you never could stay away from the tech news could you
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apple has informed some of its component suppliers to brace for weakening demand
for the company's mobile phones colloquially called iphones by industry
insiders that's what i'm told apple had told investors a couple months ago that
it would be cutting its production of iphones by as many as 10 million units
due to the global supply shortage but that it expected to make up the
difference in 2022 but now cupertino is
admitting that there isn't gonna be a christmas miracle
which are usually all about making the world's most profitable company even richer if i remember correctly uninvited
from bezos christmas party you're not rich enough
low iphone demand is being driven in part by delivery wait times caused by
the shortage but analysts also believe that customers may not feel a need to
upgrade to a more expensive iphone when it's not
super clear
we're only talking about 10 million people being hesitant though the rest are gonna buy it anyways is essentially
a new piece of jewelry and that's what christmas is all about
sony may finally be putting together a real competitor to microsoft's xbox game
pass subscription by copying its free games and cloud gaming structure so
naturally they've codenamed it spartacus no i'm the best deal in gaming no i'm
copying you it's like an old reference
i remember the pepsi commercial spartacus is expected to debut this
spring merging sony's playstation plus which offers access to a library of
games on playstation consoles for a monthly fee with playstation now which
does the same thing but with cloud game streaming they should have named the playstation plow
interestingly sony became one of the first major players to get into cloud
gaming when they launched playstation now way back in 2014. also known as
playstation then but the services features and
reliability have since been surpassed by many others including microsoft who also
interestingly made a deal to help sony with its cloud services in 2019 did you
know about that it's a very exciting time for console gamers and slightly less exciting one
for pc gamers since we get basically all the exclusive titles from sony and
microsoft now anyways but hey we're we're very happy for you
NVIDIA has been trying to buy uk chip designer ARM for over a year but every
time they stick their hand out with the cash it's like somebody just slaps that wait stop no i just wanna
ah but things look especially dire for the deal now that the u.s federal trade
commission has sued team green specifically to block the acquisition
claiming it would distort ARM's incentives in chip markets and allow the
combined firm to unfairly undermine NVIDIA's rivals big biceps no legs
which is probably true ARM supplies chip designs to many of NVIDIA's chip making
competitors like qualcomm samsung and google who have all lodged complaints
about the potential deal NVIDIA's attempts to buy ARM have been under
scrutiny in the uk for some time but will this be the straw that breaks the
camel's back and was it caused by a sassy remark NVIDIA ceo jensen huang
made about qualcomm ceo cristiano amon at a industry event i hope so because
that would justify me doing this gossipy boy i love a sassy wand
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look you got your long boys and your quick bits there's no in between it's
one we're doing the second one giant video game publisher take two has hit hazel
light the developer of co-op adventure game it takes two with a trademark claim
because i know as soon as i saw the title of this little indie platformer
all i think about is olsen twins
also twins and gta v the company that owns rockstar hazellite was forced to
abandon their own it takes two trademark because of the claim although talks are
still ongoing are they talking about rampant abuse of the copyright system
are they talking about dancing i wish we could get in there
i want to pick your brain a group of us lawmakers have proposed a
bill that would prohibit the use of automated bots to scalp in demand
products such as toys video game consoles and graphics cards it's about
time the bill is called the stopping grinch
bots act because we gotta call it like we see it keep the grinch in christmas
i'm providing a service ooh i would say
something about socialism if i was still in university and hadn't already come to
the conclusion that a well-regulated capitalist economic system was probably
still our best option ooh it sucks though hey if you want some
hope read the verge's interview with the guys behind
focal drin a community trying to fight scalpers
bots with their own non-scalping bots
not an effective strategy in smash bros or pokemon microsoft has
backtracked on changes it made to Windows 11's default apps management in
the latest insider build allowing users to set a default browser with a few
clicks instead of manually setting a default for dozens of file types why am
i saying default instead of default that's my question
maybe they're making the move because the number of people who have upgraded from Windows 10 is at most nine percent
and could be as low as one percent of people with eligible computers because
that's probably what happens when you release a beta as a full release i don't
know i didn't give me one good reason throwing
the original quake and by that i mean the remastered version that was
re-released last year is getting a content update 25 years after the
original game's release bringing a gears of war style horde mode and new
single-player levels bethesda may be doing this as a nice holiday gift to
gamers but i like to think they're doing it while thinking in their mind you see
this nintendo you see what's possible when you don't have your head up your
never adding waluigi to smash do you have for brains
consumers want the opposite for video games that we want in movies
reboot it all give us the same stuff
and new rules established by the u.s consumer financial protection bureau
will allow creditors and loan sharks to directly text email and send social
media messages to people who owe unpaid debts which is probably going to make
talking with strangers via dm even weirder than it already is if they can
just slide into your dms did it hurt
well when i fell from heaven you took out a loan you couldn't repay oh yes it
did i can't repay you enough for watching
all the way to the end i will give you a reward if you come back on monday though
not telling you what it is