man there's nothing that gets any more revved up for the weekend than some good
old-fashioned lawsuits let's go let's litigate
litigation no breathing epic games has executed an unprecedented
campaign against apple and google for the 30 cut those guys take of revenue
from their respective app stores first epic set the bait with a direct payment
option for the fortnite v-bucks that skipped the apple tax apple then
responded by removing fortnite from the app store and google followed suit but
epic was ready they released an in-game commercial parodying apple's infamous
1984 ad but framing apple as the bad guy
and fired off lawsuits at apple and google that had clearly been prepared
months before the lawsuits hinge on the anti-competitive nature of that 30 cut
taken by google and apple but which apple also takes from all in-app
transactions that's a monopoly baby epic also alleges
that google blocked a deal with oneplus which would have seen a special
fortnight launcher pre-loaded on the company's phones alongside the lawsuits
epic has gone into full-on pr battle mode telling its players that if apple
and google don't change their ways you guys will miss the next season of
fortnite this is crazy you definitely want to
play as like ant-man or something don't you definitely don't you now you i don't
get that but now even if we agree with epic's ultimate goal here we have to
acknowledge that epics know saint themselves they're basically recruiting
kids to attack apple with hashtags and wait a second what about the consoles
which all charge a 30 platform tax but at the very least we can thank epic for
providing us with some summer entertainment it's a billionaire rumble
going about a royale with tim cook while all that was happening Intel was busy
talking about technology improvements in their processors as part of an
architecture day 2020 which sounds like a school event that cool kids would not
attend according to Intel their new transistor
called 10 nanometers superfin is the largest single intranode advancement in
the company's history i should hope so and should lead to improvements in 10
nanometer processor performance that might make it easier to wait until 2020
for their 7 nanometer products whoa 2022 read that wrong that makes a
difference those seven nanometer products zlp or
low power graphics will come embedded in tiger lake processors when they launch
this fall while z hpg which uh sounds
like a venereal disease or high power gaming will arrive with raytrade support
in the company's first external graphics cards in 2021 that's sooner than later
all in all the event might have been enough to restore a bit of confidence
that Intel may just come back from the absolute thrashing they've been enduring
the past couple of years hp got so excited about Intel's
news that they accidentally leaked a tiger leak-powered laptop on their site
but then they sucked it back in just as fast i wish i could do that
hi mark and speaking of leaks a spec table courtesy of memory maker micron
has revealed that NVIDIA's upcoming ampere graphics cards will be led by the
rtx 3090. the leak indicates the card will have 12
gigabytes of gddr6 x memory with each
module supporting up to 21 gigabits per second of bandwidth for a total memory
bandwidth of one terabyte per second i
can't go that fast will they really break that barrier one terabyte per
second wow wow we didn't get an rtx 2090 in the
past generation but we did have a titan rtx so it remains to be seen whether the
rtx 3090 is at the actual top of the
stack or whether NVIDIA will add another ridiculously overpowered and overpriced
model that basically no one should buy i take it back apple google and epic can
buy them and have sword fights with them
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i swear i saw some quick bits around here
apple is reportedly about to launch an amazon prime style bundle of
subscription services called apple one anyway it's gonna tie together
apple music tv plus news plus arcade icloud and whatever else they have going
on i don't know once you sign up the service will grant you access to the
inner sanctum i almost said scrotum of apple's
ufo-shaped campus where you can participate in sacred collective rituals
and buy more apple products
and maybe amalgamate into one super apple
megazord
a california judge has ruled that amazon can be liable for defects in third-party
products sold on its marketplace after a woman endured third degree burns from a
defective laptop battery amazon is supposed to be protected from liability
in cases like this by section 230 or 230
for you fast talkers of the communications decency act but at the
same time jeff can afford it
google will stop responding to data requests from the government of hong
kong after a new law was passed requiring said government to pass such
data onto china google is actually following tick tock here which did the
same thing back in july but tick tock is owned by bite dance a chinese company
the heck's going on here i think it's time to do the detective dance what does
that look like i'm not doing that just because you write it doesn't mean
i'm okay fine
i have two magnifying glasses speed tests from the beta for spacex's
starlink satellite internet service are showing
less than impressive speeds with pings over 30 milliseconds and download speeds
ranging from 11 to 60 megabits per second but that might be plenty for
rural customers who are still using freaking dial-up or other even crappier
satellite things plus your internet will be coming from space
think about that well and for your daily wtf moment here's a phone case being
developed by researchers in seoul korea that has robotic legs it can use to
wiggle its way onto a wireless charger
why and why do i want it yeah whatever this
episode is going to end i'm going home to my new place on friday i'm moving you
saw that on instagram come back on monday for more tech news
when i'm unpacked you know i almost said scrotum