as some of you found out this week i'm kind of a minimalist so today we're
going to keep the jokes to a minimum only serious tech stories that were told
to me in confidence last night by your mom it's true i was there too oh
right on schedule AMD officially announced their ryzen 5000 series
desktop processors at their where gaming begins event not where productivity
begins because that's right AMD says these chips will outperform Intel's 10th
gen desktop cpus and gaming by up to 20
percent giving team red enough confidence to actually price these parts
slightly above team blue's competitors for the first time in a while it's
happening the operation was a success dr lisa sue AMD's not releasing a new
motherboard chipset for this launch these chips can be used in existing 500
and 400 series boards with a BIOS update but we also got a sneak peek at the 4k
performance of the upcoming Radeon rx 6000 series graphics cards placing it
pretty much on par with the rtx 3080 but we'll get more details on that on
october 28th while the four new cpus from the six core ryzen 5 5600x to the
16 core ryzen 9 5950x will be available
november 5th wow really shows what can happen when you hire a medical doctor as
your company's ceo you're not going to you're not going to correct me on that
i'm saved microsoft's head of gaming phil spencer reportedly told employees
this week that the company's xcloud game streaming service absolutely will end up
on iOS even if he has to challenge tim apple to a mud wrestling match to do it
that she kind of looks like phil schiller i'd pay to see that phil sheller's gone
though i think microsoft is targeting 2021 for the potential release of a
browser app that could stream xcloud's library a similar solution to the one
used by amazon's recently announced luna gaming service but microsoft's love hate
situation with apple didn't end there they also published a blog post
outlining 10 principles that the microsoft store on Windows would adhere
to based on guidelines from the coalition for app fairness sound
familiar that's the industry group made up of
epic games and other companies lobbying against apple's restrictive as they see
it app store policies microsoft's blog post doesn't mention apple but it's
pretty clear where microsoft's loyalties lie here making this like a
corporate passive-aggressive subtweet
that apple will to be honest probably not see or care about
they're above it but something apple does care about is iphones and ahead of
the new models reveal on tuesday we've gotten some pretty substantial leaks
from kang a leaker with a decent track record kang says we'll be getting an
iphone 12 12 pro 12 pro max and an
iphone 12 mini with a 5.4 inch display and a 699 msrp
nice can i do the nice thing about a 699
69
okay apple may also finally bring back the magsafe charger design but for the
new iphones instead of max and a 99 homepod mini hot on the heels of
google's 99 nest audio speaker meanwhile
mark german another reliable leaker wrote in bloomberg this week that apple
may be releasing its first ARM-powered mac in november i can't wait to see the
faces of all the mac users who open their shiny new macs for christmas and
realize in horror that it doesn't natively support x64 apps
oh they will be so upset because they know that
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oracle and google's 10-year legal dispute is finally coming to a head as
this week the two companies supreme court case over google's use of oracle's
java programming language began and initially it looks like the court is
leaning in oracle's favor despite basically the entire software industry
leaning the other way because if oracle wins it could completely change the way
the law treats copyrighted content especially remixes of such content that
are ubiquitous on tick tock for example man if tick tock actually survives this
year we might actually have to make an account
you want to see me doing the dances right i'm not going to do them the nintendo
switch modding community was shocked when members of team executor a group
that produced and sold devices designed to get around copy protection on the
switch were arrested last week but apparently the problem wasn't the
circumvention of nintendo's protections it was the selling of the devices so as
long as you aren't trying to start an etsy store for artisanal rom hackers or
something you should be safe sony may be winning the console war so
far with a report claiming that 72 of next-gen console pre-orders were made
for a ps5 but whether this david was in there but whether this is bad news for
microsoft is actually debatable with their games launching on multiple xboxes
and pc two it seems like they just want you to sign up for game pass and forget
that halo infinite looked really ugly in the trailer game pass have you heard a
game pass it's a good deal apple paid 288 thousand dollars to a group of white
hat hackers that found 55 vulnerabilities in the company's network
after breaching it and hanging out there for three months i remember a time when
apple would sue these people instead of rewarding them maybe that mud wrestling
match really made an impact they should have given them more and google's waymo
is opening up fully driverless taxi rides to the general public in phoenix
making it one of the first fully autonomous robo taxi services to launch
in the u.s of course elon musk wasn't that impressed calling the service a
highly specialized solution whereas tesla's approach is a general solution
that will definitely arrive soon and not many years from now and oh just kidding
one more look at this jellyfish robot it's a robot that swims like a jellyfish
it's fun wouldn't be fun to continue this episode though so come back on
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