Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Amazonbasics is DANGEROUS!?”.
So you say the show is about tech news. Am i am i saying that right i mean. Is that what did it? I’Ve never heard of it? So i it could be worth a shot, though so, let’s go. Amazon doubled their q2 profits this year compared to 2019, which many analysts attributed to more people staying home and ordering things online. But a new extensive report by public citizen, a non-profit consumer watchdog, shows that those profits were also boosted by price gouging.
On the platform, with some prices for essential products sold directly by amazon, not by third parties increasing by as much as a thousand percent, that’s the same as 10 times the price for my fellow math allergic friends as much as as like one product. No a few. It’S a few you’ll see a 50 pack of disposable face. Masks went from four dollars in april to 39. In august, antibacterial soap went from 150 to 7 bucks toilet paper from 7 to 37 bucks. The list goes on. Amazon responded with a non-statement about how the prices were a result of the company’s systems adjusting to the market and that they quickly work to fix these types of things from happening, which are bad, yeah yeah. These are these are bad definitely well.
Maybe amazon should also look at fixing their amazon basics in-house products, which are apparently combusting, they’re, combusting, left and right. According to a cnn report, it details stories of usb cords melting microwaves, catching fire and surge protectors, igniting meters away from a sleeping baby for pete’s sake. Yeah, like wake up when you smell smoky stupid baby that baby’s so dumb.
That’S the real problem here, but sure jeff keep building rockets, so you can escape the earth after you drop a faulty microwave into the actual amazon. Oh man apple is finally going to allow game streaming. Apps like stadia xcloud and geforce now onto the ios, app store, see we’re flexible.
All you have to do is make a separate app store app for every playable title in your library and require users to download each one individually. Okay, great we’re on the same page with this now this obviously doesn’t make any sense for non-ios games, which is every game on these streaming services. So there’s some speculation. Those individual game, apps could just be single purpose streaming, apps that only stream that one xbox or pc game or stadia game or whatever. Now this is stupid, but maybe it is apple’s way of warming up to more reasonable features. I don’t know the company just indefinitely delayed its threat to remove the sign in with apple option from epic games accounts. So maybe these two companies might end up getting a beer and hashing things out this weekend, if only it wasn’t 2020. It’S not gon na happen and you and i might be waiting for official benchmarks of the rtx 3080 like chumps, but that doesn’t mean that leakers ain’t gon na leak because they are that’s what they do. A chinese language review of the rtx 3080 by tech lab was posted to billy, billy and re-uploaded to youtube, showing the card outperforming the rtx 2080 ti by around 25 to 45 and besting the rtx 2080 super by up to 62. Those numbers are definitely less impressive than the ones nvidia showed off, but you know what i would do in this situation. Wait for official reviews from like i don’t know, lightest tech tips or something that that’s just hey. That’S just me lttstore.com, but while we’re talking about leaks, we might as well mention this one claiming an rtx 3060 ti will drop in october, which is also around when we’ll see amd’s rx6000 series. Man 2020 has been rough, but at least it’s going to be an interesting fall for gamers, the ones that matter now. It’S time for quick bits brought to you by ifixit’s, marlin screwdrivers get your fix on, sounds like a party and oh boy.
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Well, china actually kind of agrees, but in the opposite direction. Beijing would reportedly prefer to see the app shut down in the us rather than be sold to an american company, so maybe microsoft will finally buy it, but it’ll be crippled, so you can only dance to rick, astley songs or something that would actually be amazing. Console owners of the controlled digital deluxe edition noticed on the weekend that they had been upgraded to the game’s ultimate edition, which is slated to receive a free next-gen console upgrade.
But the change was shortly reversed, which is so weird because publisher 505 games had said there was just no way to like just give players the upgrade. Definitely not just like a switch you could accidentally hit or on the weekend or something you know if only ubisoft held their ubisoft forward mini conference yesterday, announcing breath of the wild lookalike immortals phoenix rising a remaster of the original prince of persia sands of time. A game of space, that’s literally the title, which is like a vr space exploration simulator. I guess your own sci-fi issue yeah, it sounded it sounded like it: riders republic, which looks like steep on steroids and scott pilgrim, vs the world, the game which was gone and now it’s back huawei is actually going to switch its phones over to using the company’s In-House harmony os instead of android next year, the announcement was made along with six new devices that we can’t really get over here and don’t really want to get anyways so might as well. Not even be telling you about this trade wars and portland is keeping the dream of anonymity alive by banning facial recognition, not just for public operations, but for private companies as well.
Things like face unlock for devices is fine, obviously, but this is just for public spaces. It’S the most wide-ranging band the us has seen yet so portland might be a great place to move to for privacy nuts, although you’re probably going to encounter a few other nuts there too. It’S a fun city, okay! Well, that was fun come back on monday for more tech news. Is that that’s what it there’s gon na be more? Is that how it works? Fat news is .