They just keep getting DUMBER...
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,250 words · ~6 min read
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you know tech news isn't always sunshine and lollipops in fact it literally never
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is what would sunshine and lollipops have
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to do with technology why would anybody think that i mean
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i don't know if you like asking why
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why well today's first story should provide some great opportunities the industry
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group that develops usb specifications the usbif today announced a new usb
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revision and they somehow managed to
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screw up the naming scheme even worse than before so right now usb 3.1 gen 1
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refers to connections that support transfer speeds up to 5 gigabits per
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second we used to call that usb 3.0 and
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then usb 3.1 gen2 supports up to 10
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gigabits per second we used to call that 3.1
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so you would think that a new standard that supports 20 gigabits per second
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would be called usb 3.1 gen 3 then nope
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that's far too simple and intuitive 3.1
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gen 1 is being rebranded you have got to be kidding me to 3.2 gen 1
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3.1 gen 2 is now 3.2 gen 2 and the new
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20 gigabit standard is called usb 3.2
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gen 2x2 are you kidding me
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the usbif says that this is because the new standard uses two 10 gigabit per
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second connection side by side oh
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oh well i get it well oh that makes perfect sense wow thankfully the
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consumer branding will just call it super speed usb 20 gigabits per second
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you know what forget it i'm going back to firewire
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yeah and burning cds and moving them between computers because i refuse to
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support this microsoft has talked a lot in the past
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about linking the gaming ecosystems of Windows and the xbox and it looks like
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they are finally doing just that by running xbox games
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on Windows Windows 10 preview builds have been asking users to play a special
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version of state of decay and report any issues that they find and after poking
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around some users found that the game package is a dot xvc file
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that's the same one that gets used for xbox one games
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so downloading the game also pulls from microsoft's xbox distribution servers
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not the usual Windows store distribution servers so while the setup is more
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complicated than simply hitting run on an xbox game file it does look like
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microsoft is laying the groundwork to
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play xbox games on Windows 10. xbox head
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phil spencer also recently said he'll be announcing some exciting news for pc
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gamers at e3 2019 so if you connect the dots it should become obvious that
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illuminati confirmed and earlier this week the sd association
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announced the new microsd express standard for memory cards now most of
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the reports focused on how this would enable one terabyte microsd cards and
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that is awesome except that we already have those and there's another detail
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that seemed to slip through mostly unnoticed the new
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standard it's going to be pci express with NVMe
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support which could allow microsd cards to reach transfer speeds of close to one
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Gigabyte per second that would not only enable super fast phone storage but it
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would also enable super fast nintendo switch storage and super fast tablet
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storage and super fast camera storage but small
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think of the possibilities riley settle down it's possible that this is
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there must be something in the tech industry water that's making companies
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give their products stupid names NVIDIA is reportedly planning to continue its
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gtx 16 series really is this why you
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wanted me to host today you just wanted me to get like completely triggered
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oh okay so it's gonna be a gtx 1660
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non-ti and a 1650 at 229 and 179 us
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dollars respectively respectedly i respect nothing respectively the 60 and
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60 is expected to launch in the next couple of weeks so keep your eyes open
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if you're interested speaking of interested everyone interested in not dying just had their
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job get a little bit harder the kalashnikov the company best known for
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creating the ak-47 has unveiled another cheap accessible weapon kamikaze drones
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the kub uav can carry a payload at 78
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miles an hour for 30 minutes before it attacks its targets with much higher
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accuracy than diy explosive drones so that's nice what a tremendous news day
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wait what's that oh you want more airborne death machines
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that's fantastic because boeing australia has unveiled its prototype
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autonomous fighter jet called the loyal
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wingmen so named because robots can't be
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women yeah it's sexist
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sexist uh so-called sorry because it's designed to function as a companion
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fighter for regular jets flown by actual human pilots wait did they not watch the
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movie stealth i know i've never seen the movie stealth but it's in the script so
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bummer facebook has been rolling out its patreon-like fan subscriptions feature
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to more creators but people have been noticing that the offer is kind of a
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deal facebook would take up to 30
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of subscription revenue with basically no warning and so that's
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compared to patreon's 5 and they also
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demand a non-exclusive transferable sub-licensable royalty-free worldwide
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license to use creators content even if they stop using the service there's a
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bunch of other stuff that's not in here too like the fact that they can offer free trials and that's basically just on
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the creator kind of like remember when apple music did that where they were
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offering free trials and then just not paying musicians for the playbacks yeah
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that worked out really great really good people were happy see how
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this goes yeah at mwc this week energizer unveiled the
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most beastly phone anyone's ever seen in terms of battery at least and also
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physical size the energizer powermax p18k pop really
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the kpop has an eighteen thousand milliamp hour
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why
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it's 1.8 centimeters thick so that's about three and a half iphones stacked
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together and i mean like i know i asked for phones that would
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last a week on battery but like yeah i feel like frankenstein and like his
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monster you know what have you done well what's done
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is done and this episode is done thanks
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for watching guys tell you what come back on friday and we'll have more tech
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news for you that's a deal if i ever heard one
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that's all they have to do they just have to come back on friday wow more
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