there's a mistletoe on the mic boom
distancing distancing no throw it
you still have to kiss me oh and take note guys there's not going to be a tech
linked on wednesday but we will be back on friday with a special christmas
episode it's beginning to smell a lot like
christmas there's smells associated there have
been plenty of subpar game launches but cyberpunk 2077 may go down in history as
one of a handful to spark an actual lawsuit over a fiasco of a release
a report has indicated that this isn't even a suit that will be brought by
customers over a defective product instead this looks like a suit from
investors who felt misled by cd projekt red one new york based law firm that
focuses on securities litigation has already put out a press release saying
it's considering action against the studio and is encouraging investors to
come forward this weekend cd projekt red stock fell by 15 after sony announced it
was yanking the game from the playstation store
so i hope you put your money in a safer investment like bitcoin
bitcoin still holding so far AMD has only
released three cpus in its new ryzen 5000 series and although reviews have
been very good they're slightly more expensive than we've been used to for
zen chips that's kind of what happens with market share isn't it however it
looks like team red will be introducing some new skus starting next month
reportedly we'll be seeing a ryzen 7
5800 and ryzen 9 5900 which should be
cheaper than the x variants of those chips currently on the market albeit
with lower tdps so there the other two skus are the ryzen 5 5600g
and the ryzen 7 5700g which both have integrated graphics
hence the g and then you're worth another g
g net yeah although those ones look like they're more for oems than diy builders
it'll be interesting to see what the pricing is you know if we're ever able
to actually buy them from someone that isn't a scalper but you know aren't all
corporations scalpers
there's also news today about Intel's upcoming 11th gen lineup it looks like
if you're in the market for a new core i7 or core i9 you'll be getting eight
cores and 16 threads in both series while the i5s will stick with 6 and 12
respectively interestingly all skus branded as i5 or higher will use the new
rocket lake architecture and have Intel's new xe graphics built in but if
you're going with an i3 pentium or celeron you'll instead instead be
getting comet lake refresh with Intel's older uhd 600 graphics it appears that
clock rates across the board will be similar to the previous generation so hopefully we'll get some good
overclocking headroom with these new chips and i'm sure team blue hopes that
they can stop getting trounced on by AMD in the value for money department i'm
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effect in the us this weekend banning isps from charging rental fees for a
modem if you bought one for yourself it sounds kind of crazy this was allowed to
go on in the first place and although many isps weren't doing anything this
egregious some perhaps unsurprisingly found a way to make their hapless
customers pay for nothing almost as bad as las vegas resort fees if you're a
halo fan that's still rocking an xbox 360 it looks like microsoft is about to
red ring of death your online play as the company has announced you won't be
able to play halo using matchmaking starting in december
2021 breaking the covenant that's actually messed up you'll still be able
to play custom games if you have specific friends far away that you want
to invite who also have that old game
but forget about matching up against some rando taunting you in a language
that you don't understand or in a voice that's so high pitched it makes you even
more mad that they're slaying you because they're 12.
i'm upset oneplus has a new phone concept simply
called the 8t concept that features a color changing back panel a special
metal oxide film embedded in the phone can change colors between silver and
blue and oneplus thinks that far from being just for looks it could end up
being useful to indicate incoming notifications
i don't put the screen on the table personally i like the idea
is that a lot of the rings reference my phone is blue
you'd sting you've seen it before if you're an apple fan in california
don't plan on visiting an apple store anytime soon as the company has shut
down all of its stores in the state due to guess what
the pandemic however you can still pick up gear
you've ordered online and you can also come in for any appointments you've
already made those legacy appointments no word on
when the stores might reopen in earnest and allow people to put their grubby
little hands on everything once again i just go to swipe and queen elizabeth
annual christmas day address will now be available on alexa this year simply ask
her to play the queen's christmas day message after 3 p.m london time on the
25th apparently it'll work whether you're a loyal subject like me or a
traitor to the crown like our friends down south i am not a loyalist
i don't like canadian she's a nice lady i'm sure that's our show for today our
next broadcast will be on christmas day itself so tune in once you're done
listening to her majesty god save the tech news