ah i've been doing tech news for seven years now and i swear
if i see one more tech story i'm gonna tell you about it gladly
dealing with pop-ups from anti-virus bloatware like mcafee on new laptops is
annoying but if you're involved in the us election it might actually be
dangerous to something other than your own mental health a new report from
google indicates that a chinese hacker group dubbed apt 31 has been
impersonating mcafee employees with the goal of
infiltrating computers used by campaign workers apt-31 used phishing tactics to
try and get staffers to install mcafee products from github instead of the
official mcafee website which to be fair
just as sketchy if not more and these downloads also contain malware which
could be invisible to the end user google says this is part of a larger
trend of government-backed malware attacks which have increased as 2020 has
gone on the upcoming presidential election in the u.s is no doubt a huge
impetus for these attacks and here i was thinking attack ads were the worst part
of election season ha not this year this is the hell year
everything's worse it's only gonna get worse
just you wait although the big news recently in the world of wireless
charging has been how apple is bringing back magsafe all the wireless charging
enthusiasts are talking about it don't sleep on xiaomi today they unveiled a
wireless charger that can deliver 80 watts which is more than the power
bricks for a lot of mainstream laptops that's a lot of watts wow
that's a lot of watch marty xiaomi claims that its new product can
wirelessly charge a 4 000 milliamp hour battery in just 19 minutes as well as
get from zero to 50 in less than nine minutes which would be quite impressive
indeed although there are faster charging solutions around this appears
to be the fastest wireless one yet although we're not yet sure exactly when
it's going to hit the market in the meantime remember to plug your phone in
before you pass out just in case when it hits the when it
hits the market and then you're going to pass out that's that's john we love you
john that's our john if you live in san francisco look out for driverless cars
tooling around with a bit more regularity cruise which is owned by
general motors has gotten a permit from the california dmv to put up to five
driverless cars on the road for use as taxis in this case they're chevy bolts
that have been modified to run autonomously it's not the first
driverless car pilot in the u.s but san francisco's streets are notoriously busy
so it'll be interesting to see how the cars perform the tests
they can actually do it the tests will be limited to just one neighborhood for
the time being hopefully it's the one with the squiggly that's insane
yeah exactly and the cars won't exceed 30 miles per hour to reduce the risk of
you know a wayward car going careening into
step on it drive i'm in a hurry no word on if and when these trials will
expand to the rest of the city or beyond but it would be awesome not to have to
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quick bits smooth going down
smooth going up it looks like we'll be getting the next flagship galaxy s
smartphone a little earlier than anticipated as leaks indicate it'll be
coming in january although we're expecting it to again have three cameras
on the back it's not clear yet whether it'll be called the s21 or the s30 but
i'm sure i'll be calling it expensive
i'm liking these fingers today finger guy the iphone 12 was criticized
in some quarters for not offering too many compelling new features but as the
first 5g iphone that hasn't stopped it from pulling in pre-orders at more than
twice the clip of last year's iphone 11. estimates indicate that up to 2 million
pre-orders were placed though that's still only about half of what we saw
with the iphone 6 which we all remember fondly i guess uh that phone famously
gave the lineup a larger screen maybe apple just needs to sell an iphone the
size of a tv for pre-orders to really take off think about it tim apple
you got the idea here first a new CPU lineup can often mean needing to buy a
new motherboard if you want to upgrade but MSI has come out and said that all
of its 400 series chipset boards will indeed support the new ryzen 5000 cpus
with a BIOS update and they're joining ASUS in this as well and a few other
manufacturers however the updated firmware probably won't be ready until
january so i hope you can get through black friday as well as christmas
without too much gadget envy don't count
on it what about that gadget every new year's and oddly enough tesla looks like it's
giving freebies out to a select number of car owners some model 3 owners are
getting premium options like satellite maps live traffic and streaming music
without paying for tesla's premium connectivity package it's possible that
this might only be available to drivers in canada
yes finally we get something that the us might be missing out on i don't want to
talk about this anymore that's our show so come back wednesday for more tech
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