- You didn't have to click this video,
but you did.
And so on behalf of tech news everywhere,
I wanna say thank you.
And that we're not quite sure whether we should thank AMD
for the Radeon RX 6600 XT
that they just announced at the China Joy Tech Expo
because while the card itself looks like it might indeed
be a 1080p beasts as AMD puts it with 32 compute units
and a gaming clock speed of almost 2.4 gigahertz,
it's not likely to make any kind of significant impact
on the industry as a whole.
Despite some hopeful developments
in the ongoing chip shortage saga,
most analysts are predicting that we will still be stuck
in this demented hell scape of price gouging
and empty shelves for some time to come.
Linus dove deeper into this issue
in today's Linus Tech Tips video though.
So if you're looking for a real dose of reality, watch that.
- [Voice Off Camera] That Linus Guy.
- Or you could try insulting strangers on the street.
The word of the year, by the way, is antitrust.
With big tech facing an increasing assault
of lawsuits and investigations.
But although Valve isn't necessarily big tech,
they do run Steam, the biggest platform in PC gaming
and the company is now filing to dismiss a lawsuit
from Wolfire games, alleging anti-competitive behavior.
- [Voice Off Camera] Anti anti.
- You see Valve doesn't allow developers
to sell their game Steam keys on other platforms
for lower prices, which Wolfire says isn't fair
along with of course the 30% revenue share
that Steam takes from game sales.
This dispute is similar to the fight
between Epic and Apple and Google,
which by the way, was just weighed in on
by the techno king himself, Elon Musk,
who tweeted that, Apple's app store fees
are a defacto global tax on the internet.
And by the way, Epic is right.
Epic CEO, Tim Sweeney, of course agreed.
So expect the antitrust-ing to only increase from here,
just like the, EU's fines.
Amazon just got handed a record $888 million fine
by the EU's privacy watchdog for a data breach
from back in 2018, which is just ridiculous.
I mean, privacy is important,
but I would much prefer to see Bill Gates go to
space before I die.
- [Voice Off Camera] He deserves it.
- Doesn't he. And the Russian NACA module that's docked with
the international space station began unexpectedly firing
its thrusters yesterday,
pushing the station out of its normal orientation.
ISS light controllers eventually corrected for the mishap by
firing the thrusters on the Russian,
Svesda module and the progress cargo ship for a while,
it looked like things might be about to go Apollo 13.
- [Voice Off Camera] (indistinct).
- The ruckus caused Boeing to delay the launch of
their Starliner, which was supposed to rendezvous
with the ISS today.
Russia space agency,
Russ cosmos said the knockus thrusters fired because of a
software glitch and not at all because of a secret to plan
to crash the ISS into a major us metropolitan area,
as a means of destabilizing the country for invasion.
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The PlayStation five is getting its first major software
update. Finally bringing support for expanded storage,
using the consoles N.2 SSV slot.
Unfortunately, the process of determining which SSDs
are compatible and how exactly to perform the upgrade
is a fair bit more complicated than the X-Box series's
storage upgrade procedure,
which involves plugging in an external card.
But I guess that's what you get for buying a PlayStation
because you want it to, oh, I don't know,
play exclusive games instead of PC games on a box that's X,
- [Voice Off Camera] I just liked the way it looks, okay.
- In other news,
Sony has confirmed that their recent acquisition of Dutch
company Nexus is meant to facilitate more PlayStation
exclusives getting ported to PC.
So there is even less reason than ever to lock yourself into
using a fancy box with limited functionality,
- [Voice Off Camera] What about that controller?
- Except of course, for the great controller,
the fact that it's actually kind of affordable and stuff,
I'm really not feeling any China joy right now,
but that could change.
While we just announced their new
flagship P 50 pro smartphone with some unusual specs.
It's running Harmony S2 which is basically a
fork of Android, depending who you ask,
but thanks to the US-China trade war, Huawei doesn't have
enough chips to use their own Kyron chip set.
So the P 50 pro is actually powered by a Qualcomm ADA SOC,
but with the 5g functionality disabled because US-based
companies aren't allowed to sell their cutting edge tech to
Chinese companies.
Man, trade wars can be a drag, but hey,
at least they produce some fun Frankenstein monster type
devices like this one, so worth it?
And bug bounties are common practice in the tech world.
But Twitter has just announced an algorithmic bias bounty,
which will reward researchers with cash prizes for finding
errors in the social platforms, machine learning models.
Like for example,
the one that caused Twitter's automatic image cropping to
prefer white faces. Big yikes.
It seems a bit weird to ask the public to do this instead of
doing the work, but hey, at least they're paying for it.
And finally,
a Japanese startup named Ashy Rassie has developed a system
that would help visually impaired people walk with
confidence by giving them navigational cues through special
shoes that tickle their toes.
This exists at exactly the intersection between cool and
weird that I would expect from a Japanese startup.
And I don't think this video will continue. Come back on
Monday for more because I have a feeling
some crazy stuff is going to happen over the weekend.
You're going to that party at Nico's.
I don't know anyone named Nico either.