it's november 12th a federal holiday in the u.s and canada but the tech news
must go on tech news it's got no respect for the troops i do
but i serve the tech news i have no choice it's horrible but what
would be truly horrible is if this leak about a new valve vr headset turned out
to not be true yes photos were shared to
imger over the weekend of a prototype head mounted display apparently being
worked on at valve the anonymous source of the photos told upload vr that it
will have a 135 degree field of view and vive pro resolution similar to the htc
vive this prototype has integrated headphones and steamvr infrared tracking
points but it also has two cameras on the lower front side this is the first
we've seen of a headset being worked on at valve although they've been pretty upfront about the development of their
upcoming knuckles controllers for vr the valve rumor mill has been sent into
overdrive with speculation that this vr headset and the controllers will launch
with a new half-life game designed for
vr no actually sadly it might apparently
be a prequel not the half-life 3 we're all waiting for or the one i'm waiting
for at least i'm sure many of you have given up hope
well let this leak be the spark that ignites
the fire that will burn the first order down
preach it riley thank you speaking of burning things down apple is setting
fire to third-party attempts at repairing its products as the company
has confirmed that the security focused t2 chip present in its new max prevents
the machines from booting if it detects hardware from an unauthorized source
this tactic effectively locks out third party repairs if they don't use apple
certified components but apple has taken more steps to lock users into their
repair ecosystem a new deal with amazon won't just see the online marketplace
carry current gen flagships now previously amazon was limited to past
gen iphones and macbooks but amazon is also telling independent product
refurbishers that only authorized resellers will be able to sell apple
products so it looks like rather than responding to user criticism by being a
little more lacks with its repair policies apple has doubled down and
closed off their ecosystem even further
saturday first off keyboard and mouse support is coming to 14 titles on the
console this wednesday including fortnite warframe and warhammer
vermintide 2. microsoft pledged to make the microsoft store better tailored
towards gamers so you're going to delete it then i guess
there's a bunch of other game news mostly about existing games coming to xbox or xbox game pass but the really
interesting bit of news was microsoft's acquisition of rpg developers obsidian
entertainment and in exile entertainment could microsoft compete with sony's
excellent list of exclusives well i mean
given the company's history with studios that it acquires probably
probably not they still got halo though
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interest of fairness i now have to say that they did admit that the iphone 10
is having touch screen issues and the 13-inch macbook pro is having data loss
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an apple authorized service provider and nowhere else
new information has come to light about samsung's foldable phone that it half
unveiled last week apparently it's known as the galaxy f for foldable and will
retail for around 1 770 us dollars when
it launches in march but which frankly is not surprising it's a new technology
and a flashy one at that but if you want to spend more for a different folding
phone you can buy samsung's w2019 a flip
phone with the top end snapdragon 845 inside and two 4.2 inch amoled screens
or you could get a oneplus 6t if you're a normal human the fallout 76
beta is over and if after playing you've decided the game isn't for you you might
want to uninstall well you can't do it through the games uninstaller because it
doesn't work it's not a huge issue you can just install it the normal way just
another problem with the game we thought we'd mention since it's basically been
a crap show so far also the game's day one patch when it does launch will be
bigger than the game itself so someone please help bethesda with this
stuff they're having a tough time the dubai police force is now training using
hoverbikes aka human-sized drones this
is super cool but also could they not put some propeller guards on that thing
kudos to dubai for doing things with their exorbitant amounts of money so
that the rest of us don't have to and this isn't tech news but what the heck a
trailer has come out for the first live-action pokemon movie and it's
detective pikachu with ryan reynolds as the title
character and kind of creepy realistic cgi pokemon is this real life
no it's a movie but is this real life
still no youtube video try again no i won't
because this episode is over thanks for watching kids hope you had a nice stat
holiday and come on back on wednesday because you know we'll have more tech
news i mean you don't know but
it's a reasonable assumption