now you listen here okay if you don't give me that tech news
right now i am walking off this set and i am never coming back because you're
supposed to give them the text that's not oh shoot microsoft and gamestop made
some kind of deal last week to have the retail chain use microsoft's cloud
infrastructure in its back end and have its employees use surface products at
work but gamestop investors were also
told by the company that the deal included gamestop getting a share of the
revenue from all digital sales on xbox
console units sold by gamestop now the
exact details of the deal are unclear with some insiders saying that the
percentage of sales gamestop will get might be as low as one percent
but hey if your game stop that might be enough to make it
worthwhile as gamestop's physical stores have been
struggling for quite some time and sony is predicted to sell more next-gen
consoles than microsoft so then maybe with this little bit of
encouragement gamestop will be inclined to push xboxes a little harder than
playstations even if the target audience consists of a few confused grandmas just
trying to get the kids something for christmas christmas wow microsoft
targeting grandmas what happened to don't be evil wait that was google
that's google you can't script mistakes for me then
correct me the oculus quest 2 launched this weekend
enthusiasts concerns about the headset's facebookening have apparently
pretty much come true quest 2 users without facebook accounts had to create
one in order to log in a new requirement with this headset but once some of those
users linked their facebook and oculus accounts they were banned for unknown
reasons turning their fancy new vr gadget into an inconveniently shaped
bookend facebook says they're trying to help those that are affected but the
incident does kind of serve as vindication for those who do not like
the fact that what is basically the coolest piece of mainstream vr tech out
there is owned and operated by zuckerberg and co
reviews of the headset from those who are not bothered by such privacy
concerns have been generally positive it does have a sharper screen more powerful
chip and a cheaper price after all not to mention that it's lighter
but is all that worth it if you know that mark is watching you sweat through
your underwear playing beat saber just something to think about watch me
no no no no and bad news for those holding on to
their google play music subscriptions for dear life like me the ship is going
down not later but currently the service has stopped working on smart speakers
that use google assistant and users can no longer purchase music from the google
play store now if you're determined to keep getting music from a google service
then youtube music is meant to be your new home and google did just release an
app for the service on apple watch but then confusingly not on their own
smartwatch platform wear os showing that the company's attitude towards
supporting its own products is as confusing as ever what do you want but
hey at least if you want to identify a song that you hear playing on a service
other than google play music you can hum or sing it into search now and get a
presumably fairly accurate answer i wonder if it'll recognize the tech
linked theme song i wonder if they'll make family sharing
work on youtube music i have a family plan and because youtube doesn't let
kids use it they can use google play music but they can't use youtube music
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for kids and for other people a leaker on twitter claims that a core
i7 part from Intel's upcoming rocket lake s lineup can turbo up to 5.2
gigahertz while the core i9 can reach up to 5.5
in a separate leak an alder lake s CPU is pictured which will use a larger lga
1700 socket and everyone knows the more
pins you've got the more performance you get
well maybe not but hey if you can't beat them make your socket bigger that's what
my grandma used to say according to political insiders the us justice
department and the european union are looking at whether to force google to
sell off chrome since chrome based browsers account for over 70 of the
market but like in fairness what are we supposed to do use firefox
actually that is a real option i'm sorry firefox users we love you guys youtube
is joining facebook and twitter and taking steps to crack down on content
related to the q and on conspiracy is that how you pronounce it or is it q
anon i don't know it doesn't matter it's stupid now this doesn't mean a ban on
all q anon related content but just that any content that targets individuals or
groups with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify violence will
be prohibited because you're allowed to think that nasa is made of cheese
for all you want really as long as you don't try to blow it up
after facing a lawsuit over faulty xbox controllers experiencing joystick drift
microsoft has extended the warranty for the elite controller series 2 to 1 year
up from 90 days i mean have to get away with a 90 day warranty on a controller
in the first place even though joystick drifting does actually sound like a super cool move in
like from like a fast and furious movie he's joystick drifting and in a year
that saw doom running on a pregnancy test and a smart fridge of course
someone would not only run the game on a graphing calculator but would also power
that calculator with a room full of moldy potato batteries the metaphors are
simply too real we better just end this episode before you know we get even more
real and i start getting sick from mold inhalation yeah so come back on monday
for more tech news i promise it'll taste at least as good as moldy potatoes