welcome back guys here's some tech news to put in that old easter basket it
might not be chocolate but at least it's better than peeps
you ever had peeps no dennis doesn't know what peeps are whoa
apple's gonna release new iphones in the fall no way
okay that's not surprising but what might be is the fact that they'll
reportedly be launching four new models
except that i just told you that so you won't be surprised when it happens
anyway the news comes courtesy of a bloomberg report based on info provided
by people familiar with apple's plans who also say the two higher end models
will bring back the flat stainless steel edges last seen in the iphone 5 and
iphone se the phones will reportedly have a similar module to the new ipad
pro complete with a lidar sensor and you can also expect a smaller and cheaper
homepod speaker which i know we're all very excited about if only just to give
syria home herself maybe she just sucks because she's stuck in the airwaves you
know i think that's how siri works hey remember the steam controller
yeah look i don't mean to bash it if you have one and you enjoy it that's great but
most other people didn't really so it's a bit surprising to see a patent
recently published by valve that describes another steam controller but
this time with swappable modules so you could have one of those thumb track pads
that are infuriating or you could switch it out for an analog stick i mean it's
not a completely crazy idea sony and microsoft have both released attachments
that can modify and add extra buttons to xbox and playstation controllers so
maybe this new steam controller will take off if valve actually releases it
ooh and what if the new controller brings a new wave of steam machines with
it that would be not good please don't and
chromebooks have had the ability to install native Android apps for a while
but now google appears to be phasing them out some core apps like twitter and
youtube tv are being replaced on chrome os devices with progressive web apps or
pwas while you still install these from
the play store they're essentially shortcuts to web pages that look and act
like an app that's installed in your system but don't worry chrome os fans if
you do in fact exist this probably isn't a sign that google is throwing
chromebooks in its rather large canceled projects pile because this is actually a
plus pwas require very little storage and use less system resources than
installed apps so chrome os is probably doing just fine
until google decides it isn't stadia is
going strong though huh dennis yes you're playing lots of that huh yeah
you're not he's no i love it he's not
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ah it's so annoying how desktop computers and phones are like separate
things well if you got Windows 10 and a samsung phone now they're slightly more
linked because you can drag and drop files between them with the your phone
app on Windows 10 and the link to Windows app on your samsung phone
there's a size limit of 512 megabytes but that's more than an email we'll take
welcome to the future we made it lg is hyping up their next
flagship phone codenamed velvet saying it's the start of a range of new
products that emphasize distinctive designs and tactile elegance it will
have a 3d arc design with curved display
edges this is just a phone this is just
just describing a phone why did i put this in today oh it's a
laugh at it the folding at home army has now reached
a combined processing power of more than 2.4 exa-flops as the pcmr twitter notes
that's around 16 times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer summit
which can only muster a measly 150
petaflops i think we can stop arguing about which
next-gen console is going to be faster because the answer
is us together instagram started as a phone app and has
resisted transitioning into a full web accessible service regardless of
platform but now it looks like ig is finally starting to embrace the desktop
last week saw the expansion of dms to every user and starting this week you
can view instagram live streams you know i just posted an instagram like a week a
week ago did you see it dennis
and i haven't checked in on fallout 76 in a while but the game is getting an
expansion this week with new npcs the problem is those npcs need places to
live and so bethesda is telling players to consult the new map
see if their campsite is using the same territory as the npcs will use and if it
is they have to move their campsite or presumably lose it this is such a
fallout 76 way to do this that i actually
kind of like it at least they're consistent with their nonsense and this
is consistently the part of the show where it stopped so now it's over come
back on wednesday for more tech news i promise you it'll be
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