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oh wow this is pretty nice how long is

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it you've seen this before what what this is techlinked what's what's that

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it's Tech news show you're hosting it Tech news show like CNN you're fired

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you're up oh good Linus Microsoft is a

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simple company it wants nothing more than to have its acquisition of giant

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gaming publisher Activision Blizzard approved by Regulators so it can

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continue to grow its little near Monopoly on popular franchises in peace

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come on it's simple I know just give him a break Sony naturally is not on board

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and has submitted complaints to the UK competition regulator investigating the

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merger see Sony's concerned that Call of Duty players on Playstation might jump

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ship even if Microsoft doesn't make the franchise XBox exclusive because they

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wouldn't want to miss out on the types of PlayStation exclusive Cod content

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that Sony offered for years content oh yeah when Sony does it it's

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different Microsoft in turn complained that Sony is influencing regulator's

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investigations and besides there are over twice as many PlayStation consoles

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out there than Xboxes so couldn't Sony afford to lose a few Gamers I mean

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they're Gamers Michael what could they cost ten dollars meanwhile the CEO of

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take two weighed in with an interesting point about all of this he said Microsoft is an ally of ours and if this

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is wow an ally and if this makes their business more powerful we think that's

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good for us he has said more powerful in

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other Microsoft news the company unveiled three new service devices this

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morning although the word new they are maybe doing more work than usual the

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biggest development is that the Surface Pro X line is dead thank God as a

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distinct ARM powered product separate from the mainstream surface Pros the new

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Surface Pro 9 can be configured with an Intel 12th gen CPU or a Microsoft sq3

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processor which is if the sq1 and sq2 were any indicate essentially a Qualcomm

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Snapdragon 8cx gen 3. oh thank God the Surface Pro X is still alive

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Microsoft also unveiled a new Surface laptop 5 and that new was in Brackets

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because the laptop itself appears almost identical to its predecessor except for

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an upgraded Intel 12th gen processors and sadly no AMD option like last time

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Jonathan horse might yell at me if I don't mention that there are new colors

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so there's new colors it looks different they're gorgeous

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don't they have a green color now Microsoft also updated the internals on

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the surface Studio 2 plus but only with 11th gen processors so you can buy a

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machine with a core i7 11370h and a laptop RTX 3060 for 4 300 US dollars if

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you're someone who just you know does things for attention and meta held their

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connect conference yesterday AKA The Awkward party where Zuck tries over an

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hour to convince you to play VR with him it was really good this VR is amazing

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this guy wants it so bad his company made a whole new headset called The

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Quest Pro and you gotta admit it's got pretty impressive specs it's powered by

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a new Snapdragon xr2 plus chip more memory and storage plus new controllers

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with cameras of their own more Zuckerberg cameras in my house now at a

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price of 1500 US Dollars though this thing isn't primarily for gaming it's

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being positioned as a work device as long as you only have one to two hours

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of work to do because that's how long the battery lasts is that it not

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convinced well if you accept Mark's offer he'll throw in a generous bonus of

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legs for your avatar wow but no butt because that's just to keep you safe

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also what Microsoft's back in this episode again yeah they're bringing

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teams office Windows and Xbox game pass to the quest platform which may make

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more sense if the rumors about the hololens losing steam are true I'd even

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know you could play Steam on a hololens that's not what is it Adam that's not

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what I what do me is this like a foggy glasses joke

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reviews of the beastly RTX 4090 came out

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this weekend unsurprisingly for a card bigger than your cat it's really fast

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and you know what's not so fast the 12 Gigabyte RTX 4080 which was spotted in

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new benchmarks released by NVIDIA themselves yesterday showing the pseudo

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4070 performing up to 30 percent slower than its 16 Gigabyte sibling it's funny

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how when you just don't put in the same GPU or and limit the bus with it's gonna

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suck it's different yeah it's all but we can just call it 4080 and it's true it's

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also only about 10 faster than the RTX 3080 which can currently be found for

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hundreds of dollars less the best part about the hole it's a 4070 thing is that

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NVIDIA doesn't care they're going to release the RTX 4040x and the website

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will crash every time you try to order it and they'll be laughing hilarious

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joke's on you yeah we don't

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showed off their newest Nook designed at twitchcon and answered the question what

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is a Nook not a Nook it's when it's literally just a mini ITX PC granted the

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chassis is designed to fit Intel's compute element card which combines the

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motherboard CPU and RAM into one slot with up to a triple slot GPU below it oh

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that's thick but when I imagine a Nook I think of a cute little thing you know

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you can feel my cargo pants so I can walk to the LAN party sure I get weird

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looks but Google introduced a number of new

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Chromebooks yesterday which the company called the world's first laptops built

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for cloud gaming which is another way of saying they suck at running games and

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that was rude because the new models from Acer ASUS and Lenovo do have

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refresh rates of 120 hertz RGB gaming keyboards and Wi-Fi 6 and 60 just like

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other laptops that don't run Chrome OS the Chromebooks will kind of hilariously

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run NVIDIA's GeForce now and Xbox game pass because they're launching less than

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two weeks after Google killed their own cloud gaming platform

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I pray for all the kids whose moms are going to buy these oh and who is it

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that's crashing the end of this episode but Microsoft again oh they back and

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with the news that they're integrating Dolly to AI power text to image

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generator into its new designer web software and even directly into Bing and

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soon directly into human artists

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I'm sorry human artist but your jobs are in Jeopardy from what is essentially the

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new clipart it made some cool stuff while you were here though great work

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shout out to Donatello shout out you know Leonardo da Vinci real real glass

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apps but you know and we'll give you artists even more praise if you come

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back on Friday for more Tech news we might say things like You're My Favorite

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viewer won't that feel good