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Can a PCIe Dock Help The Beelink GTi14 Ultra Become A Full PC?

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Can we make a mini PC that's as powerful as a full desktop with the power of technology???

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The Level1 Show October 2nd: Scammiest Man Alive

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0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy
2:13 - Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days
4:01 - Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen Desktop Instability Root Cause Update
5:18 - AMD could launch Ryzen 7 9800X3D early to steal Arrow Lake's thunder
6:15 - LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers
7:12 - Wall Street warms to nuclear power as banks including Goldman Sachs reportedly back new push
8:28 - Hands-on with Orion, Meta’s first pair of AR glasses
10:00 - Samsung Galaxy Buds FE reportedly exploded in a user’s ear, causing permanent hearing loss
11:04 - Microsoft deprecates Windows Server Update Services
11:40 - Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
12:17 - HP printers apparently have AI now, because of course they do
13:10 - Disney+ Begins Password and Account Sharing Crackdown
15:07 - Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered forces PSN login for PC users if they decide to upgrade
16:05 - More YouTube Premium price increases land in multiple countries
17:03 - Chinese-Linked Hackers Breach U.S. Internet Providers in New ‘Salt Typhoon’ Cyberattack
17:38 - Kansas Water Facility Switches to Manual Operations Following Cyberattack
18:48 - Trump hack continued into last week
19:28 - 11 million devices infected with botnet malware hosted in Google Play
20:10 - Internet surveillance firm Sandvine says it's leaving 56 'non-democratic' countries
20:59 - Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in jail for role in FTX fraud
22:29 - Brad Pitt Imposters Arrested for Scamming Women Out of Money

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The Level1 Show September 18th: Boldly Folding Where No Man Has Ever Folded Before

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0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Microsoft Lays Off Another 650 Staff From Its Video Game Workforce, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Sends Memo to Staff
1:40 - Verizon to eliminate nearly 5,000 employees in $2 billion cost-cutting move
2:12 - Samsung Elec plans global job cuts of up to 30% in some divisions, sources say
3:06 - Games industry layoffs not the result of corporate greed and those affected should "drive an Uber", says ex-Sony president
4:16 - AMD’s new Variable Graphics Memory lets laptop users reassign their RAM to gaming
5:21 - China's Huawei prices trifold phone, to launch same day as Apple iPhone 16
6:28 - Oracle designing data center that would be powered by 3 small nuclear reactors
7:33 - Sleep apnea detection is coming to the Apple Watch
8:16 - AirPods Pro 2 adds 'clinical grade' hearing aid feature
9:47 - Sony’s PS5 Pro is a pricey test of next-gen consoles
11:07 - Former Samsung execs arrested for allegedly using stolen memory tech to build chip factory in China — suspects leaked $3.2B worth of Samsung secrets
12:04 - Ex-Google exec said goal was to 'crush' competition, trial evidence shows
13:19 - Here's how Android apps are getting better at detecting sideloading
14:01 - Americans used record 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023
15:13 - YouTube on TVs is cramming ads down your throat even when pausing videos
16:54 - Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads
18:06 - Mark Zuckerberg says he's done apologizing
19:21 - Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option
20:18 - Police brushed him off. So he exposed an international bike theft ring on his own
21:56 - TikTok craze leads to Iceland cucumber shortage

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The Level1 Show September 11 2024: I Know Why the Prime Birds Sings

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0:00 - Intro
0:59 - Amazon Drivers Complain Their Ability To Sing Along With The Radio Is Being Stifled
3:11 - US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level Since January 2021
4:18 - Volkswagen could close plants in Germany as Chinese carmakers surge
5:15 - Costo Collagen EULA is Confusing
6:47 - Intel launches Lunar Lake: claims Arm-beating battery life, world’s fastest mobile CPU cores
7:18 - Intel CEO to pitch board on plans to shed assets, cut costs, source says
7:57 - Intel's Dow status under threat as struggling chipmaker's shares plunge
8:41 - Qualcomm explores acquiring pieces of Intel chip-design business
9:19 - Intel cancels 20A process node for Arrow Lake, shifts focus to 18A
10:55 - Microsoft Rolled Out AI PCs That Can’t Play Top Games—and There’s No Quick Fix
12:21 - Acer’s first handheld gaming PC is the Nitro Blaze
13:04 - World's first zinc-ion battery megafactory opens for business
14:17 - Alexa endorses Kamala Harris, refuses to talk about Trump
15:13 - Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug
16:15 - Recall 2.0? Microsoft plans another AI feature that scans everything
17:40 - Apple stands by decision to terminate account belonging to WWDC student winner
19:50 - Canva hikes prices by 300pc as it readies for IPO
20:35 - Eminem loses five-year legal battle with Spotify over music streaming rights
22:06 - Concord Is Suddenly Getting Pulled Offline With Sony Promising Full Refunds
23:15 - Leaked Disney Data Reveals Financial and Strategy Secrets
24:10 - YubiKeys are vulnerable to cloning attacks thanks to newly discovered side channel
25:02 - Cox Media Group Reveals Its 'Active Listening' Software Spies on User Convos, Clients Include Meta, Google

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Mobile CPU with a built in Desktop Chipset Adapter

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It's time for another AliExpress Adventure! This time with a mobile CPU soldered onto an LGA desktop chip adapter!

Get yours here if you want it: https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256807315346243.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2u…

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The Beelink GTi14 Ultra: A Mini PC That Can Use A Full Sized GPU?

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A Mini PC that can connect to a full sized GPU through PCIe? It's more likely than you think!

https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-gti14-ultra9-185h

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A Laptop With No Screen? Checking out the MinisForum AtomMan G7 Ti

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A mini pc with a laptop form factor? That's weird! Let's take a look!

https://store.minisforum.com/products/atomman-g7-ti

0:00 - Intro
0:40 - Unboxing and overview
3:47 - Thermal and cpu/memory benchmarks
5:46 - Hardware considerations
8:28 - Gaming benchmarks
8:52 - Outro

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Is Gaming On The Ryzen 9 9950X Better On Linux Than On Windows?

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Y'all like Linux? Of course you do, that's why you're here! Wendell gives you the scoop on the more powerful half of AMD's Ryzen 9000 offerings, and makes a strange discovery about gaming on linux.

0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Overview of the CPUs
2:26 - How about performance?
3:42 - A word on memory
4:47 - Are desktop CPUs still important?
6:57 - What's this about gaming?
8:41 - Closing thoughts

Check out the main channel vid here: https://youtu.be/NSQGcB9zoPM

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Ryzen 7 9700X and Ryzen 5 9600X Review and Benchmarks

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AMD has released their newest Desktop Class CPUs and Wendell is here to show you what's up!

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The Level1 Show August 2 2024: Hello... Girly?

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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - OpenAI training and inference costs could reach $7bn for 2024, AI startup set to lose $5bn
1:32 - AI Adoption Creeps as Enterprises Wrestle With Costs and Use Cases
2:58 - Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models to date
3:43 - Mark Zuckerberg imagines content creators making AI clones of themselves
4:32 - Google's new weather prediction system combines AI with traditional physics
5:13 - The AI job interviewer will see you now
5:37 - AI Is Already Taking Jobs in the Video Game Industry
7:00 - The Bookseller - News - Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI
7:44 - AI-generated faces can be spotted by studying eyeballs, researchers find
8:42 - iFixit CEO takes shots at Anthropic for 'hitting our servers a million times in 24 hours' and even the AI company's own chatbot disapproves
9:31 - AI models fed AI-generated data quickly spew nonsense
10:31 - AI boyfriends from Replika and Nomi are attracting more women
11:18 - Alphabet to invest another $5B into Waymo
12:04 - Boeing-owned Wisk expects to begin carrying passengers 'later in the decade'
12:55 - Waymo Is Suing People Who Allegedly Smashed and Slashed Its Robotaxis
13:57 - Scientists say regulation is urgently required for ‘living robots’
15:12 - Robot dog can stifle weeds by blasting them with a blowtorch
17:01 - Russia plans to create core of new space station by 2030
17:57 - NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its ‘most unexpected’ find on Mars
19:17 - May solar superstorm caused largest 'mass migration' of satellites in history
20:26 - Australian scientists genetically engineer common fly species to eat more of humanity’s waste
21:24 - "Smart soil" grows 138% bigger crops using 40% less water
22:18 - Bye Bye Superbugs? New Antibiotic Is Virtually Resistance-Proof
23:05 - Western neuroscientists reveal thoughts of brain-injured patients
24:05 - Mean girls: uOttawa researcher studies the hows and whys
25:44 - Olympics: New Zealand report Canada for flying drone to record training
26:23 - Paris Olympics 2024 prepares for motor doping detection in cycling
27:15 - Oklahoma court rules pregnant moms can use medical marijuana legally
28:37 - Mattel introduces blind Barbie, Black Barbie with Down syndrome
29:43 - Hello Kitty is 'not a cat,' but rather a 'little girl,' creators say
30:24 - Hugo awards organisers reveal thousands spent on fraudulent votes to help one writer win
31:03 - In shock move, California Forever pulls measure to build Bay Area city
32:08 - They're No. 1: U.S. Wins Math Olympiad For First Time In 21 Years
33:12 - ‘Are you serious?’: Hawaii Island mayor in disbelief after 3rd vehicle drives into harbor
34:52 - ‘It makes no sense,’ Toronto building had to tell its residents to stop throwing feces at electrical workers
36:15 - Trash balloons from North Korea hit South Korea's presidential compound
36:51 - Ohio woman pleads guilty on felony charges for calling 911 nearly 400 times
37:47 - Cops investigated after claiming criminals 'turned into cats' and escaped from cells
38:53 - France's rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on morning of Olympic opening ceremony
40:39 - Kentucky motel ordered to pay $2 million after guest dies from 150-degree shower
41:44 - Ohio court rules restaurant not responsible for injury from bone in boneless wing
42:27 - Jack in the Box employee struck by car over missing chicken strip: Police
43:27 - Team GB athlete Charlotte Dujardin pulls out of Paris Olympics after 'whipping horse 24 times'
45:31 - Flying fish damages NJ couple's Tesla parked in Atlantic Highlands driveway
46:50 - "Cocaine Sharks" Found In Brazil, Scientist Unsure Where They Get The Drug
47:36 - Florida police tell people to stop taking selfies with ‘depressed’ black bear
48:15 - Texas family wraps baby bird in warm tortilla to keep is safe
49:10 - Meet Crush, the rare orange lobster diverted from dinner plate to aquarium by Denver Broncos fans
50:27 - Why "salmon sperm facials" have enchanted Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Aniston

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