the tech news can be intimidating but today we're facing our fears
and challenging the tech news in single combat show yourself czech news
fight me you coward get him james
NVIDIA's plan to buy ARM and become the world's most powerful mobile chip maker
you're starting to hit some mighty powerful snags as it turns out
governments around the world aren't exactly eager to give
that much market power to just one company can you imagine how smug jensen
would be his kitchen would be so opulent
at the heart of the issue is the fact that NVIDIA directly competes with many
companies that have bought chip designs from ARM raising serious concerns that NVIDIA
would effectively end up controlling the market if the deal went through with the
us the uk china and european union sure to take a very
close look at the details because of that i picked that up so i
just went with it whatever having one company dominate the market
could also raise cyber security eyebrows as well
not concerns eyebrows so i wouldn't be too shocked if the deal ultimately
doesn't work out even if NVIDIA's lawyers try to strong-ARM the issue
there was a huge amount of backlash after microsoft announced that it was going to jack up the price of an xbox
live subscription by a factor of two understandable considering many
people are in a tough financial circumstance this year due to the pandemic and the fact that more people
are staying at home playing video games i mean okay okay that kind of makes sense
then period well it's like demand is going up so all right
the good news though is that microsoft has changed its mind it is
not only keeping the existing pricing the same but as even
letting players play free-to-play games on multiplayer without a paid xbox live
subscription just a 180. hey squeaky wheel gets the
grease seeing as some very popular titles like apex legends and 498 fall into this
category console gamers seem pretty happy with the whole deal
so i guess our parents were wrong complaining does work
especially regarding video games you could have been more wrong about this
whole video game thing mom i get paid and the screen is this close
to my face by design are you the proud owner of a shiny new
iphone 12 have you had heart surgery done in the past
wow uh be extra careful seriously because the next time you snap a photo
um you could be in danger for your health
apple has released a statement to consumers warning them to not have their gadgets sitting too close to their
pacemakers according to the company you should keep your iphone at least six inches away
or a whole foot if the iphone is in a wireless charging state
the statement comes after another report that the iphone 12 and other magsafe
products interfered with a defibrillator implant so while apple says the risk
isn't larger than it has been with some of its earlier products you may not
want to keep the phone in your breast pocket also if you bend over it falls out wait
which earlier products were dangerous we'll never know today's quickbooks are
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boyfriend we have a few more details on Intel's upcoming chips although the release of
rocket lake is just around the corner its replacement alder lake is due out in september and
will require a new lga 1700 socket although at least
it will also come with support for ddr5 and pci express 5.0 okay
team blue beating team red to the market with a new feature i feel like i've been
transported back to 2013. you know that big hotfix for cyberpunk
2077 that was supposed to make the game suck less maybe it did that in some
respects but it introduced a whole new problem that actually breaks the game
at one point a conversation that's critical to the plot never happens
making it literally impossible to advance in the game it's like cd projekt red used dynamite
to kill a spider like i did that one time back at nam
i'm missing a baby toe and if you often watch netflix on an Android phone you're
in luck if you care at all about the audio experience as netflix has just
pushed out an update enabling more advanced audio codecs on
its app the company has said that this will deliver studio quality sound that's not
only better on headphones and external speakers but will also make things sound
clearer on built-in phone speakers so you might actually be able to tell what
queen elizabeth is saying in the clown i cannot understand her
accent this is written by an american obviously like she's so easy to understand you
wrote this yeah but you're not american
that's how we say it in my house although the uk government may have had good intentions when it bought over a
million low-cost laptops to distribute to underprivileged students so that they
could continue their studies from home during the pandemic they may want to think twice about who
they get them from as it's been reported that many of them are infected with a nearly
decade-old piece of malware does that actually say what what i'm not
not doing that what did they dredge these up from the
bottom of the river times is it teams that's pretty good femmes
and the ftc has started to hand out fines to operators
of scalper bots but don't get too excited we're not talking about the same
ones buying up the graphics cards lately these finds are targeted at people who
automatically sculpt movies sports and event tickets
so boomer stuff definitely a good idea
but i'd rather the ftc just find the bots themselves more
forward thinking you know then they can get actual real jobs
get embodied already and work at the till
i don't want to interact with you through a screen
that's our show come back wednesday for more exciting tech news without the
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