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Rated T to M. Hey, wanna hear a PC game pass ad? I'll take your silence is a yes. Want new games on day one? Like Call of Duty, Black Ops 6 or S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
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2?
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I thought so. How about unlocking all the League of Legends champions when you link your Riot Games account, All for one low monthly price? Well, guess what? We got you. Learn more@xbox.com PCGame Pass or click the banner STALKER2. Available November 20, 2024. Game catalog varies by region and over time. And that's the the end of the script.
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Ah, sorry I had to wade through all these Black Friday deals, but I did find some tech news in there also. No, you don't need it. Intel is either on the cusp of launching its next Gen Arc Gaming GPUs codenamed Battlemage, or it's not, and it just really, really, really looks like it is.
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Oh, I love a good cusp.
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Cusp me following leaked listings for two variants of the ARC B580 on Amazon, Intel Insiders reportedly that apparently picked their name in the 90s video cards with a Z that the B580 and B570 graphics cards will be unveiled this Tuesday, December 3rd, with the actual launch scheduled for December 12th. That news came along with more leaked listings courtesy of a regular character in these stories. Momomo on Twitter indicating the B580 will launch at around 250 to 260 USD. It's encouraging news given recent rumors that intel was getting out of the discrete GPU business. Actually, according to another leaker, Jaikin, the company's previously announced Celestial and Druid based graphics cards are still planned. It's discrete laptop GPUs that Intel's giving up on, and I think we've gone far enough down the leak rabbit hole.
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Well, what if just no one buys these then?
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If no one buys you, you're not real.
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They druid.
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Let's hope these leaks are accurate so we can get the truth next week and stop baselessly speculating about whether Pat Gelsinger wants to be my other dad.
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He does.
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Can we just drop it? Australia has passed its controversial social media ban for children under 16 into law, eliciting a range of reactions from fair dinkum to I don't know, seems a bit dodgy. I'm sorry, Australia. Rather than punishing children who managed to get around it, which many are already promising to do, the law compels platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and even Reddit to find some way to block access by minors, which doesn't involve requiring government id. We'll never figure it out. Like maybe instead of a captcha to log in, it asks you if you're feeling particularly skibidi today, or ask you.
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To make a pun. Only old people can do it.
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It's one of the most drastic measures taken in the struggle to figure out what to do about these ubiquitous platforms that have been demonstrably proven to be bad for us. Except for YouTube and floatplanes. 1 Answer TikTok has come up with is to block the use of beauty filters for kids under 18 in 13 European countries. All the other kids are done for. It's like euphoria in real life over here. Whenever they look up from their phone and see real people, they just scream.
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So ugly.
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Meta is drawing up plans to spend $10 billion on a more than 40,000 kilometer undersea fiber optic cable stretching around the entire world, insider sources have told TechCrunch. That lines up with an earlier report from marine cable expert Sunil Tagar describing Meta's plans for the mother of all submarine cables. It'll be huge. The most beautiful Internet cable you've ever seen crossing the globe in the shape of a w. Which is the wrong presidential reference to make right now, but Meta doesn't care. It would be the first Internet infrastructure fully owned and used by the tech giant, which would be a great milestone as long as it doesn't get severed by a Chinese ship like the commercial hauler currently being detained in international waters on suspicion of cutting Internet cables in the Baltic Sea. Meta thinks it'll be fine, though the route was reportedly designed to avoid areas of geopolitical tension, although it touches Straya, where the teins are carrying on like a pork chop.
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It's so big you can see it from the Metaverse.
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That's our content, bud. I did the wrong accent.
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Welcome to Canada.
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Hey, that's our content, buddy.
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Horizon zero dawn has gotten its very own palworld situation in the form of Light of Motiram, an open world survival crafting game from Tencent owned studio Polaris Quest that rips off Horizon's post apocalyptic world full of mechanical beasts to an offensive degree. But we're talking about a game that's bold enough to take a second in the middle of Its frankly beautiful 7 minute announcement trailer to ask, why can't human beings kill God? It's real, even bolder. In addition to PC, iOS and Android, the game is launching on Horizon's home turf, the PS5. Before you know it, there will be a Lego game to match. And look at this wacky new flying taxi concept called the Blackbird, from a company called Cyclotech, which uses technology called Voithschneider propellers, spinning circular arrays of rotors to generate lift and thrust.
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That sounds sciency. Take my money.
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The propeller design is often used on tugboats and ferries, but no one's thought to use it for aircraft until these guys did, which I think is a great sign. Now come back on Monday for more tech news and I might talk about this fun headline. Scientists turn a Quantum computer into a time crystal that never stops. You want to know what that's about, don't you? Wait, don't Google it. Just wait.