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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,096 words · ~5 min read
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okay so we're gonna have to hurry through the tech news because i really
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need to pee essential the company founded by one of the co-creators of
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Android andy rubin released the essential ph1 phone in 2017 and now he's
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giving us a look at the company's first follow-up and
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it's a long boy literally the device has about the same
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form factor as a tv remote being about the same length as a six inch smartphone
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but at about half the width accordingly the phone appears to be running a
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version of Android that's modified for such an interesting screen size to put
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it kindly the device is codenamed project gem and will apparently be
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available in a number of different shiny colors if it comes to market at all i
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mean this development kind of makes sense now that all smartphones are
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pretty much the same because what can we do to innovate other than making them
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worse it's a natural cycle
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tech companies usually make new consoles a pretty huge deal so it was kind of
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surprising when sony nonchalantly was like
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yeah the playstation 5 is going to be called playstation 5
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and also that it'll launch at the end of 2020. system architect mark cerny also
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released some new details about the controllers saying that in another
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massive shock they will look largely like the dualshock 4 shot
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but with new haptic feedback capabilities and triggers with
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resistance that varies depending on the context in game cerney confirmed that
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the ps5 will feature ray tracing support
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in the GPU hardware a built-in 4k blu-ray player and that it will support
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100 Gigabyte physical game discs
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in a separate development a patent was discovered that indicates the next-gen
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psvr will feature more built-in tracking
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cameras and it could be untethered from the main console
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all these details are exciting enough to make even a pc gamer wet their pants
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wait are you doing that right i just have to pee no why did i say that tech
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companies know that pcs are already modular but they still keep trying to
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make modular pcs a thing Intel's latest
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attempt is project element which is sort of like a remix
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of razer's project christine from ces 2014.
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like that system Intel's version consists of a backplane with multiple
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connector slots into which you could place units like a CPU with GPU storage
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network accelerator a motherboard yes a concept device was
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shown at a small event in london that included a xeon CPU RAM
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and m.2 storage on a dual slot pci
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express card with usb Ethernet and HDMI
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ports on the back uh presumably you could slot that into a backplane and
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then add a GPU more storage or
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yeah i think you probably see where i'm going with this it's a pc
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lots of great stores and also bad stores it doesn't matter honey doesn't care
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they'll give you discounts no matter what you're buying they don't judge okay
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honey is a free browser extension it's available for chrome firefox and safari
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and basically what it does is it scours the web for all the latest coupon codes
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and makes sure that when you check out you're getting the best possible deal
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folks who have downloaded honey from our link have saved over a hundred thousand
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techlinked we'll have that link below you know if it weren't for quack bats
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there might not be any bats at all AMD has quietly launched a pair of new
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ryzen cpus the ryzen 9 3900 which is a paired down version of the 3900x and the
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ryzen 5 3500x a paired down version of
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the 3600x with no multi-threading there is a catch though the 3900 will only be
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available to system builders and the 3500x is only launching in china why are
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we even talking about this adobe has told venezuelan creative cloud users
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that they can basically go themselves
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your subscriptions are cancelled you get no refund we're complying with an order
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from the white house to take your money and do absolutely nothing for you
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so this uh sucks for venezuelans but it also kind of has the potential to suck
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for everyone because this is a reminder of the predicament that we've gotten
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ourselves into by creating a world that is dependent on subscription services
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california is going to experience a massive power outage
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on purpose to prevent its faulty power lines from starting wildfires pacific
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gas and electric company is going to shut down the power for about 2.4
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million residents of the golden state until as late as thursday evening tesla
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is trying to do its customers a solid by warning them to fully charge their
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vehicles before the outage hits so they can play console games on their vehicle
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screen while they wait for the power to come back on i made that last part up
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but they could do that wow 2019 you cool save us elan a german
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victim of a ransomware attack managed to hack the hackers that hacked him
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after paying the ransom to unlock his files tobias
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well there's a special character missing in that name so whatever obtained 3 000
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decryption keys for the ransomware and released them to the public hoping that
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they would help others who were hit by the malware sweet sweet justice tobias
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you are truly the best of us and speaking of the best we've finally done
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it we grew space meat you see israeli company lf farms
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conducted an experiment on board the international space station attempting
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to grow an entire piece of edible beef from a few bovine cells
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nice space meat barbecue just kidding you're not invited to my
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house all right i've had about enough of this nonsense and i really need to pee so
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come back friday for more tech news brb tornado i'm going first bang come on