• The 5950X can in fact hit 5GHz.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  4.9GHz is the regular boost clock, but it can go higher just on the standard settings, without explicit overclocking.
  
  It also comfortable beats the  5.3GHz 10900K on single-threaded tests and the 18 core 10980XE on multi-threaded tests, while clobbering the 10980XE on single-threaded and the 10900K on multi-threaded.
  
  
  
  
• The RTX 3070 is slightly faster than the 2080 Ti.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You can't get one right now because Nvidia delayed the launch by two weeks, and judging by the availability of the RTX 3080 (zero) you'll be lucky to get one any time soon.
  
  
  
• PayPal is going to support buying cryptocurrencies, at least in the US.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Buying cryptocurrency is a total mess in general.  Once you have any cryptocurrency, trading it is quick and simple, but buying it in the first place is unnecessarily annoying.
  
  
  
• OAuth 3 is coming because OAuth 2 is a complete mess.  (OAuth.net)
  
  However, judging from the articles, the plan is to make it worse rather than better.
  
  
  
• Acer held a virtual event and launched a whole bunch of stuff.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  None of it interesting.
  
  
  
• How the perfectly nice ironclad beetle survives being run over by a car.  (Gizmodo)
  
  Step One: Don't get run over by a car.
  
  
  
• It needed to be done, and it was.
  
  
  
  
  Yes, that's real, and it was specifically added for Korone.
  
  
  
  
  

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, October 23 2020 12:01 AM (eqaFC)

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