look tech daddy is giving us a timeout so i'm in my room but that won't stop me
from doing the tech news even though i'm grounded
i'm not supposed to nintendo beloved further cutesy characters and family
friendly games put on its bad guy mask again this week as the company ordered
the the big house an annual smash bros
tournament to cancel this year's event the issue is the big house's use of
slippy not the frog from star fox it's a mod for super smash
bros melee that improves online play which would have been an especially
useful in this case as the tournament wasn't online on the event no it's
organizers were apparently asked not to use slippy and they refused at which
point nintendo sent a cease and desist letter meaning no consent leading all
the big house events to be cancelled including the super smash bros ultimate
portion of the tournament which would have used an unmodded copy of the latest
smash game this morning nintendo also banned a number of twitch streamers from
australia new zealand and japan for playing hyrule warriors age of calamity
as the game launched in their respective countries seemingly because the game
hadn't launched worldwide yet wait for it honestly if it was ea pulling this
crap they'd be skewered online but for some reason it's hard to stay mad at
nintendo you know they're like dogs they're like nintendogs they they don't
know what they're doing they just poop on your floor but it's so cute when they do it
we might mock apple a fair bit around here but they do at least seem to care
about privacy a bit more than their big tech counterparts that's evidenced by an
iOS 14 feature called app tracking transparency or att that allows users to
be notified and opt out of being tracked using their iphone's unique idfa code
which stands for identifier for advertisers apple delayed the feature to
next year after facebook and advertising firms whose business relies on that type
of tracking complained about it but now the fight is intensifying again with
apple accusing facebook of invasive tracking and facebook accusing apple of
abusing their market power to boost their own data collection
everyone sucks on the other side of the issue apple is under investigation in
the eu for allowing idfa tracking at all
so they really can't please everyone here i sort of feel bad you know
yeah you know you know what apple those m1 macs are pretty cool
all right i'll give you that one you need a little boost you know and if
you've played half-life 2 you're probably a millennial and you
might be familiar with gnome chomsky with a g a gnome that awards you an
achievement if you carry it through the entire game and place it inside a rocket
well valve president gabe newell has brought the meme to life by sending a
real-life replica of the gnome on rocket Labs electron rocket as it delivered a
payload of satellites into real-life orbit the launch marks the first time
rocket lab has successfully returned a rocket's second stage to earth using a
parachute not as cool as like landing itself but chomsky won't be around to
celebrate he's still in space on the kickstage which will burn up on
re-entry don't worry you'll be remembered with
two new achievements in half-life 2 a game that launched 13 years ago you know
i respect val's priorities why make half-life 3 when you can do this kind of
stuff instead much prefer this
way better it's a better ending because
he's just carbon now now it's a time for the
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they're on for bogo youtube is facing some backlash after announcing that ads
will be enabled on videos by creators not currently in the youtube partner
program who also won't get a share of the ad revenue until they do become
partners if creators really don't want ads on their videos though they can
remove monetization from their channel by violating the terms of service so
there's that youtube is also adding audio only ads for music playback uh you
can get mad but apparently youtube still barely makes any profit at all so
maybe they should start thinking about getting a patreon
it's official game streaming on iOS is a safari affair google has announced
they'll be bringing stadia to iphones and ipads through a web app accessed
through a browser and NVIDIA will be doing the same thing with their
streaming service GeForce now this makes
so much more sense than having a normal streaming app on the app store like
every other platform apple great call thanks they're truly a leader
Intel has announced the nuk m15 laptop kit a so-called white book
meant to be used as a baseline device that manufacturers can modify rebrand
and sell i guess nooks are now something more than just tiny pcs that are missing
some storage and RAM i know it's weird it's 20 20 we're all trying to adapt the
damage inflicted to the rsibo radio telescope is too severe to repair safely
so the observatory will be shut down and dismantled according to the national
science foundation without the telescope our ability to listen for alien signals
will be considerably reduced so here's hoping the invasion doesn't happen until
after we build a replacement we're sitting ducks here thanks entropy and
smash hit kids game roblox has gone public after experiencing a 68 revenue
increase in 2020 so far the game's creators are looking to turn it into a
more of a social space that can serve as a sort of metaverse which is exactly
what fortnite and facebook's horizon are trying to do i would say it kind of
sucks that these are the companies that are creating the virtual universe of the
future but who am i kidding we deserve this we've done horrible things we must
atone and you deserve a nice restful weekend so recharge and then come back
on monday for more tech news we may have paninis by then oh but no promises oh
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