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okay this show is free right now but I'm thinking of charging eight bucks per

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Tech news do you think people go for that too cheap does it per Tech news

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though there's Val there's a lot of value here the Middle East slash North Africa

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divisions of NVIDIA AMD and various other PC Hardware companies are facing

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user backlash over their alleged mistreatment of tech reviewers Mustafa

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of YouTube channel Tech quotes showed screenshots of messages with Zotac and

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NVIDIA Representatives demanding that he remove a critical review the reason bad

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press could lead to layoffs at their company I mean you would want to be

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directly responsible for multiple people losing their jobs would you all on you

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just for bashing a graphics card you're

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the right thing buddy meanwhile Gigabyte wanted them to remove the name of a

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competing company and place favorable Call of Duty benchmarks ahead of other

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graphs in the video ASUS was upset that their review was posted after gigabytes

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and AMD is just entirely refusing to send review samples are these even

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sponsored videos no although I don't know if AMD refusing to send is just

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mistreatment or just them wanting to you know stay out of it so many problems could be solved by just not tweeting

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especially right now the allegations only seem to affect the Middle Eastern

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divisions of these companies Mustafa himself is in Egypt so it's unclear if

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any of these alleged actions took place at the behest of management further up

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the line Mustafa did claim that other Tech reviewers also deal with this kind

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of thing but they're scared to call it out until they have their own land show

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with Blackjack and hot takes I like that joke Elon Musk or the new Twitter

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complaint hotline operator has spoken up about a slew of measures to decrease

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Twitter's Reliance on advertising and help it start to pay down the enormous

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debt that was generated by its acquisition by mosque ads can be amazing

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if done right Elon is considering giving users the

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ability to paywall video content when which we could see as early as

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later this month finally the feet picks I've been waiting it looks like this

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would be an A La Carte option where potential viewers could pay per video so

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it may open up Twitter as a platform for direct streaming of Premium content this

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is only fans that's what outside of this Elon has clarified that a Twitter blue

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subscription would be only eight dollars per month not 20 much more reasonable in

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exchange for a blue check mark priority and replies and half as many ads but

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wait how do we verify users then see okay I'm Riley that's me see Twitter

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would add secondary tags on the profiles of public figures to prove they're the

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real thing check mark for your check mark super different from a check mark

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not even the same thing at all and I think this would solve the problem we

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just need more checks the 299 Xbox series s may be cheaper than a graphics

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card but 300 bucks is still a significant amount of money I mean it's

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almost as much as Microsoft loses by selling the console what what huh yeah

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Xbox cheap Phil Spencer told CNBC that Microsoft loses as much as 200 on every

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series s it sells and loses around 100 bucks on each series X console now

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before you feel too bad company trillion

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dollar company really right it's actually common for console

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manufacturers to take an L on the console itself and then make it up by

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profiting on subscriptions and software but the reason this is relatively big

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news is because Sony and Nintendo have recently found ways for their own

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consoles to be profitable by themselves or at least Break Even Microsoft has

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said that while it hopes to maintain the current pricing for its Xbox console

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line up the games themselves will likely get more expensive so expect to see 70

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AAA titles become more common that is if

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you're not subscribed it is the best value in the industry so

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a guy whose lizard status is still in question I want to meet him there and

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find out and swear that's his real form ASRock has just the product for you if

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you're out of desk space an IPS display that goes inside your computer case it's

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I'm Gonna Make That Ass Rock oh my God YouTube has launched a new feature

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called Prime Time channels but before you get too excited it's really just a

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hub to combine content from a bunch of different streaming services in one

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place it's 34 currently offered Services include Paramount plus showtime and

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stars and now you can enjoy them all on the same convenient data Gathering

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platform it's so much better for Google although T-Mobile has tried to set

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itself apart from other mobile carriers by avoiding extra fees it looks like

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team magenta is caving to economic pressure as it's now charging 35 bucks

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for all new activations and upgrades including online activations they only

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previously charged it for in-store transactions well this is more fair it

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possibly even worse than the money is the corporate spreak we're getting from

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them about how the new fee somehow makes things simpler you know it's like some

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people pay it other people don't it's just like ah now you all pay yeah what

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and if you'd like to add some sheet metal to your sound bar for some reason

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Porsche is selling a sound bar made from a GT e3's exhaust for twelve thousand

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dollars it has some good features like Dolby

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Atmos and streaming support and a whole lot of torque still if you can't afford

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to drop 170 000 on an actual GT3 I guess

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this is the next best thing no it's not it's also expensive it's I think it's

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really really cool the next best thing to do after this video is to come back

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on Friday for more Tech news and then after that the next specs they will be

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to come back next week and you so you can figure out where it goes from there

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right never leave