the only thing hotter than a vancouver summer is the tech news baby
wait that what if you're just itching to try out
Windows 11 before general availability you're in luck as microsoft has made an
early preview of it available through their developer channel so you'll need
to sign up for their Windows insider program in order to get it this early
build does not include a few of the promised features notably those Android
apps that Windows 11 is supposed to be able to run natively but it does include
snap layouts the new widgets panel and
virtual desktops and yes you'll be able to move the taskbar icons back to the
left side of the screen which actually i'm not going to do of
course remember that because this is an early build you might run into bugs and
things that simply don't quite work as intended um also it's Windows so
it never works as intended speaking of Windows bugs microsoft has
an egg on his face today as the company disclosed that it accidentally signed a
driver called filter driver signing is supposed to let
users know that a driver has been verified not to be malicious but it
turns out that netfilter is malicious specifically it tricks gamers into
thinking that they're installing a geospoofing feature but contains a kit
that can be quite difficult to remove and it connects to known malware servers
in china the good news though is that the malicious driver is not believed to
have had a broad impact and you had to specifically install the driver manually
in order to be affected but still remember that it never pays to cheat
just ask the houston astros sports reference guys do you like sports
remember when the trend in portable gadgets was to make everything smaller
well we still want things to be lightweight but it turns out that larger screens are really useful shocker right
anyway apple is reportedly applying this concept to the upcoming ipad pro as a
report indicates that the company wants to make future ipads larger than the
current 12.9 inches people tend to do a lot of multitasking on their tablets
these days so it does make sense although any redesign is still likely to
be a couple of years away of course if ipads get much bigger we might start
asking if they're really tablets anymore or just laptops without keyboards you
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youtube tv is offering a new 4k option that will also allow you to download
content that you've saved to the cloud dvr so you can watch it offline and on
the go if your tv is a laptop i guess unfortunately cable channels still
aren't offering much in the way of 4k content so the 20 bucks a month youtube
is asking for for the future seems kind of steep but we promise tack linked will
always be available in glorious 4k for free
there's a new top dog or rather top dragon in Android soc land qualcomm has
just announced the new snapdragon 888 plus which will now feature a top speed
of 3.0 gigahertz on one core the company
also says that their ai engine is 20 faster but that's about it there isn't
anything in the way of new features so don't feel like that thousand dollar
phone with a regular 888 you've just started to pay off is suddenly out of
date or anything china made headlines last month for the successful landing of
its mars rover and now we've gotten its first photos and video from the martian
surface the videos show the rover coming down the ramp of the spacecraft as well
as it backing away from a camera it placed on the ground china says the hope
is that the rover will work for a minimum of 90 days
mars time of course apple made headlines last year when they warned people that
the iphone 12 should be kept away from pacemakers due to its magsafe feature
but now apple has released a long list of devices in addition the iphone 12
that should be kept six inches away from pacemakers or 12 inches away if the
device has wireless charging the list includes air pods apple watches
home pods ipads mac computers and beats
headphones yikes these devices all
contain magnets hence their inclusion on the list so i'm assuming the insane
clown posse aren't big time apple users
or they just don't get apple how does it work
and volkswagen has announced they're going to stop selling gas-powered cars
in europe by 2035 joining other automakers like ford and volvo who have
pledged to switch to all-electric in europe even sooner than that vw will
also phase out gas cars in other parts of the world sometime shortly thereafter
so if you want a gas-powered beetle you won't have forever get your hands on one
before vw says that's all folks
oh honestly i wish i wrote that
and that's all for our show today so come back on wednesday for more tech
news and most assuredly more terrible puns