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you're up oh good Linus Microsoft is a
simple company it wants nothing more than to have its acquisition of giant
gaming publisher Activision Blizzard approved by Regulators so it can
continue to grow its little near Monopoly on popular franchises in peace
come on it's simple I know just give him a break Sony naturally is not on board
and has submitted complaints to the UK competition regulator investigating the
merger see Sony's concerned that Call of Duty players on Playstation might jump
ship even if Microsoft doesn't make the franchise XBox exclusive because they
wouldn't want to miss out on the types of PlayStation exclusive Cod content
that Sony offered for years content oh yeah when Sony does it it's
different Microsoft in turn complained that Sony is influencing regulator's
investigations and besides there are over twice as many PlayStation consoles
out there than Xboxes so couldn't Sony afford to lose a few Gamers I mean
they're Gamers Michael what could they cost ten dollars meanwhile the CEO of
take two weighed in with an interesting point about all of this he said Microsoft is an ally of ours and if this
is wow an ally and if this makes their business more powerful we think that's
good for us he has said more powerful in
other Microsoft news the company unveiled three new service devices this
morning although the word new they are maybe doing more work than usual the
biggest development is that the Surface Pro X line is dead thank God as a
distinct ARM powered product separate from the mainstream surface Pros the new
Surface Pro 9 can be configured with an Intel 12th gen CPU or a Microsoft sq3
processor which is if the sq1 and sq2 were any indicate essentially a Qualcomm
Snapdragon 8cx gen 3. oh thank God the Surface Pro X is still alive
Microsoft also unveiled a new Surface laptop 5 and that new was in Brackets
because the laptop itself appears almost identical to its predecessor except for
an upgraded Intel 12th gen processors and sadly no AMD option like last time
Jonathan horse might yell at me if I don't mention that there are new colors
so there's new colors it looks different they're gorgeous
don't they have a green color now Microsoft also updated the internals on
the surface Studio 2 plus but only with 11th gen processors so you can buy a
machine with a core i7 11370h and a laptop RTX 3060 for 4 300 US dollars if
you're someone who just you know does things for attention and meta held their
connect conference yesterday AKA The Awkward party where Zuck tries over an
hour to convince you to play VR with him it was really good this VR is amazing
this guy wants it so bad his company made a whole new headset called The
Quest Pro and you gotta admit it's got pretty impressive specs it's powered by
a new Snapdragon xr2 plus chip more memory and storage plus new controllers
with cameras of their own more Zuckerberg cameras in my house now at a
price of 1500 US Dollars though this thing isn't primarily for gaming it's
being positioned as a work device as long as you only have one to two hours
of work to do because that's how long the battery lasts is that it not
convinced well if you accept Mark's offer he'll throw in a generous bonus of
legs for your avatar wow but no butt because that's just to keep you safe
also what Microsoft's back in this episode again yeah they're bringing
teams office Windows and Xbox game pass to the quest platform which may make
more sense if the rumors about the hololens losing steam are true I'd even
know you could play Steam on a hololens that's not what is it Adam that's not
what I what do me is this like a foggy glasses joke
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reviews of the beastly RTX 4090 came out
this weekend unsurprisingly for a card bigger than your cat it's really fast
and you know what's not so fast the 12 Gigabyte RTX 4080 which was spotted in
new benchmarks released by NVIDIA themselves yesterday showing the pseudo
4070 performing up to 30 percent slower than its 16 Gigabyte sibling it's funny
how when you just don't put in the same GPU or and limit the bus with it's gonna
suck it's different yeah it's all but we can just call it 4080 and it's true it's
also only about 10 faster than the RTX 3080 which can currently be found for
hundreds of dollars less the best part about the hole it's a 4070 thing is that
NVIDIA doesn't care they're going to release the RTX 4040x and the website
will crash every time you try to order it and they'll be laughing hilarious
joke's on you yeah we don't
showed off their newest Nook designed at twitchcon and answered the question what
is a Nook not a Nook it's when it's literally just a mini ITX PC granted the
chassis is designed to fit Intel's compute element card which combines the
motherboard CPU and RAM into one slot with up to a triple slot GPU below it oh
that's thick but when I imagine a Nook I think of a cute little thing you know
you can feel my cargo pants so I can walk to the LAN party sure I get weird
looks but Google introduced a number of new
Chromebooks yesterday which the company called the world's first laptops built
for cloud gaming which is another way of saying they suck at running games and
that was rude because the new models from Acer ASUS and Lenovo do have
refresh rates of 120 hertz RGB gaming keyboards and Wi-Fi 6 and 60 just like
other laptops that don't run Chrome OS the Chromebooks will kind of hilariously
run NVIDIA's GeForce now and Xbox game pass because they're launching less than
two weeks after Google killed their own cloud gaming platform
I pray for all the kids whose moms are going to buy these oh and who is it
that's crashing the end of this episode but Microsoft again oh they back and
with the news that they're integrating Dolly to AI power text to image
generator into its new designer web software and even directly into Bing and
soon directly into human artists
I'm sorry human artist but your jobs are in Jeopardy from what is essentially the
new clipart it made some cool stuff while you were here though great work
shout out to Donatello shout out you know Leonardo da Vinci real real glass
apps but you know and we'll give you artists even more praise if you come
back on Friday for more Tech news we might say things like You're My Favorite
viewer won't that feel good