tech news oh they do the body good
yeah facebook may have a strangle hold on the
vr headset market with the oculus quest 2 but at least they're showing it some
love the company has announced updates that will allow users to wirelessly
stream pc vr games to the quest 2 using
oculus air link because oculus link no
air does the same thing but requires a cable so that makes sense now this is
something you could already do with the quest 2 using the virtual desktop app
but it looks like facebook has had enough of people tinkering with their
special baby you're supposed to use it this way and you have to log in with
your facebook account you own the headset and we own you what's so hard to
understand the quest 2's display is also getting a 120 hertz update which is
actually sick because it could only do 72 hertz when the headset launched last
year i know it's like facebook you're doing cool
things take my money as it was with the 90 hertz update only
a few apps will support 120 hertz refresh rates right away but no doubt
more will join the party as soon as they perform the correct rituals laid out in
the facebook sacred tomes ah you didn't let them collect your voice data no high
frame rates for you go to confession
microsoft suddenly decided to unveil the new surface laptop 4 along with a bunch
of accessories on a tuesday in the middle of april so weird they are so
quirky i love microsoft hardware they don't care the
new surface laptop is noteworthy because microsoft has apparently decided to
double down on making ryzen processors an option for buyers but they've only
made ryzen's last gen 4000 series mobile cpus an option while the Intel models
come with the latest 11th gen mobile chips that's our microsoft
and there's a twist so quirky although these aren't just any ryzen mobile chips
they're special surface edition processors so you know they're better
somehow if that doesn't satisfy your inner ryzen fan though you could get one
of the new ryzen 5000 series apus AMD just announced although you can only get
them in a pre-built pc look i'm sorry
not by microsoft someone else
on the plus side though microsoft also unveiled the surface headphones two plus
for business in addition to a couple less premium headsets and a conference
speaker all with dedicated teams buttons
we've been asking for this for years what does the button do
whatever it does it doesn't do it consistently who knows let's find out
whoa yeah and after being called out by apple
for not making enough money on its epic game store investment epic games has
gotten more investments from other companies to the tune of 1 billion
200 million of that comes from sony which only strengthens the already thick
bond between the companies with the rest coming from a bunch of investment funds
and partners you probably haven't heard of the new funding round pushes epic's
value to 28.7 billion dollars with tim
sweeney remaining the controlling shareholder and it places epic in a
slightly more comfortable position ahead of its app store face-off with apple
next month i heard that if epic wins they get to put a tim cook skin in
fortnite and it and it'll be bad it'll be a bad
character you won't want to pick him cook skin
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just leave now discord has announced that it may mark entire servers as not safe for work if
there's enough lewd content in there and that means that iOS users will be banned
from accessing those entire servers in accordance with apple's app store
guidelines people are comparing this story to that of tumblr which apple
removed from the app store until the blogging platform banned all adult
content in 2018 so i guess it's becoming clear that you should get an iphone for
your kids and an Android for yourself my phone has training wheels
tcl won't stop showing off wacky new phone concepts their latest is the fold
and roll a seven-inch phone that unfolds and then extends into a 10-inch
tablet-sized display i mean lg's gone who else is gonna make these wacky
phones that we love tcl also announced a handful of tcl 20 series regular phones
but i don't care about those put a sucky 3d display on there that doesn't work
in there or something and now we're talking apple has announced a spring-loaded hardware event for next
tuesday april 20th
after siri spilled the beans a bit earlier than she was supposed to must
have found her way and deceived steve's secret stash still hidden on campus
we're supposed to see some new ipads but oh samsung also has a hardware event a
week later with the most powerful galaxy so powerful bad
after being leaked a bajillion times spotify has finally officially announced
the an in-car music player called the car thing no that's actually the name
it's a little display that can be controlled with both the built-in dial or by voice using the hey spotify
keyword spotify is actually giving car
thing away to spotify premium subscribers but you need an invite to
get one and when it actually launches for real it'll cost 80 bucks
everything about this is so unusual i don't know what else to say i'm not
familiar i guess it's a car thing the stupid and the fbi has hacked hundreds
of servers that were hacked previously by the group called hafnium haven't they
suffered enough well it turns out hafnium left software
backdoors open in the servers it stole data from so the fbi went in through
those back doors and deleted them the fbi says it's trying to inform the
server owners via email of its actions which is probably a good idea but it
also makes the whole thing a lot less cool like batman would just
take off man that wouldn't just get out it's cool your background's got a back
door time for us to just take off
you're not talking about coinbase ipo
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