man how did people live before tech news it seemed so crazy i
think they like hunted animals probably
sucks ever since the slow
painful death of the Windows phone back in 2017 microsoft has stayed away from
the mobile world congress better to suppress those nasty
nasty memories but now the company has sent out invitations to its press
conference at the trade show in february that's on the 24th where we may get a
look at the second generation hololens one of the events hosts will be
technical fellow alex kipman who is best known as the leader of microsoft's mixed
reality efforts and one of the brains behind hololens i guess anyone who wears
it their brain is behind hololens tag you want to get stupid about it
a new hololens would make sense the first one came out way back in 2015 and
we've seen more competitors emerge in the meantime like magic leap and
real they need an apostrophe they want me to say it properly stock of the
original hololens units has been unavailable for more than a month now
which lends even more credence to the idea that we will in fact see a hololens
2 at mwc or maybe we'll see a foldable
surface device microsoft is reportedly working on adapting Windows 10 to better
suit the new class of devices or maybe a portable xbox james settle down
come on your pills the epic game store has stirred a bit of
controversy concerning its policy on influencers hey
me medu sergey gaoyankin the store's
director of publishing strategy was heard on a russian language podcast
discussing the store's policy on developers paying influencers to market
their games he allegedly said indie devs would pay a 20 cut for influencer
marketing while bigger studios would only pay a 5 cut he later clarified his
comments on twitter saying the backlash was due to a mistranslation duh right
developers won't be required to spend a certain amount of money on influencer
marketing but they will be able to in a way that will help both smaller
developers and smaller influencers like twitch streamers by giving them a five
percent cut if a viewer makes a purchase through their link the program called
supporter creator is designed to help smaller devs get the same access to
creators that only big publishers can afford and it was actually used to get
fortnite to be as popular as it is today so maybe that information is enough to let
you judge whether you're for or against the program or whether you don't care
and we should just move on to the next story
a california judge has ruled that the police cannot force people to unlock
their phones using biometric options like a fingerprint or face or eye scans
even with a warrant previously unlocking
phones using passcodes was protected but this ruling extends protection beyond
two biometrics magistrate judge candice westmore said that government requests
to unlock devices run a foul of the fourth and fifth amendments which
protect against unreasonable searches and self-incrimination respectively
supporters of the ruling celebrated as an attempt to bring the law up to speed
with technology but critics say that it could prevent officials from finding
truly incriminating evidence like what if someone has their system font set to
comic sans but we can't see it and they're doing unironically you can't
just let a monster like that roam free oh god
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below google pixel fans been excited by leaks of the pixel 3 lite and pixel 3
light xl but the leaked specs might dampen spirits a bit the leak indicates
the pixel 3 light runs a snapdragon 710
processor a lower powered model than the snapdragon 845 in the regular pixel 3
and 3 xl so it looks like google isn't taking a cue from apple's iphone 10r and
10s which have the same processor disappoint let's hope at the very least
that the pixel 3 lights have
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Intel is planning on selling a processor called the i9 99 90 xe 9990xc with 14
cores and 28 threads four cores fewer than the 9980xe
but a beastly clock speed between four and five gigahertz the company
apparently thinks it's special enough that it won't actually be selling it
directly system builders will have to bid for the chips in online
actions in bastion just kidding normal auctions held online the world over
these auctions are gonna be held each quarter uh the chips also don't have any
warranty which is one way to drum up some hype i guess i mean we we reported
on it here it is it's working we're part of the problem sony has finally
acquiesced and allowed full cross play between the ps4 the pc the xbox one and
the nintendo switch in rocket league
following the same feature being enabled in fortnight last october so many
fortnights ago for now players from different platforms still won't be able
to party up together and enter matchmaking but they can play custom
games console players are welcome to take on riley on pc as he will beat you
with a mouse and keyboard
a company called william has shown off a
bluetooth sensor that doesn't have a battery it collects energy from ambient
radio signals like wi-fi cellular and bluetooth that's right it harvests
bluetooth energy in order to send out bluetooth energy it's like a perpetual
bluetooth device to infinity and bluetooth
and youtube is testing little buttons underneath videos that will allow you to
fine-tune the recommendations that the site makes making it easier to enter a
never-ending spiral watching stuff that
you want to watch rather than pimple-popping videos which you can
spiral on but you you don't want to trust me on this
you can't unsee some of this stuff
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