Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Stop Tweeting, Elon!!”.
People people will always disappoint you, but you know what the tech news won’t. Ah, back in february, elon musk announced that tesla would accept bitcoin payments, but a lot can change in two months. You could have babies start raining lots. The crypto could destroy the environment in that time. For all we know so on wednesday elon announced on twitter that tesla will not support bitcoin transactions because of the cryptocurrency’s reliance on fossil fuels.
Crypto fans pointed out that well actually 75 of miners use renewable energy, but other people pointed to reports that show that’s primarily happening in remote areas of china, with lots of available hydro and wind energy. But tesla’s announcement isn’t the only thing troubling crypto heads, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange binance is now officially under investigation by the u.s justice department and the irs in connection with a report. Last year that claimed binance was laundering money for criminals. Oh i’m not a crypto head like you, james, to be fair. Binance is incorporated in the cayman islands and nothing good happens there, except so many fun things on the plus side.
Dogecoin is up after elon musk tweeted about it. Once again, can someone stop this man? Not from doing the cool stuff like tesla spacex yeah keep keep that up just grimes. Can you put an app timer on twitter for him no screen time grime’s watch is the show, so that’s how i am apple and epic continued slogging it out in the courtroom.
This week, over fortnite and in-app purchases on the ios app store but judge yvonne gonzalez rogers, suggested a potential compromise. What, if apple allowed developers to advertise lower prices outside the app store like on their website, for example, which would be normal kind of you’re kind of dumb? No, it’s not welcome to my market. You should go over there and buy it for cheaper there, though. At the other place, they can’t even like hint that you can buy it. This is a great example of the the cow complex. The cases to be fair, the judge is trying to wrap her head around this. It’S a complicated issue. It’S also apparently confusing for one of apple’s expert witnesses who brought a list of games to court that were supposedly available on ios and pc.
That were definitely definitely not that at all and one more interesting thing from the trial. This week, a number of companies, including sony, nintendo and roblox, are requesting that the court resealed documents that were made public as part of the trial as they may contain confidential information about said companies and are working like the fact that sony charged developers to enable cross-play On playstation, this is all interesting, but i can’t wait until next week when the trial enters the physical, combat portion, choose your weapon, the pickaxe from fortnite all right. I’Ve had enough and uh. Oh, i can see some new graphics cards coming real soon they’re.
Just oh there’s they’re coming around msi posted references to the rtx 3080 ti briefly before taking them down yesterday and references to desktop rtx 3050 ti cards were spotted in eec filings as well, then there’s the spec leaks for amd’s radeon, rx 6600 and 6600 xt gpus, Which will reportedly both feature the navi 23 gpu and 8 gigabytes of gddr6 memory, references to a new amd gpu, which is thought to be a budgeteer navi 24 based model were also spotted under the code name. Beige gobi yeah sounds pretty budget. What is that? What what is a gobi, what there’s an indian dish? That’S is that with an eye, this is a goby, of course, even if we did want to buy these, we probably won’t be able to.
But if there’s one upside to the chip shortage, it’s the increased funding. Now being poured into chip, production tsmc is considering building an additional foundry in addition to the one they’re already doing in arizona, perhaps to get some of the 52 billion dollars, the us is considering pumping into domestic chip manufacturing and meanwhile, south korea is planning to spend 450 billion on semiconductors over the next decade, so we will be able to buy gpus again eventually as long as they’re in your apple computer yeah, as long as apple’s making it and now a message from a previous riley. Now it’s time for quick bits brought to you by brilliant the website and app that makes learning accessible and fun, and i know it’s hard to put learning and fun in the same box in your silly human brain but think about video games.
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Colonial, the massive pipeline company that was hacked into shutting down. Half their network were able to regain system control after paying the 5 million ransom demanded by the hackers. Ransomware attacks, particularly based on common fishing techniques, are becoming more common and more impactful. Yesterday, large parts of ireland’s health care system were just shut down by hackers.
Please talk to the people in your life about the importance of not pressing the big red button that says free money in that email. It’S not free money, it’s pain. I thought it was a pot of gold. It was that irish. Oh, i got an email for a free pot of gold. Sorry, ireland, amazon, has removed the vast majority of products from popular accessory maker, aki oki. I don’t know.
I never know how to say it, because according to amazon, they were paying for fake reviews. It seems like that’s true, but couldn’t someone also speculate that amazon is just about to release a bunch of aki knockoffs, and that’s also why they did this? You heard it here. First, based on nothing john prosser. Over at front page tech has once again released renders of an unannounced device. This time the google pixel 6 and pixel 6 pro – and i hope, he’s wrong about what they’ll look like, because yeesh, that is an ugly camera bump or it looks really cool.
I i don’t, i can never tell prosser, also showed renders of apple’s rumored m2 or whatever powered macbook pro that’s supposed to come later this year, so there that might be what they look like or or not, and intel labs has shown off a machine learning technique That makes gta 5 look even more realistic than it already does. As far as i can tell, they changed first person vehicle gameplay, so that it looks like footage from a shitty webcam and i guess yeah. It looks like a realistic cloudy day in 480p. It’S the future of gaming.
It does actually look real. Have you seen it? Of course you haven’t hella tight dude, wait. What did did i say that? Did i write that you know? Oh, i did you know what would be hella tight if you came back on monday for more tech news, man that’d be so poppin fresh .