ah sorry I had to Wade through all these Black Friday deals but I did find some
tech news in there also no you don't need it Intel is either on the cusp of
launching its next gen art gaming gpus code named battle mage or it's not and
it just really really really looks like it is oh I love a good cusp cusp me
following leaked listings for two variants of the Ark b580 on Amazon Intel
insiders reportedly told website that apparently picked their name in the '90s
video cards with a z that the b580 and
b570 graphics cards will be unveiled this Tuesday December 3rd with the
actual launch scheduled for December 12th that news came along with more
leaked listings courtesy of a regular character in these stories momomo on
Twitter indicating the b580 will launch at around 250 to 260 USD it's
encouraging news given recent rumors that Intel was getting out of the GPU
business actually according to another leaker Jakin the company's previously
announced Celestial and Druid based graphics cards are still planned it's
discret laptop gpus that Intel's giving up on and I think we've gone far enough
down the leak Rabbit Hole well what if just no one buys these then if no one
buys you you're not real they Dre it let's hope these leaks are accurate so
we can get the truth next week and stop baselessly speculating about whether Pat
gelsinger wants to be my other dad he does can we just drop it Australia has
passed its controversial social media ban for children under 16 into law
eliciting a range of reactions from Fe
Dinkum to a i seems a bit dodgy I'm
sorry Australia rather than punishing children who managed to get around it
which many are already promising to do the law compels platforms including Tik
Tok Facebook Snapchat Instagram Twitter and even read it to find some way to
block access by miners which doesn't involve requiring government ID we'll
never figure it out like maybe instead of a capture to log in it asks you if
you're feeling particularly skibbidy today or ask you to make a pun only old
people can do it it's one of the most drastic measures taken in the struggle
to figure out what to do about these ubiquitous platforms that have been
demonstrably proven to be bad for us except for YouTube and Floatplane one
answer Tik Tok has come up with is to block the use of beauty filters for kids
under 18 in 13 European countries all
the other kids are are done for it's like Euphoria in real life over here
whenever they look up from their phone and see real people they just scream so
ugly meta is drawing up plans to spend
$1 billion on a more than 40,000
kilometer undersea fiber optic cable stretching around the entire world
Insider sources have told Tech crunch that line signs up with an earlier
report from Marine cable expert seil tagar describing meta's plans for the
mother of all submarine cables it'll be huge the most beautiful internet cable
you've ever seen crossing the globe in the shape of a w which is the wrong
presidential reference to make right now but meta doesn't care it would be the
first internet infrastructure fully owned and used by the tech giant which
would be a great milestone as long as it doesn't get severed by a Chinese ship
like the commercial holler currently being detained in international waters
on suspicion of cutting internet cables in the Baltic Sea meta thinks it'll be
fine though the route was reportedly designed to avoid areas of geopolitical
tension although it touches stria where
the tains a carrying on like a pork chop it's so big you can see it from the
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of a deal on today's quick bits they're 80% off which means they're even more
free than usual the FDC has publicly wagged a finger at companies failing to
disclose how long they'll offer official support for their products saying that
in many cases such non-disclosure may be illegal under the Magnuson Moss Warranty
Act the move indicates the Great flaming
eye of the FTC may turn upon companies
randomly deciding to leave customers with a 2-year-old bricked device like
the Spotify car thing which isn't really bricked but you can do stuff with it but
you get the point also the Flaming eye it's good flames in this case what if
Sauron was good you're looking stop looking at your phone according to Lucas
Gutterman one of the campaign directors that prompted the ftc's statement when
we don't own what we buy everything becomes disposable products keep dying
and we keep buying which is way too poetic coming from an organization
called the public interest research group analysts dropping hot
bars file the report Microsoft says it
would love to launch the Xbox game store
that Xbox president Sarah Bond promised would allow players to purchase and play
games directly from the Xbox app on Android but despite the features being
built and ready to go Xbox is currently
unable to launch them the quiet part Sarah isn't saying out loud is they're
unable to launch the features on the Xbox app in the play store without
paying Google 30% of every transaction they could launch the
features at any time I mean it's kind of like saying I'm unable to host these
videos wearing pants I just choose to do it this way don't Pan the camera down
everybody's suing Google and now Canada wants a piece of the action because
that's right say it with me we're just a
America with anxiety issues the great white North's
competition Bureau has sued Google over anti-competitive conduct in online
advertising which I think up here means some adte companies didn't get a
participation trophy thinking hey we're on a roll Canadian news Publishers also
filed suit against open AI for using Canadian news content to train chat gbt
even though it's pretty much all local coverage of which moose is blocking
which Highway at any given time that's our content bud I did the wrong
accent welcome to Canada hey that's our content
buddy Horizon zero dawn has gotten its
very own po World situation in the form
of light of mam an open world survival
crafting game from 10cent owned studio Polaris Quest that rips off Horizon's
post-apocalyptic world full of mechanical beasts to an offensive degree
but we're talking about a game that's bold enough to take a second in the middle middle of its frankly beautiful
7-minute announcement trailer to ask why can't human beings kill
God it's real even Bolder in addition to
PC iOS and Android the game is launching
on Horizon's home turf the PS5 before
you know it there will be a Lego game to match and look at this wacky new flying
taxi concept called the Blackbird from a company called cycl te which uses
technology called vo Schneider propellers spin circular arrays of
rotors to generate lift and thrust that's on sciencey take my money the
propeller design is often used on tugboats and fairies but no one's
thought to use it for aircraft until these guys did which I think is a great
sign now come back on Monday for more Tech news and I might talk about this
fun headline scientists turn a quantum
computer into a Time Crystal that never stops you want to know what that's about
don't you wait don't Google it just just just wait