first things happen in the world that have to do with tech and gaming and all
that and then second we tell you about them I thought we went over this one
more time Google has been playing games with the internet's Hearts concerning
Android 11 last week a beta site for the developer preview of the OS went live
but was quickly taken down causing many to think that the site's launch was a
mistake but today Google just went ahead and launched the preview for Android 11
about a month earlier than expected and yes it's Android 11 not R since Google
gave up the whole naming OS versions after desserts thing cuz I guess they
ran out of desserts so even though it was so cute and Android rocky road is
the OS we all wanted Android 11's changes are mostly under the hood right
now with updates to networking support privacy and platform compatibility
hopefully though you'll be able to turn all those up to 11 compatibility is
through the roof oh wow I hope this is the last time we have to talk about
foldable phones and how much they suck more than we expected but yeah they do
turns out the Galaxy Z flips fancy fibers inside the hinge don't actually
keep dust out that well at all as shown by if fixes tear down and some Motorola
Razor users are finding their displays are becoming deformed with weird bumps
and that phone's not even 45 yet but if
you want to feel hopeful Again The Verge has a great article about how the Galaxy
Z Flip's display is actually glass
despite the questions that have been brought up by Jerry everything's scratch
test apparently Pure Glass can Flex if
you just make it super duper thin like we're talking 30 microns which is how
thin the zaps zlap zps glass is that's
thinner than an average human hair and it's even thinner than my thinner than
average chicken hair so Samsung's claim of ultra thin glass is true even though
on zlip it's covered with a layer of plastic to protect the glass that sucks
butd and Samsung thinks it's good enough to sell to other companies so all we can
do right now is wait for foldables to get better or just buy these ones if
you're bored and can't figure out what else to do with your riches that you
apparently have you Scrooge McDuck you go to space you could have go to space
and it was already impressive when saber interactive managed to Port the
graphically demanding The Witcher 3 to Nintendo switch but this week they
outdid themselves all over again the game's Graphics have been tweaked even
more with new abilities like adjusting blur and anti-aliasing and a new
sharpening filter just turn it off but more importantly cross safe has been
added for Steam and good old games so you can make progress on the PC version
then pick up right where you left off on the switch wow The Witcher 3 is
appropriately the third switch game to support the feature after Divinity
original sin 2 and civilization 6 and
frankly it should be the norm and now I'm just upset that it's not already and
now the quick bits call my name stadia
has added support from more more than just pixel phones with the Razer phones
1 and two ASUS Rog phones 1 and two and every Samsung Galaxy phone since the S8
getting official support so I guess some people now have one less obstacle when
stadia actually gives them a reason to want it oh rude Zing a leaked cinebench
result shows Intel's upcoming 10th Generation core i7 10700 F matching the
performance of AMD's ryzen 7 3700 X which would be exciting if the ryzen
ship didn't launch last year and we we
didn't know that by the time Intel actually launches 10th gen rizen would
probably have something even better coming out so don't give up yet they
could still make it cheap and what is a bit of a modern tech Horror Story a
reporter for the guardian was stranded on a remote dirt road after the Prius
she rented from car sharing startup gig lost its Cellular Connection and shut
down not scared yet how about this story where researchers tricked a Tesla into
going 8 5 mph by putting tape on a speed
limit sign that red 35 sure Tesla's working on a fix but
it's already incredibly spooky oh my I'm scared Staples is trying to head
off the retail Apocalypse in its own way by adding podcasting Studios to six of
its Boston stores okay the studios will
be equipped with Pro equipment space for four people and a price T of $60 for a
60-minute session on the one hand this is actually a cool way to reuse retail
space for something useful but on the other hand as if we need more podcasts
right there's there's literally millions but carpool critics is one of the good
ones so check us out anywhere you get your podcast broadcasting live from
Staples and the Jetman team have reached another milestone in Dubai with pilot
Vince refit taking off from the ground hovering in place and then shooting off
to reach a new alltime high altitude
using the company's jet powered wing suit what is this no words know when the
suit will be used to fight crime or M more realistically when Dubai's police
will order about 50 of these things just
go f they like to go fast all the sand in your face BYO goggles and it's time
for me to Jet man away because this episode is over folks come back on
Friday for more Tech news no promises that we won't be talking about folding
phones fingers folded