- You know what I could do all day, every day?
- [Man] What?
- Eat,
food that I like.
- [Man] (laughs loudly) You mean do Tech News?
- Tech News.
- [Man] Yeah.
- And by all day, I mean, for about six minutes.
- [Man] Oh, okay.
- The Xbox series "X" and "S" are smaller
than the PlayStation five,
but, there might be an even smaller Xbox in the future.
Xbox Big Cheese Phil Spencer has said that Microsoft
is thinking about launching an Xbox streaming stick,
for playing xCloud games on your television.
In an interview with Stratechery Spencer said,
"I think you're going to see, lower priced hardware
as part of our ecosystem
when you think about, streaming sticks and other things
that somebody might wanna just,
plug into their TV and play xCloud."
He didn't say how cute such a dongle might be.
But my guess is, very.
Spencer also mentioned a new tier for Game Pass
that would get subscribers new Xbox hardware,
when it's released.
Man, they're clearly going hard on xCloud and Game Pass,
trying to get ahead of game streaming competitors
like, "Google Stadia" you know.
Although frankly, that's probably not very difficult
at this point. (mumbles)
And Stadia's reputation took another hit this week.
Thanks to a hot take from one of their creative directors.
As we mentioned on Wednesday,
Twitch creators have had tons of videos taken down
thanks to Copyright claims from music publishers.
Well, Alex Hutchinson,
creative director of Stadia's Montreal Game Studio,
thought that, in addition to paying licensing fees
for music, video game streamers
should really be paying game publishers
to stream their game play.
To be fair, he has a point.
Streamers are absolutely including copyrighted materials
as a, major component of their content.
But the thing that Hutchinson is missing,
is the fact that, game publishers often enjoy
a huge sales boost,
thanks to the promotion that they receive,
from popular streamers.
So, asking for licensing fees
on top of that, without also offering
some kind of, bounty system where they then pay them,
and then everyone's just paying each other.
- [Man] I pay you, you pay me?
- Yeah.
What is, what even, what is Hutchinson's plan here?
Now Google has distanced itself from his comments
and shortly after his initial tweets,
Hutchinson said that he was, hopping online
to stream some fall guys and virtually experienced
the crushing defeat he just got served.
So I guess all's well that ends well.
- [Man] Hey, it's time.
- And the hit game of the year Among Us, has been hit,
with a massively annoying spam attack.
Players reported that the attack removed the games map,
making players float in the vacuum of space,
and filled the end game chat with the message,
"subscribed to Eris Loris/Trump2020."
Eris Sioris?.
- [Man] Eris, I don't know.
- Is it an 'L' or an 'I'?
- [Man] It's L.
- I don't know who this is.
- [Man] (mumbles)
- Some messages threatened to hack players devices,
if they didn't subscribe to the hacker's YouTube channel
and or vote for Trump.
A strategy that I'm sure will be, very effective.
Among Us developers Innersloth,
is working on, blocking the hack.
But in the meantime, has told players to play private games
with only people you trust.
Or at least, sort of trust.
(mumbles)
Now it's time for the bad quacks brought to you by Pulseway.
- If you're in IT,
make sure you attend Pulseway virtual quiz night,
co-hosted by Linus and Pulseway's director of marketing.
It's happening October 29th at 6:00 pm, at Eastern time.
And there'll be questions, fun,
and most importantly, memes.
Chat with other system administrators and IT professionals,
answer questions to collect points,
and you could win a ton of prizes,
including, some swag packages from LTTstore.com.
- [Man] Whoa.
- So, to learn more and sign up, click the link below.
Quick beats, quick beats, yeah.
- [Man] That's pretty good.
- Yeah.
- [Man] Nice.
- Okay. Leaks benchmarks,
are making AMD's upcoming CPU and GPU look pretty sick.
One leak shows the Ryzen 5 5600X,
getting higher single core performance
than the Intel Core i9 10900K,
and Igor's Lab, claims, that the RX 6800XT,
is beating, the RTX 3080 in some scenarios.
Although, some astute viewers
have called this numbers into question.
They almost sound like you should just wait
for the full reviews for these things.
(laughs)
- [Man] Do you review those?
- Tesla has released its limited Full Self-Driving Beta
in the US, and some users
are taking their, slightly more autonomous vehicles,
out on the road.
The prospect of putting your life
in the hands of Beta software is, a little sketchy,
which is why the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration is keeping a close eye
on the whole situation.
But it's probably worth it, I mean, if you find a bug,
maybe Elon Musk will, smile in your general direction,
or give a nice cash payment to your next of kin.
Can you imagine?
- [Man] (laughs loudly)
- Amazon, has taken its monopolistic ambitions
to new heights with a program that pays users,
to upload receipts when they shop at other retailers.
Amazon says the program will help their brands
offer, better products.
- [Man] We're just trying to better, yeah.
- It's a little brazen for a company
that has, copied competitors products
and undercut their prices to implement a program like this.
But, hey, at least they're giving back
some of the two and a half billion dollars
in extra profit they made during the pandemic.
- [Man] They're humanitarians.
- They're not giving it back.
They're like, paying you for a service for it back.
And NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, successfully sampled
materials from the asteroid Bennu this week.
And now, you can watch the footage yourself.
I mean, sure.
It looks a little bit more like punching a rock,
than collecting a sample,
but, who hasn't done that with their buddies?
- [Man] Oh, yeah.
- It's hey,
it's Canada's favorite pastime there bud.
(mumbles)
go punching a rock there bud.
And in a year full of sadness,
here's a glimmer of sunshine.
Software engineer Rashiq Zahid
has built a website called, McBroken
that will tell you if, any of the McDonalds near you,
have a broken ice cream machine.
Saving dairy efficient autos time, and disappointment.
See, there is still good in this world isn't there?
We're gonna get through this, everyone.
Stay strong.
And if you don't eat dairy,
come back on Monday and we'll give you a serving
of Tech News instead.
I'll even throw in extra Oreo chunks.
- [Man] For extra charge?
- That's right, chunks, not sprinkles.