what's up tech news fans it's your boy chase
you know the guy who definitely knows how to set up live streams that wasn't
my fault i thought you did fine and i was on your side so valve was reportedly
working on a new standalone vr headset that may or may not be powered by the
same chip as the steam deck handheld gaming device the headset is codenamed
deckard get it i do do you yeah no i don't
and is referenced in publicly available code for valve steamvr software spotted
by youtuber brad lynch ours techno says their sources inside valve have
confirmed lynch's findings in speculation about valve working on what would essentially be industry's only
real competition for the oculus quest 2 and the whole thing looks even more
legit thanks to a quote from a valve employee who told the verge that the
steam decks apu would run well in a vr
environment and that it's very relevant to us and our future plans
juicy it's also relevant in my plans to use vr
on a device that doesn't require me to sign into facebook my mom is on there
she can't be allowed to see what i'm playing for multiple reasons i don't
know chase you gotta love her now we gotta keep it
a secret it's a secret amazon continues to use black mirror as an instruction
manual announcing far too many products at its hardware event yesterday
including the already infamous astro a wheeled robot with a tablet for a face
and a telescoping camera attachment directly after the announcement vice
published leaked documents and interviews with amazon employees who
worked on the robot who claimed that it's terrible and will almost certainly
throw itself down a flight of stairs if presented the
an amazon opportunity well that's why you might want the ring always home cam
a quadcopter drone announced last year but which is finally available now but
only if you can get an invite beta testing dystopian gadgets is a privilege
not a right ring also now has a virtual security
guard service so you can feel safe knowing a rando amazon employee is
watching your stuff and scaring off evil carjacking teens
what the heck is that they're everywhere what if i'm the one who's doing the card
jacking and there's more the new smart
thermostat will take on google's nest the amazon glow will let kids play games
on a projected game board while video chatting grandma and the echo show 15 is
a framed 15-inch model that you can hang on the wall so bezos can watch your
family eat together wiping away his tears of loneliness away with thousand
dollar bills and then throwing them at his lawyers so they can keep suing
spacex he's a very sad man and microsoft has announced that in
addition to integrating with the amazon app store to host Android apps the
microsoft store will also host other app stores with the epic game store being
the first one to join maybe apple is next who
where did you get knows from where am i going to play apple arcade games when
the new microsoft store launches with Windows 11 on october 5th the epic game
store catalog won't be available directly on the microsoft store but the
store's app will be listed and available to download along with a bunch of other
apps that are already easy to download outside of any store like discord zoom
and vlc what about better on the store it tastes better where's my win amp how
am i supposed to listen to music now epic games already host other app
stores like h.i.o so for anyone wondering why you would want to download
an app store from an app store it's because that's the only way you can have
an app store in an app store in an app store so hopefully that clears it up
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man they are so quick wow oop here comes one now
some owners of the brand new ipad mini are reporting a problem with the
tablet's display known as jelly scrolling where one side refreshes
slightly before the other sounds delicious tasty they complained to apple
who gently explained oh honey that ain't a bug it's a feature apple has no plans
to fix the issue because they say it's not an issue you are the issue when you
complain to apple and you will be fixed report to the genius bar immediately the
nda that tesla requires drivers to sign in order to test its full self-driving
beta tells testers to consider sharing fewer videos of their experiences with
the software unfortunately for tesla social media
videos aren't going to do anything to stop a lawsuit coming from five texas
police officers who were injured when a tesla model x on autopilot slammed into
their patrol vehicle at 70 miles per hour in february and florida police just
released video of a model 3 doing the same thing to one of their cars i don't
know maybe graham's got elon on the acab train before they broke up because this
is fishy amazon didn't just launch hardware this
week they also officially launched their new world mmo but it's just like with
the beta the full game seems to be killing people's gpus the issue seems to
be caused by the same one that prompted evga to recall and replace affected
cards that is bad solder on certain GPU components but at some point you gotta
consider whether sticking with the old world is just fine what do you need what
do you need magic swords for i don't need that go even older silicon lottery
the popular website that sold high bin cpus and deleting services has announced
that they're shutting down the company says their decision was motivated by
many factors including decreasing overclocking headroom and cpus supply
issues due to the ongoing trip shortages and a lower number of winning tickets
customers do have until november 30th to place orders for CPU-d litting but after
that silicon lottery will delid themselves we're sorry to see them go
and wish them the best and a space startup called link has successfully
demonstrated its technology allowing normal smartphones to get mobile network
service from a satellite once more satellites are added phones could get
regular service from space without any specialized equipment but for now the
company's single satellite can only be used to send text messages for only a
few minutes a day but for those two minutes i think you would be technically
an astronaut i've always wanted that better than jeff bezos
this episode is technically over now so come back on friday for more tech news
and watch twitch people are live streaming on there oh
yeah all the time