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The brightest department word of the week here is goblin mode as in I'm about to go goblin mode all over and up inside this your tech news

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It's the wrong definition. Let's go Xbox game pass has been the darling of the gaming world since Microsoft first introduced it

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It's been called things like the best deal in gaming and the reason I get up in the morning

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Wow, but the subscription services shining reputation was called into question today after report citing Microsoft's own internal analysis

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Claimed that 12 months after a game is added to game pass sales of the base game

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decline by X percent we bleep that because the actual percentage is redacted in the report and if we wanted to give you the real experience

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Now back in 2018 Xbox head Phil Spencer claimed that game pass actually contributed to increased sales for games added to the service

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which seemed like it didn't quite make sense and

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We now know that's because it didn't the report in question was published by the UK's competition and markets authority

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Which is investigating Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard a deal that threatens to transform Microsoft into a towering

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Bohemia that would squish Sony's HQ building with a single stump like Godzilla

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I don't know if Sony has anything to worry about sounds like the Xbox game pass HBO show would be terrible

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But Samsung has finally done something about the rapid health degeneration issue plaguing its 990 pro SSDs

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Like some kind of plague plague

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lesions Reports from the owners of the model in question emerged in the past few weeks describing their drives smart health deteriorating

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Extremely rapidly almost as if it's been stricken by a disease or perhaps a plague

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Samsung has now released a firmware update for the 990 pro that stops the drive from deteriorating further

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Unfortunately does not reverse the deterioration. That's already occurred that SSDs leg will always have some scarring

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The issue is a much worse one than the glitch that caused Samsung's 980 pro SSDs to get stuck in read mode

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Which was completely healed by a firmware update a couple of weeks ago

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I don't know what Samsung did differently with this generation of SSDs

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But maybe it should get immunized before he goes traveling to exotic locations on account of the plague

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Why are you saying plague plague? What do you say plague plague?

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bagel bagel and Amazon has gradually taken a bigger and bigger cut of sales made through its marketplace with the commerce giant's average share of each

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Transaction surpassing 50% for the first time back in 2022 because hey inflation's hurting everybody right now

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Even Amazon got bills to pay the news comes from a study by marketplace pulse

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Showing that with Amazon steadily increasing its commission warehouse storage packing delivery fees

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Advertising costs Amazon's total cut of the average products price steadily grew from 35.2% in

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2016 the before time 251.8% in

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2022 one could argue that Amazon was basically doing half the work by attracting new customers and increasing sales

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If one really wanted to be that guy or one but in a familiar story

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Sales have dropped since the height of the pandemic leaving sellers asking whether a 50% cut is justified in

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This economy you looked at the charts

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Fixed the train that's going by right now. I tried to put a quick bit into the LTT screwdriver once it

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Did not like that. It was not try that again. Not quick. Okay, honky McTrainerson

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Like who's on the tracks? No one get it. You're here. You're valid

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We have officially entered the era of

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Semi-convincing deep-fake scams thanks to the proliferation of AI voice cloning technology Logan Paul investigator coffee Zilla posted a tiktok

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He found Which attempted to trick the viewer into thinking Joe Rogan was endorsing certain male enhancement pills using doctored podcast footage and a

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cloned AI voice That of course wouldn't convince me, but could definitely convince your grandma who loves Joe Rogan

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huge fan and who's in the market for male enhancement pills because

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Cuz grandpa Tech youtuber epochs box also spotted a deep-fake scam for a brand called

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Povision which also happens to be a condition that would make you more susceptible to these things

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Do Internet Explorer 11 will be permanently disabled on Windows 10 thanks to an update that will roll out tomorrow

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February 14th. I guess IE is no longer Microsoft's

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Valentine That's brutal once the update is pushed through the edge browser any attempt to launch Internet Explorer will launch Edge

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Instead which is actually pretty decent, especially if you have access to the new but a Bing that's slowly taking everyone's job

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Literally in the case of Internet Explorer Edge has an IE mode if you're ever feeling nostalgic for something worse

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Let's get crazy tonight A report from the information claims that tiktok is working on a number of new features

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That could reward creators with slightly more than cloud from thirst trap addicted scroll

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Gremlins Tiktokers may soon have the option of charging viewers

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For certain content out of the only fans and a revamped creator fund that might result in more consistent payouts

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After all tiktok has to do something in response to YouTube's new shorts monetization scheme

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Even if it still has big problems like not giving creators any ad revenue from the first ad in a viewing session

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That's a special ad that YouTube worked hard on

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We wouldn't know who to attribute it to who would get it

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Blue Origin one of the world's myriad space companies owned by an eccentric billionaire

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Quietly announced something extremely cool last week The company's blue alchemist program managed to create solar cells from simulated lunar soil

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Paving the way for future moon missions to produce solar panels using nothing

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But good old moon dirt We're talking solar frickin lunar roadways

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Okay, that's a bit of a jump now Elon just needs to figure out a way to do the same thing with Mars dirt

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And we'll have proper space war on our hands moon dirt versus Mars dirt of the old red and white and some sports ball fans in

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Philadelphia were no doubt mortified when their Comcast cable service went down during the biggest

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oblong ball-based sports match of the quarter Comcast did manage to pretty quickly fix the damage which they say was caused by

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vandalism, I Hope it wasn't perpetrated by fans of the other sports team involved in said match, but I'll tell you what scored the best touchdown in my mind

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Rihanna's dancers

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No, they were at no risk of miscarriage

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And you better dance your way back here on Wednesday for more tech news or just watch it on your regular chair whatever works

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Do the robot dance