some days you read the tech news
other days the tech news
it reads you samsung galaxy fold devices weren't in
reviewers hands for long before they started breaking partly due to user
error but also partly due to the device's design ifixit published one of
their extensive teardowns of the fold as they usually do for new tech
highlighting the fragility of the OLED display the gaps in the hinge where
particles of gunk can get in and the apparent lack of proper fold testing
well samsung understandably doesn't want all that bad press out there in the wild
so they asked ifixit to tear down the
down ifixit doesn't technically have to comply with samsung's request but they
did allegedly out of respect so i guess that
worked out okay for samsung except now in addition to talking about how the
fold was messed up we're talking about how samsung took down an article about
the fold being messed up and that's messed up it's called the streisand
effect oh why because it makes
it makes you into a successful singer and actress very
adored beloved love barb when the epic game store
launched back in december it was initially praised for only taking a 12
cut of game sales leaving a fat 88 for
developers steam by contrast gives developers around 70 to 80
uh depending on how many titles they've sold but many pc gamers opinions of the
epic game store soured when they started announcing a huge number of exclusive
games which would not release on steam at all well now epic game ceo tim
sweeney says there'll be a simple solution for that he tweeted that if
steem committed to a permanent 88 revenue share for developers epic would
not only stop the exclusives but also consider putting their own games like
fortnite onto steam yeah i see
wow i guess uh tim sweeney really is a sweet boy just trying to make pc gaming
better and i'm not the head of a corporation who's trying to gain market
share it's so clear to me now i thanks for the tweet tim
tim sweetie they should call him and some corners of the internet are talking
about a seemingly net neutrality breaking service from cox
cox internet cox internet called cox elite gamer the service promises pc
gamers 34 less lag 55 fewer ping spikes
and 45 percent less jitter by routing
game activity through a dedicated gaming network to reduce latency hey that
sounds like a fast lane well actually the service doesn't increase or decrease
speed it's only available on Windows computers and in reality it's just a
rebranded version of wtfast a service that has been available
since at least 2017 and furthermore it only really reduces your ping in certain
scenarios so so i don't think we need to call our representatives about this one
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wacky quacky bits a couple weeks ago it was discovered
that some amazon employees monitor echo users spoken commands to alexa but now
bloomberg is reporting that employees can also access users location data and
easily find users home addresses amazon has assured the press that access to
these tools is highly controlled but it's enough to
make you switch to google home isn't it ah not sponsored by google i'm
sure there are no similar risks with that one much safer totally different
samsung has unveiled this successor to its giant vue Android tablet the vue 2
is a 17 inch 1080p slate that comes with
a kickstand and a price tag of 740
that's a big tablet it's the chunky boy of tablets oh low
this tablet coming it's there
after banning six play store apps from chinese company do global google has
gone ahead and just banned the rest of them it just banned all the rest of the
apps that that company has that's about 100 apps these apps had over 600 million
installs and were found to be committing ad fraud on behalf of do global well
thank goodness they're gone i know i'm going to be sleeping much safer in my
Android bed tonight those apps aren't coming for you anymore i live at the
play store if you've been having trouble installing the latest Windows update it
could be because you've still got your usbs plugged in that's a rookie move
unplug all your usb storage then try it again this is your first time trying to
install an update come on and a road map of Intel's
processor launches has leaked revealing that we can expect comet lake cpus next
year followed by rocket and tiger lakes
in 2021 who knows what that means practically but it sure sounds cool
especially that mike tyson face tattoo tiger lake i can't wait for that one and
when you're talking about processors the sound the sound of it is really
important they need to get better at it and it's important that we end this
episode now because it's over and i i need to get to the weekend so thanks for
watching guys and i hope your weekend is stellar and we'll see you on monday for
more tech news all right it's a date