WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.400 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 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.940 It's the wrong definition. Let's go Xbox game pass has been the darling of the gaming world since Microsoft first introduced it 00:00:16.940 --> 00:00:22.080 It's been called things like the best deal in gaming and the reason I get up in the morning 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:29.720 Wow, but the subscription services shining reputation was called into question today after report citing Microsoft's own internal analysis 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:34.880 Claimed that 12 months after a game is added to game pass sales of the base game 00:00:35.360 --> 00:00:44.360 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 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:54.760 Now back in 2018 Xbox head Phil Spencer claimed that game pass actually contributed to increased sales for games added to the service 00:00:54.760 --> 00:00:57.680 which seemed like it didn't quite make sense and 00:00:57.880 --> 00:01:05.160 We now know that's because it didn't the report in question was published by the UK's competition and markets authority 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:12.680 Which is investigating Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard a deal that threatens to transform Microsoft into a towering 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:18.800 Bohemia that would squish Sony's HQ building with a single stump like Godzilla 00:01:18.800 --> 00:01:25.000 I don't know if Sony has anything to worry about sounds like the Xbox game pass HBO show would be terrible 00:01:28.320 --> 00:01:36.240 But Samsung has finally done something about the rapid health degeneration issue plaguing its 990 pro SSDs 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:40.720 Like some kind of plague plague 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:48.440 lesions Reports from the owners of the model in question emerged in the past few weeks describing their drives smart health deteriorating 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:54.000 Extremely rapidly almost as if it's been stricken by a disease or perhaps a plague 00:01:54.080 --> 00:01:59.680 Samsung has now released a firmware update for the 990 pro that stops the drive from deteriorating further 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:06.720 Unfortunately does not reverse the deterioration. That's already occurred that SSDs leg will always have some scarring 00:02:06.720 --> 00:02:13.400 The issue is a much worse one than the glitch that caused Samsung's 980 pro SSDs to get stuck in read mode 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:16.880 Which was completely healed by a firmware update a couple of weeks ago 00:02:16.880 --> 00:02:20.440 I don't know what Samsung did differently with this generation of SSDs 00:02:20.440 --> 00:02:25.840 But maybe it should get immunized before he goes traveling to exotic locations on account of the plague 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:29.920 Why are you saying plague plague? What do you say plague plague? 00:02:31.040 --> 00:02:41.040 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 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:48.360 Transaction surpassing 50% for the first time back in 2022 because hey inflation's hurting everybody right now 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:53.600 Even Amazon got bills to pay the news comes from a study by marketplace pulse 00:02:53.920 --> 00:02:59.560 Showing that with Amazon steadily increasing its commission warehouse storage packing delivery fees 00:03:00.040 --> 00:03:06.200 Advertising costs Amazon's total cut of the average products price steadily grew from 35.2% in 00:03:06.560 --> 00:03:11.320 2016 the before time 251.8% in 00:03:11.560 --> 00:03:18.160 2022 one could argue that Amazon was basically doing half the work by attracting new customers and increasing sales 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:23.960 If one really wanted to be that guy or one but in a familiar story 00:03:24.200 --> 00:03:30.840 Sales have dropped since the height of the pandemic leaving sellers asking whether a 50% cut is justified in 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:33.800 This economy you looked at the charts 00:03:35.640 --> 00:03:40.280 Fixed the train that's going by right now. I tried to put a quick bit into the LTT screwdriver once it 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:46.480 Did not like that. It was not try that again. Not quick. Okay, honky McTrainerson 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:50.800 Like who's on the tracks? No one get it. You're here. You're valid 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.280 We have officially entered the era of 00:03:54.200 --> 00:04:02.440 Semi-convincing deep-fake scams thanks to the proliferation of AI voice cloning technology Logan Paul investigator coffee Zilla posted a tiktok 00:04:02.440 --> 00:04:11.280 He found Which attempted to trick the viewer into thinking Joe Rogan was endorsing certain male enhancement pills using doctored podcast footage and a 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:18.800 cloned AI voice That of course wouldn't convince me, but could definitely convince your grandma who loves Joe Rogan 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:24.040 huge fan and who's in the market for male enhancement pills because 00:04:25.080 --> 00:04:31.160 Cuz grandpa Tech youtuber epochs box also spotted a deep-fake scam for a brand called 00:04:31.560 --> 00:04:36.280 Povision which also happens to be a condition that would make you more susceptible to these things 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:43.720 Do Internet Explorer 11 will be permanently disabled on Windows 10 thanks to an update that will roll out tomorrow 00:04:44.080 --> 00:04:47.360 February 14th. I guess IE is no longer Microsoft's 00:04:48.840 --> 00:04:56.720 Valentine That's brutal once the update is pushed through the edge browser any attempt to launch Internet Explorer will launch Edge 00:04:57.160 --> 00:05:04.280 Instead which is actually pretty decent, especially if you have access to the new but a Bing that's slowly taking everyone's job 00:05:05.080 --> 00:05:12.400 Literally in the case of Internet Explorer Edge has an IE mode if you're ever feeling nostalgic for something worse 00:05:14.800 --> 00:05:21.560 Let's get crazy tonight A report from the information claims that tiktok is working on a number of new features 00:05:21.720 --> 00:05:27.920 That could reward creators with slightly more than cloud from thirst trap addicted scroll 00:05:28.320 --> 00:05:32.440 Gremlins Tiktokers may soon have the option of charging viewers 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:39.360 For certain content out of the only fans and a revamped creator fund that might result in more consistent payouts 00:05:39.440 --> 00:05:43.600 After all tiktok has to do something in response to YouTube's new shorts monetization scheme 00:05:43.760 --> 00:05:49.760 Even if it still has big problems like not giving creators any ad revenue from the first ad in a viewing session 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:53.520 That's a special ad that YouTube worked hard on 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:57.480 We wouldn't know who to attribute it to who would get it 00:05:57.920 --> 00:06:02.320 Blue Origin one of the world's myriad space companies owned by an eccentric billionaire 00:06:02.840 --> 00:06:11.240 Quietly announced something extremely cool last week The company's blue alchemist program managed to create solar cells from simulated lunar soil 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.080 Paving the way for future moon missions to produce solar panels using nothing 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:29.240 But good old moon dirt We're talking solar frickin lunar roadways 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:34.280 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 00:06:34.280 --> 00:06:41.280 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 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:48.040 Philadelphia were no doubt mortified when their Comcast cable service went down during the biggest 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:55.600 oblong ball-based sports match of the quarter Comcast did manage to pretty quickly fix the damage which they say was caused by 00:06:56.280 --> 00:07:03.840 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 00:07:04.880 --> 00:07:06.880 Rihanna's dancers 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:11.640 No, they were at no risk of miscarriage 00:07:12.640 --> 00:07:19.960 And you better dance your way back here on Wednesday for more tech news or just watch it on your regular chair whatever works 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:23.720 Do the robot dance