i'm not entirely sure how it happened but the tech news was somehow able to
penetrate my quarantine defenses and now the only way to get rid of it is
to read it everybody knows that sony has officially unveiled the ps5
controller and this is our headline story apparently somehow sony has now
dropped the dual shock naming scheme for their controllers calling the new model
the dual sense ostensibly because the new controller features haptic feedback
which of course will be much more different from standard rumble features
somehow the triggers are also adaptive which means that the tension will change
depending on whether the context is shooting a gun or drawing a bow the dual
sense also has a built-in mic for online chat a create button in place of the
share button and some subtle changes to
the grip a lot of finger quotes going on here but come on let's be honest it
looks more like an xbox controller okay there i said it but that's not the only
thing that comes to mind the design is reminding the internet of everything
from a tank top to mario's overalls to
strong bad from home star runner i'm glad we can joke about these things instead of arguing though nice job
everyone google has finally released the free
tier for their stadia game streaming service so now anyone can go out and
create a stadia account and get two free months of stadia pro which allows them
to play a limited number of free games get discounts on other games and play at
4k on some devices although resolution
is actually being limited to 1080p right now due to the kovid 19 pandemic
while the paid pro tier has already been available for five months the launch of
stadia basic looks like it's going to be the real test for whether the game
streaming service can catch on with the general public i mean while getting
access for free is cool though the list of free games is a little less cool
being mostly made up of games that have been out for some time i was promised a
1 000 player battle royale match google and i'm still upset that i don't have it
and it seems like now that more people are online more often rumors are
spreading much easier with a little nintendo switch game called cooking mama
getting caught in the crossfire over the weekend word started spreading that the
game used players switch consoles to
mine cryptocurrency this was apparently based on a february press release by an
unrelated company claiming that the game would feature blockchain technology the
game's developer first playable has denied the rumors but the rumor mill
claims that the devs weren't supposed to know that the game mines crypto the fact
is the claims about crypto mining don't seem to actually be based on any small
shred of evidence and this all seems to be a grand misunderstanding made worse
by the game's problems with distribution since its launch in february
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boutique pc maker oh he made me say it at the beginning ah rats boutique pc
maker maingear has announced the live a ventilator they developed in-house while
the live was designed in collaboration with a board of advisors composed of
medical professionals the device is not actually fda approved yet and that might
be because it actually looks like a pc
the fda might think it's a late april fool's joke that's in very poor taste
but apparently it's not borderlands 3 has a new game within a game that can
help medical research basically the game requires you to match rows of tiles
which represent micro dna samples wait
sorry what's that altruism isn't enough of an incentive for you well you'll also
be rewarded with in-game currency so that you can buy your precious skins and
so forth right hey skins
in an attempt to fix their myriad security issues zoom is consulting with
alex stamos the former chief security officer at
facebook we were going to write a joke about this
story but i think we already did it and microsoft
has released a bunch of new information about gaming on both xbox and Windows a
beta sdk is being released for the Windows 10 game bar so developers can
create custom widgets and razer and xsplit have actually released widgets
alongside the announcement also xcloud is launching in 11 more countries today
just in time to steal stadius thunder poor google they just can't win finally
the love story between Windows 10 and Linux continues with the latest Windows
10 preview featuring integration for Linux files in Windows explorer is this
exciting for Linux users i'm actually not even sure what is it that you guys
want do you want Windows to be more accommodating to Linux or do you just
want it to go away like this episode because it's over come
back on friday for more tech news but i won't be there i will be at home
relaxing after the hard work of growing this this beard