hey guys you're not gonna believe this there are people out there they're
trying to hack your brain with the tech news oh is it us Intel's ryan trout
posted an impressive video this week showing an unreleased Intel tiger lake
laptop with the company's xc integrated graphics the laptop appears to be
running battlefield 5 with graphics set to high at 1080p and getting above 30
frames per second now obviously that's not fast enough for the esports pros see
how it was fast right there but it's one promising indication that
xt graphics might actually be competitive with AMD's apus with
built-in vega graphics well well z graphics is that what they
call it z graphics hey z graphics
well we're gonna find out later this year but what we all really want to know
is are Intel's discreet z-power graphics
cards which are coming who knows when going to be any good brian if you're
listening can you actually just ship us one you don't need to tell anybody about
it like it can be our little secret i just want to like feel it in my hands
and i might even i might even put it down my pants
it was ea's turn to hold a not e3 conference yesterday and so they did
revealing some new games and expansions apex legends is coming to steam and
nintendo switch with cross play support later on this year yay also making their
way to steam are a bunch of other ea games like the sims 4 titanfall 2 and
dead space 3 rocket arena nope is that a period or a comma yeah i mean
everything's a sequel so it's hard to tell if like where the number does
yeah i mean look cod has a zombie mod
okay like the sims 4 titanfall 2 and dead
space 3. rocket arena is a new multiplayer
shooter that looks like a cross between overwatch and super smash bros and it
takes two is an innovative narrative adventure but let's be honest guys if
you weren't there for a new skate game which was also announced you were there
for star wars squadrons gameplay because despite the fact that ea is making it it
actually looks pretty decent with ship management straight out of x-wing versus
tie fighter nice and apparently no micro
transactions who are you yeah what oh yeah no you're still ea there's a new
fifa and madden game or whatever and also i cannot stress this enough did i
mention squadrons yeah it's pretty cool hopefully
apple is doubling down on its app store policies after widespread criticism over
the way the company is treating the makers of the hey email app apple wants
the app's developer basecamp to add an in-app subscription method instead of
directing users to the company's own website to avoid the app store's 30
percent cut apple's phil schiller has now said the app should never have been
approved for iOS as right now the way it works is users download the app and it
just doesn't do anything if they don't buy a
subscription separately but the thing is that's also the case for apps like
netflix which apple does make an exception for
the dispute and an anti-trust investigation by the european commission
are hanging over apple's heads as the company heads into wwdc next week but
hey maybe apple can distract everyone with enough shiny ARM-based macs to make
them forget that they've basically become the monopoly man from the board
game monopoly i actually i actually have a personal thing to contribute to this
Floatplane has exactly the same problem with our app because we actually cannot
afford to give apple 30 of the total revenue because most of it is supposed
to go to the creator um so yeah we actually have an app in
the app store but we have no way to update it even to apply bug fixes and
you know what else i'm upset about that i didn't get to the bat cracks until
now uh oh riley's doing them
now it's time for quick bits brought to you by blinkist the app that takes the
best insights and info from thousands of non-fiction books and condenses them
into 15 minutes because having time for reading
in this economy with blinkist you can listen to audio summaries or read them
yourself in a wide variety of categories such as business and finance parenting
psychology and self-help and they even have full audio books now too some of
their most popular titles include reinventing the product which looks at
how to use technology to compete in our increasingly digitized marketplace and
what to do when machines do everything which explains how automation can be
adapted to current business models and what to expect when the robots take
literally all our jobs the first 100 people to go to blinkist.com techlink
will get unlimited access for one week to try it out and 25 off if you want the
full membership so do that at the link below
thanks riley that quacks we're not done with apple news after closing then
reopening many of the company's stores apple has now closed stores again in
florida arizona north carolina and south carolina after new coronavirus outbreaks
have spiked in those areas this is a great reminder that pandemics
don't end just because you like to go through and play with all the demo ipads
in there in fact that's especially why they don't end please stop doing that
thanks krata a stadia timed exclusive game that
mixes game creation tools with fortnite aesthetics will feature state chair when
it launches on july the 1st this allows players to join others game sessions
through shareable links although the link recipient will have to own the 40
game before they can join it's the latest stadia feature that's been hyped
up before launch only to become delayed until it reaches the point that it
doesn't seem that exciting or useful anymore that's that's certainly well
that's the stadia strategy good job
but google's working on other link sharing technology that actually seems
quite useful a new url standard called
text fragments will allow users to link to specific text on a web page rather
than just the web page itself you can get the extension and try it out on your
friends who definitely didn't read that article before sharing it
GeForce now experienced crushing defeat earlier this year when game publishers
left the service on mass but since enacting the gaming subscription
service's new opt-in policy they're actually finding that they're
starting to come back not like begging on their knees just you know
dignifiedly square enix has just brought back franchises like deus ex just cause
life is strange and tomb raider which is appropriate as GeForce now similarly
closets way back out of a metaphorical jungle but with less tank tops
and a company called space perspective has announced test flights of their
spaceship neptune which is for speaking honestly less of a
spaceship and nothing to do with neptune and more of like a giant balloon meant
to take paying customers up to the stratosphere to observe the curvature of
the earth before space debris ruptures the membrane and they all drop their
champagne as they hurtle back towards the dirt
that sounds like a very expensive way to almost certainly perish but hopefully it
will put to rest once and for all the flat earther conspiracies oh wait it
won't because they'll just blame it on the curvature of their masks and helmets
and this episode is now over come back on monday for more tech news that is if
you haven't taken a ride on a space balloon by then and died