Half Life is COMING BACK!?
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·2019-05-06
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it's november 12th a federal holiday in the u.s and canada but the tech news
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must go on tech news it's got no respect for the troops i do
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but i serve the tech news i have no choice it's horrible but what
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would be truly horrible is if this leak about a new valve vr headset turned out
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to not be true yes photos were shared to
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imger over the weekend of a prototype head mounted display apparently being
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worked on at valve the anonymous source of the photos told upload vr that it
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will have a 135 degree field of view and vive pro resolution similar to the htc
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vive this prototype has integrated headphones and steamvr infrared tracking
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points but it also has two cameras on the lower front side this is the first
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we've seen of a headset being worked on at valve although they've been pretty upfront about the development of their
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upcoming knuckles controllers for vr the valve rumor mill has been sent into
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overdrive with speculation that this vr headset and the controllers will launch
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with a new half-life game designed for
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vr no actually sadly it might apparently
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be a prequel not the half-life 3 we're all waiting for or the one i'm waiting
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for at least i'm sure many of you have given up hope
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well let this leak be the spark that ignites
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the fire that will burn the first order down
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preach it riley thank you speaking of burning things down apple is setting
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fire to third-party attempts at repairing its products as the company
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has confirmed that the security focused t2 chip present in its new max prevents
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the machines from booting if it detects hardware from an unauthorized source
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this tactic effectively locks out third party repairs if they don't use apple
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certified components but apple has taken more steps to lock users into their
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repair ecosystem a new deal with amazon won't just see the online marketplace
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carry current gen flagships now previously amazon was limited to past
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gen iphones and macbooks but amazon is also telling independent product
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refurbishers that only authorized resellers will be able to sell apple
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products so it looks like rather than responding to user criticism by being a
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little more lacks with its repair policies apple has doubled down and
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closed off their ecosystem even further
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saturday first off keyboard and mouse support is coming to 14 titles on the
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console this wednesday including fortnite warframe and warhammer
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vermintide 2. microsoft pledged to make the microsoft store better tailored
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towards gamers so you're going to delete it then i guess
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there's a bunch of other game news mostly about existing games coming to xbox or xbox game pass but the really
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interesting bit of news was microsoft's acquisition of rpg developers obsidian
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entertainment and in exile entertainment could microsoft compete with sony's
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excellent list of exclusives well i mean
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given the company's history with studios that it acquires probably
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probably not they still got halo though
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interest of fairness i now have to say that they did admit that the iphone 10
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is having touch screen issues and the 13-inch macbook pro is having data loss
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issues and both devices can be repaired for free at an apple retail location or
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an apple authorized service provider and nowhere else
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new information has come to light about samsung's foldable phone that it half
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unveiled last week apparently it's known as the galaxy f for foldable and will
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retail for around 1 770 us dollars when
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it launches in march but which frankly is not surprising it's a new technology
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and a flashy one at that but if you want to spend more for a different folding
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phone you can buy samsung's w2019 a flip
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phone with the top end snapdragon 845 inside and two 4.2 inch amoled screens
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or you could get a oneplus 6t if you're a normal human the fallout 76
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beta is over and if after playing you've decided the game isn't for you you might
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want to uninstall well you can't do it through the games uninstaller because it
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doesn't work it's not a huge issue you can just install it the normal way just
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another problem with the game we thought we'd mention since it's basically been
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a crap show so far also the game's day one patch when it does launch will be
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bigger than the game itself so someone please help bethesda with this
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stuff they're having a tough time the dubai police force is now training using
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hoverbikes aka human-sized drones this
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is super cool but also could they not put some propeller guards on that thing
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kudos to dubai for doing things with their exorbitant amounts of money so
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that the rest of us don't have to and this isn't tech news but what the heck a
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trailer has come out for the first live-action pokemon movie and it's
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detective pikachu with ryan reynolds as the title
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character and kind of creepy realistic cgi pokemon is this real life
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no it's a movie but is this real life
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still no youtube video try again no i won't
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because this episode is over thanks for watching kids hope you had a nice stat
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holiday and come on back on wednesday because you know we'll have more tech
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news i mean you don't know but
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it's a reasonable assumption