Tech Talk Thursday Episode 6 - a podcast by The Cookout

Topics

Tech

- Ahead of shutdown, Google starts Play Music to YouTube Music transition

- Twitter Will Allow Employees To Work At Home Forever

- Corporate staff under no pressure to return to offices – Apple

- Thunderbolt security flaws found, affect 2011-2020 Macs

- Senator Richard Burr – FBI obtains copy of iCloud data

- Access your browsing history w/oa warrant? Senate votes yes.

Gaming

- Phil Spencer says next year's games are more likely to be hit by coronavirus delays than this year's

- EA is making Xbox Series X Smart Delivery confusing

- Ubisoft will host their digital showcase in July

- First-party PlayStation games to be collected under new PlayStation Studios brand

- Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 & 2 remasters grinding onto PC in September

- Epic's multiplayer systems are now available for other devs to use for free

- Unreal Engine 5 tech demo uses 'film-quality' assets with hundreds of millions of polygons, runs on today's hardware

- Fortnite to hit PS5 and Xbox Series X at launch

- Unreal Engine games no longer owe royalties on their first $1M in revenue

- Epic Games Store started a sale with free Grand Theft Auto V, and immediately fell over

- EVO 2020 has become an online event

- COD: Warzone introduces mandatory 2FA for free PC accounts

Streaming

- State of the Stream April/2020: Valorant and Valorant streamers top the charts, music is having…

Software/Hardware Updates

- Adobe Acrobat Security Vulnerabilities Allow Root Privileges on Mac, Update Now

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