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Usually the only time I find to spend on the forum I am on my phone, so typing up messages is not very convenient and poor use of time compared to reading as much as possible to catch up on community sentiment and read up on what's hot in the news section. Right now sitting in the airport in Taiwan (heading to China) and finally getting some food in my belly, so this is all I will type Back to lurking

Intel announces UNNAMED 28 COAR 56 THREAD CPU Source 1: VegetableStu https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/934413-update-extra-content-nevermind-the-8086k-intel-announces-unnamed-28-coar-56-thred-cpu/ Source 2: https://www.techpowerup.com/244853/intel-unveils-28-core-56-thread-hedt-processor Source 3: RadiatingLight https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/934860-intels-28-core-5ghz-cpu-is-misleading-at-best/ Without taking model names, Intel made it clear that it's launching a new client-segment 28-core/56-thread processor. this processor is clocked at 2.70 GHz (nominal), and without revealing Turbo speeds, Intel managed to overclock it bench-stable to 5.00 GHz, at which it scored 7,334 nT Cinebench points. It wasn’t immediately clear to many in the media that the cpu was overclocked launch in Q4-2018. this CPU was running on intel’s LGA-3647 server platform, which all but confirms that this is just a 28-core Xeon with an unlocked multiplier. The demo setup was cooled by an $850 aquarium chiller which consumes 1200W and is meant to be able to cool 1000L of water 2nd Gen Threadripper on track for a Q3 2018 launch! Source 1: Alexsolo https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/934723-2nd-gen-threadripper-on-track-for-a-q3-2018-launch/ Source 2: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12906/amd-reveals-threadripper-2-up-to-32-cores-250w-x399-refresh AMD has announced the next Threadripper CPU, built with their updated 12nm Zeppelin dies. AMD’s Zeppelin silicon has 8 cores, and the first generation Threadripper uses two of them to get to the top-SKU of 16-cores. Inside the CPU however, there are four pieces of silicon: two active and two inactive. For this second generation of Threadripper AMD is going to make these inactive dies into active ones these new processors would have up to 32 cores in total, mirroring the 32-core versions of EPYC. On EPYC however, there are eight memory channels, and AMD’s X399 platform only has support for four channels. the two now ‘active’ parts of the chip do not have direct memory access. This adds latency to the platform, however AMD says that for all but the most memory bound tasks this should not be an issue TDP of 250W, up from 180W of the 1950X Rumours of an August launch No pricing yet. Massive changes to the Steam Store Source 1: matrix07012 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/934942-massive-changes-to-the-steam-store-after-the-waifu-holocaust/ Source 2: https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1666776116200553082 Valve has posted a blog post outlining their struggle to regulate what should and should not be allowed in the Steam Store The submission process isn’t automated - groups of people look at the contents of every controversial title submitted to the store people have falsely assumed these decisions are heavily affected by our payment processors, or outside interest groups The challenge is that this problem is not simply about whether or not the Steam Store should contain games with adult or violent content. Instead, it's about whether the Store contains games within an entire range of controversial topics - politics, sexuality, racism, gender, violence, identity, and so on. there are controversial topics that are particular to games - like what even constitutes a "game", or what level of quality is appropriate before something can be released. What did they decide in the end? Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding. If you're a player, Valve shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy. If you're a developer, Valve shouldn't be choosing what content you're allowed to create. Valve’s role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable. They’ve decided that the right approach is to allow everything onto the Steam Store, except for things that are illegal, or straight up trolling. This allows Valve to focus more on building tools to give people control over what kinds of content they see. Current tools, but are too hidden and not nearly comprehensive enough. They’re going to enable you to override the recommendation algorithms and hide games containing topics you're not interested in. So if you don't want to see anime games on your Store, you'll be able to make that choice. If you want more options to control exactly what kinds of games your kids see when they browse the Store, you'll be able to do that. developers who build controversial content shouldn't have to deal with harassment because their game exists, and we'll be building tools and options to support them too. They’re going to push developers to further disclose any potentially problematic content in their games during the submission process, and cease doing business with any of them that refuse to do so honestly. So what does this mean? The Steam Store is going to contain something that you hate, and don't think should exist. But you're also going to see something on the Store that you believe should be there, and some other people will hate it and want it not to exist. Some people at Valve will agree with you. Others won’t. The games allowed onto the Store will not be a reflection of Valve’s values, beyond a simple belief that you all have the right to create & consume the content you choose. “We believe you should be able to express yourself like everyone else, and to find others who want to play your game. But that's it. “ What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire AMD Unveils 7nm GPU Source 1: AtlasWraith https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/934837-amd-unveils-its-7nm-vega-gpu/ Source 2: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/62147/amd-unveils-worlds-first-gpu-7nm-computex-2018/index.html At Computex, AMD annouced the first 7nm GPU, launching in 2H 2018. AMD will have Vega on 7nm inside of the upcoming new Radeon Instinct part 35% more performance over the previous-gen 14nm part, twice the power efficiency 2x density means smaller die sizes or bigger GPUs. This now means AMD is ahead of the GPU game in one area, as even Volta is only on 12nm. DISCLAIMER: Due to various marketing and discrepancies among foundries, the number itself has lost the exact meaning it once held. Recent technology nodes such as 22 nm, 16 nm, 14 nm, and 10 nm refer purely to a specific generation of chips made in a particular technology. It does not correspond to any gate length or half pitch. https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/technology_node Gigabyte making fake RGB RAM Source 1: Shreyas1 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/935038-gigabyte-is-making-fake-rgb-ram/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/6/5/17425330/gigabyte-color-changing-ram-aorus-rgb-led-ddr4-controllable-computex At Computex, Gagabyte announced that it’s getting into the RAM business...as well as the faux-RAM business. Gigabyte is selling its new AORUS RGB LED memory as a kit. Two of the sticks are 16GB (2 x 8GB) of DDR4 memory, but the other half of the bundle is two faux-RAM sticks that are made of the same aluminum housing with LEDs that can sync up with the actual RAM sticks. But they have none of the functional memory bits. Gigabyte is also exploring the possibility of just selling the dummy sticks separately one day. Seasonic introduces SCMD: End your cable clutter! Source 1: WMKGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/934963-seasonic-introduces-scmd-end-your-cable-clutter/ Source 2: https://www.pcper.com/news/Cases-and-Cooling/Seasonic-shows-their-new-System-Cable-Management-Device Seasonic have come up with a new cable management system for those who despise case clutter. System Cable Management Device It’s essentially a power bar that stands vertically against the case’s motherboard tray. Cables from the PSU plug into the bottom, and then the rest of the system’s cables plug in along the bar connect the cabling you require, and leave out any you don’t need. It’s thin enough to fit behind your motherboard, hiding almost all of your wiring and also ensuring you do not have to stretch that additional motherboard power cable. Seasonic claims that introducing the SCMD into your power loop will only drop efficiency by 1% overall Will come in 3 sizes No price or launch date 150k projects ditch GitHub following Microsoft Acquisition Source 1: SC2Mitch https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/934339-update-over-150k-projects-ditch-github-and-move-to-gitlab-following-msft-leaks-news/ Source 2: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywen8x/13000-projects-ditched-github-for-gitlab-monday-morning On Monday morning, Microsoft announced that it had acquired the popular collaborative software development platform GitHub for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. While some saw the acquisition as the only way to sustain a free platform that had grown as large as GitHub, others saw it as the death knell for a neutral, community-driven platform that was the de facto home of open source software development. After the announcement, thousands of GitHub projects were migrated to competing platform GitLab Over 150,000 projects have moved to GitLab now There are around 80 million projects hosted on GitHub GitLab use an open core model, where a limited version of its software is free and open source, and a more expansive version of its is available on a paid-subscription model. But how Microsoft will address projects on GitHub that directly undermine its own services, such as this emulator for running Xbox games on Windows computers. projects that can be used to directly harm others, such as DeepFakes Apple Deprecating OpenGL Source 1: normality https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/934354-apple-deprecating-opengl/ Source 2: https://www.pcgamer.com/developers-fear-for-mac-gaming-as-apple-deprecates-opengl-support/ Source 3: https://developer.apple.com/macos/whats-new/ Apple is deprecating support for OpenGL and OpenCL with the release of macOS 10.14 That means it will continue to work, but will not be supported moving forward and could break. Apple recommends: “Games and graphics-intensive apps that use OpenGL should now adopt Metal. Similarly, apps that use OpenCL for computational tasks should now adopt Metal and Metal Performance Shaders." Apple introduced Metal, its proprietary low-level 3D graphics API, in 2014. every game and 3D application designed for Macs before 2004 uses OpenGL. Many games and apps continue to use OpenGL, since it’s open-source and cross-platform (thus, developers can re-use the same code). Apple has supported OpenGL since the late 90's. Apple does not officially support the Vulkan API on macOS Developers worry that it’s not worth it to port their code to Metal It's not clear at this point if Apple will completely remove OpenGL support from a future macOS release, or if the company is simply pushing developers to adopt its Metal API without real plans to end OpenGL support. Pixel 3 Leaks Source 1: Qub3d https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/934525-leaks-suggest-3rd-model-of-pixel-3-with-midrange-price-and-specs/ Source 2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2018/06/04/google-pixel-3-pixel-3xl-new-pixel-smartphone-cheap-pixel-3-camera-upgrade-specs-release-price/#551af6ab1f45 The latest leaks indicate that Google is working on not two but THREE version of the Pixel 3 The third Pixel is likely to be a “mid-range” based on Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 710 chipset (which promises performance close to 2017’s flagship Snapdragon 835) A midrange Pixel 3 delivering clean, stock Android and instant updates at a bargain price would effectively resurrect the role played by much-loved Nexus range. It also would give Google a weapon to counter the budget iPhone X which Apple will launch in September. An affordable Pixel 3 is likely to be a gamechanger for midrange smartphone photography. Pixels deliver class-leading results primarily through unique software, not cutting-edge hardware. Pixel 3 XL will have a notch and chin-bar with forward facing stereo speakers Why doesn’t the Pixel 3 have a notch? Amazon return policy abusers sentenced to nearly six years in prison Source 1: https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/06/amazon-return-policy-abusers-sentenced-six-years-prison/?sr_source=Twitter Source 2: Three individuals have just received lengthy prison sentences for their involvement in a scam that defrauded Amazon out of $1.2 million. For two years, the Finans ordered over 2,700 electronic items from Amazon including GoPro digital cameras, Xboxes, smartwatches, tablets and laptops and then reported them as damaged. Once Amazon replaced the products, they would sell them to a third person -- Danijel Glumac -- who then sold them to a buyer in New York. In all, Erin and Leah Finan are said to have made around $750,000 running the scam while Glumac made approximately $500,000. How do those numbers work? Erin and Leah Finan received 71- and 68-month sentences, respectively while Glumac was sentenced to 24 months in prison "Consumer fraud not only unjustly enriches the perpetrator, it causes all of us to pay higher retail prices," US Attorney Josh Minkler said in a statement. "To those who seek to exploit the convenience of online shopping through fraud, remember this case. You will be caught. You will be prosecuted. And you will go to federal prison for a long time." The Finans created hundreds of false identities and fake accounts in order to pull off their scheme. Alongside their Amazon fraud, they also bounced checks, rented cars and failed to pay for them, sold other stolen high-end goods and withheld rent -- actions that were taken into account during sentencing. The three defendants have been ordered to pay $1,218,504 in restitution. Australian gamers blamed for slow internet Source 1: RX7970 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/935481-australian-gamers-blamed-for-slow-internet/ Source 2: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/nbn-blaming-gamers-for-slow-speeds-contradicts-own-advice/9836492 Australia’s National Broadband Network's (NBN) CEO has blamed gamers for slow speeds in parts of the network, saying they're using up too much data. Bill Morrow appeared before a parliamentary committee to discuss how the NBN was being rolled out in regional Australia. He said his company had seen a significant increase in data consumption on its fixed wireless network this is a relatively small part of the national network set aside for premises that aren't connected to the fibre of copper network. It will use radio signals and transmission towers spread across the country to connect about 600,000 thousand premises. The CEO said the company was considering throttling back data consumption of "extreme users" during peak periods. When asked what an "extreme user" was, he replied "It's gamers predominantly, on fixed wireless." In Dec 2016, the NBN wrote: "Where streaming 4K video can use as much as 7 gigabytes (GB) per hour and high-quality audio streaming gets up to around 125 megabytes (MB) per hour, (but usually sits at around half that) certain online games use as little as 10MB per hour." Last March, NBN data showed the average household connected to the NBN was churning through 32 per cent more data compared to the previous year. They said the reason for this was launch of Netflix in Australia in March 2015 Morrow may be scapegoating gamers because the alternative is admitting that the network can’t accommodate the new most common use-case: video streaming. One forum comment says this is out of context: what Morrow really meant was “the type of people who game are the type who consume a lot” Organic carbon molecules found on Mars Source 1: Master Disaster https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/935451-curiosity-rover-finds-organic-carbon-molecules-on-mars/ Source 2: https://www.space.com/40819-mars-methane-organics-curiosity-rover.html NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has identified a variety of organic molecules, the carbon-based building blocks of life as we know it, in 3.5-billion-year-old rocks on Mars. This does not give us any evidence of life "But there is a possibility that [the organics] are from an ancient life source; we just don't know," Another finding: that methane concentrations in Mars' atmosphere cycle seasonally. The discovery suggests that the gas is seeping out from underground reservoirs It is POSSIBLE that some of the methane was produced by organisms, as it it here on Earth.

I showed this to Colton. He laughed so hard. I laughed too. If I had $90M I'd be living on a beach somewhere. Lol.

I just checked with Anthony and all we have is an email address.............

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Main News Topics Intel Launches Optane DIMMS Source 1: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12828/intel-launches-optane-dimms-up-to-512gb-apache-pass-is-here Source 2: imrazor https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932636-dell-marketing-optane-as-ram-replacement/?tab=comments#comment-11396103 Intel has announced the availability of their Optane DIMMs, bringing 3D XPoint memory onto the DDR4 memory bus. will be branded as Optane DC Persistent Memory, in contrast with Optane DC SSDs, and not to be confused with the consumer-oriented Optane Memory caching SSDs. Initially available in three capacities: 128GB, 256GB and 512GB per module. This implies that they are probably still based on the same 128Gb 3D XPoint memory dies used in all other Optane products so far. The modules are pin-compatible with standard DDR4 DIMMs and will be supported by the next generation of Intel's Xeon server platforms. Currently sampling and will be shipping for revenue later this year, but only to select customers. Broad availability is planned for 2019. Intel is not officially disclosing whether it will be possible to mix and match DRAM and Optane Persistent Memory on the same memory controller channel the 192GB DRAM capacity for the development preview systems indicates that they are equipped with a 16GB DRAM DIMM on every memory channel. Also not disclosed: power consumption, clock speeds, specific endurance ratings, and whether it will be supported across the Xeon product line or only on certain SKUs. AMD is preparing new CPUs Source 1: AluminiumTech https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/933147-amd-is-preparing-new-45w-6-and-8-core-ryzen-cpus-as-well-as-possible-r3-2300x-and-r5-2500x/ Source 2: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12841/amd-preps-new-ryzen-2000series-cpus-45w-ryzen-7-2700e-ryzen-5-2600e AMD is gearing up to release four new Ryzen 2000-series processors based on a listing in ASRock’s CPU compatibility chart. The new Ryzen 5 2600E and Ryzen 7 2700E products feature reduced, 45W TDP and are aimed at SFF and fanless systems These are the first Ryzen CPUs with a locked in 45W TDP Previously chips had configurable 45 – 65 W TDP that required users to activate the 45W profile. This could mean unpredictable performance. Ryzen 3 2300X and Ryzen 5 2500X parts are designed for enthusiasts and overclockers on a budget. Arm introducing their new processors with INSANE perf. Source 1: WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932903-arm-introducing-their-new-a76-g76-v76-processors/ Source 2: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12785/arm-announces-cortexa76 At their annual Tech Day conference, ARM announced their new flagship CPU microarchitecture: the A76 In Arm’s words, it’s a “laptop-class” performance processor with mobile efficiency. This helps them serve new markets like ‘always-connected PCs’ ARMs claiming: 35% more performance 40% better power efficiency 4x improvements in machine learning workloads Figures use A75 configurations running at 2.8GHz on 10nm processes as a baseline. The A76 is projected by Arm to come in at 3GHz on 7nm TSMC based products. What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Rumor: One iPhone model will have triple rear cameras in 2019 Source 1: captain_to_fire https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932756-rumor-one-iphone-model-will-have-triple-rear-cameras-in-2019/ Source 2: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/05/28/triple-lens-iphone-2019-stereo-vision-rumor/ Apple will launch at least one new iPhone model with a triple-lens rear camera in 2019, according to a research note from Deutsche Securities analyst Jialin Lu Lu believes the triple-lens camera system will enable advanced 3D sensing via stereoscopic vision A triangulation method would then be used to obtain the distance between the iPhone and the object. the report suggests that the rear 3D sensing will be used for augmented reality purposes. the third lens would likely have a longer focal length, enabling 3x optical zoom for the first time on an iPhone Huawei's new P20 Pro is the first with a triple-lens rear camera system, including a 40-megapixel lens, a 20-megapixel monochrome lens, an eight-megapixel telephoto lens with up to 3x optical zoom. Intel Core i7 8086K confirmed Source 1: NumLock 21 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932971-intel-core-i7-8086k-confirmed/ Source 2: https://videocardz.com/76355/intel-core-i7-8086k-arrives-june-8th-for-under-400-gbp The Intel Core i7-8086K processor will be an anniversary model to mark 40 years since the release of Intel’s iconic 8086 microprocessor. This will be the second-anniversary edition mode that Intel has released: the Pentium G3258 marked the 20th anniversary of Intel’s first Pentium chip. The 8086K will be the fastest 6 core processor that Intel has to offer while being similar in core configuration as the Core i7-8700K. It will feature 6 cores, 12 threads 12 MB of L3 cache TDP of 95 Watts (same as the Core i7-8700K). base clock of 4.00 GHz which boosts to 5.0 GHz.(single core, multi core boost is 4.4) currently the fastest clock speed for an Intel 6 core processor. Runs on 300 series socket 1151 Pre order time June 8th Rumour: Dell working on dual-screen running Windows 10 Source 1: GoodBytes https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932741-dell-is-said-to-be-working-on-a-dual-screen-phone-powered-by-snapdragon-850-and-running-full-windows-10/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/31/17412550/dell-januss-dual-screen-windows-10-arm-device-rumors Dell is reportedly working on a dual-screen device that runs Windows 10 and an unreleased Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 ARM processor. Microsoft has long been rumored to be working on a foldable dual-screen device but there are now signs that Microsoft’s OEM partners are working on similar devices. Dell’s device is reportedly codenamed “Januss,” and has been under development since last summer, but it’s not clear whether the device will ever come to market. The documents the rumour is based on are old, and that Dell could have altered its product plans by now. Rumour: Intel discontinuing production of H310 Chipset to push consumers to more expensive chipsets Source 1: AluminiumTech https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/933132-intel-reportedly-discontinuing-production-of-h310-chipset-to-push-consumers-to-more-expensive-motherboards/ Source 2: https://www.techpowerup.com/244021/a-push-for-the-higher-margin-intel-reportedly-discontinues-production-of-its-h310-chipset Intel has reportedly discontinued production of its H310 chipset due to lower than expected production capacity for chipsets on the 14 nm process. Intel hopes that the absence of H310 will funnel consumers toward the B360 and Z370 chipsets. These chipsets have higher margins After a single month of tight supply for the H310 chipset, motherboard makers are now forced to use Intel's B360 chipset in their more cost-conscious options - a part which carries higher cost, and thus precludes manufacturers from hitting all the price points they usually would with a fully vertical Intel chipset lineup. Speculation has emerged claiming Intel suspended the supply of H310 because they have chosen to conduct a manufacturing process change from the tight-supply 14 nm to a 22nm fabrication technology. Further speculation says the 14 nm supply is constrained because of the delay in advancing to 10 nm School Shooting game on steam removed from Steam Source 1: spartaman64 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/931044-school-shooting-game-on-steam/ Source 2: https://www.pcgamer.com/active-shooter-and-its-developer-have-been-removed-from-steam/ Active Shooter, an unreleased Steam game in which you play as a school shooter, a S.W.A.T. team member trying to neutralize them, or a civilian, has been removed from the platform, and both the developer and publisher—Revived Games and Acid, respectively—responsible for the game have been banned from the platform. The game’s trailer depicts a player running down school halls and through classrooms, indiscriminately murdering teachers until a S.W.A.T. team shows up. The Steam forums were dominated by threads calling for Valve to do something about the game, as well as people criticizing Valve for the fact that it gives the boot to many games containing nudity while letting the likes of Active Shooter stay. “I love offensive humor as much as the next guy, but you’re dense as hell if you can’t see why a pay-to-play school shooting simulation game might be taking it a step too far,” said one user. The developer and publisher, a person calling himself Ata Berdiyev, has a history of customer abuse, publishing copyrighted material, and user review manipulation Facebook to remove Trending Topics section Source 1: Eduard the weeb https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/933237-facebook-to-remove-trending-topics-section/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/1/17417428/facebook-trending-topics-being-removed After 4 years, next week Facebook will be removing the Trending Topics section of the News Feed page. The removal comes after years of criticism around how Facebook picked stories to sit in the Trending box Facebook says it was active in five countries and accounted for “less than 1.5 percent of clicks to news publishers on average.” Facebook says the removal of Trending will “make way” for future news products. The company is currently testing other ways to deliver news, including breaking news labels and a section that collects local stories. Apple hires Intel engineers for New chip research facility Source 1: captain_to_fire https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932775-apple-has-reportedly-hired-multiple-intel-engineers-for-a-chip-research-facility-in-washington-county-or/ Source 2: https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/31/apple-intel-chip-engineers/ Apple has reportedly poached multiple engineers and research staff from Intel for a new facility in Washington County, Oregon. Hiring appears to have started last november This news is fanning the flames of rumours that Apple intends to release an ARM-powered Macbook and/or an ARM-based touchscreen iPad/Mac hybrid. Every item in the game for $27,000: Star Citizen Legatus Pack Source 1: Master Disaster https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/931970-star-citizen-legatus-pack-every-item-in-the-game-for-27000/ Source 2: https://wccftech.com/star-citizen-legatus-pack-27000/ A new Legatus Pack is available for purchase in Star Citizen via the game’s official website -but only if you’ve already spent more than $1,000, earning “concierge member” status. The Legatus Pack is being sold at $27,000 and includes every item in the game. You’ll get: 117 ships 163 extras The game isn’t even out yet. A clever way to get Whales to drop their cash and finance game dev, or a bad omen for the future of gaming? Google Won't Renew Pentagon AI Drone Deal After Staff Backlash Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-01/google-won-t-renew-pentagon-ai-drone-deal-after-staff-backlash Source 2: Google decided not to renew its contract with a Pentagon drone program once it expires, after extensive protests from employees The contract ends in March 2019 the contract lets the Defense Department use Google artificial intelligence tools to analyze drone footage for an initiative called Project Maven. It was part of a major push to break into the lucrative business of selling cloud services to the government, where Amazon and Microsoft dominate. More than 4,000 employees signed a letter asking to cancel the contract and demanded that Google and its AI technology should not be in the business of war. At least a dozen staff resigned over the issue. Waymo is way ahead Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/as-uber-and-tesla-struggle-with-driverless-cars-waymo-moves-forward/ Source 2: Waymo announced on Thursday that it was ordering 62,000 Pacifica minivans from Fiat Chrysler. In March, the company announced a deal with Jaguar Land Rover to build 20,000 fully self-driving I-PACE cars. Meanwhile, Uber, Nvidia, and Toyota all suspended self-driving car testing in the wake of the March Uber crash, and a Tesla customer died in a crash in Mountain View the very same month. In October 2015, Google was already confident enough in its technology to let a blind man take an unaccompanied test drive on Austin streets. Almost three years later, it's not clear if anyone else has managed to build technology as sophisticated as Waymo had back then. Waymo has already shifted from technology development to commercialization In April 2017, Waymo announced its early rider program, giving handpicked families a chance to take rides in Waymo's prototype Chrysler Pacifica minivans. The move allowed Waymo to start thinking about customer-facing issues, like the user interface for self-driving cars and how the car's driving style affects passenger comfort. ASUS mining motherboard supports 20 GPUs via USB Source 1: FieldGenEJ https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/932641-asus-made-a-mining-motherboard-that-supports-up-to-20-gpus/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17408610/asus-crypto-mining-motherboard-gpus Asus has announced the H370 Mining Master motherboard, which supports up to 20 graphics cards via USB riser cables that plug directly into the PCB over PCIe. Asus’ approach here is going to make maintenance easier, ensure fewer PCIe disconnects, and more accurate diagnostics. becomes available in North America starting in Q3 2018. SpaceX Satellite Internet Good Enough to Game On Source 1: https://www.inverse.com/article/45270-elon-musk-says-spacex-satellites-will-be-better-for-gaming Source 2: A recent update from Elon Musk indicates that SpaceX’ Starlink satellite internet prototypes are not only working, but they’re providing a fast enough speed to play video games online. the two prototypes – TinTin A and B that were sent up back in February – are providing high speeds with 25ms latency Gamers typically need less than 50 milliseconds, with some players getting as low as 15 to 20 ms on the fastest broadband Starlink will send 4,425 satellites into orbit to deliver broadband connectivity to parts of the world with no internet.

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Main News Topics Apple Knew the iPhone 6 Would Bend Source 1: Master Disaster https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/930572-apple-knew-the-iphone-6-would-bend-before-they-released-the-product/ Source 2: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3a3gg/iphone-6-touch-disease-documents Information contained in internal Apple documents filed under seal in a class-action lawsuit show that Apple knew that the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were susceptible to bending prior to the phones’ launch. The company found that the iPhone 6 is 3.3 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5s, the iPhone 6 Plus is 7.2 times more likely to bend than the iPhone 5s Apple described the bending as “expected behavior” After the phone launched in 2014 and viral images of customer’s bent iPhones began to circulate, Apple publicly maintained that there were no engineering issues with the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. In early 2016, many iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices began to exhibit symptoms of “touch disease.” The phones’ screens would have a flickering gray bar at the top, and the touchscreen would stop working entirely or would work intermittently. This was caused by the “Touch IC” chip, which translates a user’s touch into digital signals, became partially unseated from the phone’s logic board. It is believed the problem is caused by flexing or bending associated with normal use In May 2016, Apple quietly began reinforcing the part of the logic board associated with touch disease Apple did not publicly acknowledge touch disease until November 2016, after widespread news reports about the issue. Apple announced it would replace touch-diseased phones for $149; it had previously charged $349. In its public announcement, Apple did not acknowledge that it had recently made engineering changes to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. In a court filing in the class action case,Apple’s lawyers wrote that its “rigorous and comprehensive reliability test data proved that enclosure bending and twisting cannot cause the issue unless the phones had already been repeatedly dropped on a hard surface,” this has been disputed by the plaintiff’s expert witnesses. Apple has argued that those witnesses aren’t experts in part because they hadn’t “reviewed” Apple’s internal tests. John "TotalBiscuit" Bain passes away Source 1: SC2Mitch https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/930465-renowned-game-critic-john-totalbiscuit-bain-passes-away/ Source 2: YouTuber, Podcaster, and Game streamer TotalBiscuit passed away this week, succumbing to a 4-year battle with cancer. He was just 33 years old. Bain contributed immensely to consumer advocacy in gaming and was a positive force in developing the indie game scene. He is survived by his wife Genna, who has stated she will continue the Co-Optional podcast as well as her own YouTube channel. Uber self driving car accident caused by design flaws Source 1: spartaman64 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/930390-uber-self-driving-car-accident-caused-by-design-flaws/ Source 2: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/05/emergency-brakes-were-disabled-by-ubers-self-driving-software-ntsb-says/ Source 3: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/HWY18MH010-prelim.pdf The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on the fatal March crash of an Uber self-driving car in Tempe, Arizona. The report confirms that the sensors on the vehicle worked as expected, spotting pedestrian Elaine Herzberg about six seconds prior to impact, which should have given it enough time to stop given the car's 43mph speed. As the vehicle and pedestrian paths converged, the self-driving system software classified the pedestrian as an unknown object, as a vehicle, and then as a bicycle with varying expectations of future travel path. At 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision. 2 According to Uber, emergency braking maneuvers are not enabled while the vehicle is under computer control, to reduce the potential for erratic vehicle behavior. The vehicle operator is relied on to intervene and take action. The system is not designed to alert the operator. There were many questions about the human operator’s alertness The self-driving system data showed that the vehicle operator intervened less than a second before impact by engaging the steering wheel. The operator began braking less than a second after the impact. In a post crash interview with NTSB investigators, the vehicle operator stated that she had been monitoring the self-driving system interface. The operator is responsible for monitoring diagnostic messages that appear on an interface in the center stack of the vehicle dash and tagging events of interest for subsequent review Uber has now pulled its self-driving program out of Arizona, laying off 300 people it will continue to work on self-driving tech out of its advanced technology center in Pittsburgh What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Nintendo bans online access to all Switch devices owned by "Hackers" Source 1: AluminiumTech https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/930455-nintendo-moves-to-ban-online-access-to-all-switch-devices-owned-by-alleged-hackers-read-anybody-breaking-nintendo-eula/ Source 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqYFU4X8F38 Famous Nintendo Switch modder Shiny Quagsire found out that Nintendo’s bans are not device specific, but rather follow your User ID, even if you’re trying to log in using a brand new, unmodded Switch What happens when you’re banned? You can’t: Game online Go to the e-shop Add friends Use social media tools You still get game updates and the news channel Is it fair? GDPR complaints already made against Google and Facebook. Source 1: Qwickshot https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/930618-new-eu-data-laws-started-today-and-complaints-have-already-been-made-against-google-and-facebook/ Source 2: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44252327 Complaints have been filed against Facebook, Google, Instagram and WhatsApp within hours of the new GDPR data protection law taking effect. The companies are accused of forcing users to consent to targeted advertising to use the services. Plaintiffs say the companies’ “take it or leave it approach” doesn’t offer “free choice” Forcing people to accept wide-ranging data collection in exchange for using a service is prohibited under GDPR. With GDPR: “whatever is really necessary for an app is legal without consent, the rest needs a free 'yes' or 'no' option." If the complaints are upheld, the websites may be forced to change how they operate, and they could be fined Amazon Echo Sends Recording of Family's Conversation to Random Contact Source 1: Pretzel 4000 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/930441-amazon-alexa-sends-recording-of-familys-conversation-to-random-aquaintance/ Source 2: https://www.kiro7.com/www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-device-recorded-private-conversation-sent-it-out-to-random-contact/755507974 A man in Oregan received a phone call from one of his employees in Seattle who said he had just received audio files of the man and his wife conversing in their home. The couple has Amazon smart speakers all over their house, and did not know they were being recorded. "I felt invaded," she said. "A total privacy invasion. Immediately I said, 'I'm never plugging that device in again, because I can't trust it.'" They contacted Amazon, who assigned an engineer to investigate. The engineer did indicated that a fix was required. An Amazon spokesperson released this statement: “Echo woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like 'A-l-e-x-a.' Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a “send message” request. At which point, Alexa said out loud 'To whom?' At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customer’s contact list. Alexa then asked out loud, '[contact name], right?' Alexa then interpreted background conversation as 'right.' As unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely.” Amazon offered to “de-provision” the family’s A-l-e-x-a communications so they could keep using its Smart Home Features. But they want a refund for the devices, which their representatives have been unwilling to do. Rumour: Essential Up for Sale, Next Phone Cancelled Source 1: Luca Rallis https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/930545-android-creator-puts-essential-up-for-sale-cancels-next-phone/ Source 2: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-05-24/andy-rubin-s-phone-maker-essential-is-said-to-consider-sale?__twitter_impression=true Essential Products Inc., a startup co-founded by Android creator Andy Rubin that launched last year to great fanfare, is reportedly considering selling itself and has canceled development of a new smartphone. Essential is now actively shopping itself to potential suitors, and has received interest from at least one. Essential has raised about $300 million from several investors, including Amazon.com Inc., Tencent Holdings Ltd., and Redpoint Ventures. It was valued at $900 million to $1 billion a year ago. Current discussions are focused on a sale of the entire company, including its patent portfolio, and hardware products like: the original smartphone, an upcoming smart home device and a camera attachment for the phone Essential’s engineering talent, which includes those hired from Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google, would likely be part of a deal. The company hasn’t yet made a final decision on a sale Apple and Volkswagen to make Driverless Cars Source 1: OJTheAviator https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/930515-apple-and-volkswagen-will-make-a-self-driving-car/ Source 2: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/technology/apple-bmw-mercedes-volkswagen-driverless-cars.html?rref=collection%252Fsectioncollection%252Fautomobiles&action=click&contentCollection=automobiles&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&auth=login-smartlock&mtrref=jalopnik.com Apple once had grand aspirations to build its own electric self-driving car and lead the next generation of transportation but later scaled the vision back to a focus on software for self-driving cars Now Apple is working solely on an autonomous shuttle for its own use with employees. Apple had negotiated with BMW and Mercedes-Benz, but both rebuffed Apple’s requirements to hand over control of the data and design. Apple has now signed a deal with Volkswagen to turn some of the carmaker’s new T6 Transporter vans into Apple’s self-driving shuttles for employees It is unclear whether Apple’s partnership with Volkswagen will extend beyond the shuttle. The frame, wheels and chassis of the T6 vans will remain, but Apple is replacing many components, dashboard and seats computers, sensors a large electric car battery, The shuttles will ferry employees between two of Apple’s Silicon Valley campuses, and will include a driver behind the wheel to take control if needed, as well as an operator in the passenger’s seat tracking the van’s performance. The project has suffered from repeated changes in direction that have hurt morale and led to hundreds of departures from its peak of more than 1,000 members two years ago The project reportedly lacks a clear plan beyond the vans, including any near-term commercial goals. Executives leading Apple’s car project had told Time Cook that the shuttle would be completed by the end of 2018, but that deadline will be missed, one former employee said. Amazon bans users for too many returns Source 1: VegetableStu https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/929934-amazon-banwave-again-for-repeat-returners/ Source 2: https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/amazon-is-banning-shoppers-who-make-too-many-returns/ Amazon is banning customers who take advantage of its generous return policy and closing their accounts. according to the National Retail Federation, 11 percent of sales are returned, and 11 percent of those are fraudulent They have 300,000,000 customers Customers are not being warned of bans, but Amazon has reinstated the accounts of those that appeal convincingly. Amazon has not issued an absolute or proportional threshold for banning

Got a cheap mic guide coming at ya soon! Might make this easier!

That's sexeriffic!

My personal preference wouldn't be the Razer phone (slower CPU, no headphone jack, bulkier) but YMMV.

No need to speak about Linus in the third person. Still down to earth enough to man my own forum account Anyway, your concerns are duly noted and I appreciate everyone in here being so honest without attacking me and my team personally. We WILL do better, and I promise we've got some really cool stuff coming - including a new season of Scrapyard Wars

I'm not going to make a specific commitment wrt a sponsored content ratio because I don't want to paint myself into a corner, but I will say that we're acutely aware of the problem with the approach we took this week and we will strive to not overdo it to this extent again. You're correct that sponsorship duration has increased over the years. The business model has also changed a lot. For the first year, Luke, Edzel and Brandon were making a similar hourly rate to what I made in high school. The goal was to run everything as lean as possible and it wasn't sustainable. I have often wondered what our channel growth trajectory might have looked like if we had stayed more organic rather than heavily monetizing the normal content and participating in sponsored videos, but it's hard to say. Sometimes the sponsored videos have definitely slowed our growth, while other times they've accelerated it. I think content like the OnePlus tour (cringey title notwithstanding) is truly head and shoulders above anything we can produce in our studio without a manufacturer's buy-in.. and OnePlus was really cool to work with. They actually asked for zero revisions to my script when I was done. It was a great experience and I was thrilled to share it with our community. The other thing that monetizing the content has done is allow us to grow. This might not mean much to you guys, but my work-life balance (when I'm not traveling, which it feels like I've been doing constantly these days...) is much better than it was for the first 4 years of LMG. I used to regularly work 70-80 hours a week.. especially when I was still writing all of the Tech Quickie scripts (those are someone else's basically full time job now). And it has also allowed us to make strategic investments that affect that same metric for our staff. Taran very rarely has to work an unreasonably long day when there were times in the past that our staffing levels forced him to do it much more regularly than I was comfortable with. And we even have some more to spare for projects that (its seems) have made the community really happy, like bringing back Riley and rapid-fire daily tech news. Say what you will about your enjoyment-level, but we DO put the work and resources back into the content, and I think that's where the growth has come from that replaces the people we've lost along the path for other reasons. Part of the unwillingness to make "crazy videos" is that there just isn't as much out there anymore. What would you have us do? Motherboards, power supplies, CPUs.. these things haven't fundamentally changed in the last 5 years (other than RGB), so to do it "bigger and better" is really time-consuming and expensive. Which isn't to say we aren't still trying! That's why I hired the writers. Here, in no particular order are some big, crazy projects that (sponsored or not) we undertook with their help: As for Optane, I have no problem with the follow up videos we've done on it. Two of them - using it to accelerate a large STEAM library, and trying to use it in place of RAM - were things we were going to do anyway. It's nice when the stars align and we can get a sponsor for something we already wanted to test. Maybe the talking points end up a little more "Intel-ey" in those cases, but the test results and conclusion are real. We would never fabricate something like that. Optane is good tech even if your particular use case doesn't benefit from it. It's not going anywhere and it'll continue to get cooler. Please don't be heart-broken.. and also remember that even going back 5 years not everyone liked the video we uploaded every day. Lots of other creators (to their benefit.. it really helps channel growth a LOT) try to stick to fairly similar content day-in, day-out because they know that's what their audience loves.. but we have ALWAYS been a little more ADD in our approach, uploading a video about hooking a giant radiator up to your gaming PC followed by one about limiting how much you charge your phone, and then checking out a commercial 3D building scanner.. <- none of these have anything to do with each other and we like it that way.. So not every upload is going to be for every viewer, but since we're more of a "variety show" anyway, we still think there'll be plenty to enjoy going forward.

We agree. We ended up with a bit of a log jam of sponsored content this week. It wasn't our goal and we are going to try to avoid this kind of thing in the future. Sometimes sponsor opportunities are easy to space out, and other times embargoes - which in this case ended up being moved right on top of each other - make it difficult. So there's another sponsored video coming on the 23rd (but that day is getting two uploads so I'm not counting it) and then the next one is on June 2 (but it's one people have been asking me to do for quite a while - workflow update) Hope this helps. As always we appreciate your feedback and will keep trying to do better.

We are a fairly gaming-centric tech channel. Linux gaming is pants. Hope that helps.

That addy gets monitored every business day. If we're interested you'll hear back.

Not many, but the views are worth so much more than regular views with ads that it has a significant impact.

Yep we do, but not having used the service because it's not available in Canada I haven't been able to really promote it to our viewers.

New Google Glasses Source 1: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/18/17368624/google-ar-headset-qualcomm-chips Source 2: Google is reportedly working on a standalone augmented reality headset codenamed Google A65 It will be self-contained rather than tethered to another device Have cameras and microphones use the same new Qualcomm chips as the upcoming HoloLens Qualcomm QSC603 four-core chips, based on ARM architecture. be built by Taiwanese computer maker Quanta. The product is still in the prototyping stage EVGA ditches CDs for USB sticks Source 1: VegetableStu https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/928292-evga-does-what-the-physical-media-distributors-should-have-done-a-long-time-ago-ditch-cds-for-usb-sticks/ Source 2: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12779/evga-forgoes-driver-dvds-with-future-motherboards-its-all-about-the-usb-flash-drive EVGA has announced that in the future, their motherboards will not come with driver disks, but with an 8GB USB Flash drive containing all the needed drivers and software. Drivers used to come on floppies then moved to CDs, then to DVDs This includes H370 based boards now and others moving forward. EVGA has confirmed the USB 2.0 drive costs about twenty times more than an optical disk. EVGA says the cost increase will not trickle down to the consumer Dozen employees quit Google in protest against military project. Source 1: https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/927968-dozen-employees-so-far-at-google-quit-in-protest-as-company-continues-with-project-maven-military-project/ Source 2: https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con-1825729300 Despite protests from employees, Google is still charging ahead with a Department of Defense collaboration to produce machine-learning software for American military drones. “Project Maven” aims to speed up analysis of drone footage by automatically classifying images of objects and people. Now, about a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the company’s continued involvement nearly 4,000 Google employees have voiced their opposition to Project Maven in an internal petition that asks Google to immediately cancel the contract and institute a policy against taking on future military work. The resigning employees’ are concerned about: particular ethical concerns over the use of artificial intelligence in drone warfare the erosion of user trust that could result from these actions. Many of them have written accounts of their decisions to leave the company, and their stories have been gathered and shared in an internal document Historically, Google has promoted an open culture that encourages employees to challenge and debate product decisions. But some employees feel that their leadership no longer as attentive to their concerns, leaving them to face the fallout. But the company has defended its work on Maven and is thought to be one of the lead contenders for another major Pentagon cloud computing contract, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, better known as JEDI, that is currently up for bids. Google claims it is only providing open-source software to Project Maven, which means the military would be able to still use the technology, even if Google didn’t accept payment or offer technical assistance. Google has emphasized that its AI is not being used to kill “The technology is used to flag images for human review and is intended to save lives and save people from having to do highly tedious work.” In addition to the petition circulating inside Google, the Tech Workers Coalition launched a petition in April demanding that Google abandon its work on Maven and that other major tech companies, including IBM and Amazon, refuse to work with the U.S. Defense Department. But don’t they think that the US should remain competitive against other state actors? Are engineers at Baidu or Yandex resigning? Another point: Although Google is based in the U.S., it has an obligation to protect its global user base that outweighs its alignment with any single nation’s military ASUS Killing AREZ brand? Source 1: jooroth18 https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/927177-asus-killing-arez-brand-rog-is-back-updated-article/ Source 2: https://twitter.com/ASUSUSA/status/996179635158339586?s=09 This week ASUS advertised ROG Radeon cards, suggesting that they are NOT moving forward with AREZ branding. What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire LOL: US Gov Trolls crypto Investors Source 1: WMGrookAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/927930-us-sec-begins-offering-the-howeycoin-ico/ Source 2: https://www.techspot.com/news/74671-sec-launched-fake-cryptocurrency-educate-investors-dangers-ico.html Source 3: https://www.howeycoins.com/index.html The US Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) has launched a fake initial coin offering (ICO) website promoting what they call "HoweyCoins" On the HoweyCoins website, the SEC claims the fake currency is "officially registered" with the US government and will trade on an "SEC-compliant exchange" The site has a HoweyCoins logo, a ‘Meet the Team’ page, fake user testimonials, and even a large "15% bonus" countdown timer. If you click any of the "Buy Coins Now!" buttons, you'll be taken to an informational SEC page where the they offer tips to dodge real scams in the future. Rumour: GTX 1170 Leaks Source 1: BuckGup https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/926198-wccf-gtx-1170-specs-price-performance-release-date/ Source 2: https://wccftech.com/873853-2/ According to the leaks, the GTX1170: is powered by a 104 class GPU, codenamed GT104 that measures around ~400mm² 2688 CUDA cores, 256-bit GDDR6 memory interface 8 to 16 gigabytes of 12Gbps GDDR6 memory core clock of around ~1.5GHz and a boost clock of around ~1.8GHz. TDP is unconfirmed, but is expected to be 140-160W Peak FP32 compute performance is expected to be around 9.75 TFLOPS, puts it in the same league of NVIDIA’s existing GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. expect the GeForce GTX 1170 to be released in the summer (july) Maybe $499 Porn Pass (age verification in UK) Source 1: mr moose https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/927037-porn-pass-age-verification-in-the-uk/ Source 2: http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/brits-faced-with-prospect-of-buying-porn-pass-at-corner-store/news-story/2cda959cb0980c6f73afba401fa30e59 In an attempt to prevent the access of online pornography by children, the UK government is proposing an age verification system that uses a special “porn pass” Passes would be bought from convenience stores - as long as you can provide government ID to verify your age. The cards will have a 16 digit code meaning users would not need to provide their own personal info online. New laws require websites to verify the age of users, or face stiff penalties like being blocked by internet service providers or face fines of up to $448,000. industry will be responsible to create the verification software Google Duplex Update Source 1: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-18/google-s-duplex-ai-robot-will-warn-that-calls-are-recorded At Google’s weekly TGIF staff meeting on Thursday, executives gave employees their first full Duplex demo and told them the bot would identify itself as the Google assistant. It will also inform people on the phone that the line is being recorded in certain jurisdictions real-time location of most US cell phones leaked Source 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/service-leaked-locations-of-us-cell-phones-for-free-no-password-required/ Source 2: A service called LocationSmart has been leaking the real-time locations of US cell phone users to anyone who takes the time to exploit an easily spotted bug in a free trial feature. The service identifies the locations of phones connected to AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon, often to an accuracy of a few hundred meters A demo tool on the LocationSmart website allowed prospective customers to see the approximate location of their own mobile device. It required interested people to enter their name, email address, and phone number into a Web form. LocationSmart would then text the phone number and request permission to query the cellular network tower closest to the device. However, simple changes to the demo's Web requests were able to bypass the phone verification requirement a location By pinging a phone’s mobile network multiple times over several minutes, researchers were able to plug the coordinates into Google Maps and track the friend’s directional movement. cellular carriers by law are required to know the approximate location of customers in the event it’s needed by emergency 911 services. Whether the carriers are permitted to sell or otherwise provide the information to third parties is less clear. Researchers create a real cloaking device (sound) Source 1: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/10/researchers-create-a-real-cloaking-device/ Source 2: Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have created a real cloaking device that can route sound waves around an object, making it invisible to sonar The team set out to engineer a metamaterial that can allow the sound waves to bend around the object as if it were not there. To work, the unit cell — the smallest component of the metamaterial — must be smaller than the acoustic wavelength in the study. They created an acoustic metamaterial that deflects sound waves underwater The team was able to place the material in water and measure sound waves pointed at it. The resulting echoes in the water suggested that the sound waves did not bounce off or around the material. International Olympic Committee to host a esports summit Source 1: SC2Mitch https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/927843-international-olympic-committee-ioc-to-host-a-esports-summit-in-lausanne-in-july/ Source 2: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1065131/ioc-to-host-esports-summit-in-lausanne-in-july An esports summit is due to be hosted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne in July, to continue the organisation's "dialogue" with the gaming industry. It’s a one-day meeting "The idea [of the Summit] is to enter into a dialogue with the gaming industry and the athletes and, in due course, approach the stakeholders of the Olympic Movement again." competitive esports "could be considered as a sporting activity, and the players involved prepare and train with an intensity which may be comparable to athletes in traditional sports". Heathstone, Starcraft II, Pro Evolution Soccer, Clash Royale and Arena of Valor are the other five games set to be contested. "We need to draw a red line and make it clear that killer games can never be part of the Olympic Movement," LOL Call of Duty: Black Ops 4... Battle Royale !!! Source 1: GamingMemeKing https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/927945-call-of-duty-black-ops-4-battle-royale/ Source 2: https://kotaku.com/nobody-is-saying-how-many-people-call-of-dutys-battle-r-1826146985 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will bring a new Battle Royale mode known as 'Call of Duty: Blackout'. It will be a simple last man standing game mode in a large open world, with sea, air and land vehicles, as well as characters from previous games. Treyarch isn’t saying how many players Blackout will support. Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds both support 100 players per match. “Blackout delivers an experience that’s uniquely Black Ops featuring characters, weapons and gear from across the series on the biggest map ever in the franchise — over 1,500 times greater than Nuketown and a player count that is an order of magnitude above anything previously in Call of Duty. “ Is Battle Royale simply a new format that all games will feature in the future? Like deathmatch or capture the flag? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_the_Flag_(video_game)

They're pretty, they are compatible with aftermarket accessories like waterblocks, and they ensure that whenever we report performance numbers we are at a "consistent baseline". Anyone who buys a config they see us build will get the same performance or better out of their GPU.

The brand on the chip itself is from whoever made the actual DRAM chip. The brand on the module is whoever binned and assembled those chips on a PCB and programmed it. Edit: Crucial/Micron is a bit of a special case. They are the same company. Just different branding for the OEM and retail sides of the business.

It's actually possible that we will nuke early access for TechLinked altogether. It's an "up to the minute" style format, and we are already providing an amount of content for $3/month that may make other creators feel uncomfortable or set the standard at an unreasonable level. Stay tuned.

Humans don’t realize they’re talking to AI: Google Duplex Source 1: SC2Mitch https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/924936-google-updates-its-virtual-assistant-to-make-complex-calls-for-users/ Source 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd1mEm2Fy08 This week at Google’s IO conference, the company demo’d a robot calling service called Duplex that can call the hair salon or a restaurant and make appointments on your behalf. In the first demo, a female voice calls a hair salon, where another woman answers the phone; the two go back and forth for approximately a minute before they figure out a time that works for a hair appointment. In the second demo, also about a minute, a male voice calls a restaurant to book a reservation; the woman on the receiving end has a heavy accent and isn't offering the best information, so the caller pivots to make a new request The bots are dispatched through Google Assistant and activated through a back-end system One of the things that was missing from the demo was any sort of announcement on the part of the Google Assistant that it was, in fact, a virtual assistant and not a human. Is that ethical? At launch, the Assistant will “likely tell the person on the other end of the line that he or she is talking to a digital personal assistant." Google said it’s ensuring that one single user won’t be able to place more than a certain number of calls per day, nor will they be allowed to make several calls to the same business The company plans to begin testing Duplex publicly this summer Nintendo Shares New Details About its Nintendo Switch Online Service Source 1: Linus’ email Source 2: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/05/guide_nintendo_switch_online_faq_-_everything_we_know_so_far Launching in September, the Nintendo Switch Online service is a paid service that lets users enjoy online play for compatible Nintendo Switch games, access classic NES games with added online functionality, back up save data for most games, and additional features for the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app that will enhance the online experience for compatible games. Canadian Pricing: Individual memberships: One month: $4.99 Three months: $9.99 12 months: $24.99 Family membership (12 months): $44.99 up to 8 Nintendo Account holders will be able to utilize service, even on different systems NES games: The collection will initially include 20 games, and more will be added on a regular basis. Balloon Fight, Dr. Mario and Super Mario Bros. 3, Donkey Kong, Ice Climber, The Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros., Soccer, Super Mario Bros., Tennis +10 others that will be announced in the future. Depending on the game, players can engage in online competitive or co-op multiplayer, or take turns controlling the action. Friends can even watch each other play single-player games online, and “pass the controller” at any time. Every classic NES game will support voice chat via the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app. It will also be possible to play these games offline. Save Data Cloud: a backup of Nintendo Switch save data for most Nintendo Switch games will be stored online for easy access. Online Play: A Nintendo Switch Online membership will be needed to participate in co-op and competitive online features for many current and upcoming Nintendo Switch games, such as Splatoon 2, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, ARMS, Mario Tennis Aces and Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido. Sony+Nintendo update warranty terms in USA & Canada Source 1: Master Disaster https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/925127-sony-updates-warranty-terms-in-usa-canada-customers-can-now-open-consoles-without-losing-any-warranty/ Source 2: https://wccftech.com/sony-playstation-4-waranty-seal/ Sony and Nintendo have now updated their warranty terms since the Federal Trade Commission gave Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo 30 days to ditch repair-deterring warranty stickers on their consoles. Nintendo: Original: “This warranty shall not apply if this product: (a) is used with products not sold or licensed by Nintendo (Including but not limited to, non-licensed game enhancement and copier devices, adapters, software, and power supplies.” Updated: “This warranty shall not apply if this product has been damaged by products not sold or licensed by Nintendo (Including, but not limited to, adapters, software, and power supplies).” Sony: Original: Warranty does not apply if the product is used with a peripheral that is not supplied or licensed by SIE. Warranty does not apply if the warranty seal on the product has been altered or removed. Updated: Warranty does not apply “to damage caused by” use of the product with an unlicensed peripheral. Warranty does not apply “to damage caused by” opening the product or to damage caused by service performed by someone other than a representative of SIE or an SIE-authorized service provider. Changes only apply to US and CANADA Rumour: iPhone X-Plus Screen Size Source 1: https://www.inverse.com/article/44618-iphone-x-plus-details-rumors-screen-size-release-date-apple-2018 Source 2: Apple is expected to release a larger iPhone X this fall called the iPhone X Plus- with a 6.5 inch edge-to-edge OLED display. While the iPhone X gains screen real estate thanks to a lack of home button, real estate is lost at the top and bottom due to the “notch” and slide-up indicator. The 6.5-inch device will be around 0.2mm thicker than the iPhone 8 Plus, in part due to the use of a vertical arrangement for the rear dual camera. This would bring it in line with the iPhone X, which measures 7.7mm thick. Apple is also expected to unveil two more phones this fall. A 5.8-inch OLED model will act as an upgrade to the existing iPhone X, likely offering improvements to the A11 Bionic processor and a larger rear camera lens. A 6-inch iPhone with a cheaper LCD screen, offering Face ID but ditching the second camera lens. Other phones: Pixel 2 XL - 6” S9+ - 6.2” iPhone 8+ - 5.5” iPhone X - 5.8” LG v30 - 6” Note that the 5.8” X has about the same footprint as the 4.7” iPhone 8, but with 20% more space for vertical content What’s Coming Out on Floatplane? Go Over Current Week. Rapid Fire Apple pulling apps that share location data with 3rd parties Source 1: DrMacintosh https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/925182-apple-is-pulling-apps-that-share-location-data-with-3rd-parties/ Source 2: https://9to5mac.com/2018/05/08/apple-location-apps-third-parties/ Apple has started cracking down on applications that share location data with third-parties, removing the from the applications from the App Store and informing developers that their app violates the App Store Review Guidelines sections 5.1.1 and 5.1.2, which pertain to transmitting user location data and user awareness of data collection. In emails to the app developers, Apple explains that developers must remove any code, frameworks, or SDKs that relate to the violation before their app can be resubmitted to the App Store. In addition to simply asking for permission, Apple appears to want developers to explain what the data is used for and how it is shared. Furthermore, the company is cracking down on instances where the data is used for purposes unrelated to improving the user experience: You may not use or transmit someone’s personal data without first obtaining their permission and providing access to information about how and where the data will be used. Data collected from apps may not be used or shared with third parties for purposes unrelated to improving the user experience or software/hardware performance connected to the app’s functionality. Rent out your graphics card for mining in exchange for free PC games Source 1: Morgan MLGman https://www.techradar.com/news/rent-out-your-graphics-card-for-mining-and-get-free-pc-games Source 2: https://www.gamesfromspace.com/games/ A German company has announced ‘Games from Space’ which borrows your GPU for cryptocurrency mining purposes, and in return gives you free PC games. You pick a game you want, and watch a progress bar slowly tick up as your GPU is used for the company’s mining efforts. The faster your graphics card the quicker progress you’ll make towards getting that game. It’s not free: mining will increase your PC’s power consumption, and have a cost on your electricity bill some of the games are newer big-name affairs, like PUBG or Grand Theft Auto V. With a GTX1070, PUBG and GTA V will take you around 28 days of mining, according to the company. you can get DiRT 3 in a day. you need a Windows PC with a graphics card that has at least 3GB of video RAM. The mining application will run at full tilt if your PC is idle, it won’t interfere with the daily operation of your machine Steam fixes hardware survey system; big changes to data Source 1: GoodNytes https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/925900-steam-fixes-its-hardware-survey-system-now-shows-large-changes-in-os-cpu-and-more/ Source 2: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/? The latest Steam Hardware Survey incorporates a number of fixes that address over-counting of cyber cafe customers that occurred during the prior seven months. Historically, the survey used a client-side method to ensure that systems were counted only once per year, in order to provide an accurate picture of the entire Steam user population. It turns out, however, that many cyber cafes manage their hardware in a way that was causing their customers to be over counted. See the resultant data changes in Source 2 table (scroll down) Qualcomm is finally making a Smart Watch chip Source 1: Eduard the weeb https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/925184-qualcomm-is-making-a-new-wear-os-chip/ Source 2: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/5/8/17334228/qualcomm-snapdragon-wear-smartwatch-chip-coming Al Wear OS watches that come out today have little option but to use the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2100 from February 2016 Some have argued that this is holding the entire Wear OS platform back. Qualcomm will announce updated watch-focused silicon this fall alongside a flagship device, with “several partners” set to release Wear OS watches based on the new chips by the holidays. The third-generation processors will be “designed from the ground up for a no-compromises smartwatch experience,” supposedly enabling smaller watches with better battery life. Qualcomm is apparently also designing the chips to work more effectively with always-on displays. “A smartwatch is first and foremost a watch — it needs to look good, it needs to be sleek, it needs to look good when I’m looking at it or when I’m not looking at it,” “It cannot be static when I’m not looking at it, it cannot be black and white when I’m not looking at it. So when we talk to Fossil consumers and Michael Kors consumers, they want a no-compromises smartwatch.” Rumour: Google preparing Pixel smartwatch Source 1: Ryz http://hexus.net/mobile/news/accessories/118088-google-said-preparing-pixel-branded-smartwatches/ Source 2: http://winfuture.de/news,103172.html The watch, or watches, will arrive alongside Pixel 3, Pixel 3 XL, and second-gen Pixel Buds this fall There are apparently 3 models, code named 'Ling', 'Triton' and 'Sardine' it’s unclear whether they’re different sized versions, variants with or without LTE, or completely different devices. The devices will all be based on the new Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 platform Boston Dynamics robots can run now Source 1: SC2Mitch https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/925702-boston-dynamics-robots-are-learning-how-to-run-outside-and-navigate-autonomously-with-some-significant-improvements/ Source 2: https://www.youtube.com/user/BostonDynamics/featured This week Boston Dynamics, the one company in the world that MIGHT be cooler to work at than LMG uploaded 2 new videos: One shows their humanoid Atlas robot running outside Atlas has no trouble keeping its balance on grass or uneven terrain. At one point in the video, it encounters a log across its path but leaps over it One shows their quadruped Spot robot autonomously navigating around the Boston Dynamics test facility. Before the test, the robot is manually driven through the space so it can build a map of the space using visual data from cameras mounted on the front, back and sides of the robot. During the autonomous run, SpotMini uses data from the cameras to localize itself in the map and to detect and avoid obstacles. Once the operator presses 'GO' at the beginning of the video, the robot is on its own. The sensor suite includes stereo cameras, depth cameras, an IMU, and position/force sensors in the limbs. These sensors help with navigation and mobile manipulation. SpotMini weighs 25 kg (30 kg if you include the arm) and can go for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing. HOLD THE PHONE, Spot Mini will be ON SALE next year?! Source 1: https://www.cnet.com/news/boston-dynamics-spotmini-robot-dog-goes-on-sale-in-2019/ Source 2: SpotMini, will go on sale next year for companies that want a mechanical quadruped to get to places a wheeled device can't reach. SpotMini robots could be useful for security patrols or for helping construction companies keep tabs on what's happening at building sites. SpotMini can be customized with attachments and extra software for particular jobs Boston Dynamics has 10 SpotMini prototypes now and will work with manufacturing partners to build 100 this year Eventually, though, the company hopes to sell it for use in people's homes Steam Link app will let you play your Steam games on your phone. Source 1: Ryz https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/925229-a-steam-link-app-coming-the-week-of-may-21st-to-android-and-ios-devices-will-let-you-play-your-steam-games-on-your-phone/ Source 2: https://steamdb.info/blog/steam-link-and-video-mobile-apps/ Steam is preparing to launch two new free apps: the Steam Link app - week of May 21st the Steam Video app - later this summer The Steam Link app: allows gamers to experience their Steam library of games on their Android and iOS devices while connected via 5Ghz network or wired Ethernet to a host system (Mac or PC), Android access initially offered in beta. The app will feature support for the Steam Controller, MFI controllers, and more - across both platforms. The Steam Video app: allowing users to enjoy the movies and shows available on Steam via their Android and iOS devices over Wi-Fi or LTE. supports offline and streaming modes Nine Inch Nails to fight ticket bots by not selling tickets online (lol, actually on the forum, suck it Linus!) Source 1: WMGroomAK https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/925589-nine-inch-nails-to-fight-ticket-bots-by-not-selling-tickets-online/ Source 2: https://www.engadget.com/2018/05/10/nine-inch-nails-fall-tour-no-online-sales/ Nine Inch Nails will not sell tickets online for its just-announced "Cold and Black and Infinite" theater tour this fall. Instead, you'll have to wait in line at the venue. Each person can buy up to four tickets, and you can’t line up before 8am. “We've decided to try something different that will also likely suck, but in a different way. We're hoping many of you will be happy with the results, while some may do what they always do and bitch about it." Other approaches to fighting ticket bots: you "buy" the ticket online but you technically don't get one until you show up at the venue with printed confirmation copy, some kind of ID and the same credit card that was used to purchase the tickets. “Verified Fan” tickets: Fans register via webpage, and engage with a community over time to signal they are real fans.

We've generally avoided them for the reasons outlined in this thread. We have no plans to do sponsor spots or any coverage of "cheap key" sites at this time. The Windows installs we do on our test benches have no key entered. It's an option when you install the software. You're allowed to use it for 30 days iirc according to the license, but we usually stretch that out a bit out of convenience. These are not production machines and Microsoft clearly understands you can't buy a new Windows license every time you swap a card on a test bench.