1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,760 Wait, if it's Good Friday, then why is this tech news only passable at best? 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:12,880 It's just okay. Microsoft has managed to close a loophole used to download emulators on Xbox, making 3 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:18,480 retro gaming just a bit harder on the platform, unless you use this one simple trick that 4 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:26,040 app stores hate. The only clue we have as to why this is happening now, after years of Microsoft seemingly not 5 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,880 caring that much about a few bros emulating each other. 6 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,560 It doesn't matter if you use your bros loophole if you weren't socks. 7 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:37,760 The only clue comes from Microsoft Azure developer Aliana McKenna on Twitter. 8 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:43,660 She claims a colleague from Xbox QA said that this was related to legal issues with 9 00:00:43,660 --> 00:00:49,160 Nintendo, and while that almost makes too much sense, there are some caveats. 10 00:00:49,160 --> 00:00:53,680 McKenna didn't provide any receipts, and emulators have been officially banned from 11 00:00:53,680 --> 00:01:02,320 Microsoft's store policies for a long time. So it's conceivable that Microsoft suddenly decided to enforce their own rules. 12 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:08,720 The emulators that were in circulation were published as Private Universal Windows Platform 13 00:01:08,720 --> 00:01:14,800 or UWP Apps, which allows them to bypass the approval process for a public store listing 14 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:17,920 while allowing anyone with a link to download it. 15 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,720 But wouldn't you know it, for just $20, you can put your console in developer mode and 16 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:25,920 make those emulators work again. 17 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:34,880 Is there no problem it can't solve? Samsung has announced they would be cutting memory chip production after reporting a 96% 18 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,920 drop in Q1 profits compared to last year. 19 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,320 Wouldn't 96 be bad? Not nice. 20 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:46,360 Reportedly, the Korean company had its smallest quarterly profit since the 2009 financial 21 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:51,920 crisis at a mere $600 billion won, or $450 million. 22 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:56,640 Samsung blames a falling demand for memory chips, so they are adjusting to lower memory 23 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:01,840 production to a meaningful level, which is, Corpo speak for, make less. 24 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:05,800 Next time do as a favor and say less, you know what I mean? Give me a- 25 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:14,520 Competitors like SK Hynix and Micron had already reduced their production, but Samsung allegedly 26 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:18,720 held off doing the same to grab market share from these competitors. 27 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:26,560 I guess that went well. The good news for you, dear consumer, is that this trend of hilarious tech goofs should 28 00:02:26,560 --> 00:02:32,680 lower prices on PC components, provided that they actually follow economic trends and aren't 29 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:37,000 artificially inflated due to swarms of crypto and or AI bros. 30 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,200 On GPUs. That's what happened. 31 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:45,000 Also, market analysts predict the price decrease will only last six months, at which point 32 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,880 the prices will go up, at least for DDR memory. 33 00:02:48,880 --> 00:02:55,920 So if you don't have enough save to upgrade, there's always next recession. 34 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:01,800 And two major telecom companies up here in Canada have merged and become one. 35 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:08,480 That's right. We have problematic mergers too. We're a real country. 36 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:13,560 Rogers Communications Incorporated has taken over Shaw Communications Incorporated, the 37 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:18,400 final move in a battle that was probably initially started by a which corporation has the most 38 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:28,200 original name contest, obviously. The acquisition cost Rogers a cool 20 billion Canadian roubles, which equates to about 14.9 39 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:34,040 billion freedom bucks. Consumer advocates have long protested the lack of competition in the Canadian telecom 40 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:39,120 space with the market dominated by two companies, Rogers and Bell. 41 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:44,840 And occasionally, Telus tags in for a fun three-way on the West Coast, where only consumers 42 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:50,480 get screwed. Canada's mobile data cost per Gigabyte is currently seven times more expensive than 43 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:56,600 Australia, 25 times more than Ireland and France and 1000 times more than Finland. 44 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:00,920 Some think that this merger will allow for more competition, though, because Shaw was 45 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,520 forced to sell its subsidiary and fourth largest Canadian wireless provider, Freedom 46 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,320 Mobile, to the fifth largest Canadian wireless provider. 47 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:17,600 Now if that's confusing, it's actually fairly simple. Two mergers may decrease the number of companies, but still increase competition through the 48 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:21,920 sophisticated application of blood sacrifice and lies. 49 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:28,360 Do you ever feel like life moves too fast? Well, you're about to, because here comes the quick bits. 50 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:34,000 Former Tesla employees have claimed their coworkers passed around private videos recorded 51 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:41,800 by customer vehicles. From 2019 to 2022, graphic crashes, road rage incidents, and embarrassing moments, such 52 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:46,200 as a naked man approaching a car, were shared internally. 53 00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:51,000 Tesla states in their privacy policy that camera recordings remain anonymous, but former employees 54 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:56,120 claim that a program used internally at the company can display location data that can 55 00:04:56,120 --> 00:05:03,480 be used to identify customers. So if you were ever naked in front of a Tesla, it may be time to take that permanent vacation 56 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:08,440 to Mexico you've always dreamed of. We're just the low cost of everything you have in your whole life. 57 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:14,440 Comcast has been accused by some of its customers of abusing the managed Wi-Fi feature on iOS 58 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:18,280 that allows iPhones and iPads to auto-join carrier networks. 59 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:22,960 While users are supposed to be able to disable the feature on each managed network, at least 60 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:28,240 one user has stated they cannot disable auto-join on their carrier's managed networks, which 61 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,960 includes any neighbor with a Wi-Fi slash modem combo with a free hotspot. 62 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,200 Okay, how about a little gratitude for the free one-bar Wi-Fi that interrupts your home 63 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,720 network connection that you pay for that's way better? 64 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:49,000 We didn't have to do that. Twitter is disabling likes, replies, and retweets for any tweet with a link to Substack, and 65 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,480 only Substack. Because that's the next bold step to ensuring freedom of speech on the internet, preventing 66 00:05:54,480 --> 00:05:57,960 writers and journalists from sharing their point of view, or making money. 67 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,080 Twitter has not announced any reason for this change, but it comes shortly after Substack 68 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:09,760 announced the Notes feature, which could kind of be seen as a Twitter competitor, but not 69 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:19,120 really. It's a stretch. So far, Elon Musk is doing a great job of fostering competition to the product he owns. 70 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:24,200 AMD's acquisition of Xilinx has borne fruit with the launch of a stand-alone media accelerator 71 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:34,280 card for data centers. Yeah, okay, that sounds boring, but actually, the Alvio MA35D is the first in line of media 72 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:39,000 accelerator cards for data centers that could change the streaming game thanks to its ability 73 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,200 to encode and decode AV1, H264, and H265. 74 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:49,240 EposVox does a tremendous job talking about how awesome this $1,600 card is, so check out 75 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:53,720 his video if you, like me, had to be convinced this thing is cool. 76 00:06:53,720 --> 00:07:00,560 And a nasty rumor has come out that Sony is planning to launch a new handheld, except 77 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:09,400 it isn't anything anyone would actually want. The alleged device would be exclusively for streaming games from your PS5 via remote play 78 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:17,080 and would require constant internet connectivity, like only in your home. 79 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:21,080 Why buy a Nintendo Switch or a Steam Deck when you can just play on your PS5, but on 80 00:07:21,080 --> 00:07:26,760 a smaller screen and only when the Wi-Fi isn't spotty? 81 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:34,400 And why not come back on Monday for more tech news? I mean, you can be with your family, or you can be with me, some guy on the internet.