I want a Gaming Chromebook.
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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tech news comes in a wide variety of colors and flavors today it's white and
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strawberry i like strawberry but i never order it more of a chocolaty nutty guy
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oh chromebooks aren't real laptops you say
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they can't even run steam games you persist is anyone even saying that
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second one well they definitely might not be in the future as steem might be
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coming to chromebook you see Android police's david ruddick interviewed
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director of product management for chrome os canlu at ces last week who
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implied that google was working directly with valve to release a version of steam
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for chrome os now this probably wouldn't be that big of a stretch to implement
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since there's already a steam client for Linux which chrome os is based on of
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course chromebooks would not be to put it kindly the most powerful of gaming
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laptops but they could probably run the thousands of indie low spec games
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available on steam steam on chrome os hasn't been confirmed so i wouldn't get
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your usb sticks and a knot just yet i thought you could say stiff
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and no it probably can't run crysis so don't even ask
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smart glasses have been struggling to will themselves into existence since
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google glass launched back in 2014 with
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companies like north picking up the torch but a startup called mojo may have
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just leapfrogged the whole concept with the mojo lens an augmented reality
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contact lens the company used micro leds
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which you know i love which we saw at ces particularly me to create an
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incredibly dense micro display powered by a single core ARM based processor a
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tiny solid-state battery and an image processor of course you need all those
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all embedded inside a contact lens f a
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few journalists were actually able to try it out and apparently
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it works wow one demo involves firefighters being able to see each
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other through walls okay
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which is crazy because usually you can't even see in a burning building when
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there's no walls because it's smoky i know what that's like
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while the mojo lens is only really able to display single lines of monochromatic
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light it could do more to bring ar into the mainstream than bulky weird looking
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glasses right but isn't showing off new tech while looking like an utterly
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hopeless dork kind of half the fun yeah
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i'm gonna wear these contact lenses with my google glass oh no don't do it it's
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too powerful and microsoft has already pledged to become carbon neutral but now
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they're up in the ante the company says they're not even gonna have a shadow
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just kidding they set a goal to be carbon negative by 2030 including all
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carbon emitted by the company and its supply chain since its founding in 1975.
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what so that means redmond will aim to remove
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all the carbon from the atmosphere that the company has ever produced so first
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off good for you microsoft james likes this an admirable goal second though how
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the f another f how the heck are you gonna do that well the company is
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looking at projects like seeding new forests and putting carbon back into the
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ground sucking it out of the atmosphere with large fans way bigger than me
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and i'm a big microsoft fan i'm on fire today
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and preventing new emissions by capturing carbon before it escapes
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they've also started a 1 billion fund for developing carbon reduction and
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removal technology and i'm assuming that time machine research has to be in there
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somewhere we have to go back
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what about all the carbon that i produce by using microsoft stuff are they not
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accounting for that i'm the consumer i bought it
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you vote with your money people now it's time for the quick bits brought to you
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by vincero watches vincero takes quality
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seriously god do they ever they spend five times more on materials in
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manufacturing than other direct-to-consumer watch brands with surgical grade stainless steel scratch
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resistant sapphire coated mineral crystal glass and five atmosphere water
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resistance you'll get a watch with quality you can feel at a fair price
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quick we got bits coming in microsoft has finally launched xbox
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console streaming on Android phones it's just a preview program right now but if
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you join the xbox insider program have a phone with Android 6.0 or higher and a
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bluetooth xbox controller you can try it out yes you i don't know how this is
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going to help microsoft go carbon negative but okay do your part this week
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saw a bunch of game delay announcements including do maternal the resident evil
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3 remake square enix's avengers game and the iron man vr game and even the ultra
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hype cyberpunk 2077.
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but if you think these delays help developers avoid crunch jason schreier
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is here to tell you that they don't in fact they make it worse so maybe
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reconsider that tweet of you telling your favorite dev to hurry up and
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release their game on the contrary play through your ridiculous steam back
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catalog while you wait i don't really get what i just said but all right if
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you see what looks like a spacex launch going horribly wrong this saturday don't
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worry it's all part of the plan like
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elon's spin is boundless the company is testing its emergency launch abort
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sequence for its crew dragon module which will hopefully carry real crew
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members who don't explode later this year stadia will be bundled with
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broadband service from uk internet service provider bt with customers
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receiving a stadia controller chromecast ultra and three months of stadia pro i
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don't think this is much of a bonus for bt customers as is a bonus for google
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who will hopefully be getting some more players on stadia
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there's no one on there remember when we were hyped for that it was exciting a
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couple more years and medical startup nanox has introduced the ark a
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futuristic looking boat that will fit every man woman child and animal on it
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oh wait hold on a second no it's something else a futuristic-looking x-ray scanner a
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fraction of the size of existing devices it might also be more affordable as the
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company is considering charging subscription fees for ai powered anal
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analysis analysis you know
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big brain stuff and maintenance rather than a single hefty price tag we might
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not have the tricorder just yet but man this thing is a decent constellation ah
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i'm a shameful shameful nerd which is why there's no more tech news left for
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me to give which would you want it anyway yes you would come back on monday
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i'll be refreshed so o'reilly ltgstore.com
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why not