when dealing with live tech news remember always wear protective
equipment we don't but we're professionals we're raw dog and life
baby it's dangerous microsoft has announced
that xbox series x slash s and xbox one
consoles now support voice chat integration with discord after the tech
giant failed to acquire the popular chat platform back in 2021 it was a swing and
a miss at a big net it doesn't always work there are some caveats though
discord voice chat is only available to xbox insiders so you'll have to be okay
with installing early versions of software which so far require you to go
through a complicated first time setup involving multiple discord session
handoffs between your phone and console things probably would have been smoother
if microsoft's acquisition went through but what should we just let them buy
anything if it'll run better this keeps all the laying people off the
announcement makes xbox as the first consoles to support direct voice chat
integration with discord even though they announced a partnership with sony
last year right after turning down microsoft's offer and said there would
be some kind of playstation integration in early 2022. oh i'd be mad but sony
keeps making awesome exclusive games and bringing them to pc so if that's what
they want to focus on i'm fine with that i also don't have a ps5 so
speaking of consoles you might want to check that yours isn't melting as summer
heat waves batter parts of the globe nintendo and valve have both issued
warnings to owners of the switch and steam deck respectively to avoid gaming
in temperatures over 35 degrees celsius otherwise you might experience a
different kind of steam head steam
i was thinking of the plastic but it's very poisonous the warnings are
appropriate given that it's been over 35 degrees in tokyo for five days straight
and the country's worst heat wave ever documented while record-breaking
temperatures also afflict the eu and uk causing google and oracle servers to
overheat and two british airports to shut down because their runways are
fricken melting while there isn't anything you can do immediately to stop
the heat other than recycling your soda cans of course
it'll help you could also pull a Linus tech dips and slap a heatsink on the
back of your switch or steam deck or grandma or anyone and elon musk has
experienced another setback completely unrelated to twitter thank god because
i'm tired of talking about that syncron has become the first company to implant
a brain computer interface into a u.s patient beating musk's competing company
neurolink to the punch syncron's stentrode system involves implanting a
wire lace in the patient's brain by pushing it up through a blood vessel
meaning no invasive surgery is required unlike existing prototypes where
research participants have a big dewicky sticking out of their head have you ever seen those james neurolinx is actually
called the stent chode syncron has already implanted stentrodes
and four australian patients but received fda approval to do the same in
the us back in july 2021. meanwhile
neurolink hasn't even begun human trials which is
which is probably monkeying around honestly this is probably good i think
it's okay to take it slow with the whole cyborgification thing we have a lot of
problems to deal with already before we add in that you know let's figure things
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going by this quickly
ludicrously high refresh rates are making their way from desktop monitors
to gaming laptops alienware just announced new notebooks with 1080p
panels that can reach a blistering 480 hertz you don't need that you do not
thank you james it's an optional 300 upgrade for the AMD powered m17 r5 or
the Intel powered x17 r2 which might be
as hard to justify as those model names what do they mean did they just pick
letters and numbers out of a hat m15 r8
that one's next year's after killing google wallet and
replacing it with google pay google is releasing a new google wallet to replace
google pay in addition to credit debit and
membership cards wallet adds support for transit and event tickets boarding
passes vaccination records virtual car keys and student ids look for the update
now and look for another update in a couple years reversing everything again
what do you want to use the same app forever time for you to switch it up dolly 2 the text to image generator
developed by open ai and the source of manifold internet memes will be made
available to a million people currently on the waitlist in the coming weeks
those lucky few will be able to generate 50 free images in the first month and 15
every following month this is great but also entirely unfair so only a select
few will have ultimate meme power this is meme elitism sign my petition to add
a right to meme in the constitution and put open ai in jail microsoft has
announced viva engage a new social platform inside its team chat app that
looks almost exactly like facebook there's a
news feed with text image and video posts and personal profiles that are
like look look at that that's facebook i don't think microsoft understands that
facebook's growth is declining because people don't like facebook they're like
the people who pick up litter and bring it back to you you dropped this you
didn't mean to i'm sure and listen up canadians who may have bought an optical
disk drive between 2004 and 2010 you
could get 20 bucks without a proof of purchase thanks to a 29.7 million dollar
settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought against large electronic
manufacturers like sony phillips panasonic benq and more the companies
were accused of price fixing on optical drives so the least they could do is
give you some money for some double doubles and timbits see you there i
never understand why these are a thing and the least we
could do is tell you to come back on friday for more tech news because again
we are the only people qualified to handle it we go through rigorous
training see i wouldn't have been able to