if there's one thing i love more than anything in the world
it's tech news and that's not literally true but what
is true is that i love you
james i know the battle between the epic game store
and steam for the hearts and minds
and wallets of pc gamers is heating up so let's check in after they announced a
bunch more exclusive games ceo tim sweeney says the epic game store will
eventually stop with the exclusivity deals they're just trying to disrupt the
industry a bit right now sweeney also made clear that the egc will not take
valve's hands off approach to content moderation applying quality standards
that will block games that they deem as inappropriate as it stands the company
says around 40 of their 85 million users don't also have steam installed they
just have epic game store and even if those are all young fortnite players
it's undeniable that egc will have an impact on the industry that impact is
arguably why steam is changing their ui to look a bit more modern it's time for
pc gamers to choose a side steam
or epic games
well you gotta be why not both is what he said i don't speak spanish fans of
nokia phones were excited when the brand was revived by another finnish company
hmd global but they probably weren't excited this week to learn that a number
of nokia 7 plus devices were suspected of sending data to a server in china
while hmd global is located in finland current nokia models are manufactured in
china at a foxconn factory hmd has issued a statement claiming that a
device activation client meant for a different country was mistakenly
included in a single batch of nokia 7 plus models and that's not convenient
exactly but and they say no personal information was compromised and huawei
definitely wasn't involved we know that for sure nevertheless the finnish
government has opened an investigation into whether any data breaches occurred
and if they find anything hmd could be subject to hefty fines from the european
union who are sort of like the overzealous hall monitor of europe now
except hall monitors didn't find you but they did give you stern looks
and remember how a couple weeks ago mark zuckerberg wrote this giant post about
how facebook was going to be super privacy focused now
yeah well the news just came out that the company stored hundreds of millions of
user passwords in plain text files that were easily searchable by thousands of
facebook employees for years as far back as 2012. not the past riley oh yeah
you're right you're right i shouldn't there's no evidence yet that user
information was compromised as a result but still
oh and also the company just admitted that they knew cambridge analytica was
improperly gathering data as early as september 2015 and the story didn't
really blow up in the public sphere until 2018.
i mean at least they were being private about that you know you gotta
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NVIDIA is changing the way it releases drivers for its graphics cards
when you update your driver there will now be two options a game ready driver
with launch day support for the latest games and a creator ready driver which
ensures stability and quality for creative workflows using apps like the
adobe suite unreal engine and autodesk arnold
exactly but what if you're equal parts gamer and creator what if you're neither
and you don't even know what a graphics card is the answer
google stadium
macs don't get viruses except they do and since microsoft has
lots of experience with having their software get screwed up they're helping
out their rival a bit they've ported Windows defender to mac as microsoft
defender advanced threat protection although i'm not sure what advanced
threats they're protecting against since max don't get viruses as i've said
maybe a scorned freelance artist spilling their latte on the macbook
sorry canadian mac users tesla is under scrutiny over its autopilot feature once
again as dash cam footage of a model x
swerving towards a barrier on the highway has been posted online but the
real issue is this is far from the first time this has happened and it comes
after numerous software updates were pushed that seemingly fixed the problem
until the dashcam footage came out it remains kind of weird that while other
companies are really trying to smooth out the kinks in self-driving technology
before they release it tesla is kind of using its customers like brandon as
guinea pigs i'm not saying don't buy a tesla but maybe
don't use autopilot just yet i don't know i don't know what the solution is
i drive a mitsubishi does it though following google's announcement of
stadia game streaming services are a hotter topic than ever and walmart wants
in on the party usgamer reports that the retail giant is exploring the idea of
launching their own service as part of their op gaming brand
yep which was a rousing success and i don't see why this should be any
different please go that's what gamers are saying to walmart
just please no stop and mobile network testing company
open signal tested the speeds of various mobile networks and found that at att's
5ge ran a little slower than verizon and
t-mobile's 4g networks probably because it's not actually 5g
it's also 4g dang you know you know i just thought if we called it 5g you know
it might give us that boost we needed i guess life's a little more complicated
than you think huh hopes and dreams hopes and dreams dashed but the reasons
for ending this episode now aren't complicated we're just out of tech news
that's just the way life works but there will be more come monday so make sure
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because you're worth it tell brenda i said that tell brandon not to use
autopilot