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the writers Department word of the week here is Goblin mode as in I'm about to

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go gabba mode all over and up inside this you know Tech news I don't think

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that's how you use it's the wrong definition let's go

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let's go Xbox game pass has been the darling of the gaming world since

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Microsoft first introduced it it's been called things like the best deal in

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gaming and the reason I get up in the morning but the subscription Services

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shining reputation was called into question today after report citing

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Microsoft's own internal analysis claimed that 12 months after a game is

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added to Game Pass sales of the base game decline by

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X percent we believe that because the actual percentage is redacted in the

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report and we wanted to give you the real experience looks like I'm there in

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the report now back in 2018 Xbox had Phil Spencer claimed that game pass

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actually contributed to increased sales for games added to the service which

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seemed like it didn't quite make sense and we now know that's because it didn't

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the report in question was published by the UK's competition and markets

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Authority which is investigating Microsoft's proposed acquisition of

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Activision Blizzard a deal that threatens to transform Microsoft into a

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towering Behemoth that would squish Sony's HQ building with a single stump

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like Godzilla I don't know if Sony has anything to worry about sounds like the

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Xbox game pass HBO show would be terrible nobody would buy it

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yourself subscribe I don't really get it but Samsung has finally done something

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about the rapid Health degeneration issue plaguing its 990 Pro ssds like

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some kind of flag flag

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lesions reports from the owners of the

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model in question emerged in the past few weeks describing their drives smart

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Health deteriorating extremely rapidly almost as if it's been stricken by a

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disease or perhaps a plague Samsung has now released a firmware update for the

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990 Pro that stops the drive from deteriorating further unfortunately does

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not reverse the deterioration that's already occurred that SSD's leg will

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always have some scarring the issue is a much worse one than the glitch that

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caused Samsung's 980 Pro ssds to get stuck in read mode which was completely

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healed by a firmware update a couple of weeks ago I don't know what Samsung did

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differently with this generation of ssds but maybe it should get immunized before

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it goes traveling to Exotic locations on account of the plague flag flag what do

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you say plague plague bagel bagel bagel

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and Amazon has gradually taken a bigger and bigger cut of sales made through its

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marketplace with the Commerce Giant's average share of each transaction

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surpassing 50 for the first time back in

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2022 because hey inflation's hurting everybody right now even Amazon they got

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bills to pay the news comes from a study by Marketplace pulse showing that with

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Amazon steadily increasing its commission warehouse storage packing

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delivery fees advertising costs Amazon's total cut of the average product's price

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steadily Grew From 35.2 percent in 2016

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the Before Time 251.8 percent in 2022. one could argue

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that Amazon was basically doing half the work by attracting new customers and

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increasing sales if one really wanted to be that guy or one but in a familiar

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story sales have dropped since the height of the pandemic leaving sellers

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asking whether a 50 cut is Justified in

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this economy you looked at the charts it's an economy that makes you want to

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you can fix the train I tried to put a quick bit into the LTT

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screwdriver once it did not like that it was not try that

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again not quick okay honky MC trainerson like who's on the tracks no one get it

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you're we have officially entered the era of

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semi-convincing deep fake scams thanks to the proliferation of AI voice cloning

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technology Logan Paul investigator coffee Zilla posted a tick tock he found

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which attempted to trick the viewer into thinking Joe Rogan was endorsing certain

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male enhancement pills using doctored podcast footage and a cloned AI voice

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that of course wouldn't convince me but could definitely convince your grandma

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who loves Joe Rogan huge fan and who's in the market for

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male enhancement pills that he's already because Grandpa Tech YouTuber eposvox

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also spotted a deepake scam for a brand called povision which also happens to be

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a condition that would make you more susceptible to these things

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Internet Explorer 11 will be permanently disabled on Windows 10 thanks to an

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update that will roll out tomorrow February 14th I guess I.E is no longer

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Microsoft's Valentine

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that's brutal once the update is pushed through the edge browser any attempt to

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launch Internet Explorer will launch Edge instead which is actually pretty

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decent especially if you have access to the new but a bing that's slowly taking

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everyone's job literally in the case of Internet

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Explorer Edge has an ie mode if you're

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ever feeling nostalgic for something worse

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let's get crazy tonight a report from the information claims

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that Tick Tock is working on a number of new features that could reward creators

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with slightly more than cloud from thirst trap addicted scroll Gremlins

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tick talkers May soon have the option of charging viewers for certain content out

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of the only fans and a revamped Creator fund that might result in more

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consistent payouts after all tick tock has to do something in response to

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YouTube's new shorts monetization scheme even if it still has big problems like

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not giving creators any AD revenue from the first ad in a viewing session

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that's a special ad that YouTube worked hard on it's a special yeah yeah we

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wouldn't know who to attribute it to who would get it blue origin one of the

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world's Myriad space companies owned by an eccentric billionaire quietly

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announced something extremely cool last week the company's blue Alchemist

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program managed to create solar cells from simulated lunar soil Paving the way

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for future Moon missions to produce solar panels using nothing

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the good old Moon dirt 100 Moon Dirt

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Band mooner inside the Moon

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we're talking solar freaking lunar roadways okay that's a bit of a jump now

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Elon just needs to figure out a way to do the same thing with Mars dirt and

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will have proper space war in our hands Moon dirt versus Mars dirt oh they're

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all red and white and some sports ball fans in Philadelphia were no doubt

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mortified when their Comcast cable service went down during the biggest

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oblong ball based Sports match of the

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quarter Comcast did manage to pretty quickly fix the damage which they say

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was caused by vandalism I hope it wasn't perpetrated by fans of

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the other sports team involved inside match but I'll tell you what scored the

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best touchdown in my mind Rihanna's dancers they were hell did you

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see it ever so no they were at no risk of

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miscarriage and you better dance your way back here

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on Wednesday for more Tech news or just watch it on your regular chair whatever

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works yeah robot dance