wait if it's good Friday then why is
this Tech news only passable at best it's just okay Microsoft has managed to
close a loophole used to download emulators on Xbox making Retro Gaming
just a bit harder on the platform unless you use this one simple trick that App
Stores hate the only clue we have as to why this is
happening now after years of Microsoft seemingly not caring that much about a
few Bros emulating each other it doesn't matter if you use your Bros loophole if
you're wearing socks the only clue comes from Microsoft Azure
developer Aliana McKenna on Twitter she
claims a colleague from Xbox QA said
that this was related to legal issues with Nintendo and while that almost
makes too much sense there are some caveats McKenna didn't provide any
receipts and emulators have been officially banned from Microsoft's Store
policies for a long time so it's conceivable that Microsoft suddenly
decided to enforce their own rules
the emulators that were in circulation were published as private universal
Windows platform or uwp apps which allows them to bypass the approval
process for a public store listing while allowing anyone with a link to download
it but wouldn't you know it for just twenty dollars you can put your console
in developer mode and make those emulators work again
money is there no problem they can't solve
Samsung has announced they would be cutting memory chip production after
reporting a 96 nice percent drop in q1
profits compared to last year would 96 be bad
not nice reportedly the Korean company had its smallest quarterly profit since
the 2009 financial crisis at a mere 600
billion won or 450 million US Dollars
Samsung blames a falling demand for memory chips so they are adjusting to
lower memory production to a meaningful level which is corpo speak for make less
next time do us a favor and say less you know what I mean give me a
questions competitors like SK hynix and Micron had
already reduced their production but Samsung allegedly held off doing the
same to grab market share from these competitors I guess that went well
the good news for you dear consumer is that this trend of hilarious Tech Goofs
should lower prices on PC components provided that they actually follow
economic Trends and aren't artificially inflated due to swarms of crypto and or
AI Bros gpus that's what happened also
Market analysts predict the price decrease will only last six months at
which point the prices will go up at least for DDR memory so if you don't
have enough save to upgrade there's always next recession
and two major telecom companies up here in Canada have merged and become one
that's right we have problematic mergers too we're a real country
We Exist Rogers Communications
Incorporated has taken over Shaw Communications Incorporated the final
move in a battle that was probably initially started by a which Corporation
has the most original name contest obviously the acquisition cost Rogers a
cool 20 billion Canadian rubles which equates to about 14.9 billion Freedom
bucks consumer Advocates have long protested the lack of competition in the
Canadian Telecom space with the market dominated by two companies Rogers and
bell and occasionally Telus tags in for
a fun three-way on the west coast where only consumers get screwed Canada's
mobile data cost per Gigabyte is currently seven times more expensive
than Australia 25 times more than Ireland and France and 1 000 times more
than Finland some think that this merger will allow for more competition though
because Shaw was forced to sell its subsidiary and fourth largest Canadian
wireless provider free to mobile 2 the fifth largest Canadian wireless provider
now that's confusing it's actually fairly simple two mergers May decrease
the number of companies but still increase competition through the
sophisticated application of blood sacrifice and lies now it's time for
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here comes the quick bits former Tesla employees have claimed
their co-workers passed around private videos recorded it by customer vehicles
from 2019 to 2022 graphic crashes road
rage incidents and embarrassing moments such as a naked man approaching a car
were shared internally Tesla States in
their privacy policy that camera recordings remain anonymous but former
employees claim that a program used internally at the company can display
location data that can be used to identify customers so if you were ever
naked in front of a Tesla it may be time to take that permanent vacation to
Mexico you've always dreamed of we're just the low cost of everything you have
Comcast has been accused by some of its customers of abusing the managed Wi-Fi
feature on iOS that allows iPhones and iPads to Auto join carrier networks
while users are supposed to be able to disable the feature on each managed
Network at least one user has stated they cannot disable auto join on their
carriers managed networks which includes any neighbor with a Wi-Fi modem combo
with a free hotspot okay how about a little gratitude for the free one bar
Wi-Fi that interrupts your homework network connection that you pay for
that's way better we didn't have to do that
Twitter is disabling likes replies and retweets for any tweet with a link to
sub stack and only sub stack because that's the next bold step to ensuring
freedom of speech on the internet preventing writers and journalists from
sharing their point of view or making money Twitter has not announced any
reason for this change but it comes shortly after substack announced the
notes feature which could kind of be seen as a Twitter competitor
but not really it's a stretch so far
Elon Musk is doing a great job of fostering competition to the product he
owns in that AMD's acquisition of zilinx has borne
fruit with the launch of a standalone media accelerator card for data centers
baby yeah okay that sounds boring but
actually the alveo ma35d is the first in
line of media accelerator cards for data centers that could change the streaming
game thanks to its ability to encode and decode av1 h.264 and h.265 eposvox does
a tremendous job talking about how awesome this 1600 card is so check out
his video if you like me had to be convinced this thing is cool and a nasty
rumor has come out that Sony is planning to launch a new handheld except
it isn't anything anyone would actually want uh the alleged device would be
exclusively for streaming games from your PS5 via remote play and would
require constant internet connectivity like only in your home
is anything you can do it outside why buy a Nintendo switch or a steam
deck when you can just play on your PS5 but on a smaller screen and only when
the Wi-Fi isn't spotty
and why not come back on Monday for more Tech news I mean you can be with your
family or you can be with me some guy in the internet