guys it's time to forget about all the crazy stuff going on out there and focus
on what really matters okay
the tech news feel it Apple may have changed course
and added more ports to their latest MacBook Pro Models but there are still
companies out there with the courage to make a laptop with no ports at all a
concept notebook has been making the rounds online designed by a company
called crab crowb I'm guessing the name comes from
crabs which also have no ports they're almost completely smooth they have a
cloaca maybe the crab X is incredibly thin at just
seven millimeters in height presumably because all the circuitry for its
non-existent ports has been removed and placed into its wireless charging brick
which magnetically attaches to the back of the laptop's display and offers some
USBC ports and SD card slot and more look we're all for minimalism but even I
could admit this is taking it a bit too far being that smooth
it's unnatural you need some crevices Gamer's Nexus has once again exposed
some shady practices by a tech company with their latest video in which they
detail their experience returning an unopened product to Newegg only to be
denied a refund due to customer caused
damage ah New Egg must have failed to mention all the little customers that
come inside the Box you can't do anything about those bacteria
the product in question was a 500 motherboard mint in the box but Newegg
said the CPU pins were bent Maybe by a
ghost the gamer's Nexus investigation prompted
many customers to share their own negative experiences with Newegg returns
and Newegg has apparently been calling Steve like a clingy X so hopefully this
leads to some positive changes at the retailer I think we can all agree
we don't want another NCIX and ensuing dumpster refugees and in nft
news The Verge thinks they can just come out here and tell everybody that
actually we're all gonna call them nests from now on
neft I mean on the plus side it's one
syllable instead of three but on the other hand just who the [ __ ] does the
verse think they are huh nefts I'm gonna say nefts there's too many consonants
whether neft catches on or not The Fad doesn't seem to be going away anytime
soon even though EA did just walk back its earlier comments about incorporating
nfts into their games the tokens seem to simultaneously be gaining Steam while
also suffering from negative publicity with recent reports about nfts being
used for money laundering and a confirmation from the formerly
facebook-backed DM Association that they're selling off their assets
meanwhile the rest of us are neft asking what's neft
you see their minting colors now what they're making colors nfts where the
person thinks they're going to get royalties every time so the color you
can mint an nft of the color red yes
oh I feel a different Riley coming on now it's time for quick bits brought to
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tried everything else trust me this this is it this is what you get the New York
Times has acquired the massively popular word guessing game Wordle for a sum of
money somewhere in the low seven figures marking a real juicy Payday for the
simple apps Creator Josh Wardle still hilarious but if you're concerned
that the free game will eventually be put behind a paywall good news the web
version can be saved as simply as any web page and will still update with a
daily word for potentially years from now everybody wins right is it is
everybody winning here not having some kind of dystopian takeaway seems weird I
I don't know the newest beta for the default Android messages app translates
iMessage tapback reactions into Emoji
instead of displaying a duplicated message that says Jim loved at the start
making communication between the phone ecosystems feel more human and less like
an alternate universe where everyone only speaks in third person Riley really
loved that European privacy Regulators from 28 countries led by the Belgian
data protection authority have ruled that website's pervasive pop-ups asking
for consent to collect user data are actually illegal under the eu's general
data protection regulation or gdpr even though that regulation was the sole
reason they were created in the first place ad tech industry group IAB Europe
which developed the practice has been issued a 283 thousand dollar fine and
the group is now considering legal action against the fine because it's
been like four years what is it are we are we sure this find isn't just because
Boomer politicians realize what the pop-ups are for they're like what is it
hey wait a second the monitor refresh rate arms race has just intensified
Chinese screen manufacturer Boe has just announced a 1080p monitor that can hit
500 Hertz it'll be a while before the
tech rolls out in products from companies like ASUS or Gigabyte but just
knowing it's out there is nice for crypto haters maybe this is a different
way to go to the moon and maybe the
frames will win the games after all David
are you competitive you don't play Camp you're just playing Castlevania all the
time now all the time that doesn't that's not you don't need frames for
that and hey
wait a second wasn't NVIDIA supposed to give more details about the GeForce RTX
3090 TI by the end of January it's February 2nd and it's probably even
later than that if you're on the upside down part of the world from where we are
what gives Team Green I thought you were going to release it so everyone would
remember how upset they are at you for continually releasing new more expensive
versions of gpus instead of just upping the stock of existing cards
now we're even more upset yeah the only way to get over this is to
come back on Friday for more Tech News until then
I guess you'll have to go back to thinking about non-tech stuff Godspeed