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my god it's full of tech news although google

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chrome is by far the most popular web browser it's not known for being

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particularly power efficient but that may start to change soon as google

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engineers have stuck a feature in chrome version 86 to increase battery life on

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mobile devices by 28 david that's a lot of percent but what

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about RAM and this applies across platforms

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whether on Windows Linux mac iOS or Android as long as those are mobile

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devices i guess they pull off this improvement by cutting down on

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unnecessary javascript background usage that can really drain your battery the

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savings appear to be most prominent when you have lots of tabs open and if you

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know me and you're a human you have lots of tabs open indeed during one test

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google left 36 background tabs open and saved a whole two hours of battery life

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however keep in mind the feature is experimental and may not make it into

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the next version of chrome so don't be too quick to yank that power cord just

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yet i guess we're talking about laptops mostly here hey yeah you don't really

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have that many chrome tabs open on your phone do you a lot has been made out of the powerful

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hardware under the hood of microsoft's upcoming xbox series x but what kind of

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games can we actually expect for it because you know if the games suck then

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mommy will have to buy me one of the other consoles

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okay we won't have to wait too much longer to find out as the company will

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unveil a bunch of first party titles for the console on july 23rd at summer games

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fest some are game fest there's no s that always trips me up halo infinite a

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reboot of the popular series is widely expected to be among the games announced

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and we might see more games in the fable gears of war and forza franchises as

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well although this isn't the first microsoft event dedicated to titles for the series

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x this is the first one primarily dealing with microsoft's own titles as

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what we've seen so far are mostly third party non-exclusives so nice to see

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microsoft gaming is still doing well

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rest in peace mixer and speaking of microsoft gaming an interesting bit of

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kit from microsoft's upcoming xcloud streaming service was just announced the

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sn30 pro gamepad has appeared on amazon it's a bluetooth game controller

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designed for Android smartphones it's from 8bitdo or do

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8bitdo the company known for updated version of retro controllers for systems

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like this nest snes man there's so many tomato tomatoes here

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the controller is supposed to have an 18 hour battery life and also features a

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smartphone clip and remappable buttons it's quite similar to their existing

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sf30 pro though the new model will have microsoft

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branding to make it more like an xbox controller they should make one of those retro like fat controllers no no no one

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will buy them it'll be out on september 21st just four days before my birthday

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and they're taking pre-orders now if the pandemic has you desperate to spend your

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money on something and again my birthday

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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

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you've flown on an iconic boeing 747 at

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some point but not this year but it looks like the jumbo jets days may be

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numbered as reports indicate that boeing will cease production in two years in

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favor of smaller more efficient long range planes such as the 787 you know

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walking up those stairs on the plane made me feel like a real vip so even if

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i was just climbing up to coach i still i like the small ones there's about to

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be less competition in the food delivery spaces uber is reportedly buying

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postmates in a deal worth about 2.65

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billion dollars a lot of money for companies that don't actually make

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profit uber is trying to be more competitive against door dash so i

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understand the move but i also well it seems like they'll have less

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incentive to lower their outrageous delivery fees so i worry about the small

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business owner microsoft is teamed up with tire giant bridgestone to roll out

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tire damage monitoring system it'll be able to detect real-time physical damage

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to a car's tires using algorithms and also tell what spot on the tire is in

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need of attention because tire damage is the leading cause of accidents caused by

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mechanical failures alerting drivers to tire issues as they pop up could

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significantly improve safety of course not handing drivers licenses out like

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candy would be a great idea too that sounds pretty opinionated john

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isolation during the pandemic has caused many of us to turn to gaming to pass the

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time how much time well console sales

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are up significantly across the board but the nintendo switch in particular

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has more than doubled in its sales in the first half of 2020 compared to the

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same period last year weird given that that's the only portable one and i'm not

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going anywhere and twitter has seemingly confirmed users won't be getting an

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often requested feature anytime soon if ever the platform tweeted out a message

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on its own account saying you can have an edit button when everyone wears a

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mask some users appreciated twitter stance others saw it as antagonistic but

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the whole thing makes me wonder if it's just easier not to tweet

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at all that's our show for today come back on wednesday for more

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