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and then you can say goodbye to a half decent
jabata ciabatta ciabatta microsoft
surface duo a folding Android phone with two screens seemed like a great idea at
first but then it launched last year with an out of date processor and buggy
software well microsoft has now imbued the duo with a new purpose a pretty good
handheld xbox gaming phone when cloud gaming with xbox game pass the phone's
second screen can be used to display touch controls so your enormous
beautiful fingers won't obscure the arguably more beautiful game graphics it
won't be as great as using a controller attached with a phone clip but if you
see it from far away it kind of looks like microsoft made a nintendo ds for
xbox games and that's a that's a fun thought now it's likely that microsoft
added this feature to actually help sell through its surface duo stock the
phone's price has been dropped from 1400 u.s to around 850 in some places and
there might be some more price drops still so you may not want to smash open
that piggy bank just yet you've been holding just in case this
very specific feature gets added to this phone i know you have it on friday after
three weeks of court proceedings apple ceo tim apple finally took the stand to
testify hoping to end apple's case with
some strong leader-like statements but it seems like epic's arguments have made
some sense to judge ivan gonzalez rogers who didn't hold back from questioning mr
apple some very pointed questions timmy reiterated other apple executives claims
that apple doesn't know for certain that the iOS app store is profitable but they
have a feel if you will however they are certain that allowing third-party
payments on the app store would be a quote terrible idea i mean that second
one is just science you can't argue after all this fighting
legal experts seem to think apple is likely to come away the overall victor
but whether they're forced to make concessions to epic or not this trial is
likely to lead to other legal fights over wild garden ecosystems whether they
be apples or console makers or whoever will i have to let my neighbor grow
brussels sprouts in my flower bed brussels sprouts can be good if you just
cook them with a ton of butter and garlic the judge may take until august
to finalize her ruling so we may never find out and if you missed it we
published our first tech longer on the weekend about star citizen the as yet
unreleased controversially ambitious space sim game but star citizen's main
competitor in the genre elite dangerous is experiencing a controversy of its own
because of the latest expansion odyssey the dlc which adds first-person on-foot
gameplay is chock full of bugs and horrible performance issues despite
being in public beta for over a month over a month
oh such a long time star citizen hasn't
been development since 2012 so watch it it's in the video players are so unhappy
they're review bombing the game on steam prompting frontiers ceo david braban to
issue a public apology promising that fixing odyssey's issues is the studio's
top priority and you know what they'll probably do that in like a month
sometimes things take a while while like developing games and writing long videos
about developing games oh mark quiet
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oh we got some juicy rumors claiming that AMD may switch back to using a land
grid array or lga design for their next gen am5 motherboards and chips that
means like Intel's setup the connector pins will be on the motherboard side
instead of the CPU side sure it's cheaper to replace a motherboard with
bent pins instead of a CPU but i kind of like the feeling of danger i get
handling a processor with all these fragile pins on it like
what if i dropped it oh i'm getting chills bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies are again taking a hit thanks to a renewed crackdown on bitcoin
mining announced by one of china's top regulators because bitcoin uses a ton of
energy and criminals use it too requiring even more energy to chase them
when they run away that's the dumbest thing i've ever said
and you know i can see the argument i think we should stop using pretty much
anything that uses electricity ah i get to get it speaking of china
that's where razer pre-built pcs have been spotted available with the as yet
unannounced rtx 3080 ti and 3070 ti if
you're looking to build your own though other rumors are suggesting these cards will be announced by the end of may and
launch on june 3rd which actually now that i think about it isn't really
information that's applicable to someone wanting to build their own pc for
because you because you can't get them anyways the governor of florida has
signed into law a bill that bans social media companies from banning politicians
now the law doesn't affect all politicians just those based in florida
but it applies to political candidates so it remains unclear whether i'm going
to fly to florida announce i'm running for mayor of florida manville and then
post everything from the dark web onto twitter i'm not even sure if i'll do
that i'm unpredictable and sony has taken down the servers for little big
planet the ps3 game from 2008 because there's apparently no other way to stop
the hackers that have been posting offensive in-game messages
in the game the move also affects little big planet 2 and 3 which are also tied
to the original game's servers
unbelievable what could lead these hackers to post offensive messages about
a cute little character like sack boy wait is that his name
yeah better end this episode while we're ahead but you should come back on
wednesday for more tech news we'll have time to do more research on these type
of things by that time