Mon. 06/10 - The New Xbox Looks Like a Beast

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🗓️ 10 June 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The next generation Xbox sounds like a beast, Salesforce buys Tableau, Apple might buy a self-driving car startup, we finally get some details on Quibi and does Broadway want to jump on the streaming video bandwagon? Sponsors: Pantheon.io/ride PixelUnion.net Links: Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD storage, and ray-tracing for 2020 (The Verge) Microsoft’s new Xbox streaming mode is arriving in October for consoles (TheVerge) I tried Project xCloud at Xbox's E3 2019 show. It is real. It is insane. (Windows Central) Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7 B in all-stock deal (TechCrunch) Apple to Buy Drive.ai in Bid for More Autonomous Vehicle Talent (Bloomberg) The Google Assistant is now available in Waze (The Keyword) Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman Offer Details on Quibi Launch, Pricing (Variety) Would you pay to stream endless musicals? Some Broadway insiders are quietly betting on it. (The Washington Post) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, June 10th 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.
0:09.4	Today, the Next Generation Xbox sounds like it's going to be a beast.
0:14.0	Salesforce buys Tablo.
0:16.0	Apple might buy a self-driving car startup.
0:19.0	We finally get some details on Quibi,
0:21.0	and does Broadway want to jump on the streaming video
0:24.4	bandwagon. Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.
0:29.4	E3 is gaming's biggest conference of the year. It's this week and Microsoft
0:37.6	decided to kick things off with a briefing that made a lot of news,
0:41.0	beginning with some details of its next generation Xbox console
0:46.0	which right now is codenamed Project Scarlet. And this does seem to be next gen indeed.
0:53.0	Whatever Project Scarlet will be, it will apparently support 8K gaming.
0:58.0	Will reportedly be four times as powerful as the as fall of 2020. The system will also use GDDR6 RAM which Microsoft says will usher
1:17.3	in resolution and frame rates we've never seen before. Indeed, quoting Tom Warren
1:22.2	from The Verge, frame rates of up to 120 frames
1:25.5	per second in games, ray tracing, and variable refresh rate support.
1:30.0	Microsoft is also using an SSD on Project Scarlet.
1:33.4	We've created a new generation of SSDs.
1:35.7	We're using the SSD as virtual RAM,
1:38.1	says an Xbox spokesperson in an unveiling video.
1:42.1	This should boost performance by over 40% over the current
1:45.6	generation according to Microsoft and that will mean games load a lot faster
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