- Oh, I can't wait to talk about the tech news today!
Oh, tech stuff happens
and every time I get to talk about it the tech news!
And ah ha!
Twitter can often be a toxic place
because its structure encourages impulsive thought diarrhea
from accounts protected from repercussions by anonymity
while limiting space that could be used
to flesh out nuanced positions,
but also bands people for breaking TOS sometimes.
Elon Musk is concerned about the second part.
So after asking in a tweet, "What should be done?"
he apparently thought the answer
was to spend about three billion dollars
to buy 9.2% of Twitter.
It's what you do when you're that rich they let you do it.
- [Man] It's so stupid!
- The purchase makes him the platform's
single largest shareholder.
- [Man] No!
- Now owning four times more than it's founder Jack Dorsey.
Some analysts expect Musk to use his new position
to leverage changes at Twitter
or maybe eventually buy the company out
to make sure that users can steal Reddit memes
and contribute to the marketplace of ideas
with cutting analysis like "Oh hi lol"
with impunity.
- [Man] Not to mention manipulating markets!
- Google's deadline for Android app developers
to actually use its Google Play billing system has arrived
and as expected, some companies have suspended sales
of digital goods as a result,
because paying Google a commission
can understandably be a burden on small developers
like Amazon.
That's right.
You didn't see this coming.
Audible, which is owned by Amazon,
will no longer support purchasing eBooks
through the Android app.
Although signing up for a subscription will still work.
Barnes and Noble has also removed the ability to buy eBooks
through its Android apps.
Meaning you can't even buy books
on their own Nook branded tablets.
They're just tablets now.
- [Man] Nook without books?
- I ain't looking,
it was actually always a requirement
for developers to use Google Play billing for digital goods,
but for years, Google mostly looked the other way
when developers didn't comply
and strangely decided to enforce its policy
around the time that Epic sued it and Apple
for their app store policies.
Maybe Google just makes so much money
that they didn't even realize
they were missing out on commissions.
I don't know.
Hey Elon, maybe you should buy Google too!
And Intel has unveiled new details
about its block scale ASIC,
which promises to play a major role
in helping crypto mining companies achieve
both sustainability and hash rate scaling objectives
in the years ahead
because we were all worried
about them not being able to profit
off their huge investments in mining farms.
- [Man] It matters!
- Well, if they couldn't do it?
No!
The blockscale unit can hit up to 580 giga hashes
per second,
meaning miners are gonna want this chip.
But Intel claims it won't eat into production
of its other CPUs and GPUs,
because to produce them
it seems like Intel may be using other foundries
like TSMC rather than its own.
So it's only taking a bandwidth
that TSMC could be using to make other chips
that people want
leaving Intel with lots of capacity to make
the only chips that anyone wants.
Intel chips.
You see how that's better?
- [Man] They're the good guys.
- Yeah, the blue stuff.
I want the..
Hey, you got any blue stuff?
- [Man] Coca-Cola, Sunny-D. Blue stuff.
- Oh, blue drink.
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Dmitry Rogozin, Chief of Russia's space agency Roscosmos
said on Twitter that the restoration of normal relations
with the country's western partners
on shared projects like the International Space Station
is only possible if the illegal sanctions placed on Russia
are removed
- [Man] Russia's an expert on legal.
- We know, we know!
The ISS depends on Russian operated modules
to maintain its orbit,
and if Russia pulls out of the project
it's unclear how it will actually stay in space.
Maybe Elon can buy It
- [Man] 9.2% is all we need
to stay in low earth orbit, baby!
- That'll help.
Videocardz is reporting that, according to their sources,
AMD will soon launch five new Radeon RX 6000 series cards,
the RX 6400 6500, 6650XT, 6750XT, and 6950XT
with the XT model sporting a faster
18 gigabit per second memory bandwidth.
The cards are expected to launch May 10th
and like almost all of AMD's mid generation refreshes,
all signs point to them being pretty okay.
Just different cards.
There were these cards and now there's other ones.
The UK government has picked the perfect time to announce
that the Royal Mint will be creating an NFT
as part of its forward-looking approach to crypto assets.
Yes, the total market value of NFTs dropped
from 23 billion to 10 billion dollars
between December and March
as more and more people become aware
of the litany of scams pervasive in the NFT community.
But I don't know
maybe NFTs can benefit from the royal men's initiative,
just as much as the world benefits from the royals.
- [Man] A token for every car!
(speaker laughs)
- Give them to the peasants!
Robotics engineering student Ken Pillonel
gained some fame for building an iPhone
with a functioning USB-C port,
and now he's done it again, but in reverse.
- [Man] USB-C port with a functioning iPhone!
- Oh my God!
(presenter laughs)
- That's right.
The man somehow fitted an Android phone
with a functioning lightning port,
making it materially worse.
- [Man] Material design.
- But for April Fool's Day,
it's okay to spend a lot of time on something
just for the memes.
That's what I told myself,
and Elden Ring is notoriously hard,
but some people sought to beat the game
while making it even harder for themselves
for some reason.
I don't understand why.
Twitch streamer Secki
managed to complete the entire game
without taking any damage at all
while YouTuber Iron Pineapple
beat it without directly giving any damage,
using only summoned spirits to do his bidding.
And my question is
why do these people punish themselves?
Have some self respect.
You're a human being.
It's like punching yourself in the head, the game.
I don't get it.
Things are ugly in it.
And that's cool.
Oh man, that was some good tech news!
And I bet it'll even be even better on Wednesday.
So come back and..
- [Man] Stop. I don't like this...
- And come back and just we'll do so many tech news!
- I don't wanna see this kind of Riley!
- Wa ha!