right side or left side right right okay
oh no no it's good no it's bad
although the us government is looking to ban tiktok it looks like the popular app
won't be going quietly into that good night tick tock is now suing the
government claiming that it was denied due process since the proposed ban is
the result of an executive order rather than any kind of court proceeding oh and
also that it isn't a threat to national security
anyway pointing out that none of its data or key employees are actually even
based in china interestingly there's also a report out
of the wall street journal that facebook ceo marcus zuckerberg
may have privately met with president trump urging him to ban the app which
has led to speculation that this is at least partially about facebook trying to
pull the rug out from under a business rival in fact josh hawley a senator from
missouri has accused facebook of raising concerns about tick tock to protect its
own market share it'll be interesting to see how this plays out but in the
meantime it looks like you'll be able to keep tick-tocking for at least a little
longer unless of course you're a broken clock
or that but this isn't the only high-profile legal fight we're going to
be telling you about today as microsoft has officially
joined the fray on epic game side as the latter
continues its court battle against apple
in case you're not familiar apple has banned fortnite from its app store after
epic tried to use a payment system in the app to avoid having to give apple
their 30 cut that they are obviously due
but now the controversy has broadened as apple is threatening to end epic's
ability to update the unreal engine
which is used by many other iOS games including titles not developed or
published by epic now given that microsoft publishes games
based on the unreal engine it's not surprising that they are now trying to
intervene on epic's behalf now apple claims that this whole
controversy is being caused by epic
breaching the app store terms including giving apple its cut of in-game revenue
funnily enough though epic and microsoft have actually had their own kerfuffle a
few years back so i guess now they're buds you know friendship ended with
apple now microsoft you're my best friend my enemy is my friend that one
now if you're the type of person that loves to invest in tech stocks you might
be excited to know that Corsair is going public the company's target
price for the ipo is 100 million dollars
and it will be listed on the nasdaq sometime before the end of this year
though it's not yet clear how much you'll have to pay for a share Corsair
obviously has marketed itself quite well over the years they've got partnerships
with major streamers and esports personalities and even some youtubers
and they're generally regarded as a company that takes care of its customers
however the company could also be adversely affected by swings in the
pricing of dram which have been known to happen from time to time and the rise of
cloud gaming services where consumers might not see as much need for a fancy
pc gear and peripherals although i don't think i could ever get sick of RGB all
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that's a logically good deal on to the bit quits there's a new world record for
internet speed that was just set at university college london
178 terabits per second which would be
enough to load up all of netflix's content in under one second
yes i can the researchers used a bandwidth much higher than what's
currently available but that isn't to say that we couldn't have speeds like
this on the back end in the future and
here i thought my new like fiber optic gigabit connection at home was something
to get excited about actually i'm still excited about it's pretty great now
there hasn't been much of a push to make air travel significantly faster since
the concord last flew but one company out of
colorado wants to make supersonic flight a reality again
boom supersonic great name by the way is going to be unveiling a faster than
sound test plane in early october with test flights happening next year
yeah ooh actually maybe there's a bad vibe in there as
well the company plans to build a full-size passenger plane if the test
goes well which i certainly hope it does because there's nothing worse than being
stuck next to an awkward sweaty seat mate for 14 hours i speak from
experience people really don't like being stuck next to me for 14 hours and
apple is reportedly planning on building a floating store yes my friends on water
in probably the most predictable place in the world for such a thing
singapore the store is going to be dome shaped because why not and it will
connect via a pedestrian tunnel to a mall because
singapore no word yet on when it will open but i can't wait to schlep all the
way out there to buy a monitor stand now we've all been waiting a very long time
for the release of cyberpunk 2077 and
we're gonna keep waiting but hey at least there's some good news for the
games fans to be the game is going to be getting multiple free dlc packs after
launch you will still have to pay for some of the larger expansion packs that
are planned but this is still a nice little add-on that certain two-letter
developers might do well to keep in mind
it's free it's free uh no
and finally if you're a tesla owner who's trying to use unauthorized mods to
get around software feature locks there's a bit of bad news as a hack from
engine x that gives the model 3 some extra horsepower that had been locked
down by tesla has officially been kerbal anode now the group says they will be
able to thwart this in a week or two but i think that it's pretty clear at
this point that we're being set up now we're seeing the the groundwork for a
basically never-ending arms race cat vs
mouse that is going to see people either paying the full amount to tesla or being
sort of constantly tinkering with their car to make sure that they're actually
getting that feature that they didn't pay the full amount for but did end up
paying these third parties to unlock for
them so bottom line if you want something that's going to work all the
time you should probably just pay tesla for it or if you don't like tasless
practices of charging extra for features that are already built into the cars
you could just not buy a tesla that's all i'm saying and that's our show so
come back on wednesday for more tech news and a better analogy about it
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