a wow oh my gosh you clicked on our thumbnail we just put it out there and
we didn't know anyone actually click and watch well thank you oh my God the fact
that Google pays to be the default search engine on many devices is welln
but thanks to a recent New York Times report and testimony coming out of the
USV Google antitrust trial we now know how much
26.3 billion was paid out in 2021 with
18 billion of that going solely to Apple
that means Google is sacrificing almost onethird of its profits from its entire
ad business including YouTube so you can keep telling yourself you don't use Bing
because it's just not as good you're just a puppet man bunch of Kermit's
there Miss Piggy told me not to use it the Times report claims that Google also
worked on their own version of Apple's Spotlight for iPhones promoted its
Chrome browser to iPhone users and tried to leverage the eu's digital markets act
to cut off Apple's potential search engine Ambitions like a vasectomy but
for ideas this makes apple and Google's relationship kind of complicated Google
is actively trying to hold apple back from their full potential by paying them
massive sums of money it's like the most toxic relationship you've ever heard of
but they're the world's richest corporations and not people so who are
we to judge except under us law Love Is
Love the newly released Allan Wake 2 is drawing criticism for listing only gpus
with MES Shader support in its PC requirements discouraging any graphics
card older than NVIDIA's RTX x 20 series or AMD's RX 6000 series from touching
the game like how back in third grade Ali Watson was excluded from touching
anything because she had cooties while you can start up the game on older cards
with no Hardware mesh shaders there's reasons to avoid doing so like the fact
that you'll get this warning pop up that looks like it traveled all the way from
1995 to stop you from making a terrible mistake Sak don't startop that game we
have to make sure your parents get married then there's the fact that at
1080 P Max settings without upscaling an RX 5700 XT and a GTX 1080ti will perform
worse than expected and get spanked by a GTX 1660 TI and an RTX 3050 if you lower
the settings and enable FSR the 5700 XT
will give playable frame rates but it's wild that once trusty flagships like the
GTX 1080 and 1080 TI are lucky to
average 30 FPS if this is where the industry is headed Gamers with older
cards will be facing with costly decisions not too dissimilar to when Ali
Watson's family decided to move to a new school district I hear she's in Alaska
now the only thing she's touching is baby seals coties can't thrive in the
cold Western digital's planned merger with memory chip maker kokia has
apparently stalled turns out this is because a key investor in kokia is the
competing memory chip maker SK hyx hey
they may not like their competition but damn it they respect them enough to
invest but while respect is nice nice and all I'm sure Japan's top three Banks
as well as the state-backed Development Bank of Japan are probably miffed about
the paperwork they'll have to redo since they already authorized 12.7 billion to
help Finance the merger think about all the extra zeros they have to erase oh to
go all the way around the circle this isn't the first time a Western Digital
kokia emerger has been attempted either in 2021 A2 billion deal completely fell
apart but even then the companies have circled each other like Star Cross
lovers even becoming involved in a joint venture last year just let them get
together already SK heinik I've been writing fanfiction for two years don't
blow this for me I can't go back to the potterverse no Ron no now it's time for
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and iPad OS 17.1 notably addressing
recent problems with screen burin for the iPhone improving airdrop and fixing
a bug where the OS turned off privacy settings for significant locations and
iPhone analytics significant locations of course being a feature that tracks
and remembers places you visit often like your work your local cafe and the
fight club under the overpass Riley you're not supposed to talk every time
I'm dead we got to move now the update also fixes a 3-year-old security Gap in
iOS's private address feature which was supposed to to allow users to avoid
being tracked while connecting to Wi-Fi networks but instead just gave them the
warm illusion of safety in a cold and perilous World which is also worth
something Qualcomm has apparently snagged six more laptop oems for their
upcoming ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite processors including names like ASUS
Dell and Samsung but Intel CEO and the
world's most calm Under Pressure nerd Pat Gil singer isn't afraid of any
competition from ARM CPUs despite efforts from not just Qualcomm but also
allegedly secret projects by both NVIDIA and AMD in fact he's willing to build
their chips with Intel's Foundry this guy's tough I'm already fanc casting
Dwayne Johnson to play him in the inevitable biopic who's Kevin Hart GNA
be Lisa Sue what the this Google is
launching about this image a tool to verify the origin and context of an
image including how long it's been available on Google Search and which
websites have used it in the past like news outlets and fact Checkers and if
that's not enough real reassurance for you to trust that an image is real you
can try leica's new m1p camera which comes with built-in content credentials
stamping a digital photo with detailed metadata at the point of capture you
can't put a price on authenticity but like it can because this thing C cost
$9,000 in partnership with new lab airspace link and the Michigan
Department of Transportation Ford is testing automated delivery drones at a
giant 100-year-old train station that was closed in the late 1980s the project
covers a 3M radius around Michigan Central Station which is 100% haunted
both by the spirit of 20th century industrialism and packs of feral train
spotting enthusiasts they love you and McGregor
movies and beloved hacker Gadget flipper zero can now spam Windows and Android
with Bluetooth alerts thanks to a new app called ble spam on GitHub that can
make it difficult for a Target to discern between legitimate Bluetooth
devices and spoofs the attack is actually based based on a similar one
used to Target and crash iPhones the spam app gives eight flood attack
options such as Apple device popup Android device pair Windows device found
and even every method combined because I mean why go one at a time when you can
ruin everyone's day but your day will only improve if you come back on Monday
for more Tech news but first hey you know what why don't you get some rest
enjoy your weekend you could write a short steamy romance about your two
favorite companies their love is forbidden but they can't fight their own
hearts or their quarterly earnings