What was Epic thinking!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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aha i caught you you were just about to watch this youtube video weren't you
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man i'm good so smart Intel has released
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their balls to the wall unlocked 28 core processor called the xeon
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dash 3175x for our cool 3 grand the chip also
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supports hyper threading so it has a full 56 threads with the cores running
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at a peak frequency of 4.5 gigahertz
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making this on paper at least Intel's biggest and fastest chip ever and it's
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also got hexa channel ddr4 support up to 192 gigabytes worth now obviously the
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w3175x isn't meant for consumers like you and
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me but rather for in Intel's worlds select highly threaded and computing
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intensive applications like architectural and industrial design and
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professional content creation so now what we do here we're not pros
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and for i guess super rich people who can afford to buy a single processor for
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the same price as an overpowered gaming rig but can you really put a price on a
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processor you can in case you haven't heard or
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don't care steam the epic game store and pc gamers
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all over the world are a bit mad at each other right now and that's because metro
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exodus the game that was set to release february 15th on steam is now going to
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release on the epic game store instead for 10 cheaper existing pre-orders will
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be delivered through steam and it is technically a timed exclusive so it
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could return to the steam store in a year's time for example but
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the whole thing has left a bit of a sour taste in everyone's collective mouth the
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game's developer thq nordic tweeted that the decision to switch was made by their
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publisher koch media and they had no say on the
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details or timing of the deal with epic games valve has said that they think the
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move was unfair to consumers and most gamers seem to agree but epic games is
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making the case that timed exclusives are good for the industry and that it's
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not healthy for valve to operate without any real competition and they have a
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point but there's got to be a better way to do this other than stealing a game
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right from under its release date not like this epic not like this
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and facebook surprise is back in the news again for what else breaches of
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privacy except this time the company was paying people in exchange for collecting
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their info facebook has admitted to paying users from the age 13 to 35 up to
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20 a month plus referral fees to install an app called facebook research on both
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iOS and Android as part of facebook's project atlas initiative the app would
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decrypt and analyze users phone activity and would even ask them to screenshot
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their amazon order history page in response to the news apple has blocked
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the app on iOS as well as other facebook apps that the company's employees use
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for beta testing and internal affairs the app is still reportedly functioning
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on Android the story is just the latest privacy kerfuffle for facebook but the
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company may actually be trying to change its ways they just hired three veteran
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privacy activists including need cardozo former attorney of the electronic
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frontier foundation who has been very critical of facebook's privacy issues in
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the past bold move maybe he'll turn the facebook
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ship around or he's on a secret mission to destroy the company from the inside
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godspeed cardozo godspeed
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have that linked below no i swear i'm TechLinked Linus oh
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oh it's you
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thanks Linus now for the quick bits apple may be on facebook's case but they
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had a privacy issue of their own this week a bug in facetime's group calling
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feature allowed the caller to listen into the recipient's device before that
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person even answered the phone the bug was apparently in the wild for at least
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a week before apple shut down the group calling feature while they fixed the
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problem and one lawyer has even sued apple because the bug allowed someone to
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listen in on a confidential call with a client it just goes to show parties can
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be fun if all the guests who are invited actually get let into the party you
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don't you just talk to them through the door if you're just having you're having a
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party and then other people are like hey i can hear what you're saying
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you're having a party they're invited they knock on the door you stand by the
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door and listen them banter in the hall
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last week xiaomi gave a sneak peek at a double folding phone that it's
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developing but now a patent from Intel has emerged showing a similar design
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unlike the xiaomi device Intel's would consist of three equally sized portions
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so the device could be folded into a triangle or a mini laptop kind of
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situation can't wait for gen 3 or 4 of the folding phone designs we'll be
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texting each other on paper airplanes irobot the popular maker of roomba
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autonomous vacuum cleaners has moved outdoors that's right kids there's
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finally a lawnmower roomba it's actually called the irobot terra robot mower and
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it will use technology called imprint smart mapping to make sure it only cuts
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up your grass no free rides
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and even if it does go over your cat by accident who needs a cat when you've got
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roombas way more useful and just as cute
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i don't know about that james never rub your face on a lawnmower they'll purr
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gopro has added the ability to store unlimited amounts of uncompressed video
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footage with their gopro plus online service previously users could store
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unlimited photos and up to 35 hours of full quality footage but this i just i
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mean wow this is just a whole new level of holy toledo oh my goodness
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wowie and amazon is looking to soothe the anger of new york city citizens
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about the company's new headquarters in the city uh they're gonna do that by
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funding computer science courses in more than 130 schools across nyc because when
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people are mad at you usually throwing money at them helps this isn't quite
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that it's a step up from that but wow life lessons learned something new
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that's it for this episode guys thanks for watching and uh i'll thank you to
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