oh hi y'all are here i tell the truth sometimes i read the tech news to myself
in the dark but y'all showed up that works too
after tons of leaks and product delays and cheeky billboards google has finally
officially unveiled the pixel 4a but they also announced a 5g version to
launch this fall alongside the full fat successor to the pixel 4 the pixel 5.
the 4a is launching at 50 less than the 3a did last year at 350 bucks and if
early reviews are any indication it's pretty good deal with a snapdragon 730
headphone jack and google's first punch hole camera in the top left which is
where i personally think it should be but hey i'm a person not a pixel the 4a's
camera reportedly lives up to the pixel line's reputation as well and you can
pre-order it now with a ship date of august 20th with google adding a pixel
trade-in option for the first time the 4a 5g will start at 500 bucks with no
other details yet released on the pixel 5 leave a comment below if you're gonna
pick up one of these phones and give your personal data to a domestic company
instead of a chinese one there's so many wonderful options these days
speaking of chinese companies they won't be allowed in the u.s anymore
or that's the vibe that the us government is going with right now as the ban with
which tick-tock is currently being threatened is reportedly part of a
larger plan targeting chinese software in general for its risks to national
security president trump has made good on his threat of forcing tick tock's
owner bite dance to sell the app to an american company giving the chinese firm
45 days to sell or stop operating in the
states by dance has apparently agreed to sell its majority shares in ticktock due
to the pressure with microsoft confirming that it is in talks to close
its acquisition of the video app by september 15th but is there really a
difference between microsoft buying tick tock and the app getting shut down like
hey i'm not trying to be rude but like zoon Windows phone mixer that racist
chatbot the guys don't have a great track record in making services for
the teens you know
people like me and sony has continued
its consumer unfriendly rampage
okay not really they announced that playstation 4 dualshock controllers
would work on ps5 but only for ps4 games
this is in contrast to microsoft to announce that all xbox one controllers
will work just fine with all xbox series x games to be fair though that's because
they're like the same controller but still that means that xbox upgraders
won't need to buy a bunch of new controllers and yeah microsoft didn't
change the controller because it's already the best okay i said it i'm sorry but some console fans are also
salty because the upcoming avengers game will get spider-man as a playable
character but only on playstation because sony is holding onto those
spidey rights tighter than spidey tights
am i right okay one more piece of playstation news because i didn't know where else to put
it a patent has described playstation hardware that could use multiple gpus in
combination with cloud servers to deliver a more powerful gameplay
experience but we have no idea whether this just means more powerful hardware
for playstation now streaming or like the ability to duct tape two ps5s
together so you can see kratos pores or something so
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bits spacex has proved they can bring people to and from space with the successful
splashdown of their crew dragon module in the gulf of mexico carrying the two
astronauts that it previously ferried to the international space station now
spacex just have to prove that they can keep idiots in boats away from the
landing site which was swarmed by idiots and boats Intel's sad sad 2020 continues
with a new report from adored tv taiwanese sources have apparently told
the site that Intel is going to axe the z graphics division in 2023 after the
launch of the department's first few products they further claim that raja
kaduri will leave the company in the next few months and we obviously don't
know whether these claims are true or not but if they are
man Intel i'm actually worried at this point i i
don't think i could bash them anymore in good conscience please get help
GeForce now is continuing its hero's journey after losing most of its cool
games and then starting to claw them back like hercules clawed up the side of
that mountainside in the disney movie the platform has now added the ability
to sync your steam library which will automatically tell you which games that
you own are compatible with a streaming service this is great news unless
scrolling through lists looking for compatible games gives you some kind of
masochistic pleasure i'm not even gonna touch that google pay's got hoop dreams
of becoming more than just a payment app eight banks have now partnered with the
service to offer digital checking and savings accounts in the us the banks
themselves would hold the funds but you wouldn't need to say wait in a socially
distanced line so you can have a far too long interaction with a clerk you just
use your phone because bank robbers can't stick up your Android
they can uh they they they can still rob the bank
yeah that's true okay i didn't think about that and speaking of stealing
things the 17 year old mastermind behind the great twitter hack of 2020 was
apparently previously caught for stealing bitcoin and had already amassed
a digital fortune of three million dollars worth of the cryptocurrency but
he was never charged because he was a minor even though he was living in his
own apartment and driving a bmw 3 series
which is apparently a good is that a good car it is okay that's a good car and he
started by playing minecraft wow that's where it starts guys get your kids off
get them playing fortnite or something and that's it for this one guys come
back on wednesday for more tech news and if you ever feel the urge to steal
bitcoin just remember
don't don't do that it's bad