Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Apple using Deepfakes on Facetime!?”.
You know what Riley I I don’t know what it is, but I’m just feeling a little extra super today, like there’s a bit of more clock in my step. Yes, Linus media group, parent company Nvidia released the GeForce r-tx 2060 super and 2070 super yesterday after much teasing leaking and eyebrow Wiggly Anthony did a review over on our Linus tech tips channel, so they’ll check that out and definitely bio Linus tech tips shirt. But here’s the summary Nvidia is discontinuing the original 2070 and 2080 and replacing them with the 2070 super and 2080 Super. So the current gen lineup goes r-tx 2060 r-tx 2060 super RTX, 2070 super r-tx, 2080 super and r-tx 2080 ti non super.
The new cards are bringing performance boosts of up to 25 % compared to their predecessors, while keeping the same price points, although the rules are not hard and fast, because the 2060 super is actually fifty dollars more than the vanilla 2060. And I guess that is going to make it even harder for AMD to make a dent in the market with the release of the upcoming Radeon 50 750 700 XT on July 7th this Sunday, it is nice to see Nvidia, give us more performance for free. Sorry I coughed on the script there and that they definitely weren’t just holding extra pockets in their back performance cards this whole time and only giving it to us now because AMD has a competitive product coming out made it large parts of the Internet have had trouble.
Staying accessible in the past couple of days, CloudFlare experienced a major server overload yesterday that caused multiple sites to go down, including discord, OkCupid peloton and coin desk. The overload was caused by a bad software, deploy according to CloudFlare, CEO Matthew, Prince, which we’re pretty sure means that someone accidentally through a USB key at the server 10 internet points. If you get the reference, the issue was fixed within 30 minutes, but then, today, more connectivity issues have been affecting social platforms worldwide, including Facebook, Instagram, whatsapp and Twitter.
At the time of writing, the companies were looking into possible causes and fixes, but there was one side bonus, at least for some users. Photos on Facebook were replaced with the tags assigned to them by the AI. So, like a photo of me, it’s like one person, spikey hair stuck in 90s, thanks for that and Apple has rolled out a feature to the iOS 13 developer beta. That is both nice and kind of creepy. Facetime can now alter video of your face.
So it looks as though you are staring directly into the camera, even if you’re looking slightly down at the screen the features – oh, that’s, actually really cool. The feature is only available on the iPhone 10s and 10’s Macs, so it most likely uses a combination of those devices, camera tech and widely available deep fake techniques. Some users who have tried it out report that it’s awesome to have a conversation that seems more natural thanks to proper eye contact, but wonder if the other person is really looking at them. Like am I even looking at you right now? I mean right now, I’m not I’m looking at Riley, but but now I am, or am I now it’s time for the quintessential bits brought to you by honey, the shopping tool that finds the best promo codes wherever you shop online at sites that you’ve probably never Heard of like Amazon Best Buy and razor for those of you who don’t know what honey is it’s a free browser, extension for Chrome, Firefox and Safari? That saves you time and money you can whoops.
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Well, epic is trying to mitigate the damage somewhat by paying for refunds to backers of games like Shenmue 3, so the developer won’t be hurt by fan backlash to me. This is really a bit like starting a fire using dollar bills and then hosing down the fire by smothering it with more money, it’s inefficient and expensive, but it might just work. Speaking of just working, you might want to cancel any upcoming work trips to the shinjang region of China. As multiple reports claim, the Chinese border officials have been confiscating travelers phones and returning them with a surveillance act installed.
The app may be used to scan phones for content contempt for the Chinese government. Excuse me for content deemed dangerous by the Chinese government. Now, as for myself, I only trust my government to violate my privacy, also the US government, and probably the Chinese government too. So so all of that’s a big no-no.
Speaking of privacy violations. Amazon has divulged that aleksa voice recordings may be kept on file by the company, even after a user requests that they be deleted. Transcripts of the recordings may be used for training voice assistance and they are get this not anonymized see this would be scary, but I know alias a and I know that she would never do anything nasty with my information.
You don’t know. Alexa like I do. 5G has already rolled out to a few places in America, but now the EU is getting in on the action. Vodafone has rolled out their 5g network in 27 cities across Europe, so we’re gon na have to see whether the UK’s weather satellites get screwed up by the interference, not that they need them. We all know it’s just always rain in the UK, and Microsoft has been teasing something to do with Windows 1.0 on their social feeds, without really saying anything about what it means.
Could this be a special classic edition release of the first version of Windows? Well, there’s a lot of 80s imagery and then stranger things season 3 releases on Netflix tomorrow. So if I had to guess I’d say it’s gon na be a tie-in of some kind yeah. This is the most ambitious crossover of all time. Microsoft hold my beer etc, and that’s quite enough tech news for one day: let’s not overdo it, you know too much of a good thing is still too much and subscribe to tech linked so that you can have more on Friday, because you can never have too Much of a good thing like like Ltd store.com merch, like this hoodie and this shirt he’s gon na. Take it all on .