Intel wins at SOMETHING!
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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welcome back to time linked the new show about what's going on in the world of
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antique clock restoration wait a second
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there's a new king of the hill for the well-known square root based w prime
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benchmark and the top spot again belongs to the Intel core i9 9920x after briefly
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losing the title to AMD a day earlier currently the 9920x and AMD's ryzen 9
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3900x are within a half second of each other so it's a very tight race but an
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interesting takeaway is that although the chips both have 12 cores and 24
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threads AMD is going toe to toe with Intel despite running at lower clock
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speeds the 3900x was overclocked around 5.6 gigahertz but the i-999 20k needed
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to be cranked up to around six gigahertz in order to produce similar results so
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it's a bit of a pyrrhic victory for Intel and shows how much AMD has
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improved its ipc to the delight of team red sympathizers everywhere a pyrrhic
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victory if you have an Android phone and live in the us you might notice that
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your texting experience has gotten a little richer
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you fat cats as the rollout of rich communication services or rcs is
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complete for the entire country in case you haven't heard rcs is supposed to
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make texting for Android more like apple's imessage with higher photo and
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video quality wi-fi support and notifications when someone else is
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typing you'll need to check to make sure both the Android messages app as well as
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the carrier services are updated to the latest version currently the only other
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countries supported are mexico britain
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and france we're just we're just missing out on things up here in canada i actually got
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it i got a read receipt the other day for the james that's very nice riley but i
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did not and you have a pixel 3 yeah i have a
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four you bought one i i like to be on the edge
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phone it doesn't belong to LMG
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the big drawback of wireless headphones is that the batteries can die when you're trying
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to listen to music but what if you never had to remember to charge your wireless
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headphones ever again well gbl is trying to work that out for you with their new
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crowdfunded reflect eternal headphones
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which are powered by the sun
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according to the company leaving these headphones in the sun for 90 minutes
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will give you nearly three straight days of listening time although the solar
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sensitive material in the headphones can also draw from indoor light sources that
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helps a lot up here and they can charge via usb if necessary if
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if you're like a time traveler going to the past jbl is asking 99 bucks for a
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pair with a targeted release date of october next year just in time for you
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to enjoy the sun setting before 5 pm
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unless you're watching this and you're in australia baby now it's time for the
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cadillac escalade has long been let's say a celebration of excess
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and it's now even more so as the 2021 model will be getting a 38 inch OLED
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that will take up over half of the dashboard it's the biggest screen to
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show up in a mainstream vehicle probably ever i feel like this tech is developing
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out of order shouldn't we have a full self-driving
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car before we have a full movie watching experience some people can multitask
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don't do it if you're watching movies online instead of watching movies
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through a subscription service like the rest of us then you know that there are
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no takesies backsies once you hit rent but voodoo is rolling out a
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consumer-friendly alternative if you decide within the first half hour that
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the movie sucks you can just stop it and get credit back by emailing their
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customer support department within 24 hours at least that's email and not call
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and that'll be incredibly useful the next time you rent a michael bay movie
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got him oh ruthless underground never heard of it pewdiepie
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fans might have to deal with a lack of new content for a while as the youtuber
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announced that he'll be taking a break early next year saying that he was
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feeling very tired he's so so tired it's unclear exactly when he'll go on hiatus
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or how long his break will be he clearly should have pulled the Linus and hired a
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small army of people to do the work for him yeah up top that's us hey yeah
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night night Linus facial recognition isn't perfect for example it now appears
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that some forms of it can be defeated with masks an ai company had some
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realistic 3d mass produced not 2d masks
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which cannot be produced in real life 3d masks which fooled both wechat and
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alipay to make fraudulent purchases and the same team even tricked a system at a
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dutch airport just with a photo wow allowing them to board a plane so if
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you happen to be a gate agent at an airport your job is probably safe for a
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while unless you're just a terrible gate agent
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is that it is that a 2d mask
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and visa has issued a warning that hackers are stealing credit card data
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from gas pumps but not from using skimmers like you might
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expect attackers have instead gotten access through infected emails they then
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target mag strip cards that don't have security chips it turns out that the gas
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companies haven't bothered upgrading to a system that encrypts card numbers i
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mean why would you expect that huh i'd happily pay an extra five cents on
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that 99 soda inside if it meant not seeing thousands of dollars within
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fraudulent charges on my statement actually i disagree with that part of
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the script because you're insured who cares take my credit card do whatever
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you want it's not gonna hurt me and also who goes inside to buy
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and also who buys pop yeah
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that's our show for today come on back on wednesday for free tech news an even
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better deal than a 44 ounce pop of diabetes
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diabetes 44 ounces okay so i don't know six 180
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milliliters of six ounces six times eight
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okay