully, Google fixes this kind of attack before like some hacker
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sees a video about this exploit and gets
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an idea to do that. Did Wait, we just
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did that. Yeah. Oh. Uh, don't do that,
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hackers. No. What is now unsurprising news considering how many high-profile
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data breaches there have been lately, there's been a high-profile data breach.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A pair of researchers
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have discovered a huge Microsoft database that is just sitting
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unprotected and contains bunch of information like names, addresses,
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income, and marital status of over half of the households in the US. Microsoft
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hasn't commented on this, but you should think twice before fudging your salary
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numbers on your next hot date. Or just don't lie to your dates, cuz that's bad,
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I guess. So, yeah, don't lie, kids. A new industry report indicated that once
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2022 rolls around, 20 million gamers will have switched from PC to console.
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That's the wrong way. Why are they doing that? Although most of the attrition is
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expected to be with gamers who are using relatively cheap PCs, all market
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segments should be somewhat affected due to continued innovations and
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improvements in the console space. Of course, 20 million actually isn't a huge
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number when you consider how many there are in PC gaming, like 1.3 billion. But
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then again, how many of those do you think are just dads playing solitaire?
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Probably a lot. Yeah, they're probably just leaving cuz they don't play the good games like the original Halo. And
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if Sony officially releasing information about the PlayStation 5 got you all
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rearing and ready to go to buy a new console, you might want to temper that
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excitement a bit cuz you can't have it until 2020. So, the earliest you might
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see one is next spring, but it's more probable that Sony will launch it around
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the holidays in 2020 to maximize hype. So, you'll want to wear your battle
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armor to the mall around Christmas time to get it, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Or or
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just be a tech YouTuber and have them send it to you. Oh. That's That's what
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I'll do. Actually, I don't even play consoles. I don't even want to sing that. I'm not getting one. But yeah, I
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guess that's it. Goodbye.