whoa we're outside maybe i didn't pay my rent spent too much money on tech news
and i do it again microsoft had a major event today to announce a new batch of
products in its surface lineup with the headliner being as expected the new
surface pro 8 with 120hz dolby vision display and Thunderbolt 4 support a
feature that's been a long time coming there's also a totally new entrant
called the surface laptop studio which features an rtx 3050 ti and a slide
forward screen as well as the surface duo 2 that's kind of two twos
an update to microsoft's original dual screen phone with three camera sensors
as opposed to the previous one as well as a 90 hertz refresh rate and
a thickness of less than a quarter inch when open expect to see the new devices
on sale next month and expect to see coverage on our sister channel Linus
tech tips meanwhile over in mack land
also known as jonathan horstland take extra care for the time being when
opening email attachments a bug in macOS allows bad guys to run code on your
system if you click on a compromised internet shortcut malicious code can be
embedded inside the shortcuts and while apple has come out with a patch it turns
out that it's laughably easy at the moment to get around it simply by
changing characters in the shortcuts prefix to uppercase so typing the file
prefix with a capital instead of a lowercase f would allow malicious code
to interact with local files if indeed i imagine apple will come out with another
fix in the near future but come on all that money to build a donut out in
cupertino and something like this still gets past your engineers if you're a ps4
owner you might be pleased to know that a long long-running issue with the console cmos battery has finally
been fixed the latest version of ps4's firmware 9.0 patches a notorious bug
called c-bomb that would simply cause games to not work if the system's
internal battery died the bug is the result of how the ps4's anti-cheating
system works it's always the anti-heating system it relies on the
system's clock which in turn relies on the cmos battery before the fix games
would crash when a player tried to start them up but now it looks like your games
will run indefinitely even after the ps4 servers inevitably shut down as the
console ages you can tell i've lived this on to the quick bits after this
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the quick bits twitch streamers who inadvertently violate copyright by
having unlicensed music in their videos might be let off the hook a little bit
more easily after twitch announced a new policy that will warn creators and
remove the offending clip instead of issuing an outright penalty immediately
critics say the new system will also make it easier for creators to get flagged but it is at least better than
just getting a black market on your record right away automobile drivers in
the uk australia and japan should find Android auto a little easier to use
after google released an update that puts navigation information closer to
the driver and in case you're wondering it was previously farther away because
those countries drive on the wrong side of the road the left side the devil's
side i'm left-handed although you might have just gotten used
to thinking of pokemon unite as a switch title it's now available on both Android
and iOS the game is free to start playing as it is on switch and the
mobile versions will feature cross-platform support with each other
and the switch as well so i guess it's really living up to the name no good
news for a change and there's a new backpack out that will follow you around
the get tom getameni from piagyo fast
forward although it's not the first piece of smart robotic luggage this one
is notable for its small size as it's less than 20 inches tall it costs 1 850
us dollars and it doesn't have louis vuitton logos on it that's crazy and it
can follow you around for about 21 miles on a single charge so about enough to
get you around jfk airport once and it looks like amazon's foray into brick and
mortar department stores might also include smart dressing rooms the idea is
to scan qr codes of items you want to try on and a worker or robot will place
those items in a fitting room for you if you want to try on more clothes you can
tap on recommendations on a screen inside the fitting room and have them
brought to you through a privacy door like hannibal lecter's lunch i'd have to
think amazon isn't dumb enough to like put cameras inside the change room but
you know anything for convenience we'll just just take my data take my nudes
take them and take this tip to come back on friday
for more tech news probably indoors uh once my my check clears but bye
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