okay no resolutions but i do have a new year's realization what is that do you
want to hear it yeah with the vaccine rolling out i've never been more excited
to have strangers breathe on me again
okay new year new internet and unfortunately
for some that means websites devoid of flash yep adobe officially discontinued
support for the venerable web plugin are you sad
which enabled endless animated cartoons games and security problems because
unlike homestar runner hackers do have hands what was your favorite flash thing
Colton seemed like you were remembering something the games all the games all
every game you played every game
wow flash is no longer available to download although adobe won't actually start
blocking flash content from running until january 12th but don't worry there
are actually a lot of ways to keep the flash fire burning including desktop
players like flashpoint and the internet archive which will keep thousands of
games playable online via emulation so you can be reminded of a simpler time
when the most entertaining thing you could find on the internet was stick figures murdering each other in frankly
awesome ways yeah it was like xiao
i think it was called apple in their infinite wisdom has
apparently deemed that the world is ready now it's ready for foldable phones
reports are emerging that not one but two foldable iphone prototypes have
passed internal tests for durability one with two separate displays connected by
a hinge that may be able to fold forwards and backwards and another
clamshell style phone with a truly foldable screen about the size of the
galaxy z flip or motorola razer insiders seem to think that apple will go with
just one of these designs which may or may not
be called the iphone flip but i don't think that's true they wouldn't just let
samsung have the satisfaction of knowing that they copied their name that
wouldn't be revolutionary at all well whatever the phone is called we may see
it launched in 2022 there's lots of maze and mites in this story you know Colton
you shouldn't be so wishy-washy in 2021 i'll try it just take a stand
like apple you know have the courage and one Intel
stakeholder has taken a stand and told team blue that it's time to stop that is
to stop trying to manufacture their own chips that stakeholder is daniel loeb
founder of activist hedge fund third point which recently acquired a nearly
one billion dollar stake in Intel in a letter to Intel's chairman loeb argues
that Intel has fallen behind its manufacturing competitors such as tsmc
and samsung who are already working on five and three nanometer process nodes
while Intel's gotten stuck at seven nanometers
i can do seven nanometers Colton does seven nanometers in his every day he
wakes up seven seven
but the real hurtful stuff is when loeb points out that Intel management gave
themselves extravagant compensation packages this past year while the
company lost 60 billion dollars in market value dang boy now Intel had
already said they're considering outsourcing CPU production but this
letter might just tip the scales sometimes you just need a letter from an
angry rich person to give you a kick in the pants you know i'm sorry elon musk
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you're telling me we've done 2021
quick bits incoming graphics cards watch out
listings for GeForce rtx 3080 ti models from Gigabyte have been leaked and
lenovo let's slip some specs for the rtx 3050 3050 ti and rtx 3060 non-ti all of
which are unannounced NVIDIA is having a gaming focused event on january 12th so
they've gotta announce some of these like we all know they're coming and that
there won't be any stock so why are we even talking about this
apple making its own processors has started a trend in the tech industry and
now the european union is jumping on with the signing of a declaration to
allocate 145 billion euros towards the design and
manufacture of semiconductors built on two nanometer process nodes that's a lot
of gyros and frankly i don't know how they're going to eat them all before
they go bad that was the only joke i could think of
for that one euros kind of sounds like gyros
flash just died but Windows 7 has continued to exist in some kind of
wraith-like state after microsoft officially ended support for the beloved
operating system one year ago zdnet found that there may be over 100 million
users still using Windows 7 despite microsoft doubling the cost for extended
support this month they are neither living or dead
they care not for money only
Windows media center due to a breakdown in negotiations
huawei pulled games made by tencent from its app store but that's not supposed to
happen they're both controlled by the chinese government aren't they what
well a day later huawei restored the game so i guess daddy ccp made them kiss
and makeup meanwhile since the summer apple has pulled about 90 000 games from
its chinese app store that weren't granted a license by chinese authorities
so that's authoritarianism for you and
ticketmaster has agreed to pay a 10 million dollar fine for hiring the
employees of its competitor crowdsurge and using their logins to infiltrate
crowdsurge's network and steal information with the intention of
choking off the smaller company's business awesome that's awesome
that's what i need to start off my new year with i know it's shocking right we don't need
to start off the new year with a reminder that people are horrible great why did you put that story in Colton i'm
sorry i'm so frustrated this episode needs to
end so come back on monday for more tech news oh but also if you want to check
out what we think the biggest stories of the year were check out the christmas
special i wear a robe Colton was there too it was fun
um so if you want to hang out santa claus
am i am i satisfied
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