monday can be the worst especially if you've been off for a week like me
i'm back but it can also bring the promise of something fresh
something new and today it's a few new goodies from
apple who announced at today's event that they are dipping their toes uh
deeper into the financial world apple is
rolling out their own credit card and as much as this might seem like a bit of a
step backwards it'll be closely integrated with iOS to make tracking
your spending easy and then there's going to be a physical card
made from titanium because why not i mean
i i don't get it because like um we already have apple uh no this is awkward
samsung pay but sure sure physical cards
great apple is also launching an ad-free all-you-can-eat game subscription
service in the app store as well as a video subscription service including
original content the company invested two billion dollars in this particular
venture as an attempt to compete with netflix hulu and amazon so all these new
offerings from apple will come out later this year so get ready to bust out your
shiny new apple credit card and start giving them your money to give them your
money bam now if you've got an ASUS motherboard you may have been affected
by an attack that was delivered unwittingly by ASUS software updates
according to kaspersky roughly 500 000 pcs received updates that were
infected after hackers accessed ASUS update servers kaspersky claims that the
bad updates were being pushed out for nearly half a year and that the company
was rather slow to react after they found
out about the malware curiously although thousands of computers were at risk the
hackers appeared to be targeting specific machines by their mac addresses
as only a few hundred pcs were accessed through the hidden malware at this time
there isn't any update on whether ASUS will issue some kind of fix but i do
hope that they will and that it'll be better than most of their software
if you've been waiting for a nintendo switch refresh you might finally get
your wish as soon as this summer it looks like nintendo will be releasing
not one but two new switch models now
that's switching it up one is said to be a less expensive one
with a smaller footprint while the other one may be more powerful and possibly
even competitive with sony and microsoft's stay in the living room
where you're put down in the first place consoles there is a report though that
says that not all the news might be good the once highly touted hd rumble feature
which nintendo was hoping would bring a new level of immersion to console gamers
may be axed to save money as many developers simply didn't take advantage
of the feature there's no word on pricing or what features the new switch
models might have but that won't prevent nintendo fanboys from being excited
about it and people who don't care about nintendo from not giving any cares
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now for the quack bats i'm sure at some point you've wanted to take back a
message that you sent to someone online i sure have and now telegram is allowing
you to do just that users of the popular encrypted messaging service now have an
unsend option that will delete your message from both your account and the
receiver's account no matter how old the message is you know what i don't know
why this isn't standard for all platforms i mean how many
drunk messages could have been deleted saving how much
embarrassment over the years i think you should take responsibility i think what
we really need is an edit button on twitter
your city might already have an indoor arena for basketball hockey and concerts
but where is the dedicated facility just for
esports well that's coming in
philadelphia in about two years time the
city's overwatch team will have built
the first esports specific arena in the
western hemisphere it's going to feature 3 500 seats bars and training areas and
you know i wonder if one day the city of brotherly love is going to celebrate
esports the way that it partied after the eagles won the super bowl
actually yeah maybe no yeah that would not be ideal now we've seen everything
from sneakers to chat bots that allow people to order pizza quickly and
domino's is taking things a step
further loading its own software into the
infotainment systems of new cars
really so even if you don't have a smartphone
you'll be able to order pizza with a few taps on your way home on select new cars
later this year do i not sound enthusiastic enough about this i guess
that's gonna be yet another way to get your recommended
daily dosage of salt and fat into your bloodstream without getting a texting
while driving i mean can you i just want to come home to a nice hot pizza look
the way the law works here is you're not allowed to fumble around with really
anything and i think if you're staring at your console trying to pick your
freaking toppings that's going to be just as much of a problem as a phone
speaking of problems it looks like a software update for boeing's 737 max
airplanes will be coming out soon as the faa has tentatively approved a patch
that might fix issues that are suspected
to have contributed to the crashes of two of these jets in the past few months
now the fix still has to go through testing before it'll find its way onto
your plane and given that the 737 max series has been grounded in um well most
of the world they probably won't get back into the skies for quite some time
until after that when the patch gets final approval microsoft thinks it might
have the solution to our growing storage needs and recently unveiled an automated
data storage system based on dna so because dna has very high data
density and lasts a very long time researchers think that it could be used
to store the same amount of information as an entire data center while taking up
only a few cubic centimeters of space
that's like a cubic inch for the americans out there now although this
system took nearly a day to store and
decode a mere five bytes
so that is 40 bits like 40 zeros and ones the company says
that's not the point the point is to demonstrate that automatic data storage
and retrieval with dna is possible and
should get much faster in the future i wonder what kind of memes might
already be lurking in our own cells speaking of memes
that's all for our memes today so come back wednesday for more tech news and
memes or don't i can handle the rejection get out of here it's fine get
up no i'm okay it's over if they don't come back i'll move on
okay move on get out of here
move