WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.760 Wait, if it's Good Friday, then why is this tech news only passable at best? 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 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 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 00:00:26.040 --> 00:00:28.880 caring that much about a few bros emulating each other. 00:00:29.080 --> 00:00:32.560 It doesn't matter if you use your bros loophole if you weren't socks. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:37.760 The only clue comes from Microsoft Azure developer Aliana McKenna on Twitter. 00:00:37.760 --> 00:00:43.660 She claims a colleague from Xbox QA said that this was related to legal issues with 00:00:43.660 --> 00:00:49.160 Nintendo, and while that almost makes too much sense, there are some caveats. 00:00:49.160 --> 00:00:53.680 McKenna didn't provide any receipts, and emulators have been officially banned from 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. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:08.720 The emulators that were in circulation were published as Private Universal Windows Platform 00:01:08.720 --> 00:01:14.800 or UWP Apps, which allows them to bypass the approval process for a public store listing 00:01:14.800 --> 00:01:17.920 while allowing anyone with a link to download it. 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 00:01:22.720 --> 00:01:25.920 make those emulators work again. 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% 00:01:34.880 --> 00:01:37.920 drop in Q1 profits compared to last year. 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:41.320 Wouldn't 96 be bad? Not nice. 00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:46.360 Reportedly, the Korean company had its smallest quarterly profit since the 2009 financial 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:51.920 crisis at a mere $600 billion won, or $450 million. 00:01:51.920 --> 00:01:56.640 Samsung blames a falling demand for memory chips, so they are adjusting to lower memory 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:01.840 production to a meaningful level, which is, Corpo speak for, make less. 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- 00:02:05.800 --> 00:02:14.520 Competitors like SK Hynix and Micron had already reduced their production, but Samsung allegedly 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:18.720 held off doing the same to grab market share from these competitors. 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 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:32.680 lower prices on PC components, provided that they actually follow economic trends and aren't 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:37.000 artificially inflated due to swarms of crypto and or AI bros. 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:40.200 On GPUs. That's what happened. 00:02:40.200 --> 00:02:45.000 Also, market analysts predict the price decrease will only last six months, at which point 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:48.880 the prices will go up, at least for DDR memory. 00:02:48.880 --> 00:02:55.920 So if you don't have enough save to upgrade, there's always next recession. 00:02:55.920 --> 00:03:01.800 And two major telecom companies up here in Canada have merged and become one. 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:08.480 That's right. We have problematic mergers too. We're a real country. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:13.560 Rogers Communications Incorporated has taken over Shaw Communications Incorporated, the 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 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 00:03:28.200 --> 00:03:34.040 billion freedom bucks. Consumer advocates have long protested the lack of competition in the Canadian telecom 00:03:34.040 --> 00:03:39.120 space with the market dominated by two companies, Rogers and Bell. 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 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:50.480 get screwed. Canada's mobile data cost per Gigabyte is currently seven times more expensive than 00:03:50.480 --> 00:03:56.600 Australia, 25 times more than Ireland and France and 1000 times more than Finland. 00:03:56.600 --> 00:04:00.920 Some think that this merger will allow for more competition, though, because Shaw was 00:04:00.920 --> 00:04:05.520 forced to sell its subsidiary and fourth largest Canadian wireless provider, Freedom 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:09.320 Mobile, to the fifth largest Canadian wireless provider. 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 00:04:17.600 --> 00:04:21.920 sophisticated application of blood sacrifice and lies. 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. 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:34.000 Former Tesla employees have claimed their coworkers passed around private videos recorded 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:41.800 by customer vehicles. From 2019 to 2022, graphic crashes, road rage incidents, and embarrassing moments, such 00:04:41.800 --> 00:04:46.200 as a naked man approaching a car, were shared internally. 00:04:46.200 --> 00:04:51.000 Tesla states in their privacy policy that camera recordings remain anonymous, but former employees 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:56.120 claim that a program used internally at the company can display location data that can 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 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. 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 00:05:14.440 --> 00:05:18.280 that allows iPhones and iPads to auto-join carrier networks. 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 00:05:22.960 --> 00:05:28.240 one user has stated they cannot disable auto-join on their carrier's managed networks, which 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:32.960 includes any neighbor with a Wi-Fi slash modem combo with a free hotspot. 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 00:05:37.200 --> 00:05:40.720 network connection that you pay for that's way better? 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 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 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:57.960 writers and journalists from sharing their point of view, or making money. 00:05:57.960 --> 00:06:02.080 Twitter has not announced any reason for this change, but it comes shortly after Substack 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:09.760 announced the Notes feature, which could kind of be seen as a Twitter competitor, but not 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. 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 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 00:06:34.280 --> 00:06:39.000 accelerator cards for data centers that could change the streaming game thanks to its ability 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:44.200 to encode and decode AV1, H264, and H265. 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 00:06:49.240 --> 00:06:53.720 his video if you, like me, had to be convinced this thing is cool. 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 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 00:07:09.400 --> 00:07:17.080 and would require constant internet connectivity, like only in your home. 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 00:07:21.080 --> 00:07:26.760 a smaller screen and only when the Wi-Fi isn't spotty? 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.