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Review Of Pokèmon Let’s Go

Sam Greenwood

I thought that I released this about a month ago. The Pokémon Let’s Go games are a great spiritual successor to Pokémon Yellow. It has also been updated with some great (and some not so great) new features and new gameplay mechanics, also some features taken from Pokémon Go. But the game has stayed true to Pokémon Yellow while improving on it Gameplay In general the Gameplay is really good. It’s a basic Pokemon game so there is not much to say. The game is a little harder than most recent Pokemon games (but I think that the earlier ones … Continue reading Review Of Pokèmon Let’s Go

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This Week In Tech 12/02-12/08/2018

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This week Austrailian anti-encryption bill passes, Waymo is commencing service, Lots of data breaches, The Game Awards awards lots of games, the YouTube Rewind was released, lots of Google/Alphabet news, Huawei CFO gets arrested in Vancouver, OSIRIS-Rex and, more in the Other News section. OSIRIS-Rex On Monday, NASA got OSIRIS-Rex into orbit of asteroid Bennu. It is there to study and collect samples from the asteroid and information about it. The mission also wants to get an idea of how the solar system formed. Huawei CFO On Tuesday, Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou for extradition to the United States with charges of violating the US’s sanctions … Continue reading This Week In Tech 12/02-12/08/2018

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This Week In Tech 11/25-12/01/2018

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This week Marriotts Starwood reservation server was hacked. the first gene edited baby was born, USPS was hscked, NASA successfully lands InSight, lots of Google news, more on the Boring Company and, more in the other news section. The Hacks Marriott On Friday, Marriott announced that their Starwood reservation system had been hacked. In the breach they lost names, email addresses, passwords, social security numbers, passport information, credit card information and, possibly actual reservation information. The situation is interesting because the Starwood system was actually merged into Marriott system in August. USPS On Monday, the USPS admitted that they had … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/25-12/01/2018

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This Week In Tech 11/11-11/17/2018

Sam Greenwood

This week there’s been lots of Tesla,’ The Paris Calls, a Cloud Tax in Chicago, Valve rewards a massive bug bounty for a bug in Steam, Amazon HQ2, leaks, reports and, rumors, and more in the Other News section. Tesla This week Tesla made a couple of important announcments. Firstly, the Model S and Model X are getting a price bump. Also announced this week, Tesla is ending free Supercharging for new Tesla owners. Model S 75D now starts at $78,000 (up $1,000 from $77,000) Model X 75D now starts at $84,000 (up $1,000 from $83,000) Model S 100D now starts … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/11-11/17/2018

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This Week In Tech 11/04-11/10/2018

Sam Greenwood

This week there was lots of important tech news. Samsung held an event, the French may impose a Bitcoin tax, SapceX an a smaller version of the BFR, news about Disney’s streaming service, the Co-founder of VIne talked more about his new social network and, so much more in the other news section. Samsung Event On Tuesday, Samsung held their annual developer confrence SDC. At SDC they announced lots of new things. Also they announced that they are opening up an API for Bixby to developers. The final thing that was announced was the heaviy runored fodable phone, For more … Continue reading This Week In Tech 11/04-11/10/2018

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Samsung Developer Confrence Opening Keynote 2018

Sam Greenwood

Today Samsung held their annual developer confrence SDC. This event had lots of specualtion. They talked about Bixby, SmartThings and, Smart TVs. But they also announced the heavily rumored Foldable Phone Bixby Bixby is Samsung’s virtual assistant, they released it a couple years ago. Bixby will be coming to more devices (TVs, tablets and, smart speakers), it will also be opening up to more countries and more languages. They also announced that they are opening Bixby up to developers. SmartThings There weren’t many consomer announcments regardig SmartThings. They announced updates to the SmartThings Cloud, new APIs, and other dev tools. … Continue reading Samsung Developer Confrence Opening Keynote 2018

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This Week In Tech 10/28-11/03/2018

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This week: Apple held and event, Nintendo held their final Direct before Smash Ultimate, IBM aquires Red Hat and, lots of NASA news Apple Event וOn Tuesday Apple biannual 2nd fall event. They announced an updated Mac Mini, an updated MacBook Air and the heavily rumored bezal free iPad Pro. There was also some new software shown off. For more on the event read my post about it. Nintendo On Thursday Nintendo held the final Direct before the release of Super Smash Brs Ultimate and A Treehouse Live Presentation. During the Direct it was announced that there are two new … Continue reading This Week In Tech 10/28-11/03/2018

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Super Smash Bros Direct Fall 2018

Sam Greenwood

On Thursday (didn’t realize that I hadn’t posted it) Nintendo and Sora Ltd (hosted by Masahiro Sakurai) held the “final Direct before Super Smash Bros Ultimate” . In the Direct they announced the last two characters before release. They also announced a new game mode and a whole bunch of new features. Characters Before the direct there were 72 characters (heres a list).. The first new characters that was announced was Ken from the Street Fighter series, his model is based on Super Street Fighter 2. The last characters announced was Insinaroar an Alola Region Pokèmon, they said that it uses “traditional wrestling moves”.  Amiibos They … Continue reading Super Smash Bros Direct Fall 2018

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Apple Event October 2018

Sam Greenwood

Yesterday Apple held an announcent event. In the last couple of week since the event was announced the event Mac Air The first thing EA’s a new MacBook Air. it has a almost bezalless13.3 inch retina display. It also has the Force Touch trackpad with Touch iD. It has an I5 Dual core processor, and SSDs with upto a terabyte of storage. The computer weighs 2.7 lbs. It is made from 100% recycled aluminum. Also having Hey Siri and USB-C (2). It srarts with 8GB of memory and 128 of storage. It also has the T2 security chip and on … Continue reading Apple Event October 2018

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This Week In Tech 10/21-10/27/2018

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To preface since I couldn’t post last week we messed some big news; Apple had announced that thet are having an ecent this coming Tuesday in Broklyn. Last week the rumors said Apple was going to announce a new MacBook Air (or a replacment for that SKU) and a new Mac Mini. But the big thing rumoted is a new iPad Pro with a slim bezel and Face id (see image below). Now for the reguarly scheduled This Week In Tech. This week there’s been lots of announcments, news, and rumors. Firstly, lots and lots of rumors from the upcoming … Continue reading This Week In Tech 10/21-10/27/2018