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that's right in the tech noise today apple unveiled the iphone 13 13 mini 13
pro and 13 pro max without mentioning
the lightning port even once most likely
out of shame they know what they did the whole lineup
has a 20 smaller notch and bigger batteries with the lower tier phones
getting hand-me-down cameras from last year's iphone 12 pro max to help with
the new cinematic mode aka autofocus but
with ai this time the 13 pro models got slightly fancier cameras with support
for pro res video recording that's pretty sweet and a new one terabyte
model to store all of that sizeable footage it should be noted though that
the 128 gig pro model can only do 1080p
30 because presumably of storage limitations heaven forbid they just put
an expansion slot on it the pro models also now have an adaptive
120 hertz pro motion display but come on
would you rather have that for a thousand bucks or the new ipad mini
which has the same a15 bionic chip 5g
pencil support and freaking usbc for 650
i mean it's the big phone apple should have made for same apple
there was also an updated 9th gen ipad and the new apple watch series 7
featuring a bigger screen and a nice swipe keyboard that was almost certainly
copied from an accessibility app called flick type that apple forced to shut
down not long before yesterday's event that's not anti-competitive
those guys could they could just make their own smart watch
speaking of competition xiaomi released some compelling products to compete with
apple in the form of the xiaomi 11t and 11t pro complete with fast processors
super fast charging 120hz display 5 000
milliamp hour batteries and 108
megapixel main cameras launching these the day after apple's
event was already going to draw some comparisons but the new pad 5 made sure
of it it's an Android tablet that not only looks
very much like an ipad it might also be
a decent Android tablet which that feels just what
xiaomi also one-upped facebook this week with the announcement of its smart
glasses which apparently have an optical waveguide display in the right lens in
addition to cameras mounted on the arms i mean did you see this tim apple
xiaomi is pulling ahead because you guys won't put usbc on your phones they can
play fortnite on the glasses come on tim facebook is probably content
to let xiaomi steal their smart glasses spotlight though thanks to a report from
the wall street journal that found that studies conducted by instagram concluded
that the social media platform almost certainly contributes in some way to
higher levels of anxiety and depression in teens
the report criticizes the facebook-owned platform for knowing about the study's
conclusion since 2019 but not making
them available to the public in response instagram said that the
studies were proof that they were trying to understand the effects their platform
has on teens and isn't that good enough
no you just you just don't you just don't
understand me
i'm running away and this time i mean it in an apparent effort to get in front of
similar criticism tick tock has now rolled out warnings that will appear in
front of potentially distressing content which teens will definitely pay
attention to uh also a separate wall
street journal report identified millions of
vip facebook users that were allowed to break the platform's rules with no
consequences because of their follower accounts so
you know the right thing to do come over to twitter which is the super
mentally healthy social media app yeah
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nutritious and ready in just one second by the time this video goes live spacex
will have probably already launched the first private flight to space crewed
entirely by private citizens not currently affiliated with the military
or a space agency like nasa i mean yeah richard branson and jeff bezos flew
sub-orbital flights that lasted a few minutes but these people will be
orbiting the earth for three days
hopefully raising 200 million dollars for st jude children's hospitals in the
process from from the humans on earth that's where the money will come from
i'm pretty sure that they don't think they're going to find money in space but
i've never been up there so to say there's that asteroid that's like worth
trillions of dollars microsoft is now allowing you to ditch
the password on your microsoft account completely instead microsoft will let
you use the microsoft authenticator app on your phone Windows hello or a
physical security key to sign in this is honestly great because passwords suck
every password it sucks mine mine is all numbers and special
characters it takes like 14 minutes to type it sucks that sounds good after
requiring apple to allow third-party payment options in the iOS app store the
country which country has now turned its sites on google fining the tech giant
177 million us dollars for abusing its
mobile dominance by suppressing forks of the Android operating system
imagine south korea caring about a google not allowing forks of the
Android operating system gee i wonder where that criticism came from
excuse me it's only the latest development in the antitrust craze
that's sweeping the globe i mean all the cool kids are talking about monopolies
these days there's there's tick-tock dances about breaking up facebook for
crying out loud four years after its launch nintendo
seemingly remembered that the nintendo switch has bluetooth so they have
finally released an update enabling support for bluetooth audio
although some users are experiencing no you know what i will talk about this
later nintendo you can update things mario party for the switch
great game lots of fun lots of fun but
but there's no way to turn off the tutorial
when you play the board game you have to sit through the tutorial
every no time me finish
you have to sit through it every time no matter if you know the rules and there's
these long animations i just want to play the board game it stretches out to
take twice as long just make them skippable nintendo
now some users are experiencing some glitches including audio delays and slow
boot times after receiving the update so maybe there was a reason nintendo didn't
enable the feature up until now but hey uh doing it out of spite also wouldn't
really be out of character for them and vr is fine but you have to stand up
or at best sit down to play it come on
give me a vr headset like the half dive which is the world's first vr system
designed to be used while lying down yes
this is probably going to be used for sexy vr things but it could also be
really good for people with disabilities who otherwise aren't able to enjoy vr
either way looks like an incredible way to fight back against the idea that vr
games are also going to be exercise even just a little bit of it because it's
terrible there should be no exercise at all and it would be wrong to continue this
episode so come back on friday for more tech noise
don't worry these are dead these are dead will we include the mario party bit i
don't know