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whoa wait it's friday i'm out of here whoa

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weekend until you read the tech news

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come on man yes sir or madam i will read the tech

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news now we'll do my best google's takeover of the world may be halted as

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its acquisition of fitbit is under scrutiny by eu regulators google first

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announced its plans to acquire the popular fitness tracker brand in

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november 2019 for a tasty 2.1 billion

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dollars which would grant google a stronger foothold in the wearable tech

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industry however consumer groups and privacy advocates are attempting to

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block the company's takeover due to concerns over data collection and google

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being capable of raising barriers to entry to potential rivals oh capitalism

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what would we do without you 60 page questionnaires have been sent to google

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and fitbit's competitors questioning whether the acquisition could create a

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monopoly for google and whether it could grant google too much personalized data

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for its advertising empire they can take by browser but they will

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never take my resting heart rate because i don't even know what it is

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this apple watch isn't even paired to anything so german automaker bmw has

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announced that it plans to bring everyone's favorite feature to their

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cars microtransactions yay in a digital presentation bmw

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discussed booking vehicle functions and optional equipment over the air this

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means that car features you missed out on when you were purchasing a vehicle

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either new or second hand could be activated later on via a software update

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in the form of a subscription service come on

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i've got enough subscription services already soon i'm gonna have to pay a

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monthly fee for my butt to be heated as i commute to work

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fantastic however this may also work in

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reverse as you could potentially unsubscribe from features you originally

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paid for thus lowering your payments on

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the vehicle you know what i'm just gonna be i'm just gonna wait until the

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internet has developed some sweet totally legal homebrewed updates that i

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can install you hear about that happening with tesla's nonsense microtransaction stuff uh someone was

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unlocking the faster uh model three speed for like half the price or

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whatever speaking of shady business practices the uk's house of lords gambling committee

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has ruled that loot boxes should be regulated under gambling laws

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classifying them as games of chance

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well yeah a chance to blow your monthly earnings on six kins bruh highlighting

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the academic research and potential dangers often cited in debates around

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loot box mechanics and games the committee stated that if a product looks

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like gambling and feels like gambling it should probably be regulated like

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gambling huh yeah you know what that sounds fair with other countries and

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some game companies making changes to the way games can be monetized we may

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finally be going back to the good old days of bank account emptying

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microtransactions but at least we know what we're getting

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allowing users to stream and download content onto their oh amazon prime the

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video kind that makes sense to stream and download content onto their device i

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was like what wait we can have an amazon shopping app

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what i don't have a browser anyway so instead of using a browser

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for watching video you can use the app there is a catch though because despite

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the abundance of 4k content on the platform amazon states that the Windows

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over at the verge found that 720p was actually the maximum resolution they

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could currently access wait what are we living in the flipping stone age right

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now or something 720p hour you could just use your browser apple has launched its online

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portal for the apple card credit card allowing account holders to manage their

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moolah without the need for an apple device this is especially useful if you

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have some urgent things to address in your account but can't find your iphone

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oh apple users so now you can manage everything on your

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desktop or laptop with ease now we can stare anxiously at our statements and

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balances from anywhere i love it and soon you'll be wanting to manage your

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bank statements more than ever as it looks like video game prices are about

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to increase to coincide with the next gen consoles nba 2k21 pre-orders have

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recently gone live including playstation 5 and xbox series x game pre-orders

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along with a price hike of 10 us dollars for the next gen copy that puts the game

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at 69.99 in the u.s

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nice and a whopping 64.99 in the uk

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almost nice this price increase potentially signals that the next

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console generation may be leading to increased prices across the board

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although i guess that's just the price we have to pay for retracing

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ssds to become mainstream meanwhile on

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pc you can get like older aaa games for like eight bucks

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google has officially discontinued its pixel 3a and 3axl smartphones in the us

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the company stated that no more units would be sold through the google store

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but that they would still be available from some partners while supplies last

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so if you've been holding off on grabbing one of these phones you better get in there quick but bear in mind that

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this also likely means that the pixel 4a is right around the corner for probably

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not that much more oh decisions just like you're gonna decide to stop

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watching tech news for the day just kidding it's not your decision because we're done so join us next week join us

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on wednesday join us on monday for more of that sweet tech news

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may i leave now please sir i'm adam i am ever so tired and i need to recharge my

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batteries on the weekend secretly i'm a robot