oh you actually did you clicked the video
okay well you want some techniques fair enough
google one of the biggest tech companies in the world has just threatened
australia so everyone's meeting behind the gym
after school and i've got three tootsie pops riding on it
no this is serious see last year an australian government commission drafted
a proposal that would if passed into law require tech platforms like google and
facebook to pay aussie news sites for the privilege of linking to their
stories google isn't a fan of this obviously and it told the country's
senate this morning that if such a law were passed google would have no real
choice but to shut down its search engine in
australia interestingly google just reached an agreement with the french
government that will see the tech giant pay french publishers to post small
snippets of news stories in google news after failing its many attempts to avoid
such an agreement but australia's proposal isn't about snippets it's about
links to learn the difference and even though i would tend to side with the people
over google in this type of situation the idea of paying to simply link to a
site is kind of contrary to the whole idea of an open web so australia i love
you but this is not fair dinkum i know i didn't use that right i know i didn't
use that right don't stop writing that comment we've heard so many rumors and
leaks about apple's in development vr slash ar headsets i feel like i've
already used them they smelled like elitism which probably isn't that far
off as new leaks indicate apple plans to release a vr headset next year that will
be an expensive niche product intended for early adopters and developers it'll
have a fabric design an internal fan and it'll run on batteries
imagine that sometime later apple will launch the real fancy boy that's what
that's the official name a pair of augmented reality glasses sometime after
2023 apple i'd like to know what's going on with you you're taking the touch bar
off of the next macbooks putting magsafe back in and bringing back the sd card
slot and who knows how many other ports in the macbook now you're gonna release
experimental hardware for early adopters what's next a gaming macbook is tim
apple actually a cs go headshot god or something
let me know and NVIDIA is acting like your most annoying friend right now
multiple reports have stirred speculation that team green was killing
the max q branding it has used to denote gaming laptops that were capable of cool
and quiet operation but NVIDIA came out to deny those rumors telling pc gamer
that the max q branding is not going away in fact it's stronger than ever
it's stronger than ever because third generation max-q is a holistic set of
platform technologies and design approaches to building powerful and thin
laptops okay NVIDIA did confirm that it
will be up to laptop manufacturers to choose what parts of the maxq spec they
implement and whether the machine will be labeled a max view model which is
where the idea that NVIDIA was killing the brand came from in the first place
so the brand will live on but you might not see it much and it will be up to you
to make sure that the laptop you're buying is the good one and not that other sucky one
yeah they're killing the spirit of the brand also max p in case you were wondering
it's not an official brand so NVIDIA can't kill it if they never gave birth
to it i think that's how most things work that's my nickname actually
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don't say i didn't warn you after some of Intel's earnings
information leaked the company went and officially made it public turns out
Intel isn't doing so bad team blue reported record full-year revenue
causing company shares to rise i feel like we've transitioned from cheering on
AMD destroying Intel and the processor game to kind of feeling bad for them
they're the underdog now but yeah now i can well no no they're they're doing
fine AMD please hunt them down because
they can take it because they're not our hero they're the
silent guardian cut me out you should have cut me off by now already microsoft has raised the
prices of xbox live gold with a six month subscription now going for 60
bucks or 120 bucks per year except a ton
of xbox players buy xbox live codes online which have been going for 60
bucks for 12 months did you do the math james that's not bad no it's marx it's
twice as expensive the price is now doubled moving on it's
a weird move especially since xbox had built up so much goodwill with its
frankly awesome xbox game pass program but i guess they just want you to buy
that instead honestly i'm kind of confused by this story are you an angry
xbox gamer let me know in the comments alphabet has metaphorically popped its
loon moonshot program which used giant air balloons as mobile cell towers
apparently cell towers got less expensive as demand for connectivity
surged in the past decade making the whole idea a little outlandish i mean
balloons
there's so many so many parties happening yeah
a team including former pebble ceo eric
miguelski announced an app called beeper
this week which can combine chats from 15 different apps including imessage
whatsapp signal and telegram into a single inbox the imessage support
apparently requires an always online imac to function like you have to have
that and if you don't have one of those beeper will ship you a jailbroken iphone
to use as a bridge that you have to keep connected it's ten dollars a month just
don't talk to apple people and sure important things happened this week but
probably the best thing was the bernie memes well in the spirit of socialism
developer nick sonny capitalized on the opportunity to create an app that used
google street views API to let you put bernie dressed in his adorable jacket
and mittens anywhere in the world but then google sent sony a bill for taking
up google maps resources which is exactly why we need a political
revolution in this country
that was okay we need to end this episode come back on monday for more
tech news it'll be good