that's right it's time for another tech link because tech news doesn't take
holidays it gives them what never say
never when it comes to gaming related meme gadgets first there was the razer
toaster and now we're getting a kfc console or kf console as they're calling
it they apparently can actually play games
that's right it's shaped like the colonel's famous chicken bucket bucket
bucket you know what bug it forget it i'm not doing this today it's shaped like the
colonel's famous chicken bucket and combines an Intel nook with a cooler
master case and interestingly allows players to swap out their own graphics
card as long as it's not edible the other specs look pretty good too
including two terabytes of NVMe storage gameplay up to 4k and 240hz and yes of
course the all-important chicken chamber for keeping your greasy treats warm
while you game personally i can't imagine slurping down fried meat is
going to help your csgo performance but uh
hey you do you no word on pricing or availability but
hopefully it comes dusted with 11 herbs and spices
the fbi and europol recently shut down a vpn called safe inet
which the us justice department has said became notorious for being used by folks
dealing in ransomware skimmed cards and other such shady doings now although any
vpn could be used for illicit purposes i mean anything could really like
that's right safeinet seems to have been targeted for
refusing to cooperate with victims and with law enforcement and was
disproportionately popular with cyber criminals
of course the concern is that it might not end up taking a whole lot for the
government to go after other more legitimate vpns that are mostly being
used for aboveboard reasons you know like watching french netflix or whatever
it's so much better it looks like we're going to be getting a new model of
samsung galaxy sooner rather than later the galaxy s21 is reportedly due out
next month and samsung has started taking pre-orders already they don't
refer to the s21 specifically by name but they are advertising the next galaxy
on their website as well as offering credits for old phones now you don't
have to buy a galaxy if you sign up i mean galaxies are expensive and big
where will you store them because all the pre-order system does is
guarantee you a chance to buy wait a minute really yeah i guess kind of like
the evga queue for rtx 3080s but
hopefully much less frustrating uh we should know more in a couple of weeks
since existing rumors have stated that we'll be getting an official unveiling
on the 14th of january which is the end of ces that sounds like a
galaxy brain move to me
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accelerated extracts they small but they thick cd project red said that cyberpunk
2077 has already sold 13 million copies
what a lucky number and that's after you take into account all of the refunds of
course with all the bad publicity and thanks to the game's bugs and poor
performance the company's stock is still a lot lower than it was even with the
positive sales news so hopefully they won't continue to find themselves in the
red later on fusion power still seems like a
pipe dream to many but one group of researchers in south korea found a way
to sustain a reaction for 20 seconds which is far more than the previous
record plasma inside the reactor now it's a big deal plasma inside the
reactor got to 180 million degrees
fahrenheit or roughly as hot as an old amdfx CPU under load hahaha got him all
joking aside though it's an important breakthrough if we ever want to have
fusion energy powering up our gadgets without asking doc ock and if you've
been having problems getting your hands on a new AMD zen 3 processor you might
have an alternative very soon as Intel is reportedly shipping its new rocket
lake cpus sometime between late january and late february the new 500 series
motherboards that go with them are expected to be announced next month at
ces as well so hey maybe Intel will find a way to rock it back to relevance
the script says enough puns but it's not enough puns
carbon dioxide emissions are one of the key factors driving global climate
change concerns but what if there was a way to take co2 and turn it back into
fuel well scientists at oxford think they have a way and it turns out it
might not even be expensive or complicated although we need to capture lots of co2
in order to do this in a meaningful way the scientists have been talking to
potential industry partners so maybe one day you'll be able to just like exhale
into the bottom of your phone to power it
up and nintendo has claimed victory in
court over a company that did mario kart style go-kart tours of tokyo the legal
dispute originated when nintendo found out that the company was letting people
dress up as mario characters which raised intellectual property concerns
especially after several customers got into accidents nintendo is owed over 480
000 us dollars which is
what is that in you know you know like coins right
and that's it for today folks come back wednesday for more tech news and keep on
dodging those blue shells you gotta wait you can't dodge a blue shell that's the
whole idea