That’s… too many threads.
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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hi i'm riley welcome to techlinks
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last week AMD took the wraps off their threadripper 3960x and 3970x processors
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but while those parts boast 24 and 32 cores respectively
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that ain't nothing compared to big mama AMD may be announcing a
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3990x with 64 cores and 128 threads real
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soon you see MSI released a video recently demoing its creator trx40
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motherboard and in one clip the video shows a pc with task manager open
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showing the number of threads there's 16 columns and eight rows and i'm no
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mathematician so how many threads is that taryn uh i wasn't paying attention
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yeah it's classic i already said how much it was it's 128. it's 128. come on
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MSI of course promptly took down the video but not before it was captured and
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immortalized on the internet so keep your eyes and ears peeled for the
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official announcement of this behemoth soon although it's probably going to be
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over three thousand dollars quick how many dollars per thread
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i don't know i thought you were good at tech no you're a smart guy uh no the
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youtube verse has been all riled up recently
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over changes made to the video site's terms of service which indicate that
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youtube could deactivate channels if they're not commercially viable the
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uproar was sparked by a line in the tos that previously said youtube may
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terminate its legal agreement with you if the provision of the service to you
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by youtube is in youtube's opinion no
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longer commercially viable now the line reads youtube may terminate your access
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or your google account's access to all or part of the service if youtube
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believes in its sole discretion that provision of the service to you is no
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longer commercially viable so
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the new language has sparked concern though among users that youtube could
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start banning people who use adblock since that directly takes away from
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youtube's revenue and creators revenue as well i might add but youtube says
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that they're not changing anything about how youtube works just making sure the
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terms are up to date the company got into a separate pot of hot water though
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over the bands its automated systems handed out to markiplier fans who
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spammed emotes in the chat during a live playthrough of the creators a heist with
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markiplier interactive show those accounts have now been reinstated but
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not before the whole thing added fuel to the anti-youtube fire
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hmm but that fire keeps me warm
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honey i live for the drama but here's something that we maybe
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should be concerned about google has allegedly been collecting the private
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health data of millions of americans across 21 states it's all part of an
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initiative called project nightingale and includes things like lab results
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doctor diagnoses hospitalization records and more the wall street journal says
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google is getting the data from st louis based ascension the second largest
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health company in the u.s and that 150 google employees have access to it now
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this all sounds kind of scandalous but apparently it's all completely legal and
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according to google patient privacy is being prioritized in project nightingale
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the ultimate goal is apparently to aggregate disparate patient data and
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host it all in one place which no joke i was literally just talking to
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someone the other day about how we need a central system like that
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and i'd rather have google do it than facebook
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but yeah
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anyways no time to ponder the nature and morality of privacy it's time for the
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better do the quick bits now you might have gotten excited by rumors
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that apple would be releasing its ar headset next year but sorry mac people
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you'll have to wait until 2022 that's when cupertino is reportedly planning on
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launching it followed by a pair of smart glasses in 2023 hopefully apple can roll
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them out with a smoother reception than google got with the google glass
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it's an apple product people will want to have their picture taken i'm sure the
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alliance for creativity and entertainment a benign sounding
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coalition with netflix amazon disney and hbo among its members are trying to
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figure out how to stop people from sharing their streaming service
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passwords possible solutions include requiring
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customers to change passwords periodically and receiving two-factor
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codes on their phones but as one analyst noted young people aren't going to pay
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for these services anyways because young people are poor mostly so if you make it
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harder for them to share passwords they might just pirate stuff
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tough situation speaking of young people things the centers for disease control
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say they have identified a possible culprit in the recent outbreak of
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vaping-related injuries a chemical called vitamin e acetate has been found
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in the lungs of 29 affected patients it's used in foods supplements and skin
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creams but it's also a known additive to dilute vape liquid that contains
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thc the active ingredient in cannabis
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while this is a promising development the cdc says there are likely more
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factors at play so in the meantime don't go by vaping products off the
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street in fact not just in the meantime ever
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in fact you know what don't even vape it upsets me that's where i get my moral
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code what does what would riley do sony has filed a patent for a game
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cartridge uh in 2019
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there are no other details that hint at what this cartridge could be intended
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for sony has denied rumors that they're working on a new ps vita handheld and
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the playstation 5 will use blu-ray discs for its physical games format unless
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neither of those are true and sony
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is making a 2019 sega genesis
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i've got to call the papers
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and spacex has shot some more of its starlink internet providing satellites
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into orbit marking the first time the company has reused a rocket fairing and
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the fourth time this particular falcon 9 rocket has taken off and landed
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successfully the satellites will be added to the existing 60 that were flown
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up there earlier this year and if you look up on a cloudless night
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you might be able to see them there's a lot of satellites up there you
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can see something yeah taryn enough of this nonsense what i'm not doing it
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anymore okay come back on wednesday for more tech news i promise it'll be worth
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your while oh and we'll probably be doing that one million subscriber uh q a
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video that uh we've mentioned on twitter at some point so hold on to your
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britches for that and if you got questions i guess tweet
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them at us