Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Upgrade your PS5! FINALLY!”.
You didn’t have to click this video, but you did. And so on behalf of tech news everywhere, I wan na say thank you. And that we’re not quite sure whether we should thank AMD for the Radeon RX 6600 XT that they just announced at the China Joy Tech Expo because, while the card itself looks like it might indeed be a 1080p beasts as AMD puts it with 32 compute units and a gaming clock speed of almost 2.4 gigahertz, it’s not likely to make any kind of significant impact on the industry as a whole.. Despite some hopeful developments in the ongoing chip shortage saga, most analysts are predicting that we will still be stuck in this demented hell, scape of price gouging and empty shelves for some time to come.
Linus dove deeper into this issue. In today’s Linus Tech Tips, video though.. So if you’re, looking for a real dose of reality, watch that., [, Voice Off Camera, ] That Linus Guy.
Or you could try insulting strangers on the street.. The word of the year by the way is antitrust., With big tech facing an increasing assault of lawsuits and investigations.. But, although Valve isn’t necessarily big tech, they do run Steam.
The biggest platform in PC gaming and the company is now filing to dismiss a lawsuit from Wolfire games. Alleging anti-competitive behavior., [ Voice Off Camera, ] Anti anti. You see Valve, doesn’t allow developers to sell their game Steam keys on other platforms for lower prices, which Wolfire says, isn’t fair, along with, of course, the 30 % revenue share that Steam takes from game sales.. This dispute is similar to the fight between Epic and Apple and Google, which, by the way, was just weighed in on by the techno king himself, Elon Musk, who tweeted that Apple’s app store fees are a defacto global tax on the internet. And by the way, Epic, Is right. Epic, CEO, Tim Sweeney, of course agreed.
So expect the antitrust-ing to only increase from here. Just like the EU’s fines. Amazon just got handed a record $ 888 million fine by the EU’s privacy watchdog for a data breach from back in 2018, which is just ridiculous..
I mean privacy is important, but I would much prefer to see Bill Gates go to space before I die. [ Voice Off Camera ] He deserves it., Doesn’t he. And the Russian NACA module. That’S docked with the international space station began unexpectedly firing its thrusters yesterday pushing the station out of its normal orientation. ISS. Light controllers eventually corrected for the mishap by firing the thrusters on the Russian Svesda module and the progress cargo ship for a while.
It looked like things might be about to go Apollo 13. [ Voice Off Camera, ] (, indistinct ), The ruckus caused Boeing to delay the launch of their Starliner, which was supposed to rendezvous with the ISS today. Russia, space agency, Russ cosmos, said the knockus thrusters fired Because of a software glitch and not at all because of a secret to plan to crash the ISS into a major us metropolitan area as a means of destabilizing the country for invasion. [, Voice Off Camera, ] Send in black widow.
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Below. Quoc bots are sugar and gluten free because they’re not food.. The PlayStation five is getting its first major software update.. Finally, bringing support for expanded storage using the consoles N.2 SSV slot..
Unfortunately, the process of determining which SSDs are compatible and how exactly to perform the upgrade is a fair bit more complicated than the X-Box series’s storage. Upgrade procedure which involves plugging in an external card., But I guess that’s what you get for buying a PlayStation because you want it to. Oh, I don’t know, play exclusive games.
Instead of PC games on a box, that’s X, [, Voice Off Camera ]. I just liked the way it looks okay. In other news. Sony has confirmed that their recent acquisition of Dutch company Nexus is meant to facilitate more PlayStation exclusives getting ported to PC.. So there is even less reason than ever to lock yourself into using a fancy box with limited functionality, [ Voice Off Camera ]. What about that controller, Except, of course, for the great controller, the fact that it’s actually kind of affordable and stuff? I’M really not feeling any China joy right now, but that could change..
While we just announced their new flagship, P 50 pro smartphone with some unusual specs., It’s running Harmony S2, which is basically a fork of Android, depending who you ask, but thanks to the US-China trade war, Huawei doesn’t have enough chips to use their own Kyron chip set.. So the P 50 pro is actually powered by a Qualcomm ADA SOC, but with the 5g functionality disabled, because US-based companies aren’t allowed to sell their cutting edge tech to Chinese companies. Man.
Trade wars can be a drag, but hey at least they produce some fun. Frankenstein monster type devices like this one so worth it And bug bounties are common practice in the tech world., But Twitter has just announced an algorithmic bias bounty which will reward researchers with cash prizes for finding errors in the social platforms, machine learning models. Like, for example, The one that caused Twitter’s automatic image cropping to prefer white faces., Big yikes..
It seems a bit weird to ask the public to do this instead of doing the work but hey at least they’re paying for it.. And finally, a Japanese startup named Ashy Rassie, has developed a system that would help visually impaired people walk with confidence by giving them navigational cues through special shoes that tickle their toes.. This exists at exactly the intersection between cool and weird that I would expect from a Japanese startup., And I don’t think this video will continue. Come back on Monday for more because I have a feeling. Some crazy stuff is going to happen over the weekend.
You’re going to that party at Nico’s.. I don’t know anyone named Nico either. .