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Disclaimer: Nicholas Plof wrote most of this script and I have not edited what

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he wrote. And here we go. Purchase. What do you mean? There seems to have been an

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error initializing or updating your transaction. I want to wait one more

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minute uh to bring you all another round of tech news. This will make sense. At

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long last, Team Cherry has released Hollow Knight Silkong on consoles and

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computers around the world. Or at least they tried to. This is the first and

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maybe the only time where I'm going to advocate for pre-orders. You son of a I

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guess in the past though because it's our because Steam was so busy with all

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of the purchase requests that it completely broke down. Can we go back in

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time and tell people to A few savvy gamers managed to pick it up on Humble

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Bundle and redeem the code through Steam just fine, but then they ran out of

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keys. How can a digital thing be out of stock? We need more materials. GOG was

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relatively unaffected. If you went there first, I like you. Everyone else was

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stuck refreshing pages and attempting purchases for at least an hour and a

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half after launch. I know because I was

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there too, you guys. Plof was. Where were you when Silk Song launched

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>> on the clock? Were Were you there on the front line helping this buggy

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masterpiece reach over 500,000 players on Steam just a few short hours after

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you could actually buy it for the shockingly low price of only $20?

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>> That's indie, baby. Small user base. >> Actually, there's like three guys made

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it. >> You can do a lot in 8 years. >> Not many people know that. Speaking of a

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Steam related thing that costs more than $20, Valve has filed two trademark

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applications for Steamframe. The first one is for controllers and the second

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one is for general computer hardware.

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Okay, >> just about covers it. >> Valve also released a new Steam VR beta

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which professional Valve watcher Brad Lynch data mined and found some nuggets

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of gold in them their hills. See, Brad is thinking that this Steam Frame is the

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final product name for the rumored Decker VR headset and Steam VR overlays

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are being rebranded to Frames. And Brad

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discovered that the Roy VR controllers aren't marked as prototypes anymore.

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This is all coming together to make it look Oh, and Valve finished making

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drivers for a Steam Link VR USB dongle

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that uses 6 GHz wireless signal. I

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thought it was a weird drop, but Brad's bringing value here. The real hero of

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this story is Brad. This is just a Brad story. And you know who else is waiting

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for some hot new general computer hardware? China. Reuters got an

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exclusive interview with some Chinese tech firms who want to buy NVIDIA's H20

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enterprise AI cards. These sources, however, prefer to remain anonymous,

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probably because Beijing regulators are discouraging them from making those

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purchases. After the floodgates were opened back in July, when NVIDIA got

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permission from the US government to sell these downgraded cards in China,

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Chinese authorities summoned companies like Tencent and Bite Dance to kindly

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explain why do you need these? H what

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have the US got that we don't? After all, China has their own domestic chips

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now. Surely those are good enough, right? Uh, well, maybe not, because not

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only are H20s selling and orders are being scrutinized, but these same

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sources seem eager for the upcoming B30A

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Blackwell cards from NVIDIA, assuming America approves the sales. Congress is

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currently considering forcing both NVIDIA and AMD to prioritize US

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customers of their GPUs first. They won't be allowed to sell the even the

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China specific versions to China. If there's anyone on US soil who wants that

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first >> back of the line, she >> first dibs. NVIDIA says this doesn't

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make any sense because selling these cut down versions doesn't impact production

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of the big boy H200 and B300. But who

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knows what the US government will decide next?

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The quick brown bit teched over the lazy

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gro. That's my new quickbit catchphrase. I hope you like it because it's never

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going away. Lenovo has officially revealed that its Legion Go2 gaming

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handheld will start at $1,100

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for the Ryzen Z2 model and $1350 for the

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one with the Ryzen Z2 Extreme. Why not?

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Cuz the economy is so good right now. Lenovo didn't announce a specific

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release date, but did say both models will launch sometime in October, which

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will pit them directly against the ROG Xbox Ally and Ally X handhelds, which

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launched on October 16th with similar specs and hopefully MSRPs under $1,000.

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Let's just say we've come a long way since the days when you could pick up a

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Game Boy for a buck 50 at the corner store.

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>> Jeez, >> remember when you could share earbuds? Like that scene in the office where Pam

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listens to music with Jim the one time that ever happened. Well, you still can.

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You can just give someone the other earbud.

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But also now Pixels and some other Android phones can play audio through

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two sets of headphones at the same time. >> Actually lit. This is mostly thanks to

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BluetoothleLE or low energy audio using

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a neat low complexity communications codec or LC3 as well as a feature called

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OraCast. It's super cool. If you're into that kind of stuff, please tell me just

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how into audio you are in the comments. But if you gatekeep, I'm going to ban

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you. But I'll never ban affordable phones.

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That's just not who I am. Samsung's new Galaxy S25 FE is here and it's 150 bucks

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less than the regular S25. Sure, the processor is not as good and it's a

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plastic frame, but who cares? >> It's no Legion Go,

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>> and that's what matters. Reviews seem happy with it, and I love saving money.

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If you want a bigger screen, the new Tab S11 is also here. And heck, let's throw

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in those new Galaxy Buds 3 FE 2 while we're at it. And if you're looking to

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save even more money, just get last year's model. It's still good. A

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streaming service alleged to be the largest elicit live sports streaming

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operation in the world, was taken down this week. >> That's a foul.

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>> The Sting operation was conducted by Egyptian authorities in cooperation with

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the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, a global antipiriracy

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group which includes Apple, Netflix, Disney, and Warner Brothers. companies

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who just care about protecting civilian settlements from being pillaged by

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sports pirates. However, the streaming site that was taken down called Stream

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East was actually a copycat of the

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original Stream East site, which is still operational. As an ACE rep told RS

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Technica, "They know it's a different website." They totally knew that. Shut

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up. And it only took 15 years, but iPads

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finally got Instagram, baby. The platform announced they're launching the

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mode now because quote people have asked for this for a while. What

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I don't know if a decade and a half is a while, but what matters is that it's

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here now. So instead of using the iPhone version of the app that blows everything

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up way too big on an iPad screen, Doomcrollers can now use a large screen

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appropriate UI to disassociate for hours. And it's time to disassociate

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from the tech news so you can come back on Monday to get more and not feel

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overwhelmed by all the wacko things happening on the internet. Go see some

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wacko things in the real world. Like, have you ever gone up really, really,

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really close to a tree? They're so weird. >> There's a lot going on there.

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>> And they're alive. Like, what? And have

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you heard about funguses? >> I hate

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>> a third type of being. I don't like fungus.