wow look at this weather beautiful day for tech news
i don't need this
thanks james happy monday to all although i can't
blame you if your spirits are a little dampened if you've been waiting to get your hands on the new flagship graphics
cards from NVIDIA who announced on their official forum that the GeForce rtx 2080
ti would be delayed yeah i'm very angry fortunately the wait
shouldn't be super long as general availability has only been pushed back
one week to the 27th of september or 10 days from today no reason was given for
the delay but with supply of the new flagship card already super scarce
scarce i would have said constrained okay
super constrained it isn't terribly surprising however the rtx 2080 non-ti
remains on schedule for general release on september 20th so the wait will be
very short if you really feel compelled
to be an early adopter let's just hope the reason for the delay
is supply and not issues with the rtx tech because i don't want to spend one
more minute of my life without ray tracing when i'm on my deathbed stop i
don't wanna although it's been widely known for a while that samsung is
working on bringing a foldable smartphone to market which is also
something that we all need in our lives asap right now yep well a new challenger
has suddenly appeared huawei has reportedly thrown its hat into the ring
they don't just want to release their own device but they also want to beat samsung to the punch it's continuously
been looking like samsung would be the first out of the gate but rumors have
been swirling that huawei's foldable phone could appear as soon as early next
year with huawei ceo richard yu confirming that such advice is less than
a year away he went on to discuss the possibility of a fold-out device that
could serve as a replacement for a traditional pc monitor
a little far-fetched though we may have to wait a while to see how that story
unfolds can you imagine having a pc where the
monitor just falls out oh we have that that's a laptop oh
well if you're a sucker for retro gaming you'll probably be interested in these
nes style controllers that were just announced for the nintendo switch at
first glance they look nearly identical to the original nes controllers from the
1980s with the joy-con attachment on top being the only noticeable difference of
course this also means they won't be compatible with every switch game as
some need the additional buttons and analog sticks and infrared sensors and
vehicles attachments
for games they're meant to be used with a library
of 20 nes games that will soon be appearing on nintendo switch online and
they aren't cheap either with two of them costing 59.99 usd the d stands for
dollars james the the same price is an entire nes classic but i somehow have
little doubt enough people will still be lining up to fork over their money
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it's time for quick bits there's an old saying that you'll catch more flies with
honey than with vinegar i've never heard it but and ah damn it i need to do that
again there's an old saying that you'll catch more flies with honey than with
vinegar i've never heard it but apparently Linus no not our Linus but
the creator of Linux Linus created Linux yeah no not not our Linux not our Linux
the other one the creator of Linux Linus finally appears to have gotten it as
Linus torvalds has stated he's taking a break from maintaining the Linux kernel
and apologize for his vulgar tirades against other Linux developers tolvard's
torovalds
torvald's behavior has been infamous in the Linux community for some time even
dismissing politeness as an american concept
really though like manners weren't a thing before 1776
apparently were you there no that's when america that's when america
broke out from pangaea some amazon employees might be in hot
water after reports revealed that some of them were accepting bribes from
amazon marketplace sellers to delete negative reviews and pass along
reviewers contact information the bribes are reportedly more prevalent in china
due to workers having lower salaries it's unclear how many marketplace
sellers have engaged in bribery but it may explain why some of their shipping
costs are so darn high but there's some better news on the
amazon front too especially for residents of the windy city
the first amazon go location outside of seattle just opened up in the chicago
loop that's what the windy city refers to
as part of a larger push to get the cashier-less stores into more major
urban markets unfortunately it's not open on weekends but i bet they could
still make a killing during the lunch hour if they started offering grab-and-go deep dish pizza
is that a chicago thing this deep dish is that i thought new
york had the pizza i'm perplexed i
that's i'm the constant state of perplexity 15 european countries and
dependencies along with washington state in the us have signed off on a
declaration to crack down on illicit gambling centered around video games
specifically the loot box problem the declaration also stated the game
developers are responsible for making sure their features do not run afoul of
gambling laws and although the statement does not have the force of law it's a
signal we may see a number of jurisdictions pass actual restrictions
well that sound sounded like a wrap with similar effects to each other in
the near future imagine telling someone 10 years ago that governments were
legislating how you unlock content NVIDIA games i just thought that was
i just thought that was interesting you know
and if you live in the u.s keep an eye on your smartphones for a presidential
alert on wednesday october 3rd as fema will push out a national emergency alert
test the idea and it's a great idea is
to give the president the ability to reach the entire country quickly if
there's a major event of national impact but the white house hasn't indicated
whether they might also use the system to send out particularly spicy tweets i
hope this comes at like three in the morning you up
that's our show for today so come back on wednesday for more spicy tech news
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