Android on Switch is... AWESOME!?
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,339 words · ~6 min read
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hello friends it's me deep voice riley
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because when you spend all weekend talking loudly on the show floor at ltx
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you go through second puberty let me tell you
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it's rough but ltx wasn't rough actually it was
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awesome thanks everyone who traveled from all over the world and came up to
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say hi to me and dennis and the whole team but enough lollygagging around it's
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time for tech news want to say anything dennis
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no he's scared
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google is continuing its unusual practice of revealing details about the
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upcoming pixel 4. after many rumors and leaks pointed to the device having some
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sort of facial recognition and air gesture capabilities the company
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released a video teaser confirming it showing a woman unlocking the phone with
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her face and swiping through music tracks without actually touching
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anything google also published a diagram of the pixel 4's various front-facing
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sensors including a dot projector and ir cameras for the face unlock feature but
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the big news is the presence of a radar chip made by project solely the google
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division working on detecting extremely subtle hand and finger gestures that
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could allow users to fully control mobile devices with virtually no
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physical interaction and if that's the future we're looking
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at that's exciting if it's not well
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regular air swipe gestures have been around since 2013 in the samsung galaxy
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s4 so not as exciting at least we know now why
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google was going around giving people five bucks to scan their face it was
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practice for the face unlock system not
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because they need our face they already have it
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they have all of us
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the voice really adds to the delivery there all of us
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speaking of google the company's Android os is being put in places it was never
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meant to go the nintendo switch developer group switchroot has published
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lineage os 15.1 for the switch a variant
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of the Android oreo build used by NVIDIA shield tv units the port uses the hekate
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bootloader which won't be compatible with every switch but tons of people
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have already installed Android and are posting about it on social media the
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general consensus is that while some things are understandably still a bit
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janky games run surprisingly smooth on the switch and people are even using it
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to play their pc games via in-home streaming we'll have to see whether
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nintendo tolerates this little experiment or does what nintendo and
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attempts to shut it down it might eat into the company's game sales if people
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are streaming witcher 3 from their pc instead of buying it from the eshop as
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one tweeter has already demonstrated and
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Intel has unintentionally leaked some details about their upcoming discrete
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graphics cards in a driver the company posted and then took down a non-tech
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forum member spotted four code names with variations of the dg designation
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for discrete graphics there appears to be one low-powered unit designated lp
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and three high-powered units designated hp the information has caused the pc
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hardware community to start speculating about what Intel could be planning for
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their graphics cards if the numbers at the end of the codename which are thought to reveal the number of
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execution units are any indication these might be mid-range cards in the same
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general performance category as AMD's Radeon 5700 and 5700 xt
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let's hope not though because those cards are actually a pretty good deal compared to NVIDIA's mid-range offerings
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what we really need Intel to do is challenge NVIDIA at the top end because
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they're just partying up there and thinking everything's fine ooh NVIDIA up
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at the top you can't touch us until Intel comes in with the triple slammer
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that's what we need now it's time for the quick bits brought to you by
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well it's time to eat your quick bits
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it's good for you dennis have you ever had quick bits
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no no you've been here you edit them every
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day basically i don't like quick bits you don't i like tin fits he likes tim
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bits that's i have to agree with you france's defense minister florence parley said
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the country is planning to launch satellites armed with lasers and
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submachine guns dennis didn't even hear what i said
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it's shocking but only to defend their satellites from other satellites except
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it sounds like you guys are the first ones putting weapons in space so
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if anything this is going to start a satellite arms race that can only culminate in robotic space sharks with
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freaking laser beams on their heads is that what you want france
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france don't just smoke your cigarette and look down your nose at me i'm
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talking to you bethesda is acquiescing to the demands
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of the people and removing the online login requirement for the re-release of
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the first three doom games on current gen consoles the publisher says the
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forced login was a mistake and was only meant to be there for slayers club
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members to redeem rewards sure bethesda
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we'll go with that
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stanford researchers have developed a device they're calling a quantum
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microphone capable of detecting the smallest units of sound known as
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phonons rather than using a membrane to detect sound waves like normal audio
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equipment does this device would capture phonons and measure them using an array
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of nanomechanical resonators and could theoretically be used to build a quantum
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computer using phonons instead of photons
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guys i looked through this story but there's no mention of carbon nanotubes
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none at all i tried i wanted to do it maybe one day
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processor comparison site user benchmark has responded to complaints over the way
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they adjusted their scoring method which appeared to favor Intel cpus the site's
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statement points out that the scores for the ryzen 73800x and ryzen 5 3600x both
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went up and that they'll be updating their scoring index in the near future
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to account for the strengths of octa-core processors as soon as Intel
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has more of them hey wait a sec and google's waymo self-driving division
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has partnered with another alphabet company deepmind to use the latter's
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evolutionary system in developing its ai deepmind creates many variations of the
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same neural network has them compete against each other and the ones that
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perform the best go on to receive further development but do we really
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want ais from different companies cooperating with each other
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this seems like a recipe for something and it ain't annie carol's baked plan
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it's disaster it's a recipe for disaster that's what i was getting and this
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episode will be a disaster if i carry on talking so it's over now come back on
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wednesday for more tech news delivered by someone who doesn't sound like they
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need to drink some herbal tea speaking of which i'm going to have some herbal
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tea dennis you want some yes yes what kind
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honey chamomile honey
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okay