i don't want to spoil today's episode but here's a hint
it's got something to do with tech news
we're going to start off with something other than apple and epic for once and
that's uber and lyft on monday the two ride sharing companies were officially
ordered by a california judge to reclassify their drivers as employees
rather than independent contractors uber and lyft both said they'd have to
suspend operations as a result because they couldn't just adapt their
infrastructure within the 10-day limit allocated by the order but an appeals
court ruling has since allowed the companies to keep operating
the skirmish comes after years of debate over whether ride-sharing startups can
legally treat their drivers as contractors when many of them feel their
employees by another name and the story comes just as uber's former security
chief is being charged with obstruction of justice for hiding the company's 2016
security breach from the ftc if you're angry about all
this and you just want to do something you could boycott uber
i'm sure that's much easier than normal right now so
okay but now i guess we are going back to apple and epic news publishers are
now joining the brawl over the app store's 30 cut trade organization
digital content next which represents dozens of publishers including the
washington post and the new york times has written an open letter essentially
asking apple hey what's the deal man with the specific
deal in question being the smaller fifteen percent cut that apple asked of
amazon's prime video fortnite is still on the offensive as well holding the
hashtag free fortnight terminate terminant it's a tournament this weekend
tournament offering prizes such as the evil apple-headed tyrant from the 1984
parody video and a free fortnight hat like like a physical hat but apple has
also taken action filing a declaration essentially accusing epic of fabricating
this whole scandal which it totally did to be fair apple revealed emails from
epic ceo tim sweeney asking tim apple to
exempt fortnite from the 30 cut before the whole thing started pretty weasley
moves but again here's your daily reminder that it's okay to hate both
apple and epic in this situation in fact if you do that means you're really smart
rick sanchez would be proud and back to our other favorite topic recently
tik tok the social app announced that it deleted more than 380 000 videos and
banned around 1 300 accounts this year for violating the platform's hate speech
rules which i'm sure they would have done if they weren't under threat of
being banned in the u.s we'll never know it also recently came
out that google parent company alphabet considered bidding for an acquisition of
tick-tock but ultimately decided against it being acquired by either microsoft or
oracle looks to be tick-tock's way out of the ban but even if neither of those
deals goes through tick-tock says they will continue operating in the country
with a company executive saying that they have multiple paths forward to keep
running i mean i guess that's what i would say too it's good to know that no matter what happens waves will still be
able to recreate anime dances because if you can't do that
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down take a long drag on a quick bit
that's smooth look at this leaked photo of the GeForce
rtx 3090 next to an rtx 2080 it's huge
not only is it a triple slot instead of a double slot card but it's also way
taller and beefier in general so if chunkiness is any indicator of the
performance then this thing is going to fly through games like a chungus through
jelly it's a chalky boy okay now look at these renders of the google pixel 5
created by on leaks and indian tech site price baba based on the information
that's leaked so far it basically looks like a pixel 4a but with the sparkly
looking texture and dual rear cameras instead of just one but if you like
getting overly excited for things that will probably end up being
just okay then hey eat your heart out okay
fine that's not fair sparkles are pretty cool sony has revealed some more info
about the ps5 controller's extra features saying that it'll be able to do
things like lock the triggers in place when your gun jams in game that's
actually pretty sick experiencing not just virtual but physical frustration
from what sounds like an irritating game mechanic i i can't help but be excited
hopefully the ps6 controller will be able to teabag me after i get pwned too
yeah man 505 games the publisher of the
highly acclaimed control has attempted to explain why it had to limit free
next-gen upgrades to the ultimate edition of that title its justification
that it couldn't let players upgrade from the non-ultimate edition to the
ultimate edition because they're technically separate titles and to do that would be
to compromise the very structure of reality itself no way to just like
sorry their hands are tied and a fighter jet ai built by heron systems just beat
a human pilot five nothing in darpa's alpha dogfight
trials after it defeated at least seven other ai systems and i don't know how
many times we've said this on this channel but i'll say it again stealth
watch the movie stealth riley must have written that
because i actually haven't seen the movie if he thinks it's so good maybe we should cover on carpool critics our
movie podcast which happens to be having its biggest day ever right now
apparently the new episode is pretty sick so you guys should go listen to it
or even watch it on youtube carpool critics and come back on monday we'll have other
people giving you other news equally fun
almost