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what's the intro again i don't know hey there's no intro today but
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i don't know onto the tech news well it's been a long october for microsoft
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but the Windows 10 october update is finally coming out
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again but it's halfway through november you might say and you'd be right you
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always were the smart one and if you didn't know microsoft did release the
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update in october initially but pulled it after it deleted users files which we
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talked about in this TechLinked episode now those issues have apparently been
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resolved and fixed and users who have their system set to automatically update
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immediately should be getting the update the new update first with a wider
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rollout following sometime later the update brings with it a dark theme for
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the file explorer the your phone app that lets you interact with your phone
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from your desktop clipboard history so you'll have an entire timeline of things
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saved to your clipboard and more so it looks like Windows 10 is actually
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getting some pretty cool stuff hopefully it'll let us keep our data this time
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it's not really a fair trade-off it's not too much to ask either yeah did i
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just have it come on microsoft can i get it NVIDIA made a pretty big deal about
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ray tracing when they launched their rtx graphics cards but the actual feature
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was nowhere to be found until now the
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Windows october update which we just talked a bunch about aka Windows 10 1809
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also brings with its support for directx ray tracing aka dxr which is now enabled
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in battlefield 5 the game so are the brand new sparkly graphics life changing
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after all well they're certainly frame rate changing as early performance tests
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by tech powerup and guru 3d show ray tracing cutting the game's FPS in half
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god now there are there are levels of dxr you can enable low medium high and
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ultra but with dxr ultra the top-end rtx
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2080 ti barely manages to hit 60fps at
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1080p that's the world's most powerful gaming
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card here's hoping that performance improves with a bit of
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good old-fashioned optimization but i think it's fair to say that if this is
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what ray tracing looks like i think i'm fine living a bit more of my
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life without it we'll see how my life goes though i need it you never know i i
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need it get out of here now
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all this rtx nonsense has really put some pressure on AMD however to come up
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with a similar graphic solution involving ray tracing well AMD's senior
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vice president of engineering david wang has given an interview stating that the
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company is in fact focused on other priorities for the time being
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however wang also said that AMD will definitely respond to NVIDIA and
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microsoft's ray tracing technology eventually but it won't be a mainstream
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phenomenon until some form of the tech is offered on the entire range of gpus
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from the low end to the high end and you know what i think he's got a point it's
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hard for me to get excited about rtx when a it's arguably a subtle difference
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in graphical quality there i said it out loud and b it only runs at 1080p 60 on
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the highest and graphics card i'm still mad ah come on
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TechLinked i'll do the quick beats
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the us army is getting into esports yep
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the military has published a form that civilians can use to sign up for an
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official team to play fortnite call of duty tekken league of legends overwatch
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and more army officials say the initiative's goal is to better the army
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brand okay and increase recruitment so hopefully people don't sign up thinking
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they're gonna be virtual soldiers and boom you wake up and you're actually in
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afghanistan sucka that'll be kind of cool though how'd
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they do it it's a magic trick that's technically pretty impressive
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and an iphone 10 owner has updated their device to iOS 12.1
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only to get a bit of a rude surprise in return after plugging the phone in
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during the update the owner said his iphone started smoking and exploded
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that's what you get for smoking apple has responded saying that this is
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definitely not expected behavior i should hope not
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that's uh we didn't plan for that you know what i'm actually surprised they
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even admitted that what that's not expected yeah
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they didn't just own it well we're courageous yeah that's a feature
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actually our phones are lit the self-defense mechanism our phones
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are fire so you say you love the 3.5 millimeter
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headphone jack you say you're sad about it disappearing from phones yeah
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will you prove your love for it by purchasing a 150 headphone jack adapter
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well that's what essential is offering for the essential phone it's got an
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audio dac and an amp inside but still 150 bucks to show the world
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you're serious about using that dang
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jack god buy it you hypocrites
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google's project phi has continued to prove itself as probably the best mobile
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network provider by adding an always-on
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vpn to the service that will operate on both wi-fi and lte
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project phi if you can get it you probably should that should be their
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slogan i'd buy it if i could get it if you can get it yeah
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you probably should and by now nintendo sony and sega are all releasing classic
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meanie versions of their old consoles so
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why should pc be left out a company called unit e is asking the same
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questions as it has developed a tiny unit they're calling the pc classic it
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will run floppy disks aka sd cards and will have HDMI and composite video ports
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and today november 14th is now officially the day when the
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classic console trend jumped the shark
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we did it and now it's time for this episode to
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end before we jump the shark subscribe for more tech news because
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we'll be back on friday and trust me i got a good feeling about it yeah shark
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dad jumped i get it you ju cause you jumped whoo jumped it see ya the shark
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it's a broadcast term it comes from an episode of happy days yeah