Daily Tech News 27 July 2022

• Sales of Xbox consoles, software, and online services were all down in the quarter ending June 30. (WCCFTech)
  
  Does that mean I can finally get an Xbox series X?
  
  No, don't be silly. And don't even bother looking for a PS5.
  
  
  
• Trees don't exist. (Eukaryote Writes)
  
  Not that there aren't things called trees, but rather phylogenetically it is impossible to draw a line around the things we call trees. It's hard enough with crabs - king crabs, for example, aren't crabs, and nor are coconut crabs or hermit crabs. Crabbiness has evolved at least five times independently.
  
  But treeness has evolved independently at least thirty-eight times in the Canary Islands alone. Herbaceous plants freely evolve into trees and back again, completely destroying any hope of a neat evolutionary tree of trees.
  
  
  

• Social networks are dead. (Axios)
  
  Facebook is TikToking itself and Twitter's staff is 100% committed to the circular firing squad business model. They won't be missed.
  
  
  
• Micron has announced new 232-layer TLC flash chips with up to 2TB in a single 11.5x13.5mn package. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's dense enough to make a 16TB M.2 drive. That would be kind of expensive though.
  
  It's a little too large for a 2TB microSD card, but they would use cheaper, denser, slower QLC flash for those anyway.
  
  
  
• Google reported "disappointing" financial results, with profits of just $16 billion on $70 billion in sales for the last quarter. (Thurrott.com)
  
  Someone please disappoint me like that.
  
  
  
• Hololive's Tokino Sora - their first vtuber back in 2017 when they were just a VR technology company called Cover Corp - has reached one million subscribers, becoming the (counts) thirty-first Hololive member to reach that mark. (Reddit)
  
  Is that a lot? Because that seems like a lot.

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