- Good work takes time, which is why this show
only takes one day to make.
TechLonger on the other hand,
did you see that it was.
- Years. - You haven't watched it yet?
- [Zack] Not on my own time, nope.
- You watched it to review it though.
Gamers trying to play their digitally purchased games
on the PlayStation Three or PS Vita consoles
have been running into error messages telling them
that their games have expired,
sometimes with a date listed 50 years in the past.
- [Zack] Those are all consoles.
- No, no, no, it's the time trolls again.
Somebody call the super kids
Even though reports have expired games were proliferating
across the web late last week,
Sony has yet to address the issue at the time of filming,
leading some to speculate that it might not just be
a software glitch.
Sony did announce they were shutting down the PS Three
and PS Vita digital stores last year
and only canceled their plans after backlash from players
or maybe they knew this glitch was coming
and were trying to save PlayStation players
from having to deal with it.
Sony is the time trolls?
Quick to the super kids invisible jet.
- [Zack] You don't have a license yet.
- So it turns out you might not be seeing a Twitter bird
on the side of a SpaceX rocket anytime soon,
as Elon Musk isn't joining the board
of everyone's least favorite social media platform, Twitter,
even though that was reported last week.
- Sike. - Was a joke, it was so funny.
Elon will keep his 9.2% stake in the platform
but apparently told CEO Parag Agrawal
that he changed his mind
on the day he was to be officially appointed to the board.
- [Zack] Change my mind.
- Just kidding, we're not sure what prompted the change.
- [Zack] Oh, I get it, he wants to edit tweets.
That's what he did it in real life.
- Oh, he edited his position.
We're not sure what prompted the change of heart,
especially as he seemed to have plenty of opinions
on how to improve the social network,
but it might have something to do with the fact
that board members can't own more than 14.9%
of Twitter shares.
Some analysts are thinking that rather than try
to influence Twitter from the inside,
Musk might just buy out more shares
and try to force Twitter to change
using that effective tool, money.
- [Zack] Are they the same thing?
- When you put a bag of bills in it, it can be.
- [Zack] He's already a majority shareholder,
how's that change anything.
- It has some heft to it is that what I'm saying?
It's like a mace.
Elon has since deleted some of his tweets about Twitter,
but don't worry, they're coming back.
He's got lots to say.
- [Zack] Gonna manipulate this market again.
- And the Xbox Series X might get a slimmed down version
in the near future with all the performance
but half the calories, because Microsoft is rumored
to be looking at a model of the Series X
with a more efficient processor
- [Zack] Series Y.
- Series why, although it probably won't result
in your games running faster or looking better,
the reduced power consumption and thermals
would allow Microsoft to fit the Series X hardware
into a smaller chassis.
- [Zack] Series B.
- Any of, these are all options.
- [Zack] You take a piece off the X.
- And this will be welcome news
seeing as the current Series X isn't exactly space saving.
Honestly, they might as well have made it bigger
and included an actual fridge section in the console,
even though the fridge itself is pretty cool.
Have you ever used? - It's a fridge.
- It is. - I would hope so.
- I didn't even see that.
It's unclear exactly when we might see something like this
on the market, but seeing as the Series X has been out
for a couple years now, it's gotta be coming up soon.
I say we call it the Xbox Series Little X.
- [Zack] The tiny X.
- Instead of the biggest.
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Here, come the quick bits, interrupting the episode again.
I've talked to them about this.
Oh, I'm upset.
Sony and Lego are both pumping a billion dollars each
into Epic Games.
Sony did already have an ownership stake in Epic,
but since Epic seems to have this problem where it just
dumps a ton of money into buying exclusive games
for the Epic Games store and filing lawsuits against Apple
and Google that it can't hope to win,
I imagine they find themselves in need of cash regularly.
Well, that's what friends are for, billion dollars.
Here you go.
Some new leaks of sprung up related to the Metaquest 2
VR headset, courtesy of famed Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo.
- [Zack] Of the Benny Jesuit.
- Don't make eye contact, expect to see a pair of
2160 by 2160 displays powered by mini LEDs,
facial recognition, eye tracking and pancake lenses,
which would make the headset lighter.
So there's even less between you and the true reality,
the Metaverse, Zack will be waiting for you.
- [Zack] And he's ripped in the metaverse.
- He's like, welcome, let's get jacked virtually.
Apple has branched out to a new country to manufacture
the iPhone 13, India.
Apple's actually no stranger to building phones there
as this is going to be its fourth model of iPhone
to come outta the country.
But it's been a while since they've built a flagship there.
Along with Indian rules that heavily incentivize
building electronics locally, Apple looks like
it's trying to reduce its reliance on China
in the midst of strained Chinese trade relations
with the rest of the world.
Plus China's making some sick phones of their own, okay
and this is a segue.
- [Zack] But India likes Russia.
What do we do?
- Chinese tech company Vivo has entered
the folding phone race with the X Fold,
which shares its basic design with Samsung's Galaxy Fold 3,
there's 120 Hertz OLED displays on the front and the inside.
But unlike other folding phones, the X Fold
has two ultrasonic fingerprint readers,
one under each display.
- [Zack] One fifth of your fingers are covered.
- You can use any of your.
Of course it's only launching in China right now,
because they have their whole own economy going on.
They don't even really need us anymore
and as you know, I'm fine with that.
- [Zack] Can you unlock with both fingers at once,
like a Chinese finger traps?
- You can unlock with, even, anything you want
and Netflix is giving us a new rating option
called two thumbs up
and it's basically what it sounds like,
in that it's a way to super like something.
This means Netflix went from a five point star rating system
to a two point like dislike system,
to now a three point like dislike super like system.
I can't wait until Netflix adds a super dislike
and a medium like, and then we're.
- [Zack] Back to five.
- In innovation and this video isn't a TechLonger,
so it's time to stop.
Come back on Wednesday for more tech news
but if you can't wait that long, good news,
there's a TechLonger to watch.
Have I mentioned it, that we put up, have you seen it?
It's 30 minutes.