Everything you love... gone
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,300 words · ~6 min read
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hey hey no you clicked this video to play in the background and then you were
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gonna go do something else weren't you no eyes on me buddy you did this global
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foundries one of the world's biggest chip manufacturers has filed a lawsuit
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against tsmc or taiwan semiconductor
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manufacturing company the suit was filed in the u.s and germany and involves
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allegations of tsmc infringing on 16 of
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global foundry's patents in a statement tsmc said the accusations are baseless
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and the company will vigorously defend itself the statement also said they're
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disappointed to see global foundries resort to lawsuits instead of competing
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in the marketplace with technology oh did you pick up on that maybe they
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should switch to manufacturing sick burns
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now normally we don't report on lawsuits for the sake of it but this one is
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important because tsmc makes chips for NVIDIA apple google qualcomm lenovo
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cisco and more and if global foundries wins this lawsuit products from all of
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those companies may be banned from sale it would be like the snap
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but no one would die so it's not not as bad three years after the launch
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of the sustainable repairable fairphone 2 the fairphone 3 has been announced
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like its predecessors the new model isn't competing with flap flab ships
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flagships like the galaxy note 10 or iphone 10s and the specs department its
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qualcomm snapdragon 632 chipset four gigs of RAM and 1080p display with
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plenty of bezels aren't going to turn any gadget loving heads but what it does
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offer is a soothing bomb for your heavy conscience
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where is it where's your conscience located your kidney
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are you a crossfit doing vegan well here's another thing for you to talk
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about indeed the verifone 3 is a made using conflict-free materials and
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recycled copper and plastics plus fairphone's phone recycling program will
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reward you consumers who use it and b it's super repairable being made of
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seven different modules that can be switched out as needed there have been a
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number of attempts at modular phones in the past including google's own project
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aura but maybe what will stick is an ethical alternative people seem to be
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liking those more and more these days kfc's plant-based beyond fried chicken
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sold out in less than five hours when it launched in atlanta yesterday you know
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what's weird is if if you bought a fair phone too ethically you should not
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upgrade to the three oh no
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no and if you're a sane person you hate
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all of those stupid motion smoothing modes that come pre-enabled on every tv
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so yeah so it's great news that the uhd alliance an industry group made up of tv
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makers like lg vizio and panasonic just announced filmmaker mode it's a setting
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that will automatically disable motion smoothing on tvs and will also ensure
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that things like color aspect ratio and frame rate are set to their proper
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values so that you can enjoy capital f films
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the way the good lord intended
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filmmaker mode could be activated by a button on the tv remote or automatically
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via metadata embedded in blu-ray discs
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or online streams so you might not even have to go find it in the settings
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can it please be default well it will be default if it's embedded in the
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technology prominent filmmakers helped the uhd alliance develop the new
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standard including christopher nolan martin scorsese and ryan johnson so it
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looks like it'll be awesome as long as ryan doesn't decide he wants to subvert
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our expectations about this two that's right i'm still upset
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did you see that coming oh that's fantastic
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after suspending their human listening program for siri audio recordings apple
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has now permanently terminated hundreds of the contractors who were responsible
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for transcribing audio content i hope you're happy they're dead
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no apple will still continue to listen to some audio content recorded by siri
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but only using apple employees and only if users opt in to the program now these
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programs are supposed to make virtual assistants better but who do you think
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you're fooling oh okay people this thing just aren't contractors now no they're
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actual apple employees no that's the only difference yeah okay well the old
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ones were fired they were the problem those perverts
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benchmarking program 3dmark has added a new variable-rate shading test to its
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suite the feature allows games to decrease the amount of rendered details
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on objects outside of the player's focus which gives the GPU more room to push
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out more frames as much as 50 percent more in some cases vrs will be available
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on Intel integrated graphics and NVIDIA cards but as of now AMD cards do not
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support it so hopefully team red gets some drivers out because that's that's
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free performance it's better than fake chicken it's free real estate
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on your in frames in terms of frames hey look at this big old drone that's a
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prototype made by a startup named elroy air and they hope to make a bunch of
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them to deliver large heavy payloads up to 250 pounds over a 300 mile range yeah
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which of course begs the question could this thing deliver another one of itself
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over and over and is that how the singularity starts
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food for thought researchers at mit and analog devices
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inc have created a 16-bit processor based on the risk 5 architecture which
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doesn't sound that impressive until you hear that it's built using human
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and russian space agency roz cosmos has delivered its final experimental
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demonstration object research or fedor
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robot to the international space station that's how you say it
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the humanoid robot will assist with experiments and small tasks aboard the
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space station but let's not forget this is the same robot russia previously
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showed off dual wielding pistols so let's hope they erased all that
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programming or we're gonna have the setup for a really cheesy space action
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movie yeah just chuck a creepy sophie face on it
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i'm here to help i'm a citizen
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all right that's quite enough of that come back on friday for more tech news
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or it's just going to sit on the stove and go bad you got to stir it occasionally you
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can't just leave it there okay did you guys do food safe
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did you keep it on the sabbath baby
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i didn't i didn't actually do i don't i didn't do votes
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see you later