- You say you came for the tech news,
but that look in your eyes says otherwise.
- [Participant] Oh, saucy.
- Yeah, came for the sauce.
You'd think the delays, betas, and playtests
would have helped EA and DICE
fix enough of the issues with Battlefield 2042
that the players would be satisfied,
but well, if you did, you're an idiot.
Look, it's a complicated game.
- [Participant] Yeah, come on.
- The game's ratings on Steam after its launch weekend
are not complicated though,
with about 73% of users not recommending the game.
- [Participant] Oof.
- Some of these reviews are literally just lists
of in-game glitches or even the more daunting
standard features of previous Battlefield games
like server browsers, scoreboards, Voice over IP chat,
and just many things that are missing.
- [Participant] It's not there.
- The specialists.
- [Participant] You can't even lean.
You can't even lean over.
- You can't lean, that's dumb.
- [Participant] Yeah.
- It's one thing to have falling through a map
be a regular occurrence,
and another thing to have an unlockable sniper rifle
that can kill a tank in half the time
as a standard rocket launcher, really?
- [Participant] Just like in real life.
- Yeah. DICE says they're working hard to fix the game.
And honestly, I feel bad for them,
because this is almost definitely EA's fault.
- [Participant] Yeah.
- I pre-ordered it and canceled it.
- [Participant] That was a smart move.
- Yeah. I bought Forza Horizon 5 and love it.
The PC gaming world waits with bated breath
for Intel to release it's heavily anticipated
Arc gaming graphics cards,
but you might wanna temper your expectations a bit,
especially you in the back. Emily.
- [Participant] Stop it.
- Leaked results for a Geekbench OpenCL test
show a Arc GPU with 512 compute units,
indicating this may be Intel's flagship part,
scoring around 69,000 points.
- [Participant] Nice!
- While a 68,000 XT gets around 150,000.
Now of course, the GPU in this test is probably not running
with the clock speeds or drivers that we'll use at launch,
so there's no need to panic just yet.
In fact, you won't ever need to panic
over an unreleased GPU's performance,
and that's the moral of this story.
- [Participant] Hey, take that one home kids.
- Don't get excited about anything.
- [Participant] Calm down.
- Like Battlefield.
- [Participant] Everyone just calm down.
- And a recent report from Reuters
uncovered confidential documents from Amazon,
detailing the company's successful efforts
to block or impede dozens of US State bills
that would increase privacy protections for consumers.
Great.
- [Participant] Yeah.
- The documents state Amazon's explicit mission
to change or block the US and EU regulation
that would impede the growth of Alexa-powered devices
by defeating restrictions on biometric tech
for forced disclosure of what kinds of data
companies keep on their consumers.
Basically, Amazon's trying to stop laws
that would let everyone know how much of their data
is being collected so Amazon can sell more Echos.
- [Participant] It's fair.
- To be fair, isn't that what we all want?
The reports have led some members of Congress
to call for federal consumer privacy legislation,
but they call for stuff all the time
that doesn't get delivered.
Unlike Amazon. Prime is a good deal. Love those guys.
- [Participant] They are dependable. Thank you Jeff.
- They're way up with Facebook, for companies I like.
And EA.
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I know you didn't see the quick bits coming.
And frankly, none of us did.
Apple's app tracking transparency feature
is only available on iOS,
but Duck Duck Go is bringing something better to Android.
The company's app tracking protection feature is rolling out
a beta version of it's privacy focused browser app.
And it will block trackers it identifies on other apps
because Duck Duck Go says that
96% of the most popular free Android apps
have trackers that send data to companies
like Facebook or Google.
Sure, your ads will be stuff that you'll never buy,
but wait, that's probably a good thing.
- [Participant] Goose!
- Do you buy stuff off the internet from ads anyway?
- [Participant] No, I don't.
- I don't.
- [Participant] But apparently people do.
- Yeah, they must.
- [Participant] Stop it.
Actually I bought a coat for my dog.
- [Participant] Oh, Alex.
- Yeah. Off Instagram, ad got me.
The Pixel 6 left many pining for a Pixel 6a.
And leakers OnLeaks and 91mobiles
have now provided some renders based on that information.
The cheaper phone will apparently sport a smaller camera bar
and, wait, no headphone jack?
- [Participant] Yeah.
- I know back-mounted fingerprint sensor, Google!
What am I supposed to look forward to on this phone?
A worse Tensor chip than the 6?
- [Participant] Hey, got 'em.
Back onto good Android news though.
The default Messages app is being updated
and will translate the tap back emoji responses of iMessage
properly instead of making them show up as duplicated texts.
That's sick actually.
- [Participant] Yeah it is.
- You'll still be the green bubble loser
in your group chat with your iPhone user friends,
but should feel a bit less like a second class citizen,
depending on your friends.
- [Participant] Lying sucks.
- Walmart is now making deliveries by drone
to two different regions of Arkansas
in partnership with Zipline, which uses glider-style drones,
and DroneUp, which uses quadcopters.
Of course, all the mom and pop drone delivery shops
will not be happy about this.
Hey, you made this joke last week.
- [Participant] Doesn't matter, that time is trucks.
Completely different.
- And take me down to Bitcoin City,
where the grass is green and the girls' avatars are pretty.
Because El Salvador's crypto loving president
has announced plans to build a city on the base of volcano
that would use geothermal energy to mine Bitcoin,
will be devoted to using cryptocurrency for everything.
Bitcoin City will apparently be circular and represent
a large coin and the people will be NFTs.
I need to go now? What? What was that whole thing?
I read a bunch of words, and I don't understand any of this,
but you should come back on Wednesday for more tech news.
We're going to start building a tech news city right here in
Linus Media Group. We're still working on a permit but
- [Participant] I'm sure we can figure it out.
- Yeah, it'll be decentralized.