hmm so you say the show is about
tech news am i am i saying that right i mean is that what did it
i've never heard of it so i it could be worth a shot though so
let's go amazon doubled their q2 profits
this year compared to 2019 which many analysts attributed to more people
staying home and ordering things online but a new extensive report by public
citizen a non-profit consumer watchdog shows that those profits were also
boosted by price gouging on the platform with some prices for essential products
sold directly by amazon not by third parties increasing by as much as
a thousand percent that's the same as 10 times the price for my fellow math
allergic friends as much as as like one product
no a few it's a few you'll see a 50 pack
of disposable face masks went from four dollars in april to 39
in august antibacterial soap went from 150 to 7 bucks
toilet paper from 7 to 37 bucks the list
goes on amazon responded with a non-statement about how the prices were a result of
the company's systems adjusting to the market and that they quickly work to fix these
types of things from happening which are bad yeah yeah these are these
are bad definitely well maybe amazon should also look at
fixing their amazon basics in-house products which are apparently combusting they're
combusting left and right according to a cnn report it details stories of usb cords melting
microwaves catching fire and surge protectors igniting
meters away from a sleeping baby for pete's sake
yeah like wake up when you smell smoky stupid baby that baby's so dumb
that's the real problem here but sure jeff keep building rockets so you can
escape the earth after you drop a faulty microwave into the actual amazon
oh man apple is finally going to allow game streaming apps like stadia xcloud
and GeForce now onto the iOS app store see we're flexible all you have to do
is make a separate app store app for every playable title in your library and
require users to download each one individually
okay great we're on the same page with
this now this obviously doesn't make any sense for non-iOS games which is
every game on these streaming services so there's some speculation those
individual game apps could just be single purpose streaming
apps that only stream that one xbox or pc game or stadia game or
whatever now this is stupid but maybe it is apple's way of warming
up to more reasonable features i don't know the company just indefinitely
delayed its threat to remove the sign in with apple option from epic games
accounts so maybe these two companies might end up getting a beer and
hashing things out this weekend
if only it wasn't 2020 it's not gonna happen
and you and i might be waiting for official benchmarks of the rtx 3080
like chumps but that doesn't mean that leakers ain't gonna leak
because they are that's what they do a chinese language review of the rtx 3080
by tech lab was posted to billy billy and re-uploaded to youtube
showing the card outperforming the rtx 2080 ti
by around 25 to 45 and besting the rtx
2080 super by up to 62 those numbers are definitely less
impressive than the ones NVIDIA showed off but you know what i would do in this situation
wait for official reviews from like i don't know lightest tech tips or
something that that's just hey that's just me lttstore.com but while we're talking
about leaks we might as well mention this one claiming an rtx 3060 ti
will drop in october which is also around when we'll see AMD's rx6000
series man 2020 has been rough but at least
it's going to be an interesting fall for gamers the ones that matter now it's
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any other way president trump is standing firm on his september 15th deadline for the sale of
tick tock to an american company saying if it doesn't happen by then
they'll close up tick tock in the country well china actually kind of agrees but
in the opposite direction beijing would reportedly prefer to see
the app shut down in the us rather than be sold to an american
company so maybe microsoft will finally buy it but it'll be crippled so you can only dance
to rick astley songs or something
that would actually be amazing console owners of the controlled digital
deluxe edition noticed on the weekend that they had been upgraded
to the game's ultimate edition which is slated to receive a free next-gen
console upgrade but the change was shortly reversed
which is so weird because publisher 505 games had said there was just no way
to like just give players the upgrade definitely not just like
a switch you could accidentally hit or on the weekend or something
you know if only ubisoft held their ubisoft forward mini conference
yesterday announcing breath of the wild lookalike immortals phoenix rising a remaster of
the original prince of persia sands of time a game of space that's
literally the title which is like a vr space exploration simulator i guess
your own sci-fi issue yeah it sounded it sounded like it
riders republic which looks like steep on steroids and scott pilgrim vs the
world the game which was gone and now it's back huawei
is actually going to switch its phones over to using the company's in-house
harmony os instead of Android next year the announcement was made along with six
new devices that we can't really get over here and don't really want
to get anyways so might as well not even be telling you about this
trade wars and portland is keeping the dream of anonymity
alive by banning facial recognition not just for public operations but for
private companies as well things like face unlock for devices is
fine obviously but this is just for public spaces it's the most wide-ranging band the us
has seen yet so portland might be a great place to move
to for privacy nuts although you're probably going to encounter a few
other nuts there too it's a fun city
okay well that was fun come back on monday for more tech news
is that that's what it there's gonna be more is that how it works
fat news is