Weekly News Roundup #9
Monday
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/15/ai_delete_data/
Good luck deleting someone's private info from a trained neural network – it's likely to bork the whole thing
This will prove fun for GDPR removal requests when your data is in one of these networks. This will pretty much stop any AI built using personal information from being used for anything long term as it will need to be re-trained every time someone wants their information removed. Though one way i can see past this is to have the AI trained on anonymized data and then use that to run predictions on live data but then not save any data from this decision, This would make it less accurate but would still allow it to run.
Tuesday
https://www.pocket-lint.com/laptops/news/microsoft/148681-alexa-windows-10-default-voice-assistant
Alexa turn on my PC: Microsoft looks to open up voice control beyond Cortana
This is good news, Both for Microsoft and for Amazon. With Microsoft finally realising that their personal assistant was not going to cut it with current offerings from Google, Apple and Amazon. With them adopting alexa this gives a much greater functionality than that currently offered by cortana with a lot of integrations. If you get full functionality of an echo device or limited is up to Microsoft or your device (Microphone quality, noise canceling ect). Now we just need to hope Microsoft can unbreak the search functionality of windows as its been pretty hit or miss since the introduction of cortana.
Wednesday
https://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/132743-amd-radeon-rx-5700-xt-pushed-beyond-22ghz-ekwb-cooler/
AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT pushed beyond 2.2GHz with EKWB cooler
The EKWB results by themselves are promising for the AIB partner cards. However I would have liked better cooling from the blower card as i have a node 202 attached to my TV as a sort of PC Console, This would help with cooling in this case as it would exhaust its heat forcefully. Back on track however this means we should be able to get RTX 2070 Super performance out of the card with better AIB card coolers or adding a water block. I may still get the Radeon blower however this depends on what new performance we see in August.
Thursday
https://hexus.net/tech/news/ram/132827-samsung-starts-mass-produce-12gb-lpddr5-mobile-dram/
Samsung starts to mass produce 12Gb LPDDR5 Mobile DRAM
Ok this seems weird to me, Normally the path of hardware progression is Server > Desktop > Laptop > Mobile. And as far as I am aware there is no x86/64 CPU that supports DDR5 yet so this new tech is skipping the normal stepps to come out on Mobile first. I would also like to know when we will see this be picked up in the x86/64 space, considering we are only just seeing the adoption of PCIe 4.0 im hoping this is not too far away.
Friday
https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/19/google-stadia-free-game-per-month/
Google's $10 Stadia Pro plan includes one free game per month
This news makes this subscription service more palatable, When it was just £10 a month to get the service and then pay the full price for games it was stupid. Especially the case knowing goggles track record in canceling services meaning the library you built up in this service of full cost games would instantly cease to exist. This change makes it into more of a gaming netflix but with a restriction of one title a month, If you pick your games well there should be enough content in that game to last you the month. So if you can't afford a pc now want to play some games and don't mind the possibility of lag this now seems like a solution.