aha nice work you found me but i'm not a
chocolate easter egg i'm a human being that will now deliver
you tech news what fun this is this is stupid
yeah faster unfortunately lg and their
fans aren't having so great of an easter monday because the company just officially announced it is
closing down its mobile division the news comes after
months of speculation that lg would do this very thing
but it's still hitting the tech world pretty hard as everyone remembers the few phones lg made that were actually
good i've never used one so i'm just reading
the script sure sure if you say so lg says
exiting the phone industry would allow the company to focus on other things that it's better at like tvs
smart homes ai evs you know
other tech industries that haven't yet been fully dominated by google apple and
samsung lg's mobile division will continue to operate until their current phone
inventory is gone so your lg wing isn't a brick
just yet and it never will be it's got two rotating screens if it's a brick it's
the coolest brick ever you could do it out of gamecubes
user information from 533 million
facebook accounts was leaked online for free
on saturday it's just another saturday
really the material leaked over the weekend was part of a database that was published in
january and some noob leaked it for free when
good hard-working hackers paid handsomely for the same information
it's just disrespectful kind of like facebook saying this leak
isn't a big deal because it's old data so like whatever security experts are
saying that while there are other types of data like full names email addresses
and dates of birth in the dump it's primarily made of phone numbers
including mark zuckerberg's number that's awesome er one of mark's
numbers he's got to have more than one phone probably
probably so anyway check if you've been
pwned using haveidbinponed.com
watch out for spam calls and texts i get those all the time i hate them
use a two-factor authentication app instead of using text messages
and so on this is the cra we are calling
about a lawsuit filed under your name give us all the time dark patterns a
term that refers to manipulative techniques that can trick users into
agreeing to hidden terms are in the news after a recent new york
times report the new york times found that donald trump's 2016 election campaign
continued withdrawing millions of dollars from the bank accounts of
supporters who had made a one time donation one time a one time
it's one time every month a senior citizen who donated 500
found out later the campaign had withdrawn three thousand dollars
and another supporter discovered their 990 contribution
had turned into 8 000. the campaign reportedly achieved this by hiding
pre-checked check boxes agreeing to a
recurring donation within a giant block of text and baby
that's one dark pattern why is that funny hopefully
these tactics won't survive much longer a few weeks ago california passed a law
that would ban the use of dark patterns yeah that's california what about
colorado or any other states and it seems like the other
states might follow their example because the only
people who are allowed to swindle old people out of their money are gold diggers and grandchildren
that's it get to the back of the line now it's time for quick bits which is
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i need a drink of water okay i never
thought bits could be so quick truly amazing stuff it's like a
breakfast cereal quick bits stop it a beta version of the Windows
app for microsoft's xcloud streaming service has been discovered through
rg ad guard okay a site that scrapes the
microsoft store for download links so you can try it now if you think the
idea of playing xbox on pc is mind blowing i'm not that mind
blown you'd think that xcloud would come to Windows the os made by microsoft
sooner but microsoft isn't like these other tech giants
they don't play favorites what they do play is still unclear
amazon has admitted that fine yes their drivers pee
in the odd bottle once in a while okay
to be fair though this is an issue that affects many driving related occupations
including uber uber lyft and delivery
drivers i don't want my uber driver peeing in the car that i'm just pee in
the car the whole time
of course this wouldn't be so much of a scandal if amazon didn't tweet
you don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing do you
and then they apologized for that oh boy
moving on the new hummer general motors announced last week
is electric and that's cool but what's even cooler is the fact that it has a
crab walk feature that allows it to drive diagonally okay
like a fire truck oh sure yeah they can do that i didn't know that
yeah it's cool other cars driven by jumps have to parallel park while the ev
hummer can slide into the spot like its driver who
is super cool slides into dms it can't go
sideways can it just diagonally
pc gamers with an NVIDIA GPU have found that outriders the online only loot
shooter that just launched can be paused using NVIDIA's ansel
screenshot capturing feature while playing as single
player this is interesting but what's more interesting is the fact that outriders a game that looks like a less
classy desaturated destiny 2 this is this is
hurting somebody's feelings not mine i don't play any of those games
launched as one of the biggest co-op games ever on steam it looks lame but
hang on could you not pause before no because it's online you can't pause it but it's
a single player game who cares if you pause or not
i don't know about destiny all right apparently this is a big deal
and scientists at queen mary university of london have figured out how to
collect environmental dna or e-dna
from the air with this technology detectives wouldn't even have to wait
for suspects to return to the scene of the crime they'll already have their dna bam case
closed go home batman you're a funny looking
less cool punisher anyway oh them's fighting
words as well hey hey i i'm just reading i'm just
reading the prompter it's time for us to go home too come
back on wednesday for more tech news we'll do a better job of hiding it next
time hiding what hiding what detectives oh oh it's an
easter egg it's an easter egg hunt it's all come
full circle