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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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uh tech links number 69 to infinity and beyond
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you know this whole putting on the techlink shirt over top of my other
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shirt isn't really going to work as well now that it's winter
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i think you look great Intel has apparently gotten sick of everyone
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talking about how AMD is just killing it with their cpus right now and how Intel
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just can't get their 10 nanometer process sorted out because they just
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came out swinging with a bunch of exciting announcements at an event
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called Intel architecture days or iad
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it kind of sounds like a sponsored event at disneyland or something doesn't it
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first Intel announced the 10 nanometer sunny cove CPU core which is expected to
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be used in the company's ice lake u processors early next year bringing
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improvements in cryptography ai and machine learning and of course overall
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speed second Intel announced foverose 3d die
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stacking which allows not just memory but processor components to be stacked
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on top of each other with more and faster interconnects than other stacking
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technologies third Intel's integrated graphics is now
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on its 11th generation and should offer up twice the performance of their
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current built-in graphics meaning that finally it might not be garbage and
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lastly Intel has announced that their upcoming discrete gpus formerly
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codenamed arctic sound
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will be officially branded z
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or wait that's x with a superscript e it
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x to x to the power of e is it
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i really want to get excited about this but i'm going to have to know how to pronounce it first you guys
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samsung is reevaluating its decision to collaborate with fashion brand supreme
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really well it's because they weren't ever
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actually collaborating with supreme let me explain earlier this week samsung
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china held a launch event for the galaxy a8s
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at that event they announced a creative partnership with supreme women
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people
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problem is there are two companies called supreme
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in the world the original is based in new york and doesn't actually own the
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rights to their brand the second one is called supreme italia and sells products
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with the supreme name and logo which is technically legal because of the whole
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no copyright thing after the real supreme released a
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statement saying they are not part of the collab samsung china released
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statement saying that the collab was indeed with supreme italia and that they
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are currently re-evaluating this cooperation i mean
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did they get confused they also said that they deeply regret the
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inconvenience cause like they might they might not have known that they were
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talking to the wrong supreme which is the real supreme but not the one that
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owns the copyright was this a corporate case of catfishing i think so
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it's a stranger the truth is stranger than fiction a huge report in the new
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york times on monday looked at how dozens of companies track smartphone
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users locations then sell that data to
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advertisers now if you're the type of person who's
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really smart and watches TechLinked every day this probably won't be a
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surprise to you basically any app you install will collect some form of
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usually anonymous data but the report found that even seemingly
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innocuous apps like the weather channel or gas buddy can track your location
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with pinpoint accuracy and while the data is technically
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anonymous the times reporters were able to easily
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track users back to their homes which would be an obvious way to
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identify them the reporters were even able to track
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president trump in one instance so then
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what can you do to protect yourself not a whole heck of a lot
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i mean this might actually have been a good segue into a vpn app but instead
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change the game industry epically
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after launching their own game store with better developer revenue splitting
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than steam the company announced the online services sdk which developers
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will be able to use to more easily enable cross-platform capabilities in
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their games for free you know what great jobs we
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don't say this often enough great job game developer
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also bad job because epic games yes that
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same company we just mentioned is hosting the competitive winter royale
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fortnite tournament with a one million dollar prize
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however the game just got the infinity blade a weapon that basically makes its
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wielder incredibly powerful and nigh unstoppable and yeah it showed up in the
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tournament the community the competitors in the tournament and well basically that's
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everyone but they were understandably unhappy because this pretty much breaks
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the competitive structure of the game i mean that's kind of life though isn't it you know you win some you lose some some
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days you're winning and then suddenly you lose because everything got imba
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yeah and this is the last time we're going to talk about samsung galaxy s10
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leaks for real this time but leaker ice
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universe has posted a photo of what is supposedly the upcoming flagship
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complete with a dual camera cutout in the top corner of the screen that's not
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quite as bad as it sounds like it's not two cutouts each with a camera it's one
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cutout with two cameras but either way there's going to be a cut out and that's
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it oh well the line was silenced until
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february but i'm not talking yeah but now you need to keep talking then i did finally
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one thing we can talk about is this bonkers new vr headset made by a company
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called vrgineers
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virgineers sounds like uh i never said it out loud i would hate to
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damage their virgin ears ah with the joke about virginia's
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the unit boasts a 180 degree field of view dual 2560 by 1440 OLED displays and
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integrated leap motion hand tracking also it's huge and cost five thousand
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eight hundred dollars i mean you know that's one strategy for vr headsets most
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companies are trying to figure out how to lower the prices and make them palatable and these guys are like well
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hey if we make it six thousand dollars we don't have to sell that many of them
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hey and we know that the way your pc looks
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is the most important thing about it and so does Corsair they have finally done
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it they've announced RGB memory modules that don't actually have any RAM in them
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yep they're just empty RGB equipped plastic cards that you can stick in your
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motherboard so you have more RGB goodness in there because who needs
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actual RAM when you can just have more bling you know it's a thought that
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counts merry christmas and that's all i can handle for today was the bear bit of
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pun it doesn't matter thanks for watching subscribe to techlink for more
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linkage i'm gonna see you next time i'm gonna i'm gonna take off my shirt
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but it doesn't matter because i have so much clothing on underneath look at all
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the shirts i could take off before i run out oh he still has it stop teasing