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
It's the wrong definition. Let's go Xbox game pass has been the darling of the gaming world since Microsoft first introduced it
It's been called things like the best deal in gaming and the reason I get up in the morning
Wow, but the subscription services shining reputation was called into question today after report citing Microsoft's own internal analysis
Claimed that 12 months after a game is added to game pass sales of the base game
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
Now back in 2018 Xbox head Phil Spencer claimed that game pass actually contributed to increased sales for games added to the service
which seemed like it didn't quite make sense and
We now know that's because it didn't the report in question was published by the UK's competition and markets authority
Which is investigating Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard a deal that threatens to transform Microsoft into a towering
Bohemia that would squish Sony's HQ building with a single stump like Godzilla
I don't know if Sony has anything to worry about sounds like the Xbox game pass HBO show would be terrible
But Samsung has finally done something about the rapid health degeneration issue plaguing its 990 pro SSDs
Like some kind of plague plague
lesions Reports from the owners of the model in question emerged in the past few weeks describing their drives smart health deteriorating
Extremely rapidly almost as if it's been stricken by a disease or perhaps a plague
Samsung has now released a firmware update for the 990 pro that stops the drive from deteriorating further
Unfortunately does not reverse the deterioration. That's already occurred that SSDs leg will always have some scarring
The issue is a much worse one than the glitch that caused Samsung's 980 pro SSDs to get stuck in read mode
Which was completely healed by a firmware update a couple of weeks ago
I don't know what Samsung did differently with this generation of SSDs
But maybe it should get immunized before he goes traveling to exotic locations on account of the plague
Why are you saying plague plague? What do you say plague plague?
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
Transaction surpassing 50% for the first time back in 2022 because hey inflation's hurting everybody right now
Even Amazon got bills to pay the news comes from a study by marketplace pulse
Showing that with Amazon steadily increasing its commission warehouse storage packing delivery fees
Advertising costs Amazon's total cut of the average products price steadily grew from 35.2% in
2016 the before time 251.8% in
2022 one could argue that Amazon was basically doing half the work by attracting new customers and increasing sales
If one really wanted to be that guy or one but in a familiar story
Sales have dropped since the height of the pandemic leaving sellers asking whether a 50% cut is justified in
This economy you looked at the charts
Fixed the train that's going by right now. I tried to put a quick bit into the LTT screwdriver once it
Did not like that. It was not try that again. Not quick. Okay, honky McTrainerson
Like who's on the tracks? No one get it. You're here. You're valid
We have officially entered the era of
Semi-convincing deep-fake scams thanks to the proliferation of AI voice cloning technology Logan Paul investigator coffee Zilla posted a tiktok
He found Which attempted to trick the viewer into thinking Joe Rogan was endorsing certain male enhancement pills using doctored podcast footage and a
cloned AI voice That of course wouldn't convince me, but could definitely convince your grandma who loves Joe Rogan
huge fan and who's in the market for male enhancement pills because
Cuz grandpa Tech youtuber epochs box also spotted a deep-fake scam for a brand called
Povision which also happens to be a condition that would make you more susceptible to these things
Do Internet Explorer 11 will be permanently disabled on Windows 10 thanks to an update that will roll out tomorrow
February 14th. I guess IE is no longer Microsoft's
Valentine That's brutal once the update is pushed through the edge browser any attempt to launch Internet Explorer will launch Edge
Instead which is actually pretty decent, especially if you have access to the new but a Bing that's slowly taking everyone's job
Literally in the case of Internet Explorer Edge has an IE mode if you're ever feeling nostalgic for something worse
Let's get crazy tonight A report from the information claims that tiktok is working on a number of new features
That could reward creators with slightly more than cloud from thirst trap addicted scroll
Gremlins Tiktokers may soon have the option of charging viewers
For certain content out of the only fans and a revamped creator fund that might result in more consistent payouts
After all tiktok has to do something in response to YouTube's new shorts monetization scheme
Even if it still has big problems like not giving creators any ad revenue from the first ad in a viewing session
That's a special ad that YouTube worked hard on
We wouldn't know who to attribute it to who would get it
Blue Origin one of the world's myriad space companies owned by an eccentric billionaire
Quietly announced something extremely cool last week The company's blue alchemist program managed to create solar cells from simulated lunar soil
Paving the way for future moon missions to produce solar panels using nothing
But good old moon dirt We're talking solar frickin lunar roadways
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
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
Philadelphia were no doubt mortified when their Comcast cable service went down during the biggest
oblong ball-based sports match of the quarter Comcast did manage to pretty quickly fix the damage which they say was caused by
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
Rihanna's dancers
No, they were at no risk of miscarriage
And you better dance your way back here on Wednesday for more tech news or just watch it on your regular chair whatever works
Do the robot dance