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this guy on monday apple announced they're
abandoning the use of Intel processors and mac computers and will be switching
to their own more tasty ARM-based chips over the course of two years while there
are many reasons why apple would want to do this francois pied paid noel a formal
principal engineer at Intel has said that the final straw may have been
shoddy quality assurance done on their skylake processors apparently apple was
finding tons of problems with the chips that Intel failed to find themselves
unbelievable until that's ah until the worst i'm so upset ah well
actually we should all calm down for a second because as ian cuttress points
out the situation is more or less inevitable in the case of a company with
as many clients as Intel the blue team just doesn't have enough manpower to
find all the bugs that apple google and amazon squadrons of engineers will
inevitably find now of course apple has
many other reasons to switch to ARM greater power efficiency top to bottom
control of product components so Intel if it makes you feel any better
she was always going to leave does make me you
better at all i know right in other apple news the company has
uncharacteristically backed down in its fight with basecamp developers of the
email app hey
the app has been definitively approved for the app store and will not be
required to include an in-app subscription option which was the
primary point of contention in the spat basecamp did have to add a 14-day free
trial using a burner email account but users will still be able to sign up
using a 99 yearly subscription on their website thus allowing basecamp to avoid
paying apple the 30 app store revenue cut smart the news is a big deal not
only because apple actually listened to the little guy and made changes but also
because apple is under multiple antitrust investigations over the way it
handles the app store so wait
that might be exactly why they gave it ah
see there's an apple i recognize i thought i was having a stroke
i'm good and facebook has also caved outside pressure announcing they'll
label some posts that violate their platform's policies but are newsworthy
enough to keep on the public record ceo mr zuckerman said that users will see
prompts attached to such offending posts an approach similar to the one taken by
twitter which recently labeled some of donald trump's tweets as breaking
platform guidelines facebook's announcement followed a boycott from a
sizable list of companies who refused to advertise on the platform including
unilever verizon ben jerry's and patagonia which led to the company's
shares falling more than seven percent on friday it's also part of a social
media trend towards greater moderation facebook has also begun warning users
when an article they're about to share is more than 90 days old and twitter is
testing a feature that suggests users read an article before sharing it wow
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Intel's graphics chief raja kaduri has shared photos of Intel's z graphics
chips showing their tile-based design so in case you were worried that z would be
limited to integrated graphics baby the big boys are coming but will the blue
big boys be better than NVIDIA's big babies baby best beware
what microsoft has announced they're
permanently closing all of their retail stores but apparently no employees will
be laid off retail team members will apparently continue to serve customers
on the online store which will be adding new features like video chat support and
virtual workshops oh you know why this happened no genius bar should have had
the genius bark guys geniuses if an fcc filing is any indication we're
probably going to see google finally launch the pixel 4a soon although you'll
be out of luck if you're hoping for a cheaper phone with the pixel 4's
built-in radar depth sensing capabilities for some reason why would you want that
new leaks also point to an imminent release of google's sabrina Android tv
dongle and you know me i love a good dongle
i do love dongles all over the place iOS 14 which is in
beta right now has a new clipboard monitoring feature which exposed the
fact that tick-tock has been grabbing users clipboard data every time they
type anything in the app tick tock says it's an anti-spam feature but they still
removed it after the discovery just goes to show you should probably get off tick
tock you absolute thought and actors everywhere officially out of a job
because a robot named erica has been cast as the first artificially
intelligent actor in an upcoming sci-fi film b
is that what it's called b just lowercase b love it erica's
creators apparently taught her method acting so i guess the filmmakers can
look forward to her being a huge dick to everyone on set she's embedded in the
role you don't understand she's an artist
it's art magnificent i don't even understand why
i'm still talking so this episode is over come back on monday for more tech
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