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- Tech news, but with hoods on. Hoodlinked.

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After retailers screwed up PlayStation 5 pre-orders last week by launching product pages early,

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Microsoft said their retail partners were prepared for an onslaught of console hungry gamers

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when pre-orders for the Xbox Series X and S went live Tuesday morning.

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The launch proceeded on schedule, but online stores still found their servers overloaded

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with requests from people like Colton - Wow, what? - For Xbox's,

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and they quickly sold out. Unfortunately, some fans fell victim

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to Microsoft's confusing naming scheme and accidentally ordered Xbox One X's instead.

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With Amazon marking a 740% increase in sales

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of their three-year-old console. And if you're one of those poor souls, or if you just couldn't get a Series X or S, don't worry.

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Microsoft is holding a certain amount of consoles in stock for the actual launch on November 10th.

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Until then, you can play with the new Xbox remote play feature which lets you stream games

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from your console to your Android phone. This is not to be confused with XCloud,

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the cloud streaming service, which Microsoft is adamant will launch on iOS despite Apple's predictably silly rules

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when having a dedicated app for each cloud game. Their iOS home screen would be so crowded.

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Although you could make it look pretty sweet with them new widgets.

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For the first time in my life, I want an iPhone.

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It feels weird. - [Colton] You're gonna get an X box too? - Maybe.

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Microsoft is also holding their Ignite developer conference

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right now where they've made a few interesting announcements. The company is developing a method of holographic storage

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involving sending beams of light through lenses

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at a crystal cube, which can hold information until it's wiped with the UV radiation,

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Sounds nerdy as hell. There's also Premonition, Microsoft's attempt

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to build something like a weather monitoring system, but for disease outbreaks, using robotics

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and cloud based software to capture, sample and test disease carrier, like mosquitoes or people.

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I guess soon it'll be normal to see spot robots' leaping around snatching flies out of the air,

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a beautiful future. And finally, Microsoft announced an exclusive

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licensing agreement with OpenAI's GPT-3 language model.

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In case you forgot GPT is the AI behind the amazing AI dungeon text RPG.

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I can see it now. Bethesda's first game under its new management,

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Microsoft language simulator. It will be sick as long as you don't need words

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to mean anything. And a bunch of leaks from German site

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WinFuture have given us a look at the possible specs

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and design of both the Google Pixel 5 and the beagle, the Google Pixel 4a 5G.

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The leak is consistent with previously seen rumors claiming the Pixel 5 will have a six inch OLED

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90 Hertz display covering the whole front with a cut out selfie camera.

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Bye bye gesture controls, I guess. And good riddance.

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Hey, I use those. Inside is a Snapdragon 765G with sub six gigahertz 5G

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support, eight gigabytes of RAM and a 4,080 milliamp hour battery.

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The Pixel 4a 5G supposedly has the same processor, but only six gigabytes of RAM,

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a smaller battery and a display capable of a measly 60 Hertz.

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Although, it is slightly larger, or is it?

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I don't know. And neither do you but we should both know for sure

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come September 30th when Google officially unveils both devices.

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- Whoa, quick bits. Yeah, yes! At their battery day event yesterday,

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Tesla announced that upcoming advancements in the company's battery technology

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will enable them to sell a $25,000 electric car, in three years,

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Tesla is also phasing out cobalt, a component of lithium batteries since it's expensive

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and often mined unethically. (blows tongue) Because reducing emissions is less worth it

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if you have to use child labor to do it, you know, it's good to get rid of that stuff.

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Unless you're Elon Musk's son who was probably an Android and doesn't count.

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Hey, think Blizzard has sucked since Activision got involved?

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Well Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime agrees. and now has founded

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a new company called Dreamhaven. It will be the parent company of two development studios

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called Moonshot or Moon's hot and Secret Door,

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both headed by former creative leads of Blizzard. Frankly, I'll take a StarCraft knockoff

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if it comes with those bomb ass cinematics. "My life for Auir."

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Know what I mean? Samsung apparently realizes the Galaxy S20 got a lukewarm reaction when it launched

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for a thousand bucks. So now they're releasing the S20 Fan Edition

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for $700US with a slightly lower spec, like a 1080P display that doesn't curve on the side,

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but it's still got 120 Hertz screen and a decent battery. Please buy it.

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We have different colors, please.

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Google maps is getting an update that will show these seven day average COVID cases in US States,

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a handy metric for planning your next road trip, which you probably shouldn't be taking right now.

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But if you do, consider heading straight downward

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into a bunker. And hey look, it's the Sony Experia Play 2

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a phone that never launched. But from the looks of it, it should have

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because with its thin screen and stylish PlayStation style buttons,

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it could have been an awesome mobile alternative for PlayStation fans. Sony, it's not too late to give up on this whole

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console thing and tackle Nintendo head-on. They've rained over portable gaming for a long enough,

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right? Seize power. Seize it! - They tried twice. - Yeah, they've tried, yeah.

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And we'll end this episode before things get too scary. Come back on Friday for more tech news

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'cause we've got what you need. Tech news.

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I feel like when I have a hood on I just act like Riley more. Its weird. - Yeah.

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- Oh, this was tied up too. That must have looked weird when I was- - Yeah you have a really gangster look going on.