Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “A Very Special Techlinked Christmas”.
Well-Well-Well Christmas Eve a magical time time to snuggle up with a mug of hot cocoa and reminisce about this crazy year. That we’ve had, I mean it was pretty crazy. James, that’s right! Today’S episode of tech linked is a special roundup of the biggest tech stories of 2018 and then a look at what we can expect to see in 2019 because we’re not in the office today – and this is prerecorded o. The first story is one we can’t ignore.
Even if we wanted to which sometimes I do in August Nvidia announced the RT X series of graphics cards, the first consumer gaming GPUs to feature real-time ray tracing. Oh when they launched in September, they completely revolutionized the gaming world rays were tracing all over the place. Reflections ooh, they were tasty. The graphics quality of countless games was elevated to a new standard of realism. Oh yeah, just kidding no games supported r-tx at launch, leaving reviewers puzzled and frustrated at the lack of available software to test these fancy. New cards ray tracing support came to Battlefield 5 when it launched, although it came with a hefty performance penalty, which has gotten a little better with updates and just recently Final Fantasy 15 got support for deep learning, super sampling or DL SS, which smooths out edges and Games and does boost performance a bit compared to other anti-aliasing methods, there’s a larger list of games that are supposed to support ray tracing and DL SS in the future. But for now the massive hype that NVIDIA tried to build up for the cards has understandably deflated. As people realize they can probably stand to live without RT X a little longer, oh, I mean it scale. It cleans.
You know like the first planes, weren’t very good people died, but then they got better. So our second story is the sad tale of Facebook. In 2018, this company could not for the life of them escape from the tsunami of scandals that came crashing down upon their head by some accounts.
Zuckerberg and Co had at least 21 separate scandals related to security breaches, invasions of privacy and other problematic policies in February. Faced February, that’s a hard word. In February, Facebook was linked to the spread of fake news which contributed to controversies about the 2016 US election and genocide in Myanmar March saw the publishing of bombshell reports concerning Cambridge analytical data firm. That collected the personal information of 50 million users without their permission with the total 87 million users affected in some way, were you on James and on Christmas of all days, Mark Zuckerberg was called before the US Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the European Parliament to answer questions about how Facebook deals with privacy leading to many wonderful lizard person memes. So that’s a bit of a silver lining.
In September hackers took advantage of bugs and Facebook security to access the profiles of 30 million users. Although the company said no data was actually compromised sure throughout the year revelations about Facebook’s sketchy data sharing deals with other large companies came to light capped off by a New York Times investigation in December, claiming that, despite Facebook’s insistence to the contrary, it has essentially sold User data to more than 150 companies Facebook portal now $ 50 off sounds like a good deal to me. I knew you it’s a great Christmas gift for people, you hate and lastly, let’s take a break from the negativity people and talk about the feel-good story of the year. Notched phones, yep, although Apple, wasn’t the first to release a phone with a notch that honor belongs to the central 2017 iPhone 10 made it okay for basically every other phone company to add a notch to their display in 2018.
Save for Samsung bless your heart Samsung. That was nice do that more often, the Huawei P 20 pro one plus six and 60 LG G 7, thin q, pixel, three XL and, of course, the iPhone 10s and ten are made room for dual front-facing camera setups on their front display. Luckily, it looks like notch: fever is going to be a fever dream of 2018, as Samsung Huawei and other phone manufacturers are looking to make phone camera cutouts a thing blocking a much smaller area of the display.
Lenovo and some Chinese phone companies are taking a different route producing all screen. Phones that slide to reveal front-facing cameras and make us feel like we’re in the matrix again always a cool thing and Samsung is even reportedly working on camera technology that can be embedded directly beneath to display leading to true all screen phones, possibly on the way. In 2019, yeah you’re very skeptical.
What do you think lucky? What else could the new year hold? Well, we’ll take a look in our quick bit section right after a word from our sponsor the mass drop Sennheiser HD 6x acts headphones. These cans are one of mass drops, all-time bestsellers, with over 50,000 sold they’re based on the HD 650, which delivers balanced meds and a natural sounding bass or bass depending community feedback led mass drop and Sennheiser’s to add a detachable six-foot cable in place of the original Ten-Foot one and the headset comes with Sennheiser’s dependable, long-term support get yours today by joining the drop at the link below Cheers onto our 2019 tech news predictions quick bits: that’s a long title should shorten that 5g huh, it’s gon na be a thing yeah or yeah. It isn’t so far AT .