hey wait a second it's supposed to be black friday it's not
it's not black at all it's blue and orange and very colorful i'm light
everywhere NVIDIA is in some hot water after an
earnings report revealed that they apparently sold
175 million dollars worth of rtx 30
series graphics cards to ah yes they brought back the old villain star wars
style cryptocurrency miners
the cards are of course already in high demand but ethereum miners are
particularly interested since changes to the currency coming in december will
make older hardware less effective at mining it some fans are furious at
NVIDIA thinking that the new gpus aren't in stock because they've all been bought
up by miners but unless my math is way
off that 175 million is only around six
percent of the total 2.7 billion that NVIDIA made in GPU sales during the
third quarter of 2020 and given that every other major recent product launch
has also had stock problems we probably shouldn't be quite so quick to attack
NVIDIA for things other than the things we already attacked them about get a
different jacket jensen amazon is also in hot water for well
multiple reasons the first one is the company's shared network program
sidewalk amazon plans to use a portion of all the network bandwidth from all of
its connected devices from echo smart speakers to ring smart doorbells to
generate one giant network meaning your
alexa enabled devices will be directly connecting to your neighbor's devices
and to who knows how many other gadgets that happen to be in the vicinity the
feature will also be enabled by default
with consumers having to manually opt out if they find the idea somewhat
disconcerting i do the other reason to be mad at amazon today is well it's
black friday allegedly meaning that more attention is
being called to the company's questionable treatment of its employees
amazon workers are protesting unrealistic expectations and low wages
across the world today even though the corporation is giving full-time staff a
christmas bonus of 300 whole dollars company-wide these bonuses amount to 500
million dollars which seems like a lot until you hear that amazon is expected
to surpass 100 billion dollars this
quarter for the first time i mean honestly i'm happy for jeff bezos being
successful like him it's a lot of hard work he personally carries a lot of
those packages on his back yeah and get ready for some
changes coming to Windows next year leaks have given us a peek at what
microsoft is working on including cloud pc which would fittingly provide access
to a cloud-based Windows pc that one could access through any browser
microsoft also plans to ship Windows 10x
in the first half of 2021 along with its dual screen surface neo and other
mid-range laptops and tablets although it will not run win32 apps natively
which will be well interesting and thanks to Windows
10's new baked in support for Linux microsoft is apparently working on a
feature that would allow users to install Android apps straight from the
microsoft store that is awesome i've been waiting for years to use
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don't they german developer alexander graf apparently managed to install the
ARM version of Windows 10 on an apple m1
mac inside a virtual machine seemingly proving apple's claim that microsoft
could make official support possible if they would just change that gosh darn
licensing policy and while this is cool the real question
that we have to ask is why would you want to run Windows 10 on ARM on
anything it kind of sucks the eu has
voted in favor of developing a system that would require tech manufacturers to
provide a repairability rating label for their products in what looks like a win
for right to repair advocates the repairability ratings would be part of a
standardized system hopefully incentivizing companies to make their
products more like things that you could fix instead of things that you could use
for a little while and throw away i've heard of those i think my grandpa had
one oh did you get one another microsoft story here the company is also in hot
water for the microsoft productivity score a feature that was added to
microsoft 365 last week what the hell is
this it lets bosses track how their employees use microsoft's suite of tools
which sounds like a fancy way to describe workplace surveillance oh no is
Linus reading this forget i said anything go to the next story no i think
that's not cool yeah hey let's get them yeah doom has been installed on yet
another device that it was never meant to be run on youtuber stack smashing has
managed to play it on nintendo's new tiny game end watch although it does
chug pretty bad honestly this has got to be the one redeeming story of 2020.
there really is no telling where they'll install doom next to the moon
oh they could install it on the moon lander and germany's national rail
operator deutsche bahn has announced that they are planning to replace their
diesel-powered trains with ones powered by hydrogen oh wait a second germany um
i don't want to be the one to bring this up but did you forget about another
little hydrogen-powered transportation endeavor you guys uh understood you know
what it doesn't matter pumping train cars full of hydrogen seems like a a
great idea humans humans they don't need to breathe anyway
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