Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “They bought the wrong console…”.
Tech news, but with hoods on. Hoodlinked. After retailers, screwed up PlayStation 5 pre-orders last week by launching product pages early Microsoft said their retail partners were prepared for an onslaught of console hungry gamers. When pre-orders for the Xbox Series X and S went live Tuesday.
Morning. The launch proceeded on schedule, but online stores still found their servers overloaded with requests from people like Colton Wow what For Xbox’s and they quickly sold out.. Unfortunately, some fans fell victim to Microsoft’s, confusing naming scheme and accidentally ordered Xbox One X’s instead., With Amazon marking a 740 % increase in sales of their three-year-old console. And if you’re, one of those poor souls or if you just couldn’t get a Series X or S, Don’T worry. Microsoft is holding a certain amount of consoles in stock for the actual launch on November 10th.. Until then, you can play with the new Xbox remote play feature which lets you stream games from your console to your Android phone.. This is not to be confused with XCloud the cloud streaming service which Microsoft is adamant will launch on iOS, despite Apple’s, predictably silly rules when having a dedicated app for each cloud. Game. Their iOS home screen would be so crowded., Although you could make it look.
Pretty sweet with them new widgets. For the first time in my life, I want an iPhone.. It feels weird.
[, Colton, ], You’re gon na get an X box too Maybe.. Microsoft is also holding their Ignite developer conference right now, where they’ve made a few interesting announcements.. The company is developing a method of holographic storage, involving sending beams of light through lenses at a crystal cube, which can hold information until it’s wiped with the UV radiation Sounds nerdy as hell..
There’S also Premonition Microsoft’s attempt to build something like a weather monitoring system, but for disease outbreaks using robotics and cloud based software to capture sample and test disease carrier like mosquitoes or people.. I guess soon it’ll be normal to see spot robots’ leaping around snatching flies out of the air, a beautiful future. And finally, Microsoft announced an exclusive licensing agreement with OpenAI’s GPT-3 language. Model. In case you forgot GPT, is the AI behind the amazing AI dungeon text RPG.. I can see it now.
Bethesda’s first game under its new management, Microsoft, language simulator.. It will be sick as long as you don’t need words to mean anything. And a bunch of leaks from German site. Winfuture have given us a look at the possible specs and design of both the Google Pixel 5 and the beagle the Google Pixel 4a 5G.. The leak is consistent with previously seen rumors claiming the Pixel 5 will have a six inch OLED 90 Hertz display covering the whole front with a cut out. Selfie camera.
Bye, bye, gesture controls, I guess. And good riddance., Hey I use those. Inside is a Snapdragon 765G with sub six gigahertz 5G support, eight gigabytes of RAM and a 4,080 milliamp hour battery.. The Pixel 4a 5G supposedly has the same processor, but only six gigabytes of RAM, a smaller battery and a display capable of a measly 60 Hertz.. Although it is slightly larger or is it I don’t know. And neither do you, but we should both know for sure.
Come September 30th, when Google officially unveils both devices. For now it’s time for the quick bits brought to you by Brilliant. The website that helps you reach your learning goals by working just a little bit every day..
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Tesla is also phasing out cobalt, a component of lithium batteries, since it’s expensive and often mined unethically. ( blows tongue ), Because reducing emissions is less worth it. If you have to use child labor to do it, you know it’s good to get rid of that stuff.. Unless you’re Elon Musk’s son, who was probably an Android and doesn’t count. Hey, think Blizzard has sucked since Activision got involved Well Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime agrees. and now has founded a new company called Dreamhaven.. It will be the parent company of two development studios called Moonshot or Moon’s hot and Secret Door, both headed by former creative leads of Blizzard..
Frankly I’ll take a StarCraft knockoff if it comes with those bomb. Ass, cinematics. “, My life for Auir.” Know what I mean. Samsung apparently realizes the Galaxy S20 got a lukewarm reaction when it launched for a thousand bucks.
So now they’re releasing the S20 Fan Edition for $ 700US, with a slightly lower spec like a 1080P display that doesn’t curve on the side, but it’s still got 120 Hertz Screen and a decent battery. Please buy it., We have different colors please.. Google maps is getting an update that will show these seven day. Average COVID cases in US States a handy metric for planning your next road trip, which you probably shouldn’t, be taking right now..
But if you do consider heading straight downward into a bunker. And hey look, it’s the Sony. Experia Play 2, a phone that never launched. But from the looks of it it should have because, with its thin screen and stylish PlayStation style buttons, it could have been an awesome mobile alternative for PlayStation fans.
Sony. It’S not too late to give up on this whole console thing and tackle Nintendo head-on. They’ve rained over portable gaming for a long enough right, Seize power., Seize it. They tried twice., Yeah, they’ve, tried, yeah.
And we’ll end this episode before things get too scary., Come back on Friday for more tech. News’Cause we’ve got what you need. Tech news.. I feel like when I have a hood on.
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