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Tech news
remember how Microsoft said Windows 10 was going to be the last version of
Windows so that's obviously gone out the window no pun intended with the release
of Windows 11 and now it looks like Microsoft is trained even further away
from that Vision as a report indicates that they're going to be having a major
release every three years meaning it's expected that we'll be seeing Windows 12
in 2024 but on the plus side Redmond is also planning to push out feature
updates for the existing version of Windows much more frequently which
hopefully means you won't have to deal with buggy or poorly designed features
for as long although nothing regarding Windows 12 has been confirmed yet
Microsoft does apparently have plans to bring it to life in line with the new
release timetable which is great because I love just having to get used to a new
interface over and over and over and
over again in better news GPU prices are
still falling and although initial reports that NVIDIA would be dropping the msrps of its current RTX 3000 lineup
turned out not to be true Team Green did confirm that some of its cards will be
getting discounts for a limited time of course with the launch of RTX 4000
series likely coming later this year the distinction between limited time deal
and reduced MSRP might be purely academic NVIDIA looks to be clearing out
some of its current high-end stock as the deal currently only applies to the
RTX 3080 12 gig Edition and up with the largest savings being 500 bucks off an
RTX 3090 TI which drops it down to a super affordable 14.99 which I'm sure
you all have in your couch cushions right about now look money wow what you
might actually have laying around is an old laptop and you can now easily turn
it into a Chromebook as Google's Chrome OS Flex is now available to the general
public Chrome OS Flex is an installation tool you can put on any USB drive to
install Chrome OS on any system you like the tool does a compatibility check
first but it should be fine unless you're rocking some seriously ancient
Hardware even though this new version of Chrome OS is being marketed towards
bigger organizations trying to extend the life of their fleets of older
devices it seems like it'd be useful for the average home user that just wants
another machine to browse the web and make calls on as the system requirements
for Chrome OS are still quite modest or you could install it on your five
thousand dollar gaming rig just to see what happens when you post about it on Reddit I post all my OS changes on
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quick bits the legal showdown between Elon Musk and Twitter is set to kick off
in just a few days as the two sides will have an initial hearing on July 19th in
the Delaware Court of Chancery the dispute arose when Elon tried to back
out of his bid to take over the social media giant so Twitter is now either
trying to force Elon to go through with it or pay the cost Twitter is incurring
as a result of Elon breaking the contract ah I'm sure he always intended
to buy Twitter never was this a sham at all guaranteed right Alex yeah but you
know it's not a sham drones delivering stuff from Amazon and it's finally
coming to its Second City the lucky winners this time are College Station
Texas the company is going to be getting in touch with customers there to see if
they're interested in getting their junk delivered via drone Jesus Christ and
seeing as it's a smaller city with a large College population the decision
seems to make sense maybe soon the skies around Texas A M will be filled with
drops of maroon colored care packages it's the school color if you don't get
the joke valve is reportedly optimizing steamos to run on devices other than the
steam deck that sounds pretty sick although gaming laptops are not nothing
new other companies have been trying their hand at devices that are closer to
Portable consoles such as the winmax 2 from GPD a rather small laptop that has
a Gamepad built in although it seems a little odd for valve to be helping
Hardware Rivals it makes sense when you consider they'll get the steam store
which means they're going to get sweet sweet cheddar when you overpay for all
those DLCs and microtransactions and hats and crates everything just just
have your money well it turns out five percent of new car sales in the US are
now electric which many folks consider the Tipping Point for broad adoptions
and it sounds like GM agrees as they've just announced a plan to construct a
nationwide fast charging Network made up of 500 stations and 2 000 stalls the
first of which should be up and running early next year the stations are planned
to have amenities similar to current gas stations and Travel Centers because I
want no part of that unless it comes with a microwave burrito and Sushi
assembled last week yeah and Wordle has come full circle in a
journey from smartphone sensation to an offline party game The New York Times
who bought Wordle earlier this year is releasing a board game version with a
word board dry erase markets and little green and yellow tiles to make the game
version a little bit more like the digital one the game will set you back 20 bucks and you can pre-order it now
but can you really put a price on gathering in person with your friends or
at least people you tolerate I mean I don't usually tolerate Alex but oh whoa
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