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- This's tech news men!
Microsoft has let loose the price, release date
and some additional details for their dual screened
Android phone, The Surface Duo.
- [cameraman] Unleash the Duo.
(laughs)
- It will ship September 10th
but is available for pre-order now for 1399.
If that seems a bit high, well,
it's the same price as the Galaxy S20 Ultra.
But Samsung has been making phones for ages
and this is Microsoft's first Android device.
Which may explain some of the more worrying specs.
It's running a last gen Snap Dragon 855
as a 3577 milliamp hour battery
which might be a bit small to keep two screens
running all day.
Has some giant bezels right out of 2015 and when folded,
it's 93 millimeters wide, a size that will fit perfectly
into cargo pants.
It also doesn't have NFC or a headphone jack
but this does leave some room for Microsoft to vastly
improve things with the surface trio.
I'm sorry, I had to do it.
Three screens, it'll fit in your pocket even less,
but oh man, so premium.
(lips smuck)
Microsoft has also officially revealed
that the Xbox series X will launch in November,
but when it does, it will do so without Halo Infinite.
343 Industries announced the game has been delayed to 2021
to give the dev team time to deliver the most ambitious
Halo game ever.
I guess it's not the kind of Infinite
that extends forever in both directions.
It's just goes and then for-
- [Cameraman] Just like Duke Nukem Forever all over again.
(laughing)
- I'm all for delaying games rather than rushing them up.
But that leaves the Series X launch lineup
looking a little limited.
Microsoft seems to know this as they've released
Project xCloud to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers early,
perhaps to distract you from the Halo delay.
And don't worry, as an Xbox blog post says,
"The console will launch with thousands of games spanning
four generations."
- [Cameraman] How about a new one?
- They've probably played before.
(laughter)
I mean, backwards compatibility on the Series X, is awesome.
But I don't feel like there's many really exciting
Xbox games this generation.
Unless you're stoked for The Medium.
I mean, it looks fine, but it's no Bugsnax.
And Russia is the first country
to finish a COVID-19 vaccine.
If your standard for finishing doesn't involve clinical
trials usually seen as critical to proving
that it's safe and effective so.(laughs)
- [Cameraman] If you die Russia,
then where are you anyway?
(laughing)
- Russian Prime Minister or president now,
he switches back and forth.
Vladimir Putin claims that one of his daughters has already
received the vaccine,
which has been tested with small groups of people
but has not gone through the standard third phase,
which would indicate that it's safe
for the general population.
- [Cameraman] She grew another bicep.
(laughing)
It also contains steroids.
- (imitates Russian accent) It was on purpose.
Russia will now begin vaccinating medical workers
who volunteer for the treatment (laughs) volunteer,
while that third phase is underway.
The announcement comes after multiple countries
accused Russia of cyber attacks attempting
to steal COVID vaccine research.
If you're concerned about this,
Russia's health minister Mikhail Murashko
wants you to know that criticisms of the country's vaccine
rollout are absolutely groundless.
(imitates Russian accent) It's not big deal, don't worry.
- [Cameraman] Baseless.
(laughing)
(imitates Russian accent) Stick the needle in,
make you strong like Babushka Stroganoff.
There can only be one Riley except when there's two.
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Quick bits, nooooo.
You hate to see it nonprofit good guy of the internet,
Mozilla is laying off 250 people
or a quarter of their workforce
and closing their Taiwanese offices in order to refocus
on products that can gain revenue.
So if you want Firefox to survive,
go subscribe to one of their other services.
Delete Chrome on your parents computer
and transfer everything over without telling them.
(laughter)
They probably won't even notice.
Tick Tock has been trying to prove to the US government
that it's not a Chinese spy.
So a new report showing the app tracked Android users MAC
addresses which can be used for identification,
a practice which was banned by Google policies,
doesn't look good.
They actually stopped this tracking last November
as scrutiny of the company ramped up.
- [Cameraman] We are sorry we got caught.
(laughs)
- Sorry guys, Microsoft you better get this guy
and get your guy out of here.
Just get him out.
Google has announced that Android users in California
can opt their phone into an earthquake detection system,
which uses the built in accelerometer in your phone
to sense earthquakes early.
If this initial rollout goes well,
the system could expand worldwide.
And while this is definitely cool,
it's kind of giving me the dark night vibes,
like what if our phones end up being used to spy on us.
Sorry, it's already happening.
It's happening right now.
Xiaomi has revealed the world's first transparent TV,
which is a thing that someone might want, for some reason.
Like if you wanted to see your tacky wallpaper
instead of just black.
Xiaomi also announced the Mi 10 Ultra
has 120 times zoom though, so that's definitely useful.
You can use the zoom to zoom into someone's brain,
and try and see why you would want a transparent TV.
It doesn't make sense.
Internet service provider, Charter,
hasn't been allowed to impose data caps
as a condition of its acquisition
of Time Warner Cable in 2016.
But now they're trying to convince the FCC
to let them impose data caps.
Because customers want it.
You see some of the company's plans
that happened to have data caps were popular.
So that means people want them back obviously,
kind of makes me wanna charter a flight down there
so I can give Charter a smack upside the head.
Like what's the matter with you?
- [Cameraman] Knock that cap right off.
(laughs)
- Charter, data cap.
- [Cameraman] The hat.
- Got them.
It would be stupid to continue this episode.
So now it's over.
Come back on Friday for more tech news.
I feel like that video will be an even better video
than this one.