where am I how did I get here what oh well I guess we'll never know
it's Tech news time Sony and Microsoft are continuing the
most high-stakes tug of war match since squid game and well things are starting
to get weird like the show squid game or
just a squid Sony's latest attempt to gain back some
ground is to accuse team Xbox of future
sabotage the PlayStation manufacturer claims that if the merger goes through
Microsoft might release a PlayStation version of Call of Duty where bugs and
errors emerge only on the game's final level or after later updates now first
off that's an extremely specific hypothetical scenario why wouldn't they
sabotage it earlier in the game and second levels Call of Duty is like
pornography very little of the audience cares about the plot meanwhile
Activision executive Lulu Chang mezerve has claimed on Twitter that when the
publisher offered Sony guaranteed long-term access to Call of Duty in a
closed-door meeting the CEO of Sony interactive entertainment Jim Ryan
replied I don't want a new Call of Duty
deal I just want just want to block your merger he's Clint Eastwood I just want
to block her is it pretty good but we
take this quote with a grain of salt meserve previously argued that the
success of HBO is The Last of Us adaptation meant Microsoft should be
allowed to buy Activision because acquiring one of Gaming's biggest
Publishers and producing a TV show based on one of your games are comparable
somehow on the other hand Sony's sabotage claims
are also pretty wacky so maybe she is telling the truth and the fact that this
deal is taking so long is kind of starting to mess with people's heads
epic games have officially launched self-publishing tools on the epic game
store after a year and a half in closed beta in their latest attempt to compete
with steam if you didn't know literally every detail epic CEO Tim Sweeney has
you covered by tweeting all of it hey Tim that's our job of course steams
offered self-publishing for some time but there are some nice benefits to
self-publishing on Epic rather than Steam for starters epic takes a fixed 12
Commission on game sales while steam's commission starts at 30 and decreases at
certain sales Milestones Publishers on Epic can also keep a hundred percent of
the money earned from in-game purchases if they use their own payment system on
the flip side this probably means a lot of free to play Live service games will
be seen on the epic game store rather than where I personally would like them
tied to a wooden stake being engulfed By Flames where I put all the things I
don't like which there is a big caveat
though unlike steam epic doesn't allow porn I guess you'll have to go literally
anywhere else on the internet for that
such a hassle just ask Bing and Discord has decided
that it too will be adding AI features first the platform's resident robot
Clyde will be given a chat GPT upgrade so that users can talk to Clyde by
asking questions or even include Clyde in group conversations with you and
anyone else in your server finally I made my first Discord friend Discord is
also using AI to power up their Auto mod feature which will be able to find and
alert a server's moderator when a rule is broken while keeping in mind the
context of a conversation which I'm sure will come in handy whenever the topic of
1930s Germany innocently pops up always
talk about history Discord will incorporate an ai-powered conversation
summaries feature that will sort a server's messages in to summarize topics
to allow users to catch up on the conversation more easily after being
away doing other things like you know talking to their family touching grass
other cliches etc etc in other news Discord voice chat
is now officially available on PS5 after being in beta for over a year finally
PS5 users can natively hear from all the Xbox users that have slept with their
moms so that's a great feature bring families together I have a sponsored
message from Bessie Dennis why are you running because obviously I can run in
any conditions even something like this happened I don't care but what I
actually do is Walmart dog in the dog park and I don't even mind a month at
all ew Dennis your shoes are dirty I bet you can't even watch them don't you do
underestimate vesting all you need to do is gently scrap a sponge and then them
air dry basically it's like their demo tech technology is 100 waterproof they
keep my feet ride like a desert but also breathable
um
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I guess I guess that was it that was was that it you got it all right meta is
looking to compete with Twitter in a way that's different than the way it already
competes with Twitter by making their very own Twitter the decentralized
text-based social network is codenamed p92 not to be confused with P90X the
horrible torture session led by Skeletor
as I call stay away from my family it's
easy to remember the difference though p92 is a social media platform while
P90X is meant to make you feel better about yourself
opposite sir have you been on Twitter scientists
claim to have discovered a room temperature superconductor a material
that can conduct electricity without resistance and would revolutionize
modern electrical systems ironically the
paper detailing this material is facing a lot of resistance since one of the
authors of the paper claimed the same thing two years ago in another paper and
that paper was retracted for misleading data but he's probably not lying this
time I mean he he wouldn't give me fix him you got you got caught already why
would you he's a bit of a fixer-upper a new retail motherboard from ASUS has
all of its connectors on the back to help aesthetically minded PC Builders
hide their cables the board is called BTF which apparently
stands for Back to the Future a name
that may rub both acronym and 80s movie
enthusiasts the wrong way what the announced board supports Intel CPUs as
of now but we don't yet know if AMD will get a Back to the Future Part 2.
SSD manufacturer sabrin has teamed up with SSD controller maker Faizon what a
great pair to develop a PCIe Gen 5 SSD
that could potentially reach read speeds of 14
000 megabytes per second so far the pair have reached a speed of 12 398 megabytes
per second which experts are calling pretty fast
the SSD is still under development but sabrin appears confident they will
eventually reach their target speed and when they do I probably won't buy it and
it sounds very expensive and the hot new trend among car manufacturers is
removing am radios from their electric vehicles but Ford is being even more
Brave and removing it from their gas powered 2024 Mustang now they had
already removed it from the electric F-150 Lightning claiming as other
automakers have that electric engines generate electromagnetic noise that
interferes with an AM radio so I guess the excuse this time will be that the
internal combustion engine generates sound noise that makes it harder to hear
the radio for listen just just say no one uses AM
radio and you want to cut costs it's not that it's not that hard to say use your
words just like how it's not that hard to come back on Monday for more news of
the tech variety man you're gonna have a great weekend and then you get more Tech
news I'm so jealous of you right now Linus
what are you doing here I didn't know you worked here finally PS5 users can
natively hear from all the Xbox users that have slept with their moms moms
okay