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ah i've been doing tech news for seven years now and i swear

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if i see one more tech story i'm gonna tell you about it gladly

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dealing with pop-ups from anti-virus bloatware like mcafee on new laptops is

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annoying but if you're involved in the us election it might actually be

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dangerous to something other than your own mental health a new report from

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google indicates that a chinese hacker group dubbed apt 31 has been

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impersonating mcafee employees with the goal of

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infiltrating computers used by campaign workers apt-31 used phishing tactics to

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try and get staffers to install mcafee products from github instead of the

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official mcafee website which to be fair

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just as sketchy if not more and these downloads also contain malware which

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could be invisible to the end user google says this is part of a larger

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trend of government-backed malware attacks which have increased as 2020 has

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gone on the upcoming presidential election in the u.s is no doubt a huge

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impetus for these attacks and here i was thinking attack ads were the worst part

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of election season ha not this year this is the hell year

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everything's worse it's only gonna get worse

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just you wait although the big news recently in the world of wireless

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charging has been how apple is bringing back magsafe all the wireless charging

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enthusiasts are talking about it don't sleep on xiaomi today they unveiled a

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wireless charger that can deliver 80 watts which is more than the power

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bricks for a lot of mainstream laptops that's a lot of watts wow

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that's a lot of watch marty xiaomi claims that its new product can

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wirelessly charge a 4 000 milliamp hour battery in just 19 minutes as well as

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get from zero to 50 in less than nine minutes which would be quite impressive

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indeed although there are faster charging solutions around this appears

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to be the fastest wireless one yet although we're not yet sure exactly when

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it's going to hit the market in the meantime remember to plug your phone in

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before you pass out just in case when it hits the when it

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hits the market and then you're going to pass out that's that's john we love you

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john that's our john if you live in san francisco look out for driverless cars

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tooling around with a bit more regularity cruise which is owned by

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general motors has gotten a permit from the california dmv to put up to five

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driverless cars on the road for use as taxis in this case they're chevy bolts

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that have been modified to run autonomously it's not the first

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driverless car pilot in the u.s but san francisco's streets are notoriously busy

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so it'll be interesting to see how the cars perform the tests

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they can actually do it the tests will be limited to just one neighborhood for

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the time being hopefully it's the one with the squiggly that's insane

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yeah exactly and the cars won't exceed 30 miles per hour to reduce the risk of

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you know a wayward car going careening into

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step on it drive i'm in a hurry no word on if and when these trials will

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expand to the rest of the city or beyond but it would be awesome not to have to

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smooth going up it looks like we'll be getting the next flagship galaxy s

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smartphone a little earlier than anticipated as leaks indicate it'll be

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coming in january although we're expecting it to again have three cameras

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on the back it's not clear yet whether it'll be called the s21 or the s30 but

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i'm sure i'll be calling it expensive

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i'm liking these fingers today finger guy the iphone 12 was criticized

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in some quarters for not offering too many compelling new features but as the

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first 5g iphone that hasn't stopped it from pulling in pre-orders at more than

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twice the clip of last year's iphone 11. estimates indicate that up to 2 million

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pre-orders were placed though that's still only about half of what we saw

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with the iphone 6 which we all remember fondly i guess uh that phone famously

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gave the lineup a larger screen maybe apple just needs to sell an iphone the

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size of a tv for pre-orders to really take off think about it tim apple

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you got the idea here first a new CPU lineup can often mean needing to buy a

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new motherboard if you want to upgrade but MSI has come out and said that all

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of its 400 series chipset boards will indeed support the new ryzen 5000 cpus

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with a BIOS update and they're joining ASUS in this as well and a few other

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manufacturers however the updated firmware probably won't be ready until

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january so i hope you can get through black friday as well as christmas

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without too much gadget envy don't count

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on it what about that gadget every new year's and oddly enough tesla looks like it's

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giving freebies out to a select number of car owners some model 3 owners are

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getting premium options like satellite maps live traffic and streaming music

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without paying for tesla's premium connectivity package it's possible that

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this might only be available to drivers in canada

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yes finally we get something that the us might be missing out on i don't want to

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talk about this anymore that's our show so come back wednesday for more tech

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news with that tangy tomato flavor you crave john made it john made a joke

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about ketchup chips that's why this was hey don't you throw your really cool

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