Google broke my Home mini.
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·2020-05-05
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riley it's your birthday we got you a gift i don't think so the
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tech news hey
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three times a week for your entire life google has demonstrated a bit of a
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nightmare situation by releasing software updates that bricked google
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home minis users have been complaining of
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unresponsive home mini units on reddit in the google support forum since last
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month and google finally responded this week saying the home slash nest team is
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working on a fix while a preventative fix has been rolled out to the devices
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that are still working turns out the ones that are bricked cannot be fixed so
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google is straight up just replacing them now this is cool of google like
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thanks for the support but also the idea that our devices could
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receive a software update and just never work again is kind of scary unless
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the affected users are getting a new nest mini with the three times bigger
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bass totally fine with that point to self big
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big bass guy what the
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are you a big bass guy i'm a big bass guy i love the bass i'm all about that
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bass no bass the big four cell carriers in the
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u.s verizon a t t-mobile and sprint have
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jointly announced the cross-carrier messaging initiative or ccmi today the
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project's goal is to finally bring rich communication service or rcs messaging
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to everything other than apple devices rcs is viewed as the replacement for sms
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with features like typing indicators better group chat and support for larger
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file attachments all of which apple's imessage already has but Android users
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have been left out in the cold poor Android users
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google has tried to get carriers to adopt rcs for years and finally decided
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to try and force it through the Android messages app that initiative is
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apparently separate from the ccmi which will have its own app
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further muddying the messaging waters on Android awesome sick
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love it and we should probably remain skeptical
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carriers usually don't cooperate in the interest of consumers unless they have
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something to gain businesses love it
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the ccmi company said rcs will provide
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consumers with the ability to chat with their favorite brands finally i can tell
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colonel sanders how i really feel how do you feel finger licking good
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about four years ago Intel retreated from the tablet and smartphone processor
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market in disgrace competitors like NVIDIA qualcomm and ARM had proved that
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Intel's atom line just wasn't up to snuff in terms of power or efficiency
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well roll out the red carpet because Intel is attempting a glorious comeback
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with its new tremont tremont yeah turnip i don't know dave it's french maybe you
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can pronounce it i'm gonna get flamed in the comments
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okay fine tremont i'm gonna say tremont tremont processors will be used in iot
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and data center products but also in mobile devices microsoft's recently
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announced dual screen surface neo tablet will be among them although the surface
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neo has tremont cores in addition to higher power isolate cores as part of
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its lakefield processor so i don't know if that counts as a home run seems like
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Intel will not feel great about qualcomm encroaching on its territory with
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snapdragon based laptops so it's decided to mount a tentative counter strike poor
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Intel besieged to the top end by AMD and the low end by qualcomm they just wanted
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to run a monopoly in peace what's so what's wrong with that and
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google can't stop making ridiculously bold claims about stadia after news came
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out that the service might feature negative latency stadia games and
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entertainment head jade raymond said it could also include story-based games
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with ai characters that have believable human interactions instead of
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pre-written dialogue enabled by google's natural language systems like duplex
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that's gonna be fantastic just all google assistants in this world
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world my voice exciting i i can't wait
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i'm thrilled can't wait to be asked by thragnock the orc chief if i can borrow
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him borrow him what is thragnoc if i can borrow him for
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a table of three what is this
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happy birthday samsung's galaxy fold is launched and we might get a motorola
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razer in a few weeks but it looks like there's another player in the folding
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phone race tcl the company most known for budget tvs has revealed a prototype
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with not one but two folds wow going from smartphone size to a 10
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inch tablet but this is only the beginning yes feel the folds flow
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through you give in to your eggs this is
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scary watch out watch out how do i say this
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the gtx 1660 super appears to be on the
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verge of release showing up in the final fantasy 15 Windows benchmark as is
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tradition before a GPU launches wow that's not tradition at all is it it is
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these days oh yeah true with the leaks leaks everywhere
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the card's performance comes in at just below the 1660 ti so i guess super is
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ranked below ti i don't know that's confusing oh and a 1650 super is
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reportedly coming soon too because why not is apparently what NVIDIA is asking
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themselves micron who co-developed 3d cross point memory with Intel has
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finally released their own product using the technology the x100 PCIe SSD is
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apparently the world's fastest SSD with sequential read write speeds of up to
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nine gigabytes per second why'd you capitalize that it's only aimed at the
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data center for now why though i'd i'd like to have one that'd be nice wait did
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you say gigabytes gigabytes per second and self-driving technology
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is coming along nicely or at least i hope it is since hyundai is launching an
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autonomous taxi service called bot ride in california next week meanwhile toyota
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is planning to test itself driving tech at the tokyo olympic games next year i
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mean that might be for the best if anyone's going to survive a robot
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induced car crash it's olympians
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spring out do a backflip and they're good to go all right that's about enough of this
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hog wash come back on monday for more tech bass there'll be no hogs or washing
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involved don't ask me that out there
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have a great birthday riley