we've brought you some tech news to get you through the most evil day of the
year Black Friday when skeletons rise from their graves
and is that not what Black Friday means dbrand and Zach Jerry R everything
Nelson are taking competing phone case company casify to court for allegedly
stealing their tear down skin designs the theft was discovered when dbrand and
Nelson carefully analyzed casify Inside Out case for about 1 second as Nelson
explained in a YouTube video he and debrand painstaking reproduce the
internals of phones and laptops for their tear down series of skins but they
also include fun little Easter eggs in said skins because that's what Black
Friday is all about can I get a Hallelujah James say still you're
missing it what I don't understand Black Friday but I do understand it doesn't
make sense for casify to have the same exact Easter eggs on their Inside Out
products I also know what you're thinking quesi must have bought dbrand
skins scanned them changed a couple things then sold them as their own work
but you're actually giving them way too much credit based on the research of
Nelson and debr Attorneys at La it looks like casify used lower res product
images from D Brand's own site in a further update casify may have also
cheated off iix it as pointed out by lab's correspondent Jake Danes on a tip
from the LTT subreddit they did a journalism in case the defense they at
least tried to hide their thievery while Iranian company mahoot leather hit
contrl c contrl v and called it a day you can boost bo boo your earnings
goodbye does no one know how to properly plagiarize anymore kids these days are
so spoiled by Chad gpg Boo Boo's kiss in
Persian and get this case toy just released a statement calling themselves
a Bastion of originality a Bastion never call yourself a Bastion
you won't believe this deep Brad released that same statement four months
ago Lenovo is taking ASUS to court for
allegedly violating four of their patents what has Oprah Winfrey given out
lawsuits Lenovo is seeking damages for a halt on sales of any infriging products
within the US for example the company says the ASUS Zenbook Pro 14 oleds wake
on land Tech diagonal scrolling capability and even its hinge all
violate patents granted to Lenovo I don't know sounds a bit unhinged anyway
uh anyway in a press release on Tuesday Lenovo said the lawsuit was a last
resort as they had previously offered ASUS a cross- licensing deal earlier
this year as a solution now however Lenovo demands ASUS stop marketing
advertising selling Distributing basically doing anything with their
laptops in the United States while they're at it Lenovo decided to channel
Kelly Jensen from middle school by claiming this won't harm us consumers
for competition since ASUS's market share is so small ASUS some advice if I
may when you run home to your bedroom and lock the door blast sound guarden to
hide your Loud sobs Chinese factories are taking apart thousands of brand new
RTX 49 90s to make specialized gpus for AI according to posts on buo which is
offensive to me as a fan of GPU shortage 1 it was perfect it doesn't need a
sequel the export restrictions on AI chips to China took effect November 17th
just after NVIDIA was supposed to launch their Chinese export restriction
compliant AI chip the H20 but NVIDIA delayed that launch until the first
quarter of next year fortunately for AI companies crafty NVIDIA absolutely
pumped out RTX 490 orders to China before the restrictions took effect
unfortunately for actual Gamers those cards seem to have been bought up by
potentially sketchy companies are dismantling them and slapping their chips into blower style coolers that are
more suited for multi-card systems now the Chinese market has been flooded with
cheap coolers and 4090 pcbs which are useful for repairing melted 490s to be
fair you need to have a 490 to melt in the first place all these perfectly good
cards are going to AI Farms while Chinese gamers are left in the Lurch all
they want to do is drop at Lazy Lagoon with the boys now it's time for the
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don't spread it around but Linus has been diagnosed with a debilitating
neurological condition that prevents him from saying quick
bits it's also terminal developer hack hiive iio on Reddit has discovered a fun
workaround to Google's current Crackdown on ad blockers an extension that simply
mutes ads and plays them at 16x the original speed the developer also plans
to create a version that automatically clicks the skip button when it becomes available they've even submitted it to
the Chrome Store and it technically doesn't break the rules just like how
technically Google CEO sarpi can't pay a
large beefy man to break hack hiive io's
knees that would be against the rules hack hiive the bees knees there's
something in that speaker maker son will be expanding its business to offer its
first ever headphones releasing a $400 ere set next year possibly as early as
April which is such a natural progression as it's honestly kind of
weird that they weren't doing that already I can't wait to not be able to resell them Sonos is apparently
considering following up with earbuds again seems inevitable it's an ambitious
plan with a headphones code Nam Duke which sounds like uh intended to compete
directly with the Apple's airpod Max and other high-end headsets at least that's
according to Bloomberg's Mark Gman the Undisputed Gretchen Wieners of the tech
world that's why his head is so big it's full of secrets the Mean Girls reference
Samsung is catching some heat for removing some screen burn in protection
in their most recent OS update that may not be too bad according to ratings
10-month study of OLED and LCD burin simulating 6,000 hours of real world
usage while the OLED TVs they tested experienced some Burnin it wasn't
noticeable during normal use while every LCD had overt degradation but it's still
nothing compared to the images my brain has retained since early childhood when
I walked into my parents room at the wrong time I never wanted to see my
neighbors like that Google made a deal with Spotify that let the Audio company
avoid paying anything to Google if its users paid directly through Spotify
according to testimony shared during the Epic V Google trial if Spotify users
picked Google's payment processor while signing up Google would get a 4% cut but
that's way less than 15% Google's standard cut for subscriptions for the
past 2 years that deals even better better than the 10% cut Google offered
to Netflix who had watched enough Shark Tank to know it was time to say I'm out
prior to this testimony Google understandably requested the deal's
specifics remain sealed I wouldn't want to advertise the fact that I'll give you
Tech news for free if you're important enough I will and Ubisoft has issued a
statement regarding their surprise in-game Black Friday ads in yesterday's
game link that's a different channel it's kind of the same we reported that
players of Assassin's Creed Odyssey and some other franchise titles reported
in-game ads for 20% off Assassin's Creed Mirage that would prevent them from
accessing the map screen unless they press the button to make the ad go away
in a statement Ubisoft said the ad was supposed to show up in the main menu of
Assassin's Creed games but was misplaced due to a technical error in that they
meant to do it but since no one liked it it was technically a mistake but it's
never a mistake to come back on Monday for more Tech news and if you have a free moment please tweet at lonus and
tell him he's in your thoughts and prayers as he battles this Affliction
just don't tell him we sent you make it we don't want to we don't
want to make him feel shy