ltx 2019 starts tomorrow that's the biggest piece of tech news today and
we've wait what is this i don't know there's like a
herd um oh a lot of
people are here friends alex i i don't have that many friends
not since i moved at west at least apple has acquired Intel's mobile modem chip
business for cool one billion dollars
the announcement follows rumors that apple was considering buying the
majority in Intel's modem division as a way to avoid working with qualcomm and
that's understandable given that apple has been enrolled and an obscene number
of copyright lawsuits with that company in the last couple years falcom and
apple reaches settlement in april to drop all pending litigation but i'm sure
the ordeal has left a sour taste in both parties mouths
like a like a bitter ipa
apple's actually getting a pretty sick deal here Intel originally wanted
several billion for the acquisition but their modem business was bleeding money
so they had to sell it fast and after announcing they'd make their own 5g
modem apple needed the resources analysts are predicting the acquisition
will enable some apple devices to have 5g capability in 2022. at which point
apple can post a picture on instagram to show qualcomm they're just doing fine
actually it's qualcomm it looks busted okay don't get it twisted
the merger of u.s cell carriers t-mobile in sprint has been approved by the
justice department despite opposition from 13 states and the district of
columbia wall proponents of the mergers say that the two companies will now be
able to deploy 5g network that covers 99
of the population the problem is the deal brings down the number of major u.s
carriers from four to three so as part of the deal the doj is requiring
t-mobile and sprint to sell off spectrum licenses network access as well as the
subsidiaries boost mobile and virgin mobile to television provider dish which
will build out its own mobile network it's all a little messy but at least one
good thing coming out of it the doj is also requiring dish and the new team
mobile as the combined company will apparently be called to support e-sim
technology which would see the elimination of physical and annoyingly
small sim cards do you have a joke i was gonna write one but then i just wrote
joke you just wrote joke okay and that's a joke
at bethesda's quakecon event this week the company announced that the original
doom doom 2 and doom 3 are all available on nintendo switch playstation 4 and
xbox one nowadays it's a bit of a battle to
preserve older games on modern platforms so that's pretty cool but what really
isn't cool is the fact that you're going to be forced to sign into a b-net
account in order to play furthermore the three original dune games were actually
already available on xbox one as backwards compatible xbox 360 titles but
bethesda has completely delisted those versions and replacing them with the new
updated versions which owners of the original versions would need to re-buy
really yeah stupid okay okay
that's yeah that's now there's apparently some kind of
loophole involving downloading the free trial of the old games that worked for
some people and if you have the physical disk for doom 3 bfg edition you can
still reinstall the old versions but
really
but if you have deleted them you just might be out of luck
the new versions also add split screen play but they take away the previously
blended no rest for the living expansion pack and
all online play bethesda what are you doing we're used
to just pedaling out skyrim until you're blue in the face but this it's it's just
like a new type of evil it's 2019 you
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samsung has finished revising the design of the galaxy fold and has announced the
phone will be shipping again in september the changes made include
extending the screen's protective layer beyond the device's bezel so people
don't mistake it for a screen protector because of course they would think that
samsung are you daft additional measures have been taken to prevent debris from
slipping inside the phone via hinges but that's not enough for t-mobile who say
they won't carry the full because they already offer customers a wide range of
the latest smartphones sure do they fold and break super easily
don't knock it till you bent it
in a completely unsurprising development turns out humans at apple hear audio
recordings of people talking to siri as well contractors for apple told the
guardian the recordings often contain confidential medical information drug
deals sexual activities and all sorts of crazy stuff
apples responding say it's only a small portion of syria crests that are
analyzed by humans to improve dictation and etc
at least we know using any digital assistant comes with the cost of privacy
but it's particularly hurtful coming from apple they said what happens on my
iphone stays on my iphone which is
particularly confusing given i don't even have one ah don't worry it stays
there okay you're good yeah i already gave up giving out
damn it frank zappata the french inventor of the flyboard failed in his
attempt to cross the english channel on the jet powered platform he got halfway
to refueling station and then apparently missed it by centimeters and fell into
the sea but before that happened he looked pretty cool and by that measure i
think the whole thing was a success louisiana has declared a state of
emergency after ransomware infected multiple school districts in
sabine morehouse files on school computers have been encrypted and can't
be accessed state security professionals are looking into the issue but this
attack is only the latest in a rash of ransomware infections that have been
plaguing various u.s cities not much other to say than that but it just sucks
saudi arabia is planning to build a futuristic city called nyom
in the middle of the desert the city will have robots to work for humans
flying taxis and even a fake moon
made of a flight of drones the home would apparently host genetic
modification projects to create humans
who with greater strength and iq yeah that
got dystopian really fast as cool that stuff would be to see let's hope its
builders have a change of heart to use the money for something like
worthwhile like giving out free gaming
pcs of all the things you could think of
freaking can i get a free gaming pc please
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