It’s Epic with Walmart, Triller and TikTok! COD for big bucks and the new King GPU!
Welcome to Episode 5 of The Weekly Tech Rant and once again Karl and I cover the latest tech stories from the week. We talk about the ongoing challenges in our homelabs and our regular feature on what games and TV/Films which have piqued our interest this week!
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This week we covered:
- News
- Epic/Apple battle rumbles on and they announce the latest Fornite season won’t be on Mac/iOS
- More TikTok bids – Walmart and rival Triller(plus a VC) offers 20billion!
- Apple shares due for 4/1 split and they could rise again in the next twelve months!
- Next COD will cost $70 on next-gen consoles but this includes a copy for the current generation consoles!
- Facebook is upset that iOS14 privacy settings will hurt its AD business!
- What have we been playing this week:
- FS 2020 – I fixed my joystick issues (thanks Reddit!)
- Airplane Mode – missing business travel then we have you covered!(coming soon)
- What have we been watching this week:
- Bill & Ted: Face the Music
- Tenet – the new blockbuster from Christopher Nolan
- Any gadgets we are interested in:
- iPhone 12 – New renders and are we looking at the 2nd week of September for launch?
- NVIDIA 3000 Series GPU’s – The new King of the GPU’s!
