Tek Rumors 0008: Google Gets Backlash for Mining and Selling User Data | Noctua Annouces Chromax Fans | AMD Fury X2 Coming Before 2016 | AMD Annouces New FirePro Graphics Card

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The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is accusing Google of breaking a Pledge. what is it? well before I go into it, Google has been providing many schools with Chromebooks for Educational Use. however you would think something like that would be safe for education and for students right? WELL NOPE. Google is now in the door with spying on you with their new Chromebooks. Google has broken their pledge with the EFF and has taken all of student's location and user data without the user's permission and sold it. Now Google is under backlash. As to how it does this, Chromebooks "Sync" feature is turned on by default what it does is track your passwords, user data and websites you visit and sends it all to google. this is nothing new, Google has been doing this for years and no one complained about it. but it's good to see someone step up.

If you're a big fan of Silence and exceptional fans, and don't like the brown and beige colored fans but don't want to pay much for the Industrial fans which range for $30 dollars a fan. well Noctua has released new product line entitled Chromax. which is an all black fan with each corner coming with a colored anti-vibration pads to stop vibration. each of the anti-vibration pads come in either your choice of; Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and Black Colors. these fans will come in multiple flavors. the NF-F12 (For Airflow) the NF-S12A (For Static Pressure) and the NF-A14 (For Airflow). allegedly the price of the fans are unknown, but these colored accessories are allegedly $7

There is now strong speculation that the Fury X2 which is AMD's Dual GPU card that will have TWO Fiji XT Cores is coming sometime in a few weeks. and will come with an alleged price of $1070.

of course take this with a Grain of salt but we might see it hopefully by X-Mas or January the latest and Benchlife.info has confirmed that there are the Gemini (or Dual FIji XT PCBs) engineering samples in existance that are being tested this month as well.


So AMD has announced a new FirePro card. this is a small form factor card targeted at workstation applications and CAD. and will come at a price of $349. however from a more technical standpoint and somewhat of a disappointing one, the W4300 is a smaller and energy efficient version of the already existing W5100.

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Holy crap, a Noctua fan for a reasonable price and doesn't look like dog shit? It's almost like we're in 2015 or something.

EDIT: See below \/\/\/
https://forum.teksyndicate.com/t/tek-rumors-0008-google-gets-backlash-for-mining-and-selling-user-data-noctua-annouces-chromax-fans-amd-fury-x2-coming-before-2016-amd-annouces-new-firepro-graphics-card/92511/12?u=wiemerimer

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About the FuryX2 its actually exist and gonna come out eventually even corsair manager stuff spoiled it in their official youtube channel on their "Corsair Show" but none cared and the video have like 8k views. I dont remember the time but if anyone care ll find the furyx2 reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxQRrYfwr4E
They also show it on E3 show but none spoke about it later, So there are probably some technical difficulties they try to overcome.

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it's allegedly going to be priced around $7 to $10. though it's not available in Newegg yet.

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Shameless Self Bump

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the fact a company/foundation is finally complaining about it that's why instead of taking the slice of pizza and shutting up.

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They are complaining cause their chromebooks have been using for Education has the data mining features turned on by default after they clearly ordered them to turn them off.

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dude your making this much bigger than it needs to be. No shit Google has been mining people's data for years. the whole point of the article is someone has finally started raising hell about it. that's it. nothing more, nothing less. People do tend to give Google a free pass.

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Sorry to burst your bubble. but the announced price from Noctua is for the colored rubber mounts that you can see in the picture, Is NOT for any Fan.

That's $7 for a pack of 20 rubber pieces to mount your fan without screws.

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It's fixed.