come here got something for you what is it
it's some tech news microsoft has announced xbox game pass
for pc like we need a pass to game we could already do that
microsoft this is america i expected you to correct me do you
think we're in america right now it's
rather than being a continuation of the same program for xbox consoles the pc
version will be its own thing allowing pc gamers to pay a subscription for
access to over a hundred curated games from over 75 publishers like bethesda
deep silver devolver digital sega and of course xbox game studios now these are
pc games not xbox games per se
although those things might be becoming more and more the same thing because
microsoft also announced they'll be bringing more of their own games to
steam and other pc game stores rather than keeping them confined to the
Windows store as universal Windows apps
some analysts are saying this means microsoft is largely giving up on their
dream of having uwp be the future of apps well looks like uwp was a big
whoopsie it's time for more news about whoa
it's my way or the huawei don't you forget it buster the chinese
tech giant has reportedly been accepted back into the sd association the wi-fi
alliance and the bluetooth special interest group according to announcement
by the company huawei's mate 20 pro is also back on the list of devices
eligible for the Android q beta program although it's unclear whether this is a
permanent thing or just a result of the u.s ban being suspended for 90 days
but the story for huawei continues to get worse even as it gets better
california-based synopsis maker of nearly ubiquitous tools for designing
chips has stopped providing software updates to huawei which is going to hurt
their ability to make their own processors huawei has also lost a bid to
nokia and ericsson to provide 5g network equipment in japan now china is busy
planning how to respond to this whole scandal and has reportedly begun
assembling a list of foreign companies that it deems unreliable entities who
would supposedly be restricted from doing business with chinese companies
mirroring america's entity list i know
you are but what am i yeah what you want to list entities we can list entities if
that's what you're doing you want to list those entities to my face i can list entities anytime man bring it and
amazon might replace sprint as one of the big four american telecom companies
if if some inside information can be
trusted so some industry sources told reuters that amazon is considering
buying boost mobile from t-mobile and sprint who would be obligated to sell
boost as part of their merger deal which may or may not be happening so you can
see why this is also speculative but if the t-mobile and sprint merger goes
through then amazon could kind of take boost mobile's network to build out its
own amazonian cell service and then you could probably order something on amazon
prime by texting so that would be cool or they could bring back the fire phone
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description quick bits remember a couple weeks ago when
microsoft made the unusual move of issuing an update for Windows xp and
server 2003 in 2008 in order to patch a vulnerability that could lead to a
computer virus epidemic as bad as the wannacry flaw yeah yeah well
apparently one million people didn't think that was very important and now microsoft is pleading with users to
patch their freaking pcs i mean running xp is bad enough but not
patching these people are definitely gluttons for punishment like they're just sitting there being like yes
infect me leap motion the company that developed
various hand tracking devices for vr and desktop pcs has reportedly been acquired
by ultra haptics a company that works on similar tech the purchase is interesting
because apple reportedly approached leap motion twice with offers to buy them but
they said no the founders apparently even called apple the devil a source has
told Android police that samsung will be removing the headphone jack from the
upcoming galaxy note 10. despite its status as one of the last
smartphone makers to support the old universal standard
yeah the source also said the phone will have no physical buttons but that part
seems to be less reliable but the good news is that motorola
actually reinstated the headphone jack in the now officially unveiled moto z4
which will also be compatible with the z3's 5g moto mod did you do that tweet
did you do that tweet about calling them the chosen one who uh you know samsung
took the headphone jack out and you made the gif it's like oh you were the chosen
one no oh well that was a good tweet speaking of 5g the uk is getting a taste
of it thanks to ee which activated the kingdom's first 5g network in london
edinburgh cardiff belfast birmingham and
manchester meanwhile sprint launched 5g in atlanta
dallas houston and kansas city it's happening
it's a 5g it's it's got yeah
get it high five high 5g
and after demolishing human players in chess go and dota 2 google's deepmind ai
team have turned their sights onto first person shooters that's a pun and i
didn't even get it when i wrote that the team's latest ai called ftw
taught itself to play quake 3 arena and in tournaments with human players it
routinely beat experts at the game a team of humans typically captured 16
fewer flags and capture the flag games than the bots that's a lot of flags wow
the only time humans won was when they were teamed with the bot and even then
they only won five percent of their matches
i think we're okay until an ai beats shroud and apex i think that's the point
at which we know we can't have nice things we're dead yeah it's over
you know what is dead your soul oh jeez
this episode and james soul thanks for
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