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tomorrow's groundhog day which means you might get stuck in a time loop which

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means you won't hear any tech news again until you escape it i'm sorry we're

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trying to fix this but yeah

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we'll get there eventually stadia is a google product and so naturally it lives

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in a continual state of fear that it will be shut down as soon as google gets

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distracted by something else

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it's the prompter remote not working well stadia isn't getting shut down

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yet but google is shutting down its first party game development studio

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stadia chief phil harrison cited an exponentially increasing cost of

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producing games in-house as the only real reason which to be fair is a good

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one aaa game development budgets are often in the hundreds of millions of

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dollars range the rest of phil's statement had that

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classic pr jargon found in every stadia press release talking about

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important opportunities to work with partners seeking a gaming solution all

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built on stadius advanced technical infrastructure and platform

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dude you don't sound like a gamer at

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all anyways for now it looks like stadia

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will survive on third-party titles for a while which is a shame as i was really

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looking forward to search algorithm simulator 2022. it's like a triple a

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version of a dinosaur game obviously the GPU supply situation has been miserable

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lately but what if you've been looking at getting a console instead well we

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still have bad news for you mike spencer the head of microsoft's investor

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relations department recently sat down with the new york times and said that

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it's going to be until at least june

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when the supply situation for the xbox series x and s gets appreciably better

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spencer said that although microsoft sold as many as they could during the

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final quarter last year the issue has been as you guessed it supply shortages

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for components especially as the manufacturing facilities are also making

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components for other gadgets since AMD chips lie at the heart of the

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new xboxes it sounds like team red is trying to get supply for both pc and

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console gamers two groups of people that are

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famously patient matchmaking takes the time that it does

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you know i got all day i don't need to play right now

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you go first of course one thing that may help with all these shortages is

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AMD's simply increasing manufacturing capacity as it turns out that's exactly

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what they're trying to do AMD has long partnered with taiwanese outfit tsmc to

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manufacture its chips but according to reports AMD is now trying to work out a

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deal with samsung as well apparently AMD

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initially approached tsmc about ramping up its production but unsurprisingly

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many other companies are also currently pushing tsmc's manufacturing capacity

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leading AMD to look to korea instead we know samsung is already working with AMD

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in some capacity because samsung's next exynos chipset will come with an AMD GPU

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but samsung also is producing NVIDIA's rtx 3000 series gpus so

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hopefully the old red versus green rivalry doesn't break out there and make

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a stock shortage worse i think a headline like NVIDIA and AMD's

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gpus destroy each other in a factory fight

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might send some gamers over the edge what do you mean

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wait i can't buy a GPU yeah you just actually can't now it's

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today dennis that wasn't that's not that it's not

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that's not an install it's just okay love you quick bits i feel like

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i've heard that somewhere before iphone owners that also own apple watches will

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soon be able to unlock their phone with face id even if they're wearing a mask

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thanks to an upcoming iOS 14.5 update

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the watch needs to already be unlocked but if it is looking at the connected

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iphone with a mask should unlock it now

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you might be tempted to sell your gamestop shares in order to buy an apple

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watch and to that i say no brethren to the diamond hands be true

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oh geez although cryptocurrency is

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currently enjoying another surge in popularity one major country isn't too

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keen on the idea of continuing to allow it india the world's second largest

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country is considering banning private crypto such as bitcoin and ethereum the

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indian parliament instead wants to roll an official government-sanctioned

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cryptocurrency although this could help stabilize the exchange rates it's bad

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news for dogecoin lovers going to

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if you need a covet test but want to do it at home instead of waiting in a long

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line there might be some good news on the horizon as the us is reportedly

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investing nearly a quarter billion dollars into a deal to have australian

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company illume manufacture 8.5

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million smartphone based tests which can give you the results in just 15 minutes

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dang probably up your butt yeah since proof of negative test is often required

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for an international travel it could be very useful for anyone that wants to get

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on a plane you might have dropped big bucks to get a super premium power

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supply but it turns out it can have issues too Corsair has issued in recall

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on some of its high-end hx power supplies sold in the second half of last year the

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defective psus may not boot up your system correctly but the good news is

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there's no risk of them damaging your pressures hardware perfect hardware

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if you're affected you can contact Corsair for a replacement unless you

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want a very expensive paperweight how do i keep all these papers down Corsair

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and speaking of game streaming GeForce now's latest update brings support to a

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couple new platforms you can access the streaming service directly through

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google chrome whereas previously you needed a Windows desktop app

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additionally the update enables GeForce now on the apple m1 devices like

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macbooks so you don't need to let anyone tell you that you can't game on a mac as

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long as you let apple control all your hardware decisions

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i can do whatever i want anyway that's our show so come back on wednesday where

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we travel to the oregon trail for more tech news i'm not doing that yeah we're

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not definitely not doing that yeah no international travel