The BLUE pill or the RED pill?
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,393 words · ~6 min read
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where's the intro Anthony why are you asking me i don't know i'm
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just here yeah well i mean i'm just here too like
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i mean scrap yard wars is going on yeah like i don't know like nobody's nobody's
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here to do their jobs i'm kind of hungry you know microsoft has decided it's time to cram
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two screens into one portable device as
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its new surface neo was unveiled today in new york city i
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know kung fu the dual screen gadget weighs only a
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pound and a half due in part to the screens being connected by cables that
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aren't even as thick as a human hair that sounds like a bad idea oh yeah
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sounds great on paper oh yeah paper thin there's also a new version of Windows
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called Windows 10
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optimized for two screens microsoft even released a dual screen phone to go
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alongside the new surface funnily enough the phone runs Android instead of
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Windows and basically yeah resembles a smaller surface google wins you can fold
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the top screen back all the way if you want to just hold it more like a
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traditional smartphone though it isn't quite clear how developers will use both
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screens to their full potential maybe you'll be able to swipe through
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two people at once on bumble what's bumble i don't actually know
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you might also have noticed that AMD had a presence there and AMD's resurgence
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has put price pressure on Intel especially at the higher end where the
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new ryzen chips with high core counts are being sold for fairly reasonable
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prices unlike Intel's so
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Intel has been forced to respond and pricing details that have been released
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for the new core 10 series not core 10 series oh my god why can't they
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series anyway the new prices for the core x series cpus
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reflect this instead of 2 grand of the top end 18 core 10 980 xe
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that's a mouthful will cost 979 us
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dollars as you go down the stack you eventually get to a 10 core model for just 590
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which is obviously still a good chunk of change but
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it's indicative of team blue trying to get closer to their rivals in red with
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what they're charging these premium chips should be on shelves by the end of
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november in case you need 18 cores of processing power to look up stuffing
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recipes and just a quick side note it is going
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to be compatible with x299 don't worry about that
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i have no idea what that means oh google is giving users another way to avoid
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indiscriminate data collection this time in its maps app
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although you're probably familiar with incognito mode in chrome there is now
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going to be an incognito mode in google maps for mobile should be easy to find
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in the settings in your user interface by tapping your profile picture and when
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enabled google will not save the places you search or get directions to Android
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users should be able to take advantage of this later on this month
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and while iOS users might have to wait a little longer the feature actually
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appears to have been slightly fast-tracked as it only took about two
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weeks to be launched officially after a beta preview
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so now your friends won't accidentally see that you went somewhere embarrassing
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like applebee's what's wrong with applebee's i know right it's actually
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pretty decent i've only been there once but it's like the unlimited spirits are the
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best yeah who wrote this john
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for the quick bits if you're an Android auto user you probably know one of the
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most annoying things about it is that you have to use a physical cable to
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connect your device unless you have a google phone
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however the samsung galaxy s8 and later
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now reportedly work with wireless Android auto so that's one less messy
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cable you might pull out while you're reaching for your big gulp speaking of
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big gulps explosions in your car are typically a bad thing but bosch thinks
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that they could actually save your life with one if you get into an accident in
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your electric vehicle the company is coming out with a small explosive that
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would cut the connection between the battery and the rest of the car in the
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event of a crash which could prevent the battery's current from being directed
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through the car's frame and reduce the risk of shock
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the tech is similar to the mechanism that deploys airbags but hey calling
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them explosions makes them sound so much cooler michael bay
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yeah unwelcome messages on instagram aren't
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anything new but the app is trying to give users a better way to deal with
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them in the form of a feature called restrict this is essentially a form of
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shadow banning where a blacklisted user's comments won't show up for anyone
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but them and they also won't see if and when you've read their messages not a
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bad little tool if you've got a crazy x on your hands
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looking at you elaine stop messaging me
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you heard the man as loot boxes grow increasingly unpopular one popular game
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has a plan to eliminate them rocket league is going to be replacing loot
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boxes with virtual blueprints which will show users what they'll be getting
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before they buy them so they're basically just standard dlc with a fancy
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sounding name but but i need that mystery i need the rng
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the gambling you're not even getting rmg if you know what's in the box i know but
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that's what i'm saying i want that gamble but that's illegal
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uh bye and if you're a fan of those lime
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electric scooters beware of florida man
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florida man a guy from fort lauderdale was recently
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caught after he cut the brakes to 20 public e-scooters in the area
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after he was arrested he didn't give a motive
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why so maybe the idea of like people zipping
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around on scooters just made his limit is the inner ludite come to the
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fore that doesn't even make sense no it really doesn't it just destroys things
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it makes people slower i guess it's like it's probably the same
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like justification as people have for rolling coal and now it's time for you
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to channel your inaudible because that's it for today so come back on friday for
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more tech news and maybe a few more florida man updates we'll keep you
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posted florida man yeah florida man is just getting around
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core 10 series oh my god why can't they x series yeah core x
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it's about the next like
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core 9 or i9 no no no no no it's like
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core x yeah it's their high-end desktop platform like Windows 10 x yeah you know
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how like 7900x no no it's core i9
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but it's like 10 900 x
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10 980 xe
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yes well the x doesn't mean 10 in this case
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oh my god why is this name so bad