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Daily tech news & jokes to have a good start for 04/04/2023

Adam G
4 min readApr 4, 2023

Quote of the day:

You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. Anonymous

Jokes of the day:

What don’t watermelons get married? Because they cantaloupe.

“We messed up the keming again guys.”

Top 10 news of the day:

Spiritual Strider Sequel Cannon Dancer Osman Strikes PS5, PS4 Next Week

Retro arcade release revived — All the way back in 1996, a slew of ex-Capcom designers, including Strider’s Kouichi Yots…

All the way back in 1996, a slew of ex-Capcom designers, including Strider’s Kouichi Yotsui, created a coin-op game called Cannon Dancer, which was also known as Osman in the United States. Despite making its way into arcades, the game never got port… [766 chars]

Google Drive rolls out an awfully quiet file limit, leaving users out in the cold

Users have started receiving a new failure message on Drive regarding Google’s quietly rolled-out file limit.

What you need to know Google quietly rolled out a new 5 million file limit to Drive accounts on a larger scale. The change came without warning, and many have had their accounts locked until they delete hundreds, thousands, or millions of files. Goog… [2465 chars]

Accessibility Tags Rolling Out Across PS Store This Week

Select PS5 games supported — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmEFSB_PiQ&ab_channel=PlayStation Sony has announced the…

Subscribe to Push Square on Sony has announced the PS Store will be updated with accessibility tags this week, allowing select PS5 games to detail the options they have before the title is bought. Vital for disabled gamers, supported titles will let … [1340 chars]

The incredible story behind Apple’s most iconic sounds and their unusual names

Going by Jim Reekes, the little-known sound engineer synthesized nearly every system sound at Apple during his stint with the then-small company in the 80s.

The story behind some of Apple’s most iconic sounds — including that single chord that chimes when your computer boots up — all stem from just one man and more than a little influence from The Beatles. Sound engineer Jim Reekes synthesized nearly eve… [7824 chars]

Xbox Dashboard Adding New ‘Friends & Community Updates’ Section

Rolling out now to Xbox Insiders — Xbox has pulled back the curtain on a new feature for the “New Xbox Home Experience” — …

Xbox has pulled back the curtain on a new feature for the “New Xbox Home Experience” — the name for the new UI being tested by various Xbox Insiders. It’s called the Friends & Community Updates channel, and it begins rolling out today. Basically, thi… [786 chars]

Google warning issued as Chrome users can protect themselves with simple setting change

There are some simple setting changes that you shouldn’t ignore as they only take a few minutes and will allow you to use the internet more safely.

Something went wrong, please try again later. Invalid email Something went wrong, please try again later. Get the latest top news stories sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter Billions of people around the globe use Google Chrome on a… [1745 chars]

PS Plus Game Meet Your Maker’s Trophy List Will Take Some Effort to Platinum

Best get building — Among April’s PS Plus Essential lineup is Meet Your Maker, a game all about building booby-trapped lev…

Among April’s PS Plus Essential lineup is Meet Your Maker, a game all about building booby-trapped levels and then infiltrating stages made by others. It’s a neat idea, and certainly one that’ll benefit from launching on the popular service. With the… [1228 chars]

Konami looks set to re-enter console gaming arena with Konami Osaka Studio opening

Konami has been planning a comeback after basically leaving the console gaming market in 2015 and it has announced today that the company’s new Osaka Studio is…

Konami has been planning a comeback after basically leaving the console gaming market in 2015 and it has announced today that the company’s new Osaka Studio is now open. Konami says that the new development studio is equipped with state of the art eq… [1072 chars]

Pinball FX PS5, PS4 Adding Two Free Tables, Twilight Zone and Crypt of the Necrodancer Coming

About flippin’ time — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxYC_XYqHL0 Update: The big Pinball FX update livestream from develo…

Subscribe to Push Square on Update: The big Pinball FX update livestream from developer Zen Studios did not disappoint, as it confirmed quite a lot of new content is coming to the game. It’ll all get underway from 13th April, when two new remastered … [1119 chars]

Nvidia’s RTX 4070 consumes just 186W while gaming, leaked slide reveals

According to the slide, the RTX 4070 non-Ti will ship with 12 GB of GDDR6X memory across a 192-bit interface and 36 MB of L2 cache. That’s…

What just happened? Nvidia’s fourth graphics card based on the Ada Lovelace architecture is almost here. According to chatter around the water cooler, the card is currently being put through the paces by hardware reviewers ahead of a planned launch o… [1563 chars]

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Adam G
Adam G

Written by Adam G

Founder of www.businessideas.directory Tech enthusiast, currently entrepreneuring — regularly sharing content on startup stories.

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