it's black friday but since there's an unfortunate lack of news about brawls at
walmart we're gonna settle for news about tech starting with the processor
industry it looks like there's even more good news for AMD is a recent survey by
the european hardware association indicated that 60 of respondents wanted
an AMD CPU for their next rig as opposed
to Intel only 60 the survey asked 10 000
european users and indicated a 20
increase in preference for team red over just last year when 40 percent leaned
towards the uh AMD side there was also a small but noticeable uptick for AMD's
graphics offerings going from 19 to 23
even over in the us eight of the top 10 best-selling cpus are from AMD i don't
think we've seen a red scare like this since the cold war here's a deal for
something that you might not actually want all that much valve is now selling its remaining steam
controllers for just five dollars the idea was originally quite innovative
sounding as the device was extremely customizable with numerous options for
controlling games such as playing a fighting game only with motion controls
it did end up being a little overwhelming for reviewers who mostly
said they preferred more conventional analog sticks but it still sold over
half a million units in the six months following its release in 2015. it
appears that it failed to catch on with a larger audience though due to the
difficulty of getting used to the touchpad so uh there you go if you want to try it
out the discount will be available until december 3rd or until supplies last and
even if you hate it well at least you get to own an infamous piece of tech
history to go along with your virtual boy when you think of bank robbery you
probably picture a bunch of dudes with masks and guns
but a recent cyber heist netted thieves 49 million dollars without the need for
all that messy you know pointing guns at people a cryptocurrency
exchange in south korea lost 342
000 ethereum coins earlier this week due to theft and while the exchange is
planning to replace those coins it has suspended both deposits and withdrawals
this week so i hope you weren't planning to use your
ethereum account to pay for any of your holiday shopping this is just the latest
in a series of larcenies involving crypto as a similar amount of money was
stolen from a bitcoin exchange back in june
so as always guys you should really be using an offline wallet you know like in
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if you tried to use facebook or instagram yesterday you may have encountered some difficulties as both
services sustained outages worldwide
facebook was mom on the actual cause other than to say that it was an issue
with your mom no just kidding but she is probably the only one who noticed
because it's facebook they said there was something wrong with their central
software systems whatever the heck that means maybe it
was too many people posting pictures of turkey and the hits just keep on coming
for google stadia this time in the form of an nba 2k20 bug
although one of stadia's main selling points is that all the updates are handled server side meaning that gamers
won't have to wait around for patches to download nba2k20 players are still
getting stuck on a screen that says updates are downloading google has
confirmed that this is an error oh well that's good
and that downloading updates is not actually necessary it just sounds like
they don't understand that ball is life is that is that a thing although ford's
weird mustang electric suv thing caught a lot of flack when it came out mostly
due to the fact that it doesn't resemble a mustang at all that wasn't enough to
dissuade the market in general as it's now sold out in the united states
because ford only had so many batteries to go around only 50 000 of these
monstrosities will be made in year one and yes john wrote today's episode and
he's a mustang owner with very strong opinions on this okay thank you john for
throwing that in there what are your opinions we don't know if you really
want to participate in black friday but are really cash trapped hulu is
currently running a special special hulu is currently running a special
where you'll get a year of streaming for only two bucks a month although it's for
their ad supported version that notoriously has lots of ads to deal with
um but whatever i guess it's still an enticing offer considering that it's
about the price of a coke and huawei is now suing the us government over an fcc
order that banned the company along with fellow chinese manufacturer zte from
benefiting from the universal service fund which is
basically money that the wireless carriers can use to subsidize phones for
lower income customers since this is just the latest development in a
protracted battle between huawei and uncle sam folks with huawei phones in
the us can still use them for now but if you're looking to upgrade you might want
to get your next phone from a company that the us isn't currently beefing with
so that's our show have a great weekend and come back on monday for some more
beefy cyber news get it it's cyber monday we're gonna
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