the writers Department word of the week here is Goblin mode as in I'm about to
go gabba mode all over and up inside this you know Tech news I don't think
that's how you use it's the wrong definition let's go
let's go Xbox game pass has been the darling of the gaming world since
Microsoft first introduced it it's been called things like the best deal in
gaming and the reason I get up in the morning but the subscription Services
shining reputation was called into question today after report citing
Microsoft's own internal analysis claimed that 12 months after a game is
added to Game Pass sales of the base game decline by
X percent we believe that because the actual percentage is redacted in the
report and we wanted to give you the real experience looks like I'm there in
the report now back in 2018 Xbox had Phil Spencer claimed that game pass
actually contributed to increased sales for games added to the service which
seemed like it didn't quite make sense and we now know that's because it didn't
the report in question was published by the UK's competition and markets
Authority which is investigating Microsoft's proposed acquisition of
Activision Blizzard a deal that threatens to transform Microsoft into a
towering Behemoth that would squish Sony's HQ building with a single stump
like Godzilla I don't know if Sony has anything to worry about sounds like the
Xbox game pass HBO show would be terrible nobody would buy it
yourself subscribe I don't really get it but Samsung has finally done something
about the rapid Health degeneration issue plaguing its 990 Pro ssds like
some kind of flag flag
lesions reports from the owners of the
model in question emerged in the past few weeks describing their drives smart
Health deteriorating extremely rapidly almost as if it's been stricken by a
disease or perhaps a plague Samsung has now released a firmware update for the
990 Pro that stops the drive from deteriorating further unfortunately does
not reverse the deterioration that's already occurred that SSD's leg will
always have some scarring the issue is a much worse one than the glitch that
caused Samsung's 980 Pro ssds to get stuck in read mode which was completely
healed by a firmware update a couple of weeks ago I don't know what Samsung did
differently with this generation of ssds but maybe it should get immunized before
it goes traveling to Exotic locations on account of the plague flag flag what do
you say plague plague bagel bagel bagel
and Amazon has gradually taken a bigger and bigger cut of sales made through its
marketplace with the Commerce Giant's average share of each transaction
surpassing 50 for the first time back in
2022 because hey inflation's hurting everybody right now even Amazon they got
bills to pay the news comes from a study by Marketplace pulse showing that with
Amazon steadily increasing its commission warehouse storage packing
delivery fees advertising costs Amazon's total cut of the average product's price
steadily Grew From 35.2 percent in 2016
the Before Time 251.8 percent in 2022. one could argue
that Amazon was basically doing half the work by attracting new customers and
increasing sales if one really wanted to be that guy or one but in a familiar
story sales have dropped since the height of the pandemic leaving sellers
asking whether a 50 cut is Justified in
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screwdriver once it did not like that it was not try that
again not quick okay honky MC trainerson like who's on the tracks no one get it
you're we have officially entered the era of
semi-convincing deep fake scams thanks to the proliferation of AI voice cloning
technology Logan Paul investigator coffee Zilla posted a tick tock he found
which attempted to trick the viewer into thinking Joe Rogan was endorsing certain
male enhancement pills using doctored podcast footage and a cloned AI voice
that of course wouldn't convince me but could definitely convince your grandma
who loves Joe Rogan huge fan and who's in the market for
male enhancement pills that he's already because Grandpa Tech YouTuber eposvox
also spotted a deepake scam for a brand called povision which also happens to be
a condition that would make you more susceptible to these things
Internet Explorer 11 will be permanently disabled on Windows 10 thanks to an
update that will roll out tomorrow February 14th I guess I.E is no longer
Microsoft's Valentine
that's brutal once the update is pushed through the edge browser any attempt to
launch Internet Explorer will launch Edge instead which is actually pretty
decent especially if you have access to the new but a bing that's slowly taking
everyone's job literally in the case of Internet
Explorer Edge has an ie mode if you're
ever feeling nostalgic for something worse
let's get crazy tonight a report from the information claims
that Tick Tock is working on a number of new features that could reward creators
with slightly more than cloud from thirst trap addicted scroll Gremlins
tick talkers May soon have the option of charging viewers for certain content out
of the only fans and a revamped Creator fund that might result in more
consistent payouts after all tick tock has to do something in response to
YouTube's new shorts monetization scheme even if it still has big problems like
not giving creators any AD revenue from the first ad in a viewing session
that's a special ad that YouTube worked hard on it's a special yeah yeah we
wouldn't know who to attribute it to who would get it blue origin one of the
world's Myriad space companies owned by an eccentric billionaire quietly
announced something extremely cool last week the company's blue Alchemist
program managed to create solar cells from simulated lunar soil Paving the way
for future Moon missions to produce solar panels using nothing
the good old Moon dirt 100 Moon Dirt
Band mooner inside the Moon
we're talking solar freaking lunar roadways okay that's a bit of a jump now
Elon just needs to figure out a way to do the same thing with Mars dirt and
will have proper space war in our hands Moon dirt versus Mars dirt oh they're
all red and white and some sports ball fans in Philadelphia were no doubt
mortified when their Comcast cable service went down during the biggest
oblong ball based Sports match of the
quarter Comcast did manage to pretty quickly fix the damage which they say
was caused by vandalism I hope it wasn't perpetrated by fans of
the other sports team involved inside match but I'll tell you what scored the
best touchdown in my mind Rihanna's dancers they were hell did you
see it ever so no they were at no risk of
miscarriage and you better dance your way back here
on Wednesday for more Tech news or just watch it on your regular chair whatever
works yeah robot dance