okay this show is free right now but I'm thinking of charging eight bucks per
Tech news do you think people go for that too cheap does it per Tech news
though there's Val there's a lot of value here the Middle East slash North Africa
divisions of NVIDIA AMD and various other PC Hardware companies are facing
user backlash over their alleged mistreatment of tech reviewers Mustafa
of YouTube channel Tech quotes showed screenshots of messages with Zotac and
NVIDIA Representatives demanding that he remove a critical review the reason bad
press could lead to layoffs at their company I mean you would want to be
directly responsible for multiple people losing their jobs would you all on you
just for bashing a graphics card you're
the right thing buddy meanwhile Gigabyte wanted them to remove the name of a
competing company and place favorable Call of Duty benchmarks ahead of other
graphs in the video ASUS was upset that their review was posted after gigabytes
and AMD is just entirely refusing to send review samples are these even
sponsored videos no although I don't know if AMD refusing to send is just
mistreatment or just them wanting to you know stay out of it so many problems could be solved by just not tweeting
especially right now the allegations only seem to affect the Middle Eastern
divisions of these companies Mustafa himself is in Egypt so it's unclear if
any of these alleged actions took place at the behest of management further up
the line Mustafa did claim that other Tech reviewers also deal with this kind
of thing but they're scared to call it out until they have their own land show
with Blackjack and hot takes I like that joke Elon Musk or the new Twitter
complaint hotline operator has spoken up about a slew of measures to decrease
Twitter's Reliance on advertising and help it start to pay down the enormous
debt that was generated by its acquisition by mosque ads can be amazing
if done right Elon is considering giving users the
ability to paywall video content when which we could see as early as
later this month finally the feet picks I've been waiting it looks like this
would be an A La Carte option where potential viewers could pay per video so
it may open up Twitter as a platform for direct streaming of Premium content this
is only fans that's what outside of this Elon has clarified that a Twitter blue
subscription would be only eight dollars per month not 20 much more reasonable in
exchange for a blue check mark priority and replies and half as many ads but
wait how do we verify users then see okay I'm Riley that's me see Twitter
would add secondary tags on the profiles of public figures to prove they're the
real thing check mark for your check mark super different from a check mark
not even the same thing at all and I think this would solve the problem we
just need more checks the 299 Xbox series s may be cheaper than a graphics
card but 300 bucks is still a significant amount of money I mean it's
almost as much as Microsoft loses by selling the console what what huh yeah
Xbox cheap Phil Spencer told CNBC that Microsoft loses as much as 200 on every
series s it sells and loses around 100 bucks on each series X console now
before you feel too bad company trillion
dollar company really right it's actually common for console
manufacturers to take an L on the console itself and then make it up by
profiting on subscriptions and software but the reason this is relatively big
news is because Sony and Nintendo have recently found ways for their own
consoles to be profitable by themselves or at least Break Even Microsoft has
said that while it hopes to maintain the current pricing for its Xbox console
line up the games themselves will likely get more expensive so expect to see 70
AAA titles become more common that is if
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considering the admittedly impressive specs cheaper than the quest Pro that's
true I mean what's the point of VR even if you didn't feel pressured into it by
a guy whose lizard status is still in question I want to meet him there and
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I'm Gonna Make That Ass Rock oh my God YouTube has launched a new feature
called Prime Time channels but before you get too excited it's really just a
hub to combine content from a bunch of different streaming services in one
place it's 34 currently offered Services include Paramount plus showtime and
stars and now you can enjoy them all on the same convenient data Gathering
platform it's so much better for Google although T-Mobile has tried to set
itself apart from other mobile carriers by avoiding extra fees it looks like
team magenta is caving to economic pressure as it's now charging 35 bucks
for all new activations and upgrades including online activations they only
previously charged it for in-store transactions well this is more fair it
possibly even worse than the money is the corporate spreak we're getting from
them about how the new fee somehow makes things simpler you know it's like some
people pay it other people don't it's just like ah now you all pay yeah what
and if you'd like to add some sheet metal to your sound bar for some reason
Porsche is selling a sound bar made from a GT e3's exhaust for twelve thousand
dollars it has some good features like Dolby
Atmos and streaming support and a whole lot of torque still if you can't afford
to drop 170 000 on an actual GT3 I guess
this is the next best thing no it's not it's also expensive it's I think it's
really really cool the next best thing to do after this video is to come back
on Friday for more Tech news and then after that the next specs they will be
to come back next week and you so you can figure out where it goes from there
right never leave