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MSI PRO MP273U vs ACER Nitro VG1: Cheap 4k Monitors Under $200

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Wendell made a trip to Micro Center on the hunt for a cheap 4k Monitor. Are IPS monitors this cheap worth it?

MSI PRO MP273U: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGW9S82G/ref=nosim?tag=level1techs

Acer Nitro VG1: https://www.microcenter.com/product/677640/acer-vg271k-lbmiipx-nitro-27…

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Edited by Autumn

The Model F Keyboard in 2025: A Timeless Classic!

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Wendell checks out the newest update from Model F Keyboards, proving that IBM's classic design is always in fashion!

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The Level1 Show January 24 2025: No Soup Drops for You

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0:00 - Intro
0:41 - Turns out there's 'a big supercomputer at Nvidia… running 24/7, 365 days a year improving DLSS. And it's been doing that for six years'
2:05 - Apple is pulling its AI-generated notifications for news after generating fake headlines
3:15 - Meta execs obsessed over beating OpenAI's GPT-4 internally, court filings reveal
3:46 - OpenAI's AI reasoning model 'thinks' in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why
4:52 - Microsoft relaunches Copilot for business with free AI chat and pay-as-you-go agents
5:27 - Google reports halving code migration time with AI help
6:43 - CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People "Don't Enjoy" Making Music With Instruments
9:00 - Deaths in US expected to exceed births in 2033: CBO
9:24 - Annual U.S. Dementia Cases Projected to Rise to 1 Million by 2060
10:09 - Longevity-Obsessed Tech Millionaire Discontinues De-Aging Drug Out of Concerns That It Aged Him
11:07 - ‘White people shouldn’t mess with it’: Native American church laments psychedelic cactus shortage
11:48 - Japan PM Ishiba struggling to find time to smoke at work
12:26 - Woman Enters MRI With Butt Plug, Ends Up In Hospital
13:21 - Southwest pilot removed from cockpit, booked for DUI
14:25 - Judge reassigned after texting 'My First Ankle Monitor' gag to another judge
15:56 - Woman says she got a side of marijuana with her chicken fries at Burger King
16:53 - French woman who believed she was in a relationship with Brad Pitt scammed out of €800,000
18:15 - Man convicted for murder may have believed he was a character in an anime scene
19:27 - North Houston parents question $1-per-minute late pickup fee at elementary school
20:20 - Soup You Can Suck On: Introducing Progresso Soup Drops, the Ultimate Cold and Flu Season Comfort
21:06 - Colossal raises $200M to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth, thylacine and dodo
23:35 - Squirrel causes Boulder County school to go on secure status Tuesday

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NVIDIA is Taking a Risk with this Generation: The Blackwell GeForce RTX 5090 Review and Benchmarks

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There is a lot to unpack here... figuratively. There wasn't actually much in the box itself. Wendell really likes this card though! Thanks, NVIDIA for sending us one to test!

More info on the forum! https://forum.level1techs.com/t/nvidia-rtx-5090-has-launched/224532

0:00 Intro
0:40 The Hook
1:34 Physical Specs
5:56 The Big Picture and Frame Generation
12:43 Power Consumption
14:40 It hertz
21:04 Our Benchmarks
28:45 NVIDIA Broadcast and AI
30:44 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

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Edited by Autumn
Benchmarks/Graphs by Amber

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The Level1 Show January 22 2025: Fly Like A Drone, Straight to DC

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0:00 - Intro
0:56 - Microsoft pauses hiring in U.S. consulting unit, memo says
1:17 - Meta to Cut Roughly 5% of Staff, Targeting Lowest Performers
1:41 - Why ‘Cost Avoidance’ Became an AI Buzzword for Holding Down Headcount
2:59 - JPMorgan Faces Staff Backlash After Return-to-Office Mandate
3:28 - Even Harvard M.B.A.s Are Struggling to Land Jobs
3:56 - Taiwan chipmaker TSMC says net profit rose 57% in 4th quarter
4:20 - Starlink is cheaper than many leading internet providers in Africa
5:40 - Musk Says Neuralink Implanted Third Patient With Brain Device
6:40 - Canadian ‘Super Scooper’ plane grounded after hitting civilian drone over Los Angeles wildfires
7:22 - DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, and the White House
8:28 - Nintendo just admitted that emulators are, technically, legal
8:57 - Telegram Shuts Down Z-Library & Anna's Archive Channels Over Copyright Infringement
10:00 - Microsoft testing 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific
10:54 - Oracle refuses to yield JavaScript trademark, Deno Land says
11:31 - Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans
12:51 - Duolingo sees 216% spike in US users learning Chinese amid TikTok ban and move to RedNote
14:47 - Huge GTA 5 Liberty City mod allegedly shut down by Rockstar
16:36 - Australian Open avatars helping tennis reach new audience
17:35 - Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards
18:58 - Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes
19:31 - Meta says it isn’t ending fact-checks outside the US yet
22:03 - Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed
22:40 - Zuckerberg on Rogan: Facebook's censorship was "something out of 1984"
23:30 - Court annuls marriage because bride thought it was just an Instagram stunt
24:50 - Users flock to Chinese Xiaohongshu, or 'RedNote,' with TikTok ban looming
25:15 - RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users

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Live: 2024 Recap 2025-01-22 5:15 EDT

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Join us live as we recap some amazing links with friends from 2024 :D

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The Level1 Show January 21 2025: TikTok: The Clock Strikes Midnight

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0:00 - Intro
0:45 - A New Jam-Packed Biden Executive Order Tackles Cybersecurity, AI, and More
1:56 - FTC sues John Deere over farmers' right to repair tractors
4:27 - Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban in the U.S.
5:37 - US finalizes rule to effectively ban Chinese vehicles, which could include Polestar
6:57 - FTC Says Refunds For Razer's False N95 Face Masks Are Going Out Now
7:42 - GM banned from selling your driving data for five years
8:29 - US removes malware allegedly planted on computers by Chinese-backed hackers
9:39 - Nvidia says US wants to control global access to AI chips
10:52 - Gov. Murphy calls for classroom ban on cellphones in N.J.
11:20 - Texas Sues Allstate for Collecting Driver Data to Raise Premiums
12:38 - New York starts enforcing $15 broadband law that ISPs tried to kill
13:23 - NY State Assembly Bill 2025-A2228
15:09 - AT&T Is Stopping Its 5G Internet Air Service in NY Because of New Broadband Law
15:47 - Texas defends requiring ID for porn to SCOTUS: “We’ve done this forever”
17:29 - Ohio Governor Will Let the Cops Charge the Public $750 for Bodycam Footage
19:07 - FBI Director Wray on threats America faces, decision to step down as Trump returns to the White House
20:43 - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell arrested on child pornography charges
21:35 - Ministers mull allowing private firms to make profit from NHS data in AI push
22:39 - UK kicks off review into training AI models on copyrighted content
23:18 - UK plans to ban public sector organizations from paying ransomware hackers
24:02 - Apple's new fees for app developers under fresh EU scrutiny, Bloomberg reports
25:02 - Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
26:20 - Indonesia plans minimum age for social media use
27:35 - Governments call for spyware regulations in UN Security Council meeting
28:53 - Google brings back digital fingerprinting to track users for advertising
30:17 - UnitedHealth hid its Change Healthcare data breach notice for months
31:05 - PowerSchool data breach victims say hackers stole 'all' historical student and teacher data
31:47 - Snyk security researcher deploys malicious NPM packages targeting Cursor.com
32:33 - Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption
33:14 - Microsoft sues service for creating illicit content with its AI platform
33:47 - Startup necromancy: Dead Google Apps domains can be compromised by new owners
35:31 - Russia's largest platform for state procurement hit by cyberattack from pro-Ukraine group

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Testing 256 GB of Memory on the ASUS Pro Art Z890!

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256 on a desktop platform? It's more likely than you think! Wendell investigates!

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What I've Learned Building High End Systems In 2024

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Check Opera One R2 out here!: https://www.opera.com/one

We built a ton of high end systems last year, and with Xeon and Threadripper both being very good options, we thought we'd get a video together about how to go about a high end PC build!

0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Cases
3:10 - Power Supplies
5:56 - Cooling
8:49 - Storage
14:39 - Networking
18:00 - Outro

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The Level1 Show January 17 2025: IGUANA EMERGENCY

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0:00 - Intro
0:23 - Another new year, another round of job cuts at Microsoft
1:01 - Getty Images and Shutterstock to Merge, Creating a Premier Visual Content Company
1:53 - Amazon workers in North Carolina to hold union vote next month
2:14 - Nvidia launches RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs: $2,000 RTX 5090, $1,000 RTX 5080, RTX 5070 / Ti are $549 and $749
3:24 - Nvidia CEO says his AI chips are improving faster than Moore's Law
4:42 - Quantum Stocks Drop as Nvidia CEO Sees Use Years Away
5:29 - NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s Fingertips
7:22 - AMD Shows Off Next Generation of Handheld Gaming PCs at CES 2025
7:51 - Samsung is rolling out a smartphone subscription next month
8:50 - Starlink’s New Mini Dish Delivers Portable High-Speed Internet on the Go
9:51 - Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of advanced chip
10:30 - Lenovo’s Latest Laptop Has a Rollable OLED Screen
11:29 - After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages
13:00 - Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI data centers in FY 2025
13:45 - Tesla directors to pay up to $919 million to settle claims they overpaid themselves
14:47 - The unlicensed OneDrive fun ends this month
15:30 - Microsoft Bing is trying to spoof Google UI when people search Google.com
16:40 - Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It
17:30 - Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
19:00 - Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks
19:38 - The Wiretap: Telegram Handing Data On Thousands Of Users To Law Enforcement Across The World
20:13 - Widely used DNA sequencer still doesn’t enforce Secure Boot
21:03 - Online gift card store exposed hundreds of thousands of people's identity documents
22:41 - Is 10,000 steps a day worth your personal data? How 80% of fitness apps are selling your privacy

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