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badger badger badger badger man badger badger badger badger badger badger

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badger mushroom mushroom yeah he's hey nice between getting banned in china and

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facing disappointing iphone sales apple probably isn't feeling the holiday

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spirit hey kwanzaa and the latest lump of coal in their

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stocking is another court battle a federal lawsuit in the u.s alleges that

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apple lied about the specs of the iphone 10 lineup specifically the complaint

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states that the screen's diagonal size is a little more than a tenth of an inch

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smaller than what was advertised yes we got to pay attention to those

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details the claim that the phones are all screen was also claimed as being

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false definitely and because each pixel doesn't have three RGB sub pixels the

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official resolution is also inaccurate do it okay although it's unclear how

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much money apple will have to cough up if the plaintiffs prevail they are

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seeking class action status so if you bought an iphone 10 maybe look out for a

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handsome check that will allow you to like

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see a movie maybe if you're a californian that relies heavily on

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texting your wallet is probably breathing a little easier today as the

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state public utilities commission has scrapped a plan to tax your text

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messages originally sacramento wanted to tax any cell phone plan that charged for

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texting in order to fund programs for folks in underserved areas although

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telecommunications taxes for this purpose are common across the u.s an

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additional measure specifically targeting texting unsurprisingly was met

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with backlash from both consumers as well as a major trade association

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representing a number of large wireless carriers the change of course came after

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an fcc action that classified texting in a way that no longer allowed the tax

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under existing california law i wonder if maybe they'll try to tax snaps next

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but that might also lead to full-scale revolution snap like from snapchat

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tax snapchats john you're out of touch no one uses that anymore it's all

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tick-tocks don't tax my tick tocks

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consoles have become ever more pc-like in their architecture over the years and

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valve looks like it might be blurring the lines even further as a new update

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to a beta version of steam appears to enable cross-platform play between the

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pc and xbox one although this functionality is currently available on

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certain titles in the Windows store as part of microsoft's xbox play anywhere

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program having this kind of cross play on steam would potentially open up lots

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of other games for play on both pc and console without having to buy the same

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title twice and possibly enabling cross-platform multiplayer indeed the

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industry looks to be moving in this direction as a whole as epic games has enabled cross-play between almost every

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major platform for fortnite and they're releasing a toolkit to help other devs

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enable the feature as well no word yet on when this feature will be officially

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released or how many games will be supported but i'm just hyped to be able

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to play hello kitty island adventure on four different devices can i get an amen

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heck yeah i don't know what that game is and now

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do you not have a smartphone with a fancy portrait mode for dramatic blurry

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backgrounds well facebook will be giving you an assist as they announce today

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that their messenger camera can now do this for you natively so if you want to

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trick your instagram followers into thinking you can afford an expensive

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phone now would be a good time to do it even though this feature is like on

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every phone now basically but if it's not messenger the med police in

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london are going to be testing facial recognition cameras in a few high

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traffic areas on mondays and tuesdays only those days that's when all the

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criminals are there faces will be checked against a wanted database though

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the cops say anyone who declines scanning won't be viewed as suspicious

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personally i just don't want the police to see that weird growth on my chin

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there's some definite crossover between gamers and comic book enthusiasts and

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digital comic provider inky pen inky pen

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is coming to hoping to capitalize on this by coming to nintendo switch

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starting today the service will focus on independent comics but should also

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feature manga in the future for a price of eight dollars per month in case you

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need some reading material after you ragequit smash ultimate oh i do that all

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the time falcon's op is he no is it too much effort to unlock

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your car with a key fob if so you might be interested in hyundai's new system

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that can unlock and start a car with just a fingerprint the feature will

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launch next year and will be exclusive to china for the time being but there is

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but there is a one in 50 000 chance of a false positive so do keep an eye out for

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people inappropriately touching your suv and if you shop for groceries on amazon

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you might notice a few things disappearing from their selection as they're cutting back on items that they

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can't turn a profit on due to high shipping costs beverages specifically

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are a prime target i get it you get that

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that's a good joke as they're rather weighty but inexpensive so be prepared

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for more bulk buying maybe there can be a pepsi dash button where they'll just

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bring you soda in a 50 gallon drum

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that sounds unhealthy well that's it for now so we'll see you back here on

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wednesday for another 50 gallon drum of tech news that will pour down your

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throat in less than 10 minutes john

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that sounds weird