it was the friday before christmas and james is here with a brand new t-shirt
that you can buy now in the LTT Store we'll have that link below
folks are in the market for a mid-range GPU without fancy ray tracing support
might be in luck as reports suggest that NVIDIA will soon be releasing a gtx
1160. the card would supposedly launch in addition to the previously rumored
rtx 2060. this might be the way that NVIDIA will differentiate its higher
tier rtx lineup with the aforementioned ray tracing from its lower end product
stack however it does appear that the gtx 1160 will still use a touring family
GPU and will possibly support features like dlss a new anti-aliasing mode that
was heavily touted when the rtx lineup was initially announced no word yet on
pricing and availability but we might hear something mid-january right as all
your bills from all that christmas shopping start rolling oh great i'm
fully leveraged riley i'm to the max it appeared that the days of apple
products bending under small amounts of pressure maybe in your pocket were long
behind us after the iphone 6 debacle but it looks like ipad users are now dealing
with their own electric boogaloo
users have been reporting that their 2018 ipad pros are you guessed it bent
which is undesirable on a product that starts at 800 us dollars and to make
matters worse the issue is reportedly even more noticeable on the larger
cellular enabled model that starts at 1 150.
james louise and funnily enough this has even been reported on ipads immediately
after they've been removed from their original box apple has actually
confirmed the reports and blamed it on the cooling process that they used
during assembly while apple claims it won't affect functionality at least one
youtuber has opined that the new ipads are quite flimsy a friendly reminder
that i devices do not yet come with those newfangled
foldable screens it's not folded that much
it's fine if you're in germany you may now have a tougher time trying to save
money by buying an older model iphone because there's currently a patent
kerfuffle playing out between apple and qualcomm as the latter is claiming that
apple has violated a number of its patents german courts have already ruled
that apple is indeed in the wrong here to be specific the issue revolves around
a power saving feature to keep the battery from draining too fast when the
phone is connected to a 4g network the court has issued an injunction meaning
apple would be legally prohibited from selling older iphones in the country
germany that is but the injunction is on hold while apple appeals however apple
has said that it won't be selling iphone 7s or 8s in store for the time being so
hopefully lions might just be a tiny bit
shorter at the genius bar or since it's germany that would be
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now pause it come back on to the quick bids although bitcoin had a horrendously
bad 2018 still holding that isn't stopping facebook from developing its
own digital currency bloomberg tells us that this will be a stable coin whose
value is tied to the us dollar in order to avoid wild fluctuations facebook
wants to use the new currency to allow users to send and receive money via
whatsapp although you'll have to be a stable genius to know how probably the
smartest is it forget to use it it's probably gonna be pretty easy germany is
also beefing with nintendo as their consumer protections authorities are
taking the japanese game giant to court because of its all sales final policy on
the nintendo eshop allegedly a violation of european law personally i think you
should be able to get your money back for an unsatisfying product even if it's
just ones and zeros i mean if you can get a big mac compt i don't see why you
shouldn't be able to refund sonic forces is that yeah is that a good game
no fortnite is known just about as much for his exuberant dances as it is for its
gameplay but not everyone is booging down as multiple parties are suing epic
games claiming that the developer ripped off pre-existing dances such as the
carlton from tv series fresh prince of
bel air the legal battle should be interesting as while dances can be
copyrighted litigation over dance moves is uncommon maybe this is why that guy
from the safety dance song was so insisting oh my god i finally understand
the safety dance guy you should be able to dance if you want
to even if that means leaving your friends behind
off-key caroling is a time-honored christmas tradition especially at my
house where we suck at singing but nintendo has taken it to a whole new
level as it recently released a video of toad singing a tune to the melody of joy
to the world in japanese in his trademark screechy voice
and it's every bit as bad as it sounds the song is set to visuals from breath
of the wild for reasons that aren't totally clear so yeah
merry christmas merry christmas hey youtuber mark rober robert has admitted
that unfortunately parts of his hugely popular video featuring package thieves
being glitter bombed were fake though he maintains that the actual
thefts were real according to robert some of his friends
posed his narrow due wells and activated the glitter bombs without him knowing
about it props to robert for being so forthright
about it and removing the fake footage but actually seeing some real instant
justice also known as karma porn would have been sweet i mean have you ever
tried they like wash glitter every weekend
that's it for today so we'll see you next time or we'll glitter bomb you with
more tech news but you won't have to take a shower once we're done
but you should take a shower anyway hygiene's important not trying it's kind
of gross yeah especially for glitter you can tell hey
this is last friday's glitter there's color it's different color every week you know that's how they do it those
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