tomorrow's groundhog day which means you might get stuck in a time loop which
means you won't hear any tech news again until you escape it i'm sorry we're
trying to fix this but yeah
we'll get there eventually stadia is a google product and so naturally it lives
in a continual state of fear that it will be shut down as soon as google gets
distracted by something else
it's the prompter remote not working well stadia isn't getting shut down
yet but google is shutting down its first party game development studio
stadia chief phil harrison cited an exponentially increasing cost of
producing games in-house as the only real reason which to be fair is a good
one aaa game development budgets are often in the hundreds of millions of
dollars range the rest of phil's statement had that
classic pr jargon found in every stadia press release talking about
important opportunities to work with partners seeking a gaming solution all
built on stadius advanced technical infrastructure and platform
dude you don't sound like a gamer at
all anyways for now it looks like stadia
will survive on third-party titles for a while which is a shame as i was really
looking forward to search algorithm simulator 2022. it's like a triple a
version of a dinosaur game obviously the GPU supply situation has been miserable
lately but what if you've been looking at getting a console instead well we
still have bad news for you mike spencer the head of microsoft's investor
relations department recently sat down with the new york times and said that
it's going to be until at least june
when the supply situation for the xbox series x and s gets appreciably better
spencer said that although microsoft sold as many as they could during the
final quarter last year the issue has been as you guessed it supply shortages
for components especially as the manufacturing facilities are also making
components for other gadgets since AMD chips lie at the heart of the
new xboxes it sounds like team red is trying to get supply for both pc and
console gamers two groups of people that are
famously patient matchmaking takes the time that it does
you know i got all day i don't need to play right now
you go first of course one thing that may help with all these shortages is
AMD's simply increasing manufacturing capacity as it turns out that's exactly
what they're trying to do AMD has long partnered with taiwanese outfit tsmc to
manufacture its chips but according to reports AMD is now trying to work out a
deal with samsung as well apparently AMD
initially approached tsmc about ramping up its production but unsurprisingly
many other companies are also currently pushing tsmc's manufacturing capacity
leading AMD to look to korea instead we know samsung is already working with AMD
in some capacity because samsung's next exynos chipset will come with an AMD GPU
but samsung also is producing NVIDIA's rtx 3000 series gpus so
hopefully the old red versus green rivalry doesn't break out there and make
a stock shortage worse i think a headline like NVIDIA and AMD's
gpus destroy each other in a factory fight
might send some gamers over the edge what do you mean
wait i can't buy a GPU yeah you just actually can't now it's
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i've heard that somewhere before iphone owners that also own apple watches will
soon be able to unlock their phone with face id even if they're wearing a mask
thanks to an upcoming iOS 14.5 update
the watch needs to already be unlocked but if it is looking at the connected
iphone with a mask should unlock it now
you might be tempted to sell your gamestop shares in order to buy an apple
watch and to that i say no brethren to the diamond hands be true
oh geez although cryptocurrency is
currently enjoying another surge in popularity one major country isn't too
keen on the idea of continuing to allow it india the world's second largest
country is considering banning private crypto such as bitcoin and ethereum the
indian parliament instead wants to roll an official government-sanctioned
cryptocurrency although this could help stabilize the exchange rates it's bad
news for dogecoin lovers going to
if you need a covet test but want to do it at home instead of waiting in a long
line there might be some good news on the horizon as the us is reportedly
investing nearly a quarter billion dollars into a deal to have australian
company illume manufacture 8.5
million smartphone based tests which can give you the results in just 15 minutes
dang probably up your butt yeah since proof of negative test is often required
for an international travel it could be very useful for anyone that wants to get
on a plane you might have dropped big bucks to get a super premium power
supply but it turns out it can have issues too Corsair has issued in recall
on some of its high-end hx power supplies sold in the second half of last year the
defective psus may not boot up your system correctly but the good news is
there's no risk of them damaging your pressures hardware perfect hardware
if you're affected you can contact Corsair for a replacement unless you
want a very expensive paperweight how do i keep all these papers down Corsair
and speaking of game streaming GeForce now's latest update brings support to a
couple new platforms you can access the streaming service directly through
google chrome whereas previously you needed a Windows desktop app
additionally the update enables GeForce now on the apple m1 devices like
macbooks so you don't need to let anyone tell you that you can't game on a mac as
long as you let apple control all your hardware decisions
i can do whatever i want anyway that's our show so come back on wednesday where
we travel to the oregon trail for more tech news i'm not doing that yeah we're
not definitely not doing that yeah no international travel