Intel's getting desperate...

oh tech news my god have you ever beheld something so glorious since amd left intel in the price to performance dust with the ryzen 3000 launch team blue has picked up the old real world performance refrain you see amd often uses synthetic benchmarks like cinebench to demonstrate their processor superiority but at ifa 2019 intel once again argued that users shouldn't be tricked by these numbers since they don't represent real world real-world real-world performance that's how they talk when they're upset yeah intel wants the tech press and oems to accept their help to develop realistic usage performance testing using stuff like windows media player okay league of legends and photoshop and if that means intel's processors look better i'm sure that's just incidental to the benefit that users will be seeing from more accurate numbers yeah that sounds about right i'm being sarcastic we want a real world let's use windows media player samsung is delaying pre-orders of the galaxy fold again so to lay this all out they've launched pre-orders discovered the obvious fact that people are diamond will remove something that looks like a screen protector canceled the pre-orders and delayed the phone announced a new launch window and have now cancelled that okay this story has more ups and downs than a pogo stick kids use those still right well there's another twist the phone actually launched already in korea and promptly sold out but for us effectively that means nothing and i can say us i don't think there's a single person in korea watching this episode comment if you are oh anyways the extra work that samsung did on the phone seems to have improved it according to end gadget with a reinforced structure and a display that doesn't shout feel me feel me so huawei's mate x will actually have a competitor when it launches next month the fold is supposed to launch again in the us in the coming weeks but it's not coming to canada at all what ever it's just not coming we'd be really upset by this if we weren't canadian but we are so it's okay samsung yeah stuff happens you know it's fine but get em next time yeah try again and deep fakes aren't just fun in games anymore we've now experienced the first high profile case of the technology being used to steal huge huge amounts of money last week the wall street journal reported that an executive of a uk energy company received a call from someone he thought was his boss but was actually a digitally reproduced deep faith the voice was reportedly indistinguishable from the real thing especially when you're drunk this is wall street and so the executive did what he was instructed and wired 220 dollars into an offshore account normal wall street stuff the thieves actually called the same guy up again to try and arrange another transfer but he got suspicious and called his actual boss wait a second let me call you right back but by then it was too late he'd already been defect we've seen a lot of handwringing about the potential of defects uh doing harm and well it turns out the potential was real it was real fake it's it's fortuitous that microsoft and facebook are teaming up to launch the deep fake detection challenge the dtc i'm going to call it which will offer 10 million dollars in research grants to develop deep fake detecting technology which will basically just serve as an adversarial neural network to improve defect technology probably but anyway we're gonna we're gonna develop that technology and then after that we'll have to develop deep fake detection faking faking and we'll be so busy with this new arms race that'll be easy for the robbers the robots to take over and we'll have deep faked ourselves now it's time for quick bits brought to you by the ravpower filehub if you don't know about the filehub it's a three-in-one device a battery pack portable dual band wireless router and a wireless backup tool for your other portable devices what is this a joke no it's not you can use the filehub's built-in 6700 milliamp hour battery to charge your phone or tablet plug it into a wired network to provide high-speed wi-fi and connect sd cards and external drives to transfer files to and from your mobile device plus you can stream media content to tvs media players chromecasts you name it is there anything it can't do love although i don't even want to say that it might be able to love check out the ravpower filehub at the link below mighty brave you to show your face around these parts quick bits ifa 2019 is in full swing and there's a ton of products being announced including nokia feature phones lenovo laptops and monitors motorola phones a slightly altered huawei p30 pro that's a blatant attempt to get around the android van huawei's noise canceling airpod rip-offs i can't make that noise anymore but i would for that one and a dual screen attachment for the lg g8 are you gonna talk about them i just did right now 5g is kind of a high-end type thing but it's about to enter the mainstream 5g modems are being directly integrated into samsung's new exynos 980 and huawei's current 990 5g mobile processors plus qualcomm says their chipsets will have integrated 5g next year but if you can't wait samsung has already announced a mid-range 5g phone the galaxy a90 buy it buy it and go find the 5g chase your dreams coverage is okay if you can stand out in the middle of the street take care android 10 promises to speed up security updates for phones and it can't come to non-pixels soon enough and i have a pixel so i already got it checkpoint research has discovered a spoofing attack that can infect a device just by having an end user open a link in a text message oh god we're doomed and another vulnerability in an android video driver that was also disclosed this week could give attackers access to the os kernel so update your phones and if you can't request that in patching uh request acquiesce yeah requests nintendo is teasing what looks like another newfangled weirdo fitness doohickey for the switch involving a stretchy handheld ring and a thigh-high strap into which you insert the console's joy-cons to track your movements and i say it's about time for nintendo to get weird again you know lava was cool but making stuff out of cardboard is just too normal i just want to flail around on the floor in front of my friends with silicone all over me it looks like i'll be able to do just that and microsoft will not be testing its project x cloud streaming service in north america opting to go with korea instead because they have excellent 5g coverage and high bandwidth and low latency yeah okay yeah it all sounds pretty i can't pretend i'm not hurt though so thanks for dropping by and come back again on monday for more tech news if i'm not here it's because i'm i'm still waiting around to get peeled because that's what i do on the weekends