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hear ye hear ye

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the tech news is nigh

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open thine ears peasant that i may

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wiggle my tech news pinky in them

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it's all over humanity is doomed because the alpha ai developed by deepmind has

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beaten human professional starcraft 2 players for the first time our most

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cherished and complex game i i mean that's only partly sarcasm

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sarcasm starcraft starcraft is much

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much more complicated than both chess and go which have already been mastered

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by deepmind's ai this one called alpha

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star prepared for its matches by playing versions of itself over and over again

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at an accelerated rate playing 200 years worth of games

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in about a week let's take that korea alphastar was put up against the

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starcraft pros known as tlo and mana

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beating them both five to zero however

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while deepmind did set human-like limits

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on alpha star's ability in order to make it a fairer matchup the ai was able to

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essentially see the entire game map out oh come on

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though it couldn't see through the fog of war

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and deepmind's analysis did show that alpha star focused attention on specific

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areas at specific times

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mana has defeated alpha star once this advantage was removed however

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mana was able to defeat alpha star in one last game so the headlines probably

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should read ai defeat starcraft 2 pros with screen

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peeking send one over deepmind i'm gonna take it

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on myself no i'm not now we all love to bash facebook but

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they also own instagram and whatsapp another two of the most popular social

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networks and soon they won't be that different mark zuckerberg has announced

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plans to integrate the messaging services of instagram whatsapp and

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facebook messenger in order to consolidate facebook services and keep

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users engaged with the what the hell are they doing

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this is literally straight out of the how to acquire something totally destroy

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it and make nobody care about it anymore playbook

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under the new system all three messaging services will effectively be the same

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system incorporating end-to-end encryption which whatsapp has already

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and allowing users on any one of those platforms to send a message to either of

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the others i mean that's why people are on instagram so they don't get messages

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from mom on facebook you're upset the move represents a sharp redirection as

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facebook has previously allowed instagram and whatsapp to operate

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largely autonomously it also arrives alongside an op-ed from zuckerberg

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published in the wall street journal defending facebook's business practices

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and expressing openness to federal regulation in response to its many

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scandals during the year of 2018 which

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wasn't that long ago so whether you feel the need to hashtag delete facebook or

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not they're not deleting themselves anytime soon they're just making it so

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we won't care about them good job and google has petitioned the us supreme

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court to overturn a ruling that would have potentially disastrous consequences

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for the software industry you see in 2010 oracle the company that owns the

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rights to the java programming language sued google for implementing java apis

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in some of its software like the Android operating system in 2014 the case

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reached the federal circuit appeals court which ruled that google had

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breached oracle's copyright but copyright laws had never been used to

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restrict the use of apis before and google believes that they shouldn't so

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they appealed it there was a second ruling last year which upheld the

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original ruling and now in a massive shocker google is appealing

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that ruling because they still don't agree the reason this is such a big deal

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is that new software is often based off of existing apis and if every developer

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was forced to pay licensing all the way back up the chain it could drastically

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alter the landscape of software development you know what come on oracle

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mr ellison don't you don't you have anything better to do you guys you guys

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basically have a monopoly on database software just enjoy your billions upon

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billions of dollars now it's time for blip lips brought to you by vincero

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the middleman take that middleman you'll get the look and feel of a watch that

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might cost 10 times the price elsewhere those middlemen are really getting fat

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slash tech oh vincerowatches.com i was

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like wow they got watches.com yeah vincero watches doc whatever the links

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below now on to the blip loops earlier this week may zoo announced the xero a

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smartphone for people with a lot of gray matter

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no no that's what is that the name up zero buttons ah it's a smartphone with

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no buttons or ports and then get this

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vivo has now announced their own super smooth phone the apex 2019 which also

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has no buttons or ports i mean we knew this was coming but we were like kind of

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joking you know like back remember okay remember when phones kept getting

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smaller and smaller and people would make these funny videos where they're

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just like holding a phone that's the size of a tic tac like yeah oh hello yes

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yeah i love it you know like that kind of thing well we

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would we joked about it soon the phone with no ports and nobod

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they're here then not just one two of them so the only seam is a microphone

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hole in the bottom and it relies completely on wireless charging now

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chinese phone makers have actually been responsible for a lot of innovation in

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phones recently including oh i wish i had that

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that uh next that has the two screens one on the back but i was not asking for

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this kind of change not like this

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valve will be making an appearance at the game developers conference in march

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to present a talk entitled brain computer interfaces

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one possible future for how we play how we play

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half-life for how we play half-life 3 is that what

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you meant valve whether it's meant to control gordon freeman or not the idea

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of playing video games with your mind is certainly intriguing especially if

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there's a gravity gun involved smart watches are pretty blah these days but

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google might be looking to kickstart the industry again code names for what are

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allegedly pixel branded watches called salmon

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and madaka have leaked with the rumor mill

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indicating we might see these devices this fall internet access for the island

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nation of tonga was completely wiped out this past weekend when an undersea fiber

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cable was damaged by cthulhu excuse me a ship's anchor a satellite dish was

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hastily set up in the capital and residents could line up to use it for 20

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minutes at a time is the entire world a south park episode now

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is this where we're at i mean can you imag can you imagine

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spending a good 30 seconds composing an unimaginably tasty tweet only to have

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your entire country's internet cut off

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and then someone else kicks you off the computer and they need the spot but you

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haven't pressed send yet i don't want to think about it and take this last item

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with a hefty dose of salt but a reddit post with what are supposedly specs for

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the next gen series of xbox consoles was posted yes my friends on reddit earlier

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this week before being removed screenshots were captured before that

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happened though thanks reddit showing a spec list that included 12 teraflop

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Radeon navi gpus and ray tracing support

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that does seem a little far-fetched but come 2020 and microsoft's announcement

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of the rtx box you guys will say

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hey those techlink guys they're pretty in the know they

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they they got it yeah and you know what else i've got

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some bad news because that's it

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for the tech news today unless you haven't watched the lan show

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in which case you could go do that now there it's not really tech news anymore

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people were worried when that TechLinked was going to kind of kill the wan

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show the WAN Show's just like an hour of now

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that's yeah it's not dead it's just stupid

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yes subscribe i got their attention