wow cyber monday we made it so
are we inside the computer now are you a tron
what do you think cyber monday is wow cyber stuff t-mobile says they've
officially launched america's first nationwide 5g network quote unquote
covering more than 1 million square miles and more than 200 million people
but wait a second the u.s has about 330
million people and 3.53 million square
miles i'm not an electromagnetic
spectromologist but that doesn't seem like a nationwide network to me james
unless t-mobile means that only people who can afford 5g phones and who live in
an area with coverage qualify as members of the nation that doesn't seem like a
nation at all it seems like an exclusive club just like the one i wasn't allowed
into on friday because of my insistence on bringing james dog with me who's
james dog it's a really cool guy now t-mobile's 4g
network covers 325 million people and it seems like the uncarrier is definitely
banking on that to fill out the gaps if you have a 5g phone you'll still have to
wait until friday to use its particular capabilities and even then you probably
won't see more than a 20 increase in speed as current 5g uses the same 600
megahertz spectrum as 4g that is if you're part of the nation that's
supposedly getting this nationwide coverage i mean i'm not even getting any
service in vancouver corporate fat cats
ah we're in canada oh
corporate fat beavers apple has now fully ingested or acquired
the smartphone modem department of Intel after announcing the meal i mean deal
back in july stupid the one billion deal leaves Intel
still able to work on 5g modems for non-smartphone devices like pcs and
vehicle systems the deal was born out of an interesting situation apple started
buying Intel modems in 2016 after its patent lawsuit with qualcomm got intense
meanwhile Intel was complaining about qualcomm's anti-competitive practices
including being a real hard ass about patent fees and supposed copyright
infringement which left team blue's mobile modem business dead in the water
however apple reached a 4.5 billion settlement with qualcomm in may so until
cupertino can develop an in-house modem with their new acquisition they'll
reportedly use qualcomm modems in future iphones and Intel has been left a little
salty about the whole ordeal supporting the ftc's investigation of qualcomm for
anti-competitive behavior even after their modem business was sold
man it is just not Intel's year i'm starting
to feel bad for for old bob swan and a fresh leak of the playstation 5 dev kit
has kicked off some discussion about the upcoming next-gen console war turns out
that wacky v-shaped design is real
and while the console will almost certainly look less early 2000s when it
launches next christmas people seem to be experiencing a bit of a
cyber truck moment with it like after your initial gag reflex hits
you start to realize well
you're right i love it the cooling system being on top could
work great even with the console sitting on a carpet or something the leaked picks led to some
commentators asking about the xbox project scarlet dev kit which is
reportedly not quite finished and in the hands of very few developers jason
schreier suggested that microsoft is trying to surprise sony this time
by not having the dev kit ready regardless
head of xbox game studio's matt booty
that is his real name told gamesradar that scarlett aims to be backwards
compatible with every xbox game which would be awesome it's probably just a
regular box without a cool v-shape though it's shaped like an x
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the european space agency has approved the budget for their half of the
asteroid impact and deflection assessment or ida mission ida is a joint
mission set for 2027 in which nasa's dart probe would smash into the dual
asteroid system didymos didymus
creating an impact crater and a change in trajectory that would be analyzed by
the esa's hera that's a spacecraft it's a greek goddess
and that too and no this isn't the result of some astrophysicists getting
drunk and wanting to smash into stuff the point is to learn whether we could
prevent a deadly asteroid impact because the dinosaurs couldn't
even with all their technology
facebook has rolled out a new tool in ireland that will allow users to easily
transfer all of their facebook pictures to google photos why would they want to
do that i'm getting off the platform
how are you doing you'll never have me lucky picks
see you later well for one they want to do it to appease critics who accuse them of
having a social media monopoly plus if google has your photos too facebook can
point at them and say no see they're do they're doing it they're doing data
collection too it just might confuse europe enough to work sources inside
tiktok say the social video company has suppressed the distribution of posts by
users with disabilities videos by such
users were made to only appear in their country of origin or taken out of
circulation once they had a certain view count the move was ostensibly designed
to prevent these users from facing bullying or discrimination by
discriminating against them these antibodies let me get bullied by foreign
powers yeah the logic there is a little i only want to be bullied by locals
right then it's fine these anti-bullying policies have now been discontinued but
for me the damage is done i'm never tick-tocking again amazon has
joined microsoft and google in launching a quantum computing service even though
quantum computers are basically still in the research phase amazon is also
launching amazon transcribe medical an ai power transcription service that will
help doctors keep track of details during conversations with patients like
dosage amounts and symptoms wow neither of those things seem ready
for prime time prime oh like amazon i didn't even get that
you did it and a new update for super mario maker includes a master sword
power-up that turns mario into link
through some sort of dark sorcery link can block attacks with a shield and
attack with a sword arrows and bombs this is cool but guys link is not part
of the mario universe i was willing to forgive his inclusion in mario kart but
how much further can we go before every mario game is just super smash bros all
right well i guess that's it for this episode come back on monday for more
tech news everybody is monday
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