remember you're never alone even when you're in the tech techlink void that's
not the main set tech news is always there i don't know why that would make
you feel better tech news is not a person but sony has announced that close
to 450 movies and tv shows purchased by users through the playstation store in
germany and austria will no longer be available to play station the playing
will cease sony says that they were forced to make the decision due to evolving licensing
agreements with content providers which you know is super understandable
licenses are hard ever heard of the dmv
oh last year sony announced that they would be discontinuing playstation
user's ability to buy and rent video content but at that time it was
understood that previously purchased content would still be available the
problem here is with that word purchased you see services use words
like that which make it seem like you're actually buying digital content but most
of the time you're actually just agreeing to lease it for as long as the
service makes it available or as long as they want to make it available to you
which they could stop doing at any time like ubisoft who also cut off access to
some games dlc this week so most of the time you don't actually own the digital
things you buy and in fact you may not own anything at all if we're living in a
simulation and so think about that yeah the company formerly known as facebook
will finally allow users of its meta quest vr headsets to log in without a
facebook account so you can finally disconnect from probably the worst
social media platform but who's it's not a competition when the change rolls out
in august all you'll need to use your headset is a meta account
wait what meta says the new account's only purpose
will be to store your quest profile information and connect with other quest
users and while that's marginally better than the facebook account requirement
which led to intense user backlash technical issues and bricked headsets
it's still a reminder that you are using a product made by the lizard people
company tm but hey if you've accepted them as your new overlords the quest pro
is reportedly coming soon and could cost around a thousand bucks that'll really
show your dedication and shed a tear for the poor hoes are suffering up here in
canada because one of our big four isps rogers has been experiencing a
nationwide outage since early friday morning and it's still happening
it's been a real gong choi the cause of the outage has not yet been
identified but with everything from landlines to mobile phones to debit
machines being affected i'd wager this is probably something more dire than
some keener spilling is freezing on the cables for sure
in all seriousness this outage sucks more than the habs chances of winning
the stanley cup right oh yeah and
i don't watch hockey so i don't know if that's accurate but i think it is and
travelers crossing the canadian border are being asked to submit extra forms
since the arrive can app is down anyways
hopefully the folks at rogers strap on their tooks grab some doofers timbits
and double doubles and just give her till she starts ripping again
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longer news stories love each other very much
i like that one in response to a possible antitrust lawsuit from the u.s
justice department over google's ad business the tech giant has offered to
spin off said business into its own company under google's parent company
alphabet see then instead of reporting directly to google the ad business would
report directly to alphabet whose ceo
sundar pichai is also the ceo of google
it's not clear whether anything would actually change but these are federal
bureaucrats we're dealing with google may be able to confuse them with a flashy show of paperwork
now i'm over here what where'd they go ASUS may soon launch a new phone that
could appeal to Android fans looking longingly at owners of an iphone 13 mini
such as myself that's me a leaked promo video shows the 5.9 inch zenfone 9 with
20 22 flagship specs a headphone jack fancy modular accessories and even a
side mounted fingerprint reader you can use to scroll with instead of swiping
directly on the screen why do you why would you want that i don't know
hopefully this thing launches soon because what do i want a tv in my pocket
phones should be cute damn it the early performance numbers for
Intel's art gaming gpus hasn't been great but maybe they'll stand a chance
when they show up in Intel's upcoming nuk x-15 bare-bones laptop kits
documents referencing the notebooks were leaked this week equipped with core i7
700h cpus and either an arc a550m or a
730m which would be Intel's mid and mid
to upper tier models i mean apple's chips do really well in their apple made
laptops so i can only assume that the same rule applies and these nuts will
fix everything chinese manufacturer h3c has announced
what is supposedly the world's first wi-fi 7 router the problem is wi-fi 7
has not yet been certified by the wi-fi alliance so
it's not clear what exactly that means to be fair on paper the magic be 18000
appears to be capable of almost double the top speeds of wi-fi 6 equipped
routers but that's like me saying my car is a formula one because i strapped a
rocket to the back that doesn't really work it's not quite
like that but the moral is don't strap a rocket to your car i say
this from experience and renewable energy is great but solar panels have
not been so great to recycle however according to a new analysis from
research firm reisted energy growth in the solar industry could soon lead to
billions of dollars worth of materials being mined from old panels which would
lead to less waste and better supply of new panels so don't worry environment
see we're saving you we're doing it
and save your appetite for tech news because we'll be back on monday with
more there's always more tech news
it's everywhere it's like i can't breathe