no one knows what is isn't this ShortCircuit jono this is
TechLinked hot ShortCircuit get out of here
get out god damn i hate that channel instagram
is rolling out support for nfts this week because apparently they're tired of
twitter hogging all the discourse about which social media platform is the worst
nfts of artwork will be marked with a label that says digital collectible and
according to meta they'll also shimmer
instagram is apparently even working to enable ar nfts so that you can liven up
real world spaces in a sense facebook itself will also be offering nft soon
and we may even see them on whatsapp and facebook messenger as meta appears to be
attempting to try and make it appealing for creators to use its services as a
primary revenue stream the company reportedly has plans to allow buying and
selling of nfts directly on its platforms we'll be sure to get right on
creating an official Linus face nft for the highest bidder
man i would love to meet that guy speaking of social media we finally have
some specifics on elon musk's vision for twitter following his 44 billion
acquisition of the social media giant according to an investor pitch deck elon
is aiming to get 931 million users
super random number on to twitter by 2028 which would be over wait there's
probably some significance to 9.31 is it a sex thing
what is it it's 420 plus 69 times 4.
or 20 69 anyways it would be over four times as
many users that are on the bird's side today he also wants revenue to increase
by over five times by the same date and he may be on track to get there the way
inflation is going now am i right
expect twitter to push more subscription offerings as well as musk wants
subscriptions to make up nearly half of twitter revenue to reduce the services
reliance on advertising advertising it's unclear exactly how
elon will get us to pay more money to be miserable online but then again people
still play league of legends so and some potentially significant news for those
of you struggling to avoid your monthly internet bill 20 isps which cover
four-fifths of the u.s have agreed to either lower prices or raise their
speeds with the idea being to allow lower-income households to have a solid
home connection for 30 bucks a month or less
industry giants such as verizon at t and comcast are all included in the program
which is available to any family making no more than twice the federal poverty
level or families participating in certain public assistance programs it
appears many folks should be able to get speeds in the 100 to 200 megabit range
for that 30 per month price ceiling which is frankly
awesome news can i complain about paying like double that for less speed up here
in canada kind of tasteless in this context okay
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quick bits aren't exactly what you think i can guess what you're thinking they
are right now i know you're you're way off not even close a new challenger has
appeared in the SSD space it's none other than ASUS which posted a teaser on
its taiwanese facebook page regarding the upcoming rog strix squa seven it's
an m.2 SSD that supports PCIe 4.0 and
looks to have a base capacity of one terabyte although we don't have any
independent numbers regarding performance ASUS reserves the strix
branding for its high-end product so i'd be surprised if it ends up being a dud
if it is it shall be strixin
from the record
we have another adjustment in the expected launch date for Intel's arc
desktop graphics cards based on a report from igor's lab look for them on shelves
sometime in either july or august the new release window represents yet
another delay possibly due to software issues issues
such as problems with a driver there's also a chance that we may have to wait
even longer than august and i just hope that we can get them from a retailer
from a reasonable price and not from someone who also scalps yeezys as their
side hustle if you had issues with xbox live this weekend you weren't alone as
the network suffered two outages the first started on friday afternoon and
wasn't resolved until saturday morning oh the worst time
with the second outage starting just a few hours later and extending well into
the night some users were even having problems with video streaming apps like
netflix and offline play what's next a
smart treadmill that won't let you run without a connection
is this a real thing i don't john wrote this is this like a peloton is that what
you'd expect features like Android auto and apple carplay to be standard kit on
higher end makes like bmw but the german company is actually now shipping some
cars without them because of the current chip shortage given how expensive bmws
tend to be the move is sure to ruffle some feathers but the good news is that
cars currently sold without these features will be getting them via a
software update by the end of june what
but i thought it was a chip problem you wouldn't download a car but
you can download extra chips for your car
and ransomware has shut down a u.s college permanently after a cyber attack
crippled most of its critical systems in december lincoln college a small private school
in downstate illinois was already struggling with the financial impact of
the pandemic and the ransomware fiasco apparently broke the camel's back after
157 year run the good news is that i imagine students
will be off the hook for those outrageous loans
john's on fire today and i know it's outrageous but this episode is over come
back on wednesday for more tech news freshly scraped from the creamy center
of a black hole so yeah this would have made sense in if i did the intro that i
wrote instead of jonno ruining it so can i start ShortCircuit now no you can
never start short circles now it's a bad place it's a grape i'm never coming back