i didn't click the video you did you always do this let's change the subject
i say we talk about tech news what do you mean you don't want it you click the
video after buying bethesda for seven and a
half billion dollars last year microsoft is continuing its studio acquisition
bender and absorbing activision blizzard king like a high templar absorbing
another one and forming an archon this is a dark templar for sure for 68.7
billion i don't know why they couldn't round it up another 300 ml and make it a
little nicer but did you do the math on that
but a deal brings the number of game studios owned by the tech giant to 32
meaning it's only a matter of time before we get a smash bros style game
with master chief fighting a protoss i already made a protoss joke that
actually sounds awesome but people are less stoked about the acquisition
essentially serving as a way for embattled activision ceo bobby kotick
kotik
to slide out the back with a nice payout once the deal is over and avoid major
ramifications of these sexual harassment accusations levied against him also
among the reactions were annoying pieces about how this is a big metaverse play
we need to outlaw that word and others questioning whether microsoft is now a
gaming monopoly but even with the extra revenue they're gonna get from this
acquisition the move may only make microsoft third in gaming earnings
behind tencent and sony as usual we have to give this story time to breathe to
see how much worse it makes the world the question isn't if it will make it
worse it's how much they already have
solitaire in other everybody panic news yesterday
the ceos of major airlines threatened to ground flights to avoid catastrophic
disruption by new 5g network equipment
scheduled to be switched on by verizon and at t today y2k baby
y5g the move came after months of intense standoffs over the technology
which the faa says could like crash planes but which seems to work fine in
europe but they do things different over there
they're so quirky at the last minute the american isps agreed to delay the
rollout of c-band 5g tech in the vicinity of airports following similar
threats from international airlines but they did launch it elsewhere not around
airports and hey it seems to be going okay so far the f
the ffa the faa has since released a list of planes with more modern
altimeters that won't be affected by the spectrum overlap issue so make sure
you're on one of those planes unless you're fine with dying as long as you
have really good reception in your final moments on airplane mode
no i didn't get the benefit and AMD launched their latest GPU today
the rx 6500 xt reviews so far saying james
they're saying that the criticism stems from the cards bottleneck issues caused
by its tiny 64-bit memory bus only four
PCIe 4.0 lanes and its paltry four gigabytes of vram perfect storm to make
matters worse it seems like AMD tried to bury one of its blog posts from june
2020 which claimed four gigabytes of vram is not enough for modern games and
that was a year and a half ago drawing more criticism because of the thing they were
trying to avoid criticism for when kit guru noticed the blog post was deleted
AMD put the blog post back up like aha you got me hit refresh
this is a game we play and of course the card is being found
for prices upward of 280 dollars instead of its 199 msrp but you knew that was
going to happen we thought 300. we it could have been worse
we're not mad AMD we're just confused what's wrong with you a mobile GPU
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them that quick james get off your phone
after ghosting the tech world by missing their previously teased announcement
dates samsung has gotten over their shyness and unveiled the exynos 202
2200 eclipse the company's first mobile
soc featuring AMD's rdna 2 graphic scores and thus support for ray tracing
samsung didn't provide any performance data which would be concerning if it
wasn't painfully obvious that this chip is not going to be very good what
big samsung fan i want it to be good research published
last week has shown that a software vulnerability in apple's webkit browser
engine which powers safari 15 and all other iOS web browsers has been leaking
user identities and browser information since iOS 15 went live back in september
apple you're so private everything stays there
you put it there and it stays it doesn't there's a bit of sliding unfortunately
the only thing iphone users or safari users on macOS can do is be really
careful while browsing or switch to a platform that doesn't force you to use
one type of browser like you're a child being forced to eat vegetables both are
wrong if the child wants scurvy that's their business i use brave cryptocurrency
exchange crypto.com finally admitted they did suffer a hack but ceo chris
marjaleck i didn't say that right was quick to
clarify that no customer funds were lost he replaced them with his own billions
it's it's true he may mean that crypto.com will take the financial hit
for the 15 million worth of crypto that apparently were stolen according to
other analysts what if we printed the coins on paper would this help
metal then you'd have to like get in there like do a real heist
like the joker and after the wi-fi alliance made things complicated with
wi-fi 6e and wi-fi 6 version 2 mediatek
says they're testing wi-fi 7 and they may release the first products powered
by the new tech in 2023 here's hoping they don't actually mean 2023.2a
i love that which is like a pocket you like that joke it was a pretty good one what does it
mean and after wordle clones flooded the iOS app store last week here's a story
about one of the good ones okay well actually it's not a clone it's a
completely different game app called wordle with an exclamation mark that
experienced a huge surge of revenue thanks to the popularity of the other
wordle well its creator stephen cravata
is donating the proceeds of that surge to boost west oakland the charity
providing free after-school tutoring for kids so i guess clones aren't all bad
but this wasn't a clone we'll have more questions to answer on
friday so come back for more tech news at that time or don't and we can keep
fighting it's up to you what are you gonna do i have it in your hands give me some
space we need to make this work ah