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(link) Wednesday, 2-September-2020 00:24:50 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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NVIDIA have a special GeForce event at about 2am AEST. It's no great secret that this will be the launch of their next family of video cards, the 3xxx series based on the new Ampere architecture. Keep on top of things in our Video Cards & Monitors forum, particularly this thread.
Meanwhile it's 2020 and where the hell is my flying car.. tired spotted that it's in Japan, or at least will be, in 3 years. Or could be. Maybe. The Japanese Government has committed to a roadmap for an 'air mobility revolution', setting up a council to bring government agencies, researchers and companies together in the effort to build a flying car. Making sure all of the technologies used by the cars can communicate through sophisticated sensors and a common language will be mandatory if the pilotless future is to be realised. "I think flying cars will become normal in the near future," Mr Fukuzawa said.
Netflix have a free section now, where you can watch content like Stranger Things without needing an account. Obviously it's a marketing thing but hey, free content.
Speaking of free, Super Tux Kart is an Open Source Mario Kart alternative. For a free game available on multiple platforms (Windows, MacOS, Linux, mobile OS), this update list is impressive. On top of it being free, the game is also open source. This way, anyone can hop in and make their own changes or fixes and submit them to the team.
Samsung have a new flagship 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 SSD which claims some insane transfer speeds. Samsung gave us an exciting glimpse of the 980 Pro SSD at CES 2020, briefly revealing the drive's underlying technology, read/write speeds and storage capacities. While rumors of a late summer launch have now proved correct, Samsung, in the meantime, managed to find another 500 MB/s increase in the drive's read speeds, pushing it to an impressive 7,000 MB/s at launch.
That much bandwidth might be useful if you're trying for 1000 fps in Doom Eternal, thanks metamorphosis. Earlier this year id's lead engine programmer said that id Tech 7 powering Doom Eternal could run at 1,000 fps. Which is kind of a funny theoretical laugh because nobody has a computer that can do that, at least I thought so, but apparently there are overclockers out there who can in fact do that. Bethesda recruited Polish hardware retailer x-kom to figure out how to run Doom Eternal at 1,000 frames per second. Then they did it.
Not content with taking us to Mars, Elon Musk now wants to make us cyborgs as well. But Musk's vision is far more radical, including ideas like "conceptual telepathy," where two people can communicate electronically by thinking at each other instead of writing or speaking. The long-term goal is to head off a future where artificial intelligence vastly smarter than humans exterminates us.
Finally here's a very useful Windows 10 Simplifier Script from metamorphosis. This is a set of settings changes and tweaks I regularly apply on new Windows 10 machines, primarily to reduce the amount of 'noise' the user has to deal with. Many of my clients are elderly, and small things irk them. With this in mind, there are a number of annoying Windows 10 features disabled, some silly default settings corrected, and visual effects are turned off (only those which slow the responsiveness of windows, and are unnecessary). Other than that, some useful scripts and programs external to this script will be run automatically if they're placed in the same folder.
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