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bulk buying no Advance or annual payment and no contracts just pure flexibility to build your own phone plan just the way you like it it's just Vibes say tell to your new phone plan at the link below now for the quick bits the part of the show where you slap your belly and go a well maybe a few more Roku maker of the smart TV you settled for has figured out a way to make forced arbitration worse this week Roku customers found they couldn't use their TVs at all until they agreed to the company's updated dispute resolution terms two weeks after the terms apparently came into effect in addition to the forced arbitration Roku already had in place the smart TV bronze medalists added an informal dispute resolution process where users are required to call roku's lawyers with any concerns they may have before taking further legal action and before you Su us you have to ask ask Dave everything's going through Dave now I mean I don't know who's worse off roku's customers or the lawyers they've basically turned into unwilling customer support Specialists I don't know how to turn off motion smoothing I'm a lawyer NVIDIA has announced GeForce now day passes at $4 for a priority day gaming at up to 1080P and 60 FPS or $8 for an ultimate day gaming at up to 4K and 120 FPS that day better be pretty good to be called that Gamers would have to be pretty starved for some playtime to pay those prices when a month of priority membership is only $6 more but on the other hand GeForce now is harder to resist now that it's added support for NVIDIA reflex and g-sync although support for variable refresh rates is currently limited to the Windows app on a PC with a relatively recent NVIDIA GPU or the macOS app on a number of Apple silicon and Intel powered Max but not on a PC with Intel or AMD gpus NVIDIA isn't sure whether those can put out frames at all can I run it on this GPU on a what's that sorry what language is that in other GeForce news NVIDIA is reportedly retiring the GTX brand according to multiple sources NVIDIA is no longer Distributing GTX 16 cards to Partners once all remaining stock of the series is sold that's it I mean game over perhaps in a strange twist the GTX brand will be outlived by the GT name as some GT 1030 cards are still up for sale it's unclear if those cards will reach end of life alongside the gtx1 16 series it's like when a normal healthy adult dog is outlived by an old shriveled tiny ugly dog named something like Mr Poopsy that's missing two legs and is blind in both eyes it's sad and it feels weird why must Mr Poopsy suffer he was a genetic mistake rivan had a major launch this week where it announced a midsize electric SUV called the R2 as well as a compact SUV sadly not called the D2 R2D2 Riley oh you're the Star Wars guy well the the compact R3 SUV also comes in a more rugged r3x variation with more power higher clearance and a wider stance you know it's just a little butch but there's no shame in that what am I reading the R2 boasts a 300 mile range with the larger of its two battery pack options and its single motor configuration and it starts at $45,000 meaning it's significantly cheaper than the larger r1s placing it competitively among batterypowered mom mobiles whoa I want this thing R you are a mom it's cuz I'm a mom and a former Google engineer has been charged and arrested for allegedly stealing AI Trad secrets on behalf of a Chinese AI startup Google apparently determined that the employee in question had stolen a large Trove of documents by uploading hundreds of files onto his personal Google Cloud account making this possibly the lamest Heist of all time according to prosecutors the suspect was offered a CTO position at the Chinese firm shortly thereafter with a monthly salary worth around $14,800 a month plus bonus and stock he also alleged traveled to China to raise money for the company and had another employee scan his access badge back in the US to give the impression he was still at work 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