Tue. 07/06 – New Nintendo Switch (Finally/Kinda)

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🗓️ 6 July 2021

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Nintendo finally announces the new Switch, but how new is it really? What the heck is happening with Didi and China? REvil strikes again, and what that might mean for the hacking situation going forward. And on a day of big geopolitical news, might big tech platforms be chased out of India and Hong Kong because their employees are in danger of being sent to jail? Sponsors: Tovala.com/ride Cybereason.com Links: Nintendo Switch OLED model will go on sale October 8th for $350 (The Verge) Chinese Regulators Suggested Didi Delay Its U.S. IPO (Wall Street Journal) Didi Shows China’s Tech Giants Must First Answer to Beijing (Bloomberg) China’s Big Tech Crackdown Puts Dozens of U.S. IPOs at Risk (Bloomberg) Hundreds of Businesses, From Sweden to U.S., Affected by Cyberattack (New York Times) REvil gang asks for $70 million to decrypt systems locked in Kaseya attack (The Record) Twitter has lost liability protection in India, government says (Tech Crunch) American Internet Giants Hit Back at Hong Kong Doxxing Law (New York Times) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, July 6, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.2	Nintendo finally announces the new switch, but how new is it really what the heck happened with
0:14.6	D. D. and China. Reville strikes again and what that might mean for the
0:19.2	hacking situation going forward and on a day of big geopolitical news might big tech platforms be chased
0:24.8	out of India and Hong Kong because their employees are in danger of being sent to
0:28.8	jail. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:40.0	Well who knows why they're doing this now instead of at E3 as was the rumor but Nintendo this morning announced an updated switch with a larger 7 inch 720 P
0:46.8	O-led display which can output 4K to a TV. It's going to go on sale on October 8 for $350, quoting the
0:56.2	Verge. While rumors had suggested this new switch would ship with a new
1:00.8	invidia chip inside.
1:02.5	It's not immediately clear if Nintendo has upgraded the internal processors.
1:06.5	Other than the new screen, this revised model includes an adjustable stand for tabletop play,
1:12.0	64 gigabytes of built-in storage up from 32 gigabytes, a new
1:16.4	dock with a weird Ethernet port built in and improved audio for handheld or tabletop play.
1:23.6	The new switch arrives nearly two years after Nintendo's Switch Light, a smaller and cheaper
1:28.1	version of the switch that you can't hook up to a TV, the Switch Light debuted at $199 in September 2019.
1:35.0	Nintendo Switch has sold incredibly well with the console dominating U.S. sales charge for
1:39.8	nearly two years straight.
1:41.8	Switch Lifetime sales are at 84.59 million units
1:47.0	ship since its launch in 2017, a figure that is getting closer to the
1:50.7	Wii Consoles 101.63 million lifetime sales mark."
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