my god it's full of tech news although google
chrome is by far the most popular web browser it's not known for being
particularly power efficient but that may start to change soon as google
engineers have stuck a feature in chrome version 86 to increase battery life on
mobile devices by 28 david that's a lot of percent but what
about RAM and this applies across platforms
whether on Windows Linux mac iOS or Android as long as those are mobile
devices i guess they pull off this improvement by cutting down on
unnecessary javascript background usage that can really drain your battery the
savings appear to be most prominent when you have lots of tabs open and if you
know me and you're a human you have lots of tabs open indeed during one test
google left 36 background tabs open and saved a whole two hours of battery life
however keep in mind the feature is experimental and may not make it into
the next version of chrome so don't be too quick to yank that power cord just
yet i guess we're talking about laptops mostly here hey yeah you don't really
have that many chrome tabs open on your phone do you a lot has been made out of the powerful
hardware under the hood of microsoft's upcoming xbox series x but what kind of
games can we actually expect for it because you know if the games suck then
mommy will have to buy me one of the other consoles
okay we won't have to wait too much longer to find out as the company will
unveil a bunch of first party titles for the console on july 23rd at summer games
fest some are game fest there's no s that always trips me up halo infinite a
reboot of the popular series is widely expected to be among the games announced
and we might see more games in the fable gears of war and forza franchises as
well although this isn't the first microsoft event dedicated to titles for the series
x this is the first one primarily dealing with microsoft's own titles as
what we've seen so far are mostly third party non-exclusives so nice to see
microsoft gaming is still doing well
rest in peace mixer and speaking of microsoft gaming an interesting bit of
kit from microsoft's upcoming xcloud streaming service was just announced the
sn30 pro gamepad has appeared on amazon it's a bluetooth game controller
designed for Android smartphones it's from 8bitdo or do
8bitdo the company known for updated version of retro controllers for systems
like this nest snes man there's so many tomato tomatoes here
the controller is supposed to have an 18 hour battery life and also features a
smartphone clip and remappable buttons it's quite similar to their existing
sf30 pro though the new model will have microsoft
branding to make it more like an xbox controller they should make one of those retro like fat controllers no no no one
will buy them it'll be out on september 21st just four days before my birthday
and they're taking pre-orders now if the pandemic has you desperate to spend your
money on something and again my birthday
is also at that time so venmo me now it's time for the sponsors
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if you occasionally travel on intercontinental flights chances are
you've flown on an iconic boeing 747 at
some point but not this year but it looks like the jumbo jets days may be
numbered as reports indicate that boeing will cease production in two years in
favor of smaller more efficient long range planes such as the 787 you know
walking up those stairs on the plane made me feel like a real vip so even if
i was just climbing up to coach i still i like the small ones there's about to
be less competition in the food delivery spaces uber is reportedly buying
postmates in a deal worth about 2.65
billion dollars a lot of money for companies that don't actually make
profit uber is trying to be more competitive against door dash so i
understand the move but i also well it seems like they'll have less
incentive to lower their outrageous delivery fees so i worry about the small
business owner microsoft is teamed up with tire giant bridgestone to roll out
tire damage monitoring system it'll be able to detect real-time physical damage
to a car's tires using algorithms and also tell what spot on the tire is in
need of attention because tire damage is the leading cause of accidents caused by
mechanical failures alerting drivers to tire issues as they pop up could
significantly improve safety of course not handing drivers licenses out like
candy would be a great idea too that sounds pretty opinionated john
isolation during the pandemic has caused many of us to turn to gaming to pass the
time how much time well console sales
are up significantly across the board but the nintendo switch in particular
has more than doubled in its sales in the first half of 2020 compared to the
same period last year weird given that that's the only portable one and i'm not
going anywhere and twitter has seemingly confirmed users won't be getting an
often requested feature anytime soon if ever the platform tweeted out a message
on its own account saying you can have an edit button when everyone wears a
mask some users appreciated twitter stance others saw it as antagonistic but
the whole thing makes me wonder if it's just easier not to tweet
at all that's our show for today come back on wednesday for more
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