- I'm ready, we doing this?
- Wait, what? Are we?
- Dune
(outburst of singing)
Apple's new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors certainly
looked impressive when they were announced on Monday,
especially draped in that chic, sleek garments
that are the new MacBook Pros.
I was waiting for a gotcha moment
but the hype has only continued to soar
since then with apple now confirming earlier reports
that Macbook's Pro models configure with the M1 Max
will have a fricking turbo mode to boost performance
and spin up the notebooks fans.
- Wow!
- What is this?
An apple gaming laptop?
What did they think they are?
Alien wear?
it's, I mean,
it's $4,000 so
- I hope so.
- They might think that they're the makers
of the world's fastest laptop chip.
If leaked, PugetBench tests are to be believed.
Those show the M1 Max performing significantly better
than high-end windows laptops in CPU heavy tasks.
Although the GPU doesn't stack up as well
to dedicated graphics.
Naturally.
I honestly don't know how to feel.
There's normally something to make fun of apple,
within the stores, but uh...
Put USBC on the iPhone!
- I hate apple!
- Yes!
- They're the worst
- This is dumb. Be consistent.
Google has once again reduced
its cut of play store revenues.
They're good guys.
Specifically for subscriptions this time,
they were probably being haunted
by the Tim Sweeney of lawsuits future.
Previously Google took their 30% cut
of subscriptions made to the play store,
but after a year, reduced it to 15%.
Now, Google's cut will be 15%
from the get-go.
Right off the bat, baby!
As soon as you land on a rack its boom!
The move follows another reduction from earlier this year,
when Google announced it would only
take 15% from the first million dollars
the developer made per year.
A change made shortly after apple made a similar one
for the iOS app store.
- Oh, I love apple.
- Just the first million guys.
Both companies had made various moves like
this in the past year in response to antitrust scrutiny
from lawmakers worldwide.
And one might argue, lawsuits from epic games.
Tim Sweeney's should be proud.
And he's proving ,
suing people
is good for the planet,
- But not for Fortnite.
- And former US president somehow,
Donald Trump,
announced plans this week to launch his own damn
social platform called, get this,
Truth social,
which is a bit like Lionus launching a
closed toe shoe company.
As one might expect, people found out how to access
the test version of the website almost immediately
and started posting all manner of horrible things
that shouldn't be discussed by proper upstanding truthers.
- Such as ourselves.
- You mean they're just using the site? This is...
that's just people using the site.
- They're posting pictures.
Watch out.
- It quickly became apparent that the site was
a barely modified copy of the existing
social network Mastodon,
which is way less good than the band of the same name,
whose code base is open source, it can be used by anyone
as long as they make their own source code
available to the public.
Truth Social isn't doing that!
Despite requests from its users,
So Trump's team apparently has 30 days
to release its source code or risk facing legal action,
reminds me of his taxes.
I wouldn't worry.
Never going to happen.
- Exactly.
- Holy. Now it's time for the QuickBase,
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Seasonic. Maker of the best
effing power supplies on the market.
Are you kidding me?
You were about to go buy a power supply from those
other guys?
Pfft! Huge mistake.
Seasonic's Prime ultra titanium power supplies,
feature ultra high efficiency with
an 80 plus titanium reigning,
they're fully modular.
They feature hybrid pound control
and fluid dynamic fan bearings
to keep the noise down and last forever.
That's right.
These things have a 50,000 hour life expectancy
and a 12,
a 12 year, not 12 months,
12 year warranty.
So get yourself a Seasonic power supply
at the link below.
12 years.
I can't believe it's not quick bits,
'cause it is.
- What?
- The next phase of Stadia's undead existence has begun.
Doug's senescence, just joking.
As AT&T has become the first customer of the services,
White label gaming streaming technology.
Oh, they're licensing the Tech.
AT&T wireless customers can currently stream the
2015 game, Batman Arkham Knight.
- No way!
- Running on Stadia's servers
through a Chrome or Edge browser on PC,
but not through their AT&T wireless phone.
And not using a Google Stadia controller,
keyboard, or mouse
or other Bluetooth controller.
- What is this?
- Other Bluetooth controllers are okay though.
- What , what are we looking at?
- What so random brands are gonna let you
stream old Stadia games now?
Sounds stupid.
Until you realize
this is how we get Checks quest 4.
- It's about time.
- I support it.
- Bring it on.
- Gigabyte has been hit by a ransomware attack
for the second time this year.
Back in August, the ransom EXX
Ransom EXX,
hacking group made off with 112 gigabytes
of sensitive data.
This time around a group called
AvosLocker,
says they've obtained info,
including usernames and passwords,
employee payroll numbers,
credit cards, and other sensitive documents
related to other companies.
Is there no honor among ransomware hackers?
- I think that's
No. No there isn't.
- No, that's the whole
that's the whole idea.
Gigabytes gaming brand Avos doesn't seem troubled though.
They just unveiled project Celio.
Cielio
- Cielo
- A new form factor of modular desktop PC
that stacks on a knock like computing element,
a big battery,
5G antennas,
and a large Bluetooth speaker,
to form a triangular short stack
triangular like pancakes and a triangle.
Okay. All right.
I honestly don't even know
what I'm looking at here.
Why is the speaker Bluetooth?
Why are we gaming over 5G on this thing?
So many questions,
clearly this is a beach computer.
This is a computer to take to the beach baby.
Razer announced their first internal PC components
at Razercon yesterday.
Including the handle all in one liquid CPU cooler,
the Kunai fans,
and the Katana power supply
in 750 watt, 1200 watt and 1600 watt versions,
- Its Katana .
- Katana.
I work out at the Dax.
And of course they all have RGB LEDs
to go along with their deadly sounding names.
Katana .
I prefer Jade
or even Molina.
And the developers behind a crypto currency
called Worldcoin, have distributed 30 spherical
iris scanning devices
to 12 countries where people can have
photos taken of their eyeballs,
creating a unique code
that is tied to world coin tokens.
- I love it.
- This is no time to die,
it's today.
All right. 30 orbs are out there right now,
but the plan is to have 4,000 orbs distributed every month.
So everybody... Is the orbit a token or a physical thing?
- No its the scanner.
- That's a lot of scanners.
- Orb scanners.
- Every month, so everybody can scan their eyes,
and then receive world coins once the currency takes off,
which will be never.
Nice idea.
I mean, maybe the project's cool and this is very trite,
but it sounds stupid.
Hey, come back on Monday for more Orb news
and don't forget,
here's the mind killer:
- Hey Buddy!
- Hey!
Thanks bro.