I like to think that there's an alternate universe where there's Tech
news every day and then talking dogs and
the talking dogs can fly and it rains cereal yeah a perfect Universe Windows
12 will be supported by Intel's upcoming
meteor Lake platform according to the most reliable source we have a deleted
tweet but that tweet was twitten by Leaf
hobby the same leaker who revealed the full specs of Intel Xeon chips before
they launched Leaf hobby claims that Intel's meteor Lake s desktop platform
which is due to be released this year will have 20 PCIe Gen 5 Lanes they also
twout and I quote support Windows 12 on
OS list now obviously it's a bit early
to do a plus one on Windows again so this is probably just an internal name
for some big Grand update for Windows 11. but if so couldn't they have chosen
a better name why not Windows 11.11 so I
can make a wish whenever I boot my PC
you have strange dreams please make it rain cereal we may never know what it
really is since both Microsoft and Intel refuse to comment on the leak when asked
by The Verge we do know they plan on integrating more AI into future Windows
versions since the head of consumer marketing said as much earlier this week
and big boss penos penet said AI is
going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows at CES this year really is it
going to reinvent how I look out pensively at the rain yes
I'm inclined to believe him after it completely changed how we use Bing by
making us want to use Bing that was not on my bingo card
it's just been a long time the European
Union is expected to approve Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard
according to early reports they had to put him through the ringer first though
can't just give it to him originally the EU was concerned the deal would be a
major blow to competition in PC console and cloud gaming but now the European
commission isn't even expected to require asset sales to approve the
buyout which which you normally have to have you do that's what I approve every
time get your assets out get it back that asset up this is more than likely
due to the actions The company took just last month such as announcing a 10-year
Call of Duty deal with Nintendo and a deal with NVIDIA to bring all of
Microsoft's PC releases to GeForce now and just last week Microsoft's Vice
chairman Brad Smith argued in a European hearing that Microsoft's market share in
the Region's console sector was a mere 20 percent while Sony's was 80 percent a
statement that sounds normal in universes where Nintendo doesn't exist
the dark ones rude ones without talking
dogs yet this argument seems to have worked to move the deal forward despite
Sony's disapproval to add insult to Sony's injury a ruling in the ftc's case
over in America might Force the game's company to reveal just how much they pay
for third-party exclusives for PlayStation I guess Microsoft attorneys
used the oldest legal argument in the book a tactic that practiced lawyers
refer to as know you Sony should have
followed up with you smell like up dog what's up objection
Etc and Esports have come to the Olympics
sort of the international Olympic Committee announced the official lineup
of games for the Olympic Esports series 2023 and well they are certainly games
we think hard to tell the event is a
global virtual and simulated Sports competition in which anyone can
participate and will culminate in live finals hosted in Singapore now a couple
of the games might might be recognizable Gran Turismo is there for Motorsports
Just Dance I guess dancing is Olympic
now but the official game they chose to represent archery is called Tic Tac bow
a mobile game with about a thousand downloads
developed by a singapore-based studio called refract Technologies now wouldn't
you know it the founder of the studio is an active commission member of the
global Esports Federation what a coincidence it gets even coincident
denser because the official Taekwondo game Virtual Taekwondo is also made by
refract with a little extra fun twist it's the flagship title for a motion
capture console called axis that was launched on Kickstarter by
who'd have guessed riffrack Technologies the axis isn't available for retail
purchase either what about League you know like
you can't jump up in the air and do scissor kicks why not rocket League you
know I could join so yeah anyone uh can
compete in This Global Taekwondo tournament so long as you gave refract
over 500 Singapore dollars last year and the console arrives in time for you to
compete and for you to practice using it because you probably don't know
how to use it if it doesn't well there's always tennis that's just a free phone
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hearing you talk about pants you know I like to think the number of
guys in Five Guys was inspired by the number of Quick bits there's no way
that's true meta has cut the price of two of their VR headsets the 256 gig
Quest 2 is 70 off while the 128 gig
Quest 2 is the same it's still a hundred dollars
more expensive than it was at launch so but what's a hundred dollars when you
can save 500 on a quest Pro just four
months after launch the quest Pro is now a thousand dollars which I mean is a
smaller number than before between this price cut and reports that
there won't be a successor because the Sony psvr 2 is so freaking good I'm
sensing meta didn't sell many Quest Pros that's what happens when you make things
1500 that no one wants LastPass has revealed more details about the leak of
customer data that occurred late last year it turns out that a devops
engineer's home computer was hacked through third-party software the
engineer was one of four employees with access to the Vault and if ours Technica
is to be believed their PC was hacked through an exploit in Plex
imagine if you exposed thousands of people's data just because you wanted to
stream all your episodes of monks starring to Tony Shalhoub why monk it's
a good show the latest Tick Tock Trend everyone's binging Monk
starring Tony Shalom the newest version of the steam deck OS enables Ray tracing
and doom Eternal wow which runs surprisingly well despite using AMD
graphics and being a handheld console one user appears to have gotten above 30
FPS in the game with Ray tracing on at least while looking directly at the
ground but damn that's the best place to look just look at that pool of demon
blood glsen oh magnific I wish that was real deep
demon blood on my floor rather stop I
need to sleep Amazon Basics has now entered the computer components Market
with a CPU air cooler it's selling on
Jeff Bezos book website for 27 which
will look like a great deal when you see it prominently placed on Amazon's
Marketplace yeah it's easy to be cynical but you know what it's got RGB and it's likely
just a rebranded Cooler Master product what did you expect Amazon to make one
from scratch do you think they're made of money it's funny because they almost
literally are and former FEMA officials are rallying to stop EV manufacturers
from removing AM radio from their automobiles citing its importance as
emergency communication automakers including Ford and Tesla are removing
the old radio standard with Ford claiming EVS create electromagnetic
noise at the same frequencies as AM radio signals causing buzzing and Signal
fading and you can't drive all your Buzz however this didn't stop older models
from having am receivers also I don't understand how no AM radio is better
than slightly noisier AM radio but I'm not an engineer they're just cute I just
read the tech news but you don't have to be an engineer to know we'll have more
Tech news on Monday and this time it will be Monday unlike on last Monday
when I said come back on Monday is that what happened yes and I said that yeah
and I wrote it it was like a real Anchorman situation
just reading it