yeah i know you want me to do tech news but if i do that then you've won
god i can't say no to that face look at them
they're so cute
facebook has undergone scandal after scandal the past couple years but this
week the company may face its largest reckoning ever thanks to the facebook
papers a trove of leaked external documents that expand on and add to the
issues brought up by the now infamous whistleblower and certified badass
frances haugen she's so infamous i still don't know how to say her name though
Dan haugen van halgen the papers describe facebook suppressing an
internal integrity team trying to limit the spread of harmful content on the
platform there's a story about facebook failing to remove human trafficking
groups after a bbc investigation and only succeeding after apple threatened
to ban them from the app store and there's much more we don't have time to
cover but facebook's troubles don't end there because an antitrust lawsuit filed
against google last year has been fully unredacted revealing claims that google
and facebook colluded to manipulate the online advertising market surprise
surprise assuring their dominance over other ad bidding platforms what are coke
and pepsi doing hey what about the small pops well they don't call them pops
sodas we're canadians
so if you weren't looking forward to spending time with your family over the holidays at least there will probably be
some juicy testimonies before congress to watch
politics c-span gets me going in other
leak-focused news that is significantly less scandalous videos depicting what
looked like the rumored oculus pro headset have been posted on reddit it
sucks back zuck never went away the videos look similar to the introductory
ones shown when firing up a standalone quest headset for the first time and the
headset itself in the videos looks a lot like a prototype that facebook vp of vr
andrew bosworth we call them boss showed off on twitter recently like the
quest it looks like this headset operates wirelessly and without
requiring a connection to a pc with a dock nearby for charging the strapless
controllers sounds sexy live on the dangerous side
throw it at any time if it's for pros they're not gonna be flailing their arms
around like fools if these leaks are legit facebook could give us a look at
the oculus pro on october 28th during their oculus connect conference and that
just reminded me that facebook owns oculus dammit this is
dumb news i don't want to see this headset tesla has been testing out a beta
version of its full self-driving feature but as you may have already worked out
putting beta and self-driving into the same sentence is kind of uncomfortable
because only alphas drive cars elon musk has admitted that the beta
software has some issues resulting in it being pulled specifically it's having
problems with left turns very zoolander-esque
problem there while some users have said that they're getting false collision
warnings although it's obviously good that these issues are being spotted in
beta as opposed to a final release i have to wonder about releasing a beta
publicly to people who are you know
actually driving in school zones the kids know think of the children now it's
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okay let's go let's do it leaked benchmarks make it look like Intel's
12th gen alder lake processors are going to arrive real soon with some bang in
performance never let me on tiktok a CPU z benchmark
was spotted showing the core i5 12600k beating a ryzen 5 5600 x by nearly 50
percent in a multi-threaded test oh something that verizon's usually better
at tiny more that's even more exciting thanks to the 12600k having four lower
powered efficiency cores which you think would drag it down but don't judge a
core by its efficiency designation i've met some pretty powerful small cores and
they're really nice too big pp core you ever been in a small core neighborhood
Intel's fight with AMD may be going strong but team blue and red do agree on
one thing team purple they're merging
both company ceos have predicted that the current chip shortage will last all
through next year and finally let up in 2023 the news comes as Intel's latest
earnings reports show poor laptop sales that were caused by you guessed it the
aforementioned chip shortage and not AMD laptops be really good that could
that could mess with xbox players looking for more storage
will have a new expansion option come december a two terabyte drive that costs
more than an xbox series s or at least that used to be true the NVMe drive will
go for four hundred dollars supposedly which is even more egregious considering
you can get a non xbox specific one for around 250 bucks you know the kind the
ps5 would support bam yeah console keep
it alive the console war in other xbox news a new update will
give you a dashboard that renders natively in 4k a proper night mode and
streamlined quick settings um but more importantly NVIDIA just added GeForce
now support to the edge browser yeah lit what
and that runs on xbox meaning you can stream steam games from the cloud on
your xbox what even is an xbox now or
xbox later see ya and if you don't have
enough RGB razer has a smart face mask to sell you that's right it's crazy
zephyr mask from earlier in the year comes with a dual fan n95 filter system
and an app to customize your look because nothing says i'm taking the
pandemic seriously like a light show on your face i mean i don't know hey i'm
not trying to get laid i'm trying to social distance this tells
the world that step away potential partners stay away
message received the mask sans filter kits will set you back a hundred bucks
and can you really put a price on safety i can put a price on continuing this
video because it's too damn high
so come back on wednesday for more tech news the tech news atron has to recharge if
we've been trying to get it fixed for so long you can't just pump it out every
day james