Intel's getting desperate...
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,313 words · ~6 min read
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oh tech news
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my god have you ever beheld something so
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glorious
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since AMD left Intel in the price to performance dust with the ryzen 3000
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launch team blue has picked up the old
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real world performance refrain you see AMD often uses synthetic benchmarks like
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cinebench to demonstrate their processor superiority but at ifa 2019 Intel once
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again argued that users shouldn't be tricked by these numbers since they
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don't represent real world real-world real-world performance that's how they
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talk when they're upset yeah Intel wants the tech press and oems to accept their
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help to develop realistic usage performance testing using stuff like
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Windows media player okay league of legends and photoshop and
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if that means Intel's processors look better i'm sure that's just incidental
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to the benefit that users will be seeing from more accurate numbers yeah that
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sounds about right i'm being sarcastic we want a real world let's use Windows
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media player samsung is delaying
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pre-orders of the galaxy fold again so to lay this all out they've
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launched pre-orders discovered the obvious fact that people are diamond will remove something that looks like a
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screen protector canceled the pre-orders and delayed the phone
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announced a new launch window and have now cancelled that
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okay this story has more ups and downs than a pogo stick kids use those still right
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well there's another twist the phone actually launched already in korea and
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promptly sold out but for us
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effectively that means nothing and i can say us i don't think there's a single
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person in korea watching this episode
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comment if you are oh anyways the extra work that samsung did on the phone
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seems to have improved it according to end gadget with a reinforced structure
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and a display that doesn't shout feel me
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feel me so huawei's mate x will actually have a competitor when it launches next
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month the fold is supposed to launch again in the us in the coming weeks but
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it's not coming to canada at all what ever
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it's just not coming we'd be really upset by this if we weren't canadian but
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we are so it's okay samsung yeah stuff happens you know it's fine but get em
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next time yeah try again and deep fakes
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aren't just fun in games anymore we've now experienced the first high
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profile case of the technology being used to steal
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huge huge amounts of money last week the wall street journal
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reported that an executive of a uk energy company received a call from
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someone he thought was his boss but was actually a digitally reproduced deep
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faith the voice was reportedly indistinguishable from the real thing
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especially when you're drunk this is wall street and so the executive did
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what he was instructed and wired 220
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dollars into an offshore account normal wall street stuff the thieves actually
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called the same guy up again to try and arrange another transfer but he got
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suspicious and called his actual boss wait a second let me call you right back
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but by then it was too late he'd already been
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defect we've seen a lot of handwringing about the potential of defects uh doing
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harm and well it turns out the potential was real
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it was real fake it's it's fortuitous
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that microsoft and facebook are teaming up to launch the deep fake detection
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challenge the dtc i'm going to call it which will offer 10 million dollars in
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research grants to develop deep fake detecting technology which will
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basically just serve as an adversarial neural network to improve defect
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technology probably but anyway we're gonna we're gonna develop that technology and then after that we'll
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have to develop deep fake detection faking faking and we'll be so busy with
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this new arms race that'll be easy for the robbers the robots to take over and
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we'll have deep faked ourselves now it's time for quick bits brought to you by
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face around these parts quick bits ifa 2019 is in full swing and there's a
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ton of products being announced including nokia feature phones
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lenovo laptops and monitors motorola phones
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a slightly altered huawei p30 pro that's a blatant attempt to get around the
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Android van huawei's noise canceling airpod rip-offs
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i can't make that noise anymore but i would for that one and a dual screen
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attachment for the lg g8 are you gonna talk about them
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i just did right now 5g is kind of a high-end type thing but it's about to
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enter the mainstream 5g modems are being directly integrated into samsung's new
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exynos 980 and huawei's current 990 5g
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mobile processors plus qualcomm says their chipsets will have integrated 5g
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next year but if you can't wait samsung has already announced a mid-range 5g phone
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the galaxy a90 buy it
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buy it and go find the 5g chase your dreams coverage is okay if you can stand
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out in the middle of the street take care Android 10 promises to speed
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up security updates for phones and it can't come to non-pixels soon enough and
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i have a pixel so i already got it checkpoint research has discovered a
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spoofing attack that can infect a device just by having an end user open a link
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in a text message oh god we're doomed and another vulnerability in an Android
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video driver that was also disclosed this week could give attackers access to
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the os kernel so update your phones and if you
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can't request that in patching uh request
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acquiesce yeah requests
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nintendo is teasing what looks like another newfangled weirdo fitness
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doohickey for the switch involving a
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stretchy handheld ring and a thigh-high strap into which you insert the
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console's joy-cons to track your movements
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and i say it's about time for nintendo to get weird again you know lava was
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cool but making stuff out of cardboard is just too normal i just want to flail around
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on the floor in front of my friends with silicone all over me
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it looks like i'll be able to do just that and microsoft will not be testing
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its project x cloud streaming service in north america opting to go with korea
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instead because they have excellent 5g coverage and high bandwidth and low
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latency yeah okay yeah it all sounds pretty i can't pretend
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i'm not hurt though so thanks for dropping by and come back
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again on monday for more tech news if i'm not here it's because i'm i'm still
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waiting around to get peeled because that's what i do on the weekends