where would we be without tech news i'd probably still be in the bathroom
and you'd probably still be at your computer but we'd both be doing
something else reports are flying that microsoft will
be releasing an xbox one without an optical drive
sometime next year the move does kind of make sense considering that console
games are one of the last widespread uses of optical disks and the rising
tide of digital distribution is not to be prevented no matter how many
walls you build out of sand with your hands and try to keep the tide from
coming in it was a Channel Super Fun don't worry about it plus the console is
expected to be on the cheaper end of things as it is reportedly going to set
consumers back less than 200 apiece
at that price don't expect the fancier hardware that you'd get on the xbox one
x though as the disc list version is reportedly an update of the original
xbox one microsoft is also offering a
trade-in program allowing users to swap
physical copies of games they already own for digital ones but it would be
nice if they could just let us keep our old gta discs to use as coasters i mean
what are they going to do with them make like cyber punky glasses or coasters
apple has historically not been shy about reporting its iphone sales figures
several times a year but it looks like they are no longer doing this for the
time being and this combined with reports that apple has recently slowed
production of the new iphone 10r 10s and 10s max looks like the company might be
facing disappointing sales for its current flagships especially as apple
was quick to scale back production of the iphone 8 once it realized that the
higher spec iphone 10 would end up being far more popular indeed apple hasn't had
great luck with its devices targeted at a slightly lower market segment as the
more affordable iphone 10r appears to be the hardest hit of the three new devices
with apple scaling back production by up to one third of its original plan apple
it's time to face the facts and release an Android-powered iphone it's gonna
sell like hotcakes which i'm told
sell really well yeah i actually only found out recently hot cakes are
pancakes that's what they are so i don't know why we don't just say they sell like
pancakes yeah me too are you the type of person
that primarily watches netflix from your bed on your smartphone well you might be
able to save a few bucks on your netflix bill in the near future as the streaming
giant is rolling out a mobile-only subscription plan that only costs about
half of a standard subscription under the new plan users will be limited to
watching on only one phone or tablet at a time in standard def and right now
it's only available in certain countries in asia with the malaysian newspaper the
star reporting that the mobile exclusive subscription only costs about four us
dollars a month which is quite a bit better less less more you know what forget it
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you've probably seen the on-demand movie rentals on youtube and then quickly
scrolled on but now the company is experimenting with free ad-supported
rentals as well currently only about a hundred movies are being offered
including such um up-to-date
offerings as the original terminator and
legally blonde and those are even the ones you should
care about so it's unclear how big the collection will get but this could be an
interesting way for advertisers to get on the platform while avoiding having
their ads run against videos that they find questionable and a way to you know
catch up on fantastic movies like kingpin i actually don't know if
kingpin's in there but i suspect it's the kind of movie they
would have that's a stinker man
i was way over here i thought it was fine it took a while for it to give me
but man can't get enough of online comments well google thinks you can't
because it appears that they will be adding the ability for users to add
comments in search results currently the feature is restricted to
live sporting events but in the future there could be no limit to where we can
strike up a flamewar wow speaking of flames the fix pubg campaign
which was run by the developers of the game has come to an end and while a
number of bugs appear to have actually been fixed based on user feedback the
game's review score has taken a big dip on steam recently as many gamers are
saying that the fixes introduced other bugs and an excessive amount of paid
content pubg pub g it's k you're kind of like
fortnite but with character you know like a junker car that
you know it's kind of like that other car that goes faster and you know every
time but only starts when you kind of hit it
and speaking of cars it looks like tesla has finally made their cars harder to
steal following high-profile reports of so-called relay theft where thieves
would wirelessly grab the signal from the key fob and relay it to the car
allowing bad guys to drive off with it after which they would usually turn off
the car's gps tracker to conceal their movements from police well tesla now
requires a code now requires a code to disable gps
tracking which should make stolen vehicles much easier to recover i mean
they're still gonna get stolen but the car chases they'll be so much more fun
you know bronco style now that's it for today's tech news so
join us again on wednesday when we will be you know
here yeah doing this with you and nowhere
else are you you're staying here
okay all right forever wrap it up let's go guys
i don't want to stay here it smells