- Whoa, you guys wanted the tech blues?
That's not this show.
(man mutters a blues song)
Yeah, yeah, it's the next studio over.
♪ Woke up this morning ♪
- Wanted some tech.
Sony is buying game developer Bungie.
Who could've seen this coming?
The studio behind the original Halo,
as well as the Destiny franchise, for $3.6 billion.
That's way less than what Microsoft paid for Activision.
This is hardly a flex.
They say, though,
that Bungie will remain an independent subsidiary
with Bungie CEO, Pete Parsons,
pledging that their future games
will not be PlayStation exclusives.
The deal comes right on the heels
of Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard
with the irony of Xbox, being the house that Halo built,
being lost on absolutely no one.
Now Bungie will be joining,
the Sony Interactive Entertainment family,
which already includes Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog,
Guerilla Games, Sucker Punch Productions,
and Bluepoint Games to name a few.
Bungie says it's entering a new era
focused on global multimedia entertainment,
not just games.
So maybe Destiny animated series a la Arcane, anyone?
I don't really want that, but Arcane was pretty good.
- [James] People care about Destiny in that way?
- I think so.
- Did anyone care with League of Legends in that way?
- Yes.
Be on the lookout for faster connectivity,
the next time you're at a US airport.
The FAA has announced they've come to an agreement
with telecom giants, Verizon and AT&T,
for placing C-Band 5g at airports.
Kazaa!
Although it sounds like a no brainer,
especially considering how clogged,
both cell and wifi networks can get at busy airports.
The move was actually a long time coming
as the FAA was concerned about safety.
- [James] That's what they do.
- That's so weird.
It wanted to ensure the 5g bands
wouldn't interfere with important aircraft systems,
such as altimeters and wings.
- Sky chairs. - Flaps.
The telcos countered, however,
that many other countries already have 5g at their airports
without any accidents happening.
It's unclear as to when exactly,
we'll see the first 5g towers near airports in the US,
but if you're worried about catching the 5g yourself,
don't worry.
You already have to be vaccinated to fly internationally.
And the signal is amazing.
iPhone owners should see,
a couple of interesting updates in iOS 15.4.
One is a pretty big quality of life enhancement.
Face ID will now work even if you're wearing a face mask.
I thought they already had that.
- [James] I get an anonymous mask?
John F. Kennedy mask? (makes whoosh sound)
- Put them up, unlock your phones.
Although this feature was kinda sorta present for a while,
you had to also have an unlocked Apple Watch
to use as a key.
Ah, there you go.
Meaning iPhone users without the expensive watch add on
were left out in the cold.
No technology plebs.
Additionally, the OS update will bring a new batch of emoji.
One of which is a face that's smiling as it literally melts.
Literally?
- [James] I'm not getting into this again.
Which would be pretty on-brand for most of us these days.
That's true.
The update should officially roll out,
sometime later this year.
Hopefully no one will care,
because we won't be wearing masks.
- But the emojis! - Fingers crossed.
- [James] His face is literally melting.
- Yeah, but it's an emoji.
So it's not literally melting.
It's depicting. - This is philosophical.
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Quick bits, I'm not gonna tell you what they are,
but James knows.
- [James] I know how they taste.
- One of the most punishing games you can buy for your PC
might be getting a little easier to run.
According to the head of Microsoft Flight Simulator,
the game will be getting DLSS support in DirectX 12,
sometime this year.
Of course,
you'll need an Nvidia RTX GPU to take advantage of it.
But if you're lucky enough to have one,
you could have first-class visual quality
without coach level frame rates.
- I like this. - Or seatmates.
They're even worse. - Fasten your seatbelt.
When you're in coach,
with, like, the people sitting.
- [James] I get the armrest.
If you're in the middle, you get both armrests.
- In November, Tesla started allowing owners
of non-Tesla electric vehicles
to use it supercharger stations in the Netherlands,
but that's now being expanded to France and Norway.
You have to live in one of these countries,
or in Germany, or Belgium,
to take advantage of the service.
And you'll also pay some additional fees
compared to Tesla drivers.
They eventually hope
to open all superchargers to third-party EVs though.
So Tesla drivers will only be able to,
smugly nod to each other for so long.
- [James] Before the plebes come in.
- I'm sure they'll still do that.
It looks like Cyberpunk 2077 is very close
to launching on next gen consoles.
The current release is written for previous gen machines.
And of course,
the PC version took a notoriously lengthy time to release,
and was still plagued with bugs.
So console gamers have had quite a long wait
for the next gen version.
The news comes as the game is now listed
on the back end of the PlayStation Store.
And it's believed,
we'll see the game on the platform within a few weeks,
hopefully without a boatload of glitches,
but fingers are not crossed for that one.
It's probably gonna happen.
They're a hot mess.
I know PC components have been hard to come by,
but please don't do what one Amazon warehouse manager did,
and steal them.
A manager at Amazon Charlotte warehouse is in deep do-do.
- Yep. - Yep, that's poop.
After pleading guilty,
to stealing over a quarter million dollars in computer parts
and selling them to a wholesaler.
He's facing up to 20 years in the joint.
So yeah.
Please stick to getting your GPU's through legal means,
which it's like, what?
Who knows?
- It wouldn't download a car. - Yeah, exactly.
But how do I know?
I don't know if it's legal, right now.
- [James] You're going away for a long time.
- Best Buy could have done some shady stuff.
And the next version of Chrome for Android,
looks like it'll come,
with a new built-in safety feature for users.
It will now ask you if you're sure,
about closing all your browser tabs.
- [James] Hooray.
- The option to do so,
is currently right next to a list of other options,
making it easy to tap by mistake.
- No, my fetishes. (laughs)
- So, hopefully the powers that be at Google
will include the feature in the final release.
Wait, you don't want it. - I don't care.
- But we do want it.
Close your tabs, anyway,
- [James] I don't wanna lose tabs.
- You don't need all those tabs.
- [James] On the phone, who cares?
- And it's time,
to close all the tabs of today's news stories
because this episode's over.
Come back on Wednesday for more tech news?
- What timeline's this? - What timeline?
What dimension is this?
Hopefully I'll see you in the right one.
Later. (makes whirring sound)