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Events
Computex Behind the Scenes & What to Expect This Week | Computex 2017
I’m here in Taiwan for Computex, the culture, the food, the people, and the mountains. When I’m not running from the humidity, I love it here. I decided to take a walk behind the scenes. After that I went to the opening press conference. Let me know what you want to see the most this week.
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The Crit Show
Google Controlled Cities: You Will Be Assimilated | The Crit Show 0023
Meaty links: Anti-net neutrality spammers are flooding FCC’s pages with fake comments | ZDNet Snapchat is losing twice as much money as it did last year – The Verge Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs Eyes Toronto for Its Digital City – Bloomberg Tristan Harris, Former Google Employee, on How Your Phone Is Designed to Control Your Life – The Atlantic – The Atlantic The Secret World To Relaunch As Free-To-Play Game On Steam – techhgeeks American Gamers: 47% Prefer Consoles, 27% Prefer PC | KeenGamer Illinois College to offer scholarships to play video games | FOX2now.com Hopoo Games DevBlog — DevBlog #1…
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Shows
The Biggest Game Letdowns Ever | WASD
Let us know what your biggest gaming letdowns were. Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Game Deals: crit.tv/gamedeals Patreon: www.patreon.com/CritTV Website: crit.tv/ Forum: forum.crit.tv/ —————————– Discord: discord.gg/vsCxNSD Facebook: www.facebook.com/OfficialCritTV/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/OfficialCritTV/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/CritTV/ Steam: steamcommunity.com/groups/OfficialCritTV/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/OfficialCritTV/ Twitter: twitter.com/OfficialCritTV/ For marketing (sponsorship opportunities) inquiries email [email protected] Follow the team: Logan: twitter.com/Logan_RTW Pistol: twitter.com/pistolsteph Justin: twitter.com/DatAwesomeRobot Gimbal used: Zhiyun Crane on Amazon: amzn.to/2m9dFsd
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The Crit Show
F*(k The Cheat Makers, Phony VPNs, & Scammers | The Crit Show 0018
Scammers are everywhere. Cheaters are everywhere. We cover some of that, plus a lot more. Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Game Deals: crit.tv/gamedeals Patreon: www.patreon.com/CritTV Articles: Ubuntu 18.04 To Ship with GNOME Desktop, Not Unity – OMG! Ubuntu! Phony VPN Services Are Cashing in on America’s War on Privacy – Motherboard Tenth Amendment Center Blog | To the Governor: Montana Passes Bill to Ban Warrantless Collection of Electronic Data We Just Created an Artificial Synapse That Can Learn Autonomously Bitcoin to Be Accepted at 260,000 Stores in Japan by This Summer – Bitcoin News Mad Catz files for bankruptcy – Shoryuken…
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The Crit Show
Office Dance Party | The Crit Show 0017
We want to make these a bit more random. This week: Lian Li Desk A Moment With Doug Be sure to check out our new shirts: Articles: ‘Cards Against Humanity’ Creator Just Pledged To Buy and Publish Congress’s Browser History Life on Mars? Scientists successfully grow potatoes by replicating Red Planet’s environment | The Independent Hallmark of Aging Reversed by Senescent Cell Removal – LEAF Minnesota Senate votes 58-9 to pass Internet privacy protections in response to repeal of FCC privacy rules | Privacy Online News De-anonymization: How to identify your Senator within anonymous data (Whitepaper) : technology GitHub –…
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PC Gaming
Super Duper Ghouls & Ghosts: Battle Princess Madelyn | Kickstart This
We have been playing this demo in the office and thought you might like to check it out. Do so here: Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/603930/ Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/causalbitgames/battle-princess-madelyn Let us know what you think.
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Rant 30
Congress Says Our Privacy is For Sale, So Let’s Buy Their Browsing History | Rant:30
The Senate said it was fine and now Congress has agreed; The ISPs can share, sell, etc. your search data, browsing data, email data, etc. Let’s buy their history and share it. Links: Congress just cleared the way for internet providers to sell your web browsing history – The Verge The 265 members of Congress who sold you out to ISPs, and how much it cost to buy them – The Verge Purchase Private Internet Histories by Adam McElhaney – GoFundMe
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The Crit Show
Robots and Taxes | The Crit Show 0016
Links: Installing · Swan US Senate votes to let internet providers share your web browsing history without permission – The Verge DARPA’s Lifetime Learning Project Will Let A.I. Grow Up | Inverse Within 20 Years Automation May Take the Place of About $5.1 Trillion/year in Labor With More Than 98% of Savings Going to Those Who Are Already Multi-Millionaires – 60 Second Statistics This company replaced 90% of its workforce with machines. Here’s what happened | World Economic Forum Why robots should be taxed if they take people’s jobs | Robert Shiller | Business | The Guardian Share your real-time…
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The Crit Show
The Rise of the Biological Computers | The Crit Show 0015
Get a .tech domain and save a ton: Get.tech Coupon code: Crit1 for one year Coupon code: Crit10 for 10 years Links: New Artificial Synapse Bridges the Gap to Brain-Like Computers For The First Time in History Scientists Have Regrown a Mouse’s Scull Bone With Supporting Blood Vessels Without Developing Scar Tissue Using Synthetic Biology to Engineer Membrane Proteins – Twist Bioscience Purenetics – All People Are Not Created Equal .tech (2) Crit TV AMD Announces Ryzen 5 Lineup: Hex-Core from $219, Available April 11th Seagate Announces Enterprise Capacity 12 TB HDD: 2nd-Gen Helium-Filled Hard Drives Amazon is going to…
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Hardware
Build the Best i5 Gaming PC | GTX 1080, 7600k Overclocked, RGB – March 2017
We went with an i5 for pure gaming performance per dollar. Check out the specs: Specs: Intel i5 7600k CPU: amzn.to/2nqHVMx Gigabyte Z270 Ultra Gaming Motherboard: amzn.to/2nCuNTJ Corsair H115i CPU Water Cooler: amzn.to/2n7WUO1 Zotac GTX 1080 Mini: amzn.to/2mLJ2rR Corsair Individually Sleeved Cables: amzn.to/2nqvP5U Corsair RM 850 80+ Gold PSU: amzn.to/2mLrufu 16 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 : http://amzn.to/2mXLJan Corsair Neutron XTi 240 GB SSD: amzn.to/2lYlelz HGST 4 TB NAS Hard Drive: amzn.to/2nqy5dC BitFenix Aurora Case: amzn.to/2mXR3KM BitFenix Alchemy 2.0 RGB Strips: Click to see all the options BitFenix Spectre Xtreme LED 120mm fans: Click for the options Let us know what you think.
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The Crit Show
Does Twitch Want to Be The Better Facebook? | The Crit Show 0014
In memory of Mike. Links: YouTube CEO: Social media has ‘responsibility’ to greater good It’s official: Prenda copyright trolls made their own porn, seeded on Pirate Bay | Ars Technica Twitch goes after Steam with direct game sales Attention Broadcasters: Channel Feed Beta is Now Available Twitch goes full Facebook Wikileaks CIA Files – What this means for Internet security and encryption – ProtonMail Blog NH House Passes Historic Bitcoin Protection Bill + Cannabis Decrim Passed by Record 89%! | Free Keene Google says it’s already fixed many exploits from WikiLeaks’ CIA document dump – The Verge Prideful Sloth’s Yonder…
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Hardware
AMD R7 1700X @ 4.0 GHz Gaming/Game Dev Rig Build
We have been playing with these AMD parts a lot, and we have had amazing luck in the overclocking department. Our 1800X is not stable at 4.2 and this one is running nicely at 4.0 at only 1.33V. That’s good for all day computing. Also, these CPUs are an unreal value for unreal engine (or unity, cryengine, etc.) development because they are pretty good at gaming and awesome at productivity. At this price, it’s a no-brainer for game development. Here are the specs: Specs and prices: AMD Ryzen R7 1700X: http://amzn.to/2n8KUwj G.Skill Trident DDR4 16GB (upgrade to 32 for game dev): amzn.to/2mRsejP…
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Cases
Passively Cooled Xeon Gaming & Benchmarks Part 2 | Streacom DB4 | Ridiculosity
We got the 20 core to boot, but it was too hot to test. So, we tried out the 14-core Xeon… and it worked perfectly. Check out the video and let us know what you think. Parts: Streacom DB 7: amzn.to/2nbF0qd ASRock X99 ITX: http://amzn.to/2nbF0qd
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GPUs
Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Shenanigans | The Best Unboxing
We open up our GTX 1080 Ti, throw it on the test bench, test our our Cooler Master Master Liquid 240, throw a little overclock on the Intel i7 7700k, and have some fun. Let’s goof off and test hardware! Gear used: Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti: Click to search for various models Intel i7 7700K Overclocked to 4.9: amzn.to/2n3ON1j ASUS ROG STRIX Z270E Gaming Motherboard: amzn.to/2mqYD0k Corsair Dominator Platinum Series DDR4 @ 3200 MHz: amzn.to/2mtD4fS Cooler Master MasterLiquid Pro 240 Water cooling: amzn.to/2mqYD0k Lian Li PC-T60B test bench: amzn.to/2mqYD0k Fractal Design 1000W PSU: amzn.to/2mUQeA2 Samsung M.2: Click and pick your favorite Watch for our review coming…
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The Crit Show
Stop The Spin: Ryzen is Awesome | The Crit Show 0013
Many have been negative about the Ryzen launch, focusing merely on gaming performance rather than the beastly price to performance ratio when it comes to productivity. Some of these same people praised Intel’s $1000 X99 parts when they too do not compete well with the far cheaper Kaby Lake parts. The 1800X is not the gaming killer, it’s the X99 killer. Fanboys need to understand that competition is good and spin is bad. Links: AMD Ryzen 1800X Benchmarks, Review, and Our Opinions | AMD is Back | Crit TV Newly Developed Material, That Can Bend, Shape and Focus Sound Waves,…
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CPUs
AMD Ryzen 1800X Benchmarks, Review, and Our Opinions | AMD is Back
Ryzen is here and we have been testing the Ryzen 7 1800X. We have done more testing since our video and these review scores reflect the total data. At this point we have a very interesting CPU and a platform that needs to mature. We had random issues with the UEFI, boards loosing power, etc., but we were able to complete our tests. Ryzen is a disruptor. You’re looking at 8 cores and 16 threads starting at $329 (less than the price of the Intel i7 7700k). The Ryzen 7 1700, 1700X, and 1800X are all the same CPU with…
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