oh hey guys just here at the mall to pick up some tech news
what that's where i get it from the global chip shortage has affected
all kinds of sectors that use technology
that being all of them but the automotive industry
has had enough ford and general motors have announced partnerships with various
chip makers including global foundries tsmc nxp semiconductors and qualcomm
which the company say opens the door to joint r d and manufacturing that could
ease the burden of titan supply lines and increase the supply of cars with
more advanced features okay cool so
how exactly will they do this um
yeah they uh they don't know the announcements didn't mention any
specific actions any of the companies will take to achieve their goals but
look you gotta start somewhere step one is saying we're gonna fix the supply
shortage step two is
i'm an ideas man nfts are a polarizing
subject right now but thankfully someone made a place where everyone is welcome
to download all the nfts you heard that
right every image linked to an nft on the ethereum and solana blockchains is
currently downloadable as part of a 20 terabyte torrent file hosted on the
nftbay.org okay because it's like the pirate bank
the site was put up by an australian developer named jeff huntley as a way to
hopefully comment on and educate the public about the nature of nfts as you
may know nfts aren't an image they're a token that may be linked to an image
hosted on a server somewhere and now also hosted in a 20 terabyte torrent
file so you can max out your internet connection to own the crypto bros whatever you think
about them it looks like nft's normalization cannot be stopped with the
latest innovation being virtual commemorative tickets nfts given to nfl
fans you can give it to your kids say i was there and this proves it
the twist is that your kids are nfts too in this example
that's the future and facebook is backtracking a bit with a new test that
will give a subset of users control once again of what they see in their news
feed users in the test group will be able to turn up or turn down the amount
of content they see from specific friends groups and pages on their
personal facebook home page the move is likely a response to general criticism
of the way facebook and instagram's algorithms just
make society worse but meta is also probably trying to get ahead of proposed
legislation that would force social media companies to give users the option
for an algorithm-free feed that's a trend we're seeing across multiple
companies apple's new self-repair service is undoubtedly a response to
activist shareholders and pressure from the ftc and twitter recently dropped
support for google's amp system for news article links which has also come under
scrutiny recently could it be that the internet might be getting
better now it's time for quick bits brought to you by samsung who is reopening two of
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toronto and the other here at metrotown mall in burnaby it's right i'm in it
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why are you looking at me with new repair services product training and
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i'll meet you there look quick bits are going to happen in
your life at some point you'll have to deal with them xbox boss
phil spencer is a badass boss why he
recently told axios that he hopes to see the gaming industry as a whole embrace
legal emulation a concept that i think
would give nintendo executives a collective aneurysm xbox has certainly
been talking the talk here between backwards compatibility and game
streaming you can play games from the original xbox on the latest model and
games from the new series x on the last gen xbox one so keep being yourself phil
phil bill bill phil phil
phil
good enough for me nah he did make elder scrolls 6 and xbox
exclusive though i'll allow it media tech has long been
the lesser cousin to qualcomm in the world of ARM processor manufacturers but
the company's latest chip the demensity 9000 could give snapdragons a run for
their money it's the first chip built with both ARM's new v9 architecture and
tsmc's four nanometer process so this thing may just be the new mobile chip
king at least until november 30th when qualcomm has an event scheduled
you get to sit on the throne for a little while though at least and that's
fun apple's long-rumored autonomous car has
gotten some fresh rumors to keep the mill going courtesy of mark german he
says the car code named project titan is expected to launch in 2025 with a custom
apple chip and no steering wheel or even
pedals why would you need that anyways when
apple knows how to drive your car the best it's just like the iphone side
loading everything worth downloading is in the app store apple knows best but no
no no no no sleep now
warner brothers has taken the raps off its super smash bros style fighting game
which is bafflingly not named warner
smash bros big mistake you can put dc heroes like
superman against shaggy from scooby-doo and arya stark from game of thrones
is this how weird the first smash bros felt when it came out does everyone in
the game have kryptonite or something what is the lore here and a teen in
hamilton ontario was just arrested for stealing 36 million us dollars or 46
million canadian in cryptocurrency last year using a sim swapping technique to
hijack someone's two-factor authentication police were able to
locate the team because they used the money to purchase a rare online username
which is what anybody would use millions of dollars
for i'm going to blame this on nft somehow but don't blame me for ending
this episode because it's over come back on monday for more tech news we'll be
back in the studio but first i gotta get some bubble tea because
there's is that is there a bubble tea place here i haven't been here in a
while and play with some folding phones