Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Only FANCY GPUs Get Ray Tracing!”.
Oh man, can I get someone else to do this today? I’M tired, oh dang, it well. I can’t outsource my hosting duties, but Intel looks to be outsourcing some of its CPU manufacturing. Although Intel has long made its own chips, reports indicate that they’re contracting with TSM see the same fab that makes processors for AMD to produce coffee lake CPUs, mostly on the lower end of the products deck that’ll, make for some awkward water cooler conversations at the plant. The move follows a number of difficulties that Intel has faced in producing its current gen 40 nanometer chips with demand outstripping supply by a full 50 %.
In some cases, this has led to a noticeable increase in processor prices for Team Blue, even as AMD is trying to get a seven nanometer chip to market before the end of the year, but look Intel’s just trying to fix things instead of throwing them out. Okay, you know 14 nanometer is a perfectly good process. Just needs a little spit shine little TLC.
Are you suspicious that your Smart TV might be spying on you? Well, for you Vizio owners out there they might soon be fessing up of their own volition. Back in 2015, it came out, Vizio was bundling hidden software with its TVs that could track your TV watching behavior. So it could sell that information on to marketers and, of course, consumers were not told about this, nor were they offered a way to opt out, but once the cat got out of the bag, Vizio found themselves in court and now has to send notifications to consumers Through their TVs, if their personal information was compromised, not only that the notifications have to tell viewers that they’re eligible to join a class-action lawsuit, so your vizio tv will essentially be telling you that you can sue its own maker because it screwed up.
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If you were wanting to get your hands on a fancy new ray tracing, optimized graphics card, without shelling out tons of money for something at the top of the product stack, then you should probably prepare to be disappointed. An interview with invidious chief financial officer heavily implied that the r-tx 2070 will be the lowest end card that will support the new ray tracing tech with a more affordable, 2060 and below missing out meaning they’ll also likely stick with the more additional gtx branding. While it isn’t super surprising that nvidia might not feel confident enough and how much computing power the lower end cards have to give them ray-tracing support gamers are in a not great position as they’ll have to pay a princely sum just to see if ray-tracing and games Ends up being worth it at all, but I feel confident buying the top-end stuff, because how much of my life do I want to not have ray-tracing 0 %. I’Ve already failed at that, so I guess I won’t buy the top-end stuff.
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The name comes from the fact they’re, both pegged to the u.s. dollar to help avoid some of the wild fluctuations we’ve seen with other crypto currencies like Bitcoin. The companies behind them hope that twenty four-hour-a-day trading, which you don’t get with regular money, will help broaden their appeal, but the only people qualified to use them will be stable geniuses if you’ve reserved Tesla’s more affordable model 3. You might be getting into your fancy new car as early as this week. The company is offering non customized model threes to reservation holders. Immediately though, it’s been speculated that the rationale behind the offer is that Tesla needs the extra money in the face of falling stock prices and problems. It’S been having on the assembly line and the massive influx of Elon Musk smoking weed memes. It’S really been everywhere now halo might be finally coming back to the PC sooner than initially expected.
Although the next installment in the series, halo, Infinite, has already been announced for Windows, the PC may also be getting halo 5 Guardians. This report is based on an update to its Amazon listing that implies. Halo 5 will soon be part of the play anywhere ecosystem that allows gamers to buy a title for either Xbox or Windows and have access to it on both platforms and as cool as a halo.
One land party is, I could say, from experience yeah I just as soon give guardians a spin halo 4 was actually the last title I played on the xbox of my parents house. So I need to know what happens and keep a lookout for an interesting power delivery system that isn’t a motorized scooter battery. The next time you go to Walmart, the retail giant announced a partnership with hacia, a company that provides wireless charging technology.
Walmart is deploying the tech in order to cut the costs associated with running a bunch of messy wires to gadgets like handheld scanners and surveillance cameras. Although there’s no word yet on whether shoppers will be able to charge their phones wirelessly and maybe do a little comparison. Shopping while they’re at it, because if there’s one company that needs to make more for their owners, it’s Walmart and then I was gon na say you like that James cuz, he’s kind of like pro-business and I’m anti business. Oh no! Oh, you don’t even know what I said. Yes, it’s business time and speaking of comparison, that’s today’s show. I don’t know how that’s John wrote this script so come on Wednesday for another, incomparably good dose of tech news. That’S a little too confident for my taste, John. In comparably incomprehensibly good dose of tech news, the news will just be okay on Wednesday, okay guys, especially because Linus is hosting .