people people will always disappoint you
but you know what the tech news won't
ah back in february elon musk announced that tesla would accept bipcoin payments
but a lot can change in two months baby you could have babies
start raining lots the crypto could destroy the environment in that time for
all we know so on wednesday elon announced on twitter that tesla will not
support bitcoin transactions because of the cryptocurrency's reliance on fossil
fuels crypto fans pointed out that well actually 75 of miners use renewable
energy but other people pointed to reports that show that's primarily
happening in remote areas of china with lots of available hydro and wind energy
but tesla's announcement isn't the only thing troubling crypto heads the world's
largest cryptocurrency exchange binance is now officially under investigation by
the u.s justice department and the irs in connection with a report last year
that claimed binance was laundering money for criminals
oh i'm not a crypto head like you james to
be fair binance is incorporated in the cayman islands and nothing good happens
there except so many fun things on the plus
side dogecoin is up after elon musk tweeted about it once again can someone
stop this man not from doing the cool stuff like tesla spacex yeah keep keep
that up just grimes can you put an app timer on twitter for him no screen time
grimes watch is the show so that's how i apple and epic continued slogging it out
in the courtroom this week over fortnite and in-app purchases on the iOS app
store but judge Yvonne gonzalez rogers
suggested a potential compromise what if apple allowed developers to advertise
lower prices outside the app store like on their website for example which would
be normal you're kind of dumb no it's not
welcome to my market you should go over there and buy it for
cheaper there though at the other place they can't even like hint that you can
buy somewhere else this is a great example of the the cow complex the cases
to be fair the judge is trying to wrap her head around this it's a complicated
issue it's also apparently confusing for one of apple's expert witnesses who
brought a list of games to court that were supposedly available on iOS and pc
that were definitely definitely not that at all and one more interesting thing
from the trial this week a number of companies including sony nintendo and
roblox are requesting that the court reseal documents that were made public
as part of the trial as they may contain confidential information about said
companies and are working
like the fact that sony charged developers to enable cross-play on
playstation this is all interesting but i can't wait until next week when the
trial enters the physical combat portion
choose your weapon the the pickaxe from fortnite
all right i've had enough and uh oh i can see some new graphics
cards coming real soon they're just oh there's they're coming around
oh MSI posted references to the rtx 3080 ti
briefly before taking them down yesterday and references to desktop rtx
3050 ti cards were spotted in eec
filings as well then there's the spec leaks for AMD's Radeon rx 6600 and 6600
xt gpus which will reportedly both feature the navi 23 GPU and 8 gigabytes
of gddr6 memory references to a new AMD
GPU which is thought to be a budgeteer navi 24 based model were also spotted
under the code name beige gobi yep sounds pretty budget
what is that what is a gobi what there's an indian
dish that's isn't that with an i this is a goby of course even if we did want to
buy these we probably won't be able to but if there's one upside to the chip
shortage it's the increased funding now being poured into chip production tsmc
is considering building an additional foundry in addition to the one they're already doing in arizona perhaps to get
some of the 52 billion dollars the us is considering pumping into domestic chip
manufacturing and meanwhile south korea is planning to spend 450 billion on
semiconductors over the next decade so we will be able to buy gpus again
eventually as long as they're in an apple computer
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tech the quick bits chose me
i am the quick bits man spacex has announced a deal with google
to install starlink base stations in google data centers which is expected to
help businesses reach the tech giant's cloud services from rural and regional
parts of the planet because normally all those people have access to are regular
clouds i'm so sorry spacex that'd be
scary oh dang why would that be scary
google keeps all of our data safe so i don't have to worry about it
colonial the massive pipeline company that was hacked into shutting down half
their network were able to regain system control after paying the 5 million
ransom demanded by the hackers ransomware attacks particularly based on
common fishing techniques are becoming more common and more impactful yesterday
large parts of ireland's health care system were just shut down by hackers
please talk to the people in your life about the importance of not pressing the
big red button that says free money in that email it's not free money
it's pain i thought it was a pot of gold it was that irish
oh i got an email for a free pot of gold
sorry ireland amazon has removed the vast majority of products from popular
accessory maker aki oki i don't know i never know how to say it because
according to amazon they were paying for fake reviews it seems like that's true
but couldn't someone also speculate that amazon is just about to release a bunch
of hockey knock-offs and that's also why they did this you heard it here first
based on nothing john prosser over at front page tech has once again released
renders of an unannounced device this time the google pixel 6 and pixel 6 pro
and i hope he's wrong about what they'll look like because yeesh that is an ugly
camera bump or it looks really cool i i don't i can never tell
prosser also showed renders of apple's rumored m2 or whatever powered macbook
pro that's supposed to come later this year so there that might be what they
look like or or not and Intel Labs has shown off a machine
learning technique that makes gta 5 look even more realistic than it already does
as far as i can tell they changed first person vehicle gameplay so that it looks
like footage from a shitty webcam and i guess yeah it looks like a realistic
cloudy day in 480p it's the future of gaming
it does actually look real have you seen it of course you haven't hella tight
dude wait what did did i say that did i write that you know oh i did you know
what would be hella tight if you came back on monday for more tech
news man that'd be so popping fresh