Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Goodbye, Adobe Flash ☹”.
Okay, no resolutions, but I do have a new year’s realization. [ Colton ]. What’S 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.
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, I’m 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 Seems like you were remembering something.
[ Colton ] Games, all the games., Every game. ( Colton mumbles inaudibly ). You played every game, (, Colton, laughs, ), 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., Stick Tack, that’s the one Yeah. Yeah. It was like Shao Shao.
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 Razr. 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 launch in 2022.. There’S lots of mays and mights in this story.. You know Colton, you shouldn’t be so wishy-washy in 2021., [, Colton, ] I’ll try..
Just take a stand. Maybe. like Apple.
Maybe. 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 $ 1 billion 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 has gotten stuck at seven nanometers. Pfft., I can do seven.
Nanometers. Colton does seven nanometers- Every day.. Every day he wakes up seven, seven nanometers.
( grunts ), 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 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., I’m sorry Elon Musk I’ll do better..
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Incoming graphics cards watch out Listings for G-Force RTX 30 ADTI models from gigabyte have been leaked and Lenovo. Let slip some specs for the RTX, 3050 3050 TI and RTX 3060 non-TI, all of which are unannounced. Nvidia’s. Having a gaming focused event on January 12th..
So they’ve got to announce some of these., 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 euros 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. Kinda sounds like eeros.. I got you.
Flash just died, but windows seven has continued to exist in some kind of wraith-like state after Microsoft. Officially ended support for the beloved operating system. One year, ago. ZD Net found that there may be over 100 million users still using Windows.
Seven despite Microsoft. Doubling the cost for extended support this month., They are neither living nor 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 Well a day later Huawei restored the games, 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 fine for hiring the employees of its competitor CrowdSearch and using their logins to infiltrate CrowdSearch’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 [, 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. [ Colton ]? It was fun., So if you want to hang out.
[ Colton ], Are you Santa Claus? Am I Santa Claus? That’S a reference. .