welcome back to tech lead everybody and today it's ew
james i'm not saying that that's gross you do what with the kiwi
what the heck say it
no no god this is a tech news show the right
to repair movement has won a major victory as the u.s federal government
has essentially made it legal for citizens to bypass digital rights
management or drm systems in order to repair their devices the new rules come
from the library of congress and the u.s copyright office in the form of several
new exemptions to the digital millennium copyright act or dmca which criminalizes
copyright infringement they don't serve to make drm illegal but they do include
broad protections for users who bypass drm and other technological protection
measures for the maintenance of a device or system in order to make it work in
accordance with its original specifications so jailbreaking and
unlocking phones is fair game as part of this
yeah there's even protections for modifying games or other software that
doesn't work properly anymore when online functionality is shut off like
when game servers are shut down yeah this is glorious news especially
for bob the builder fans can we fix it
you're supposed to spoil the gas i'm supposed to say yes we can
and Android phone manufacturers can fix their devices also as google has now
made it mandatory for oems to release more regular security and software
updates a new licensing agreement has google requiring Android device makers
to provide at least four security updates for a device within one year of
its launch and to provide regular software updates for two years after
launch if specific security flaws are identified by google the oem has 90 days
to push a patch out if device manufacturers fail to abide by the terms
of the agreement google could withhold approval of future devices this is
excellent yes because out of all the phones in the Android universe really
only pixels have gotten software updates within any with any timeliness or
regularity but now non-pixel peasants
can join our brothers in the sun
wow i thought we were going to add that in post but now we don't have to
wow feels good and twitch has announced a
number of interesting updates at twitchcon where else squad streaming
will enable up to four streamers to squad stream their stream makes sense
squad
would you like to join my squad oh
yes so independent streamers can link their stream so you can watch multiple
people in split screen that's how that works meanwhile twitch sings is a
karaoke game that well karaoke should be pretty straightforward
snap inc maker of snapchat james that's a app that the young people use
has also partnered with twitch to bring their ar filters to twitch as part of
the newly launched snap camera desktop app
i know and in related news Intel has partnered with streamlabs on a number of
nuk mini pcs intended for use as dedicated streaming pcs including some
that you'll be able to rent for 30 bucks a month altogether streaming is more
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you said it oh no well almost Linus almost said quick but almost an
unidentified new vega GPU has been spotted by videocards.com in the
benchmark results for final fantasy xv there's no definitive information on
whether this might be an existing Radeon instinct workstation card with display
connectors attached or a new rx vega gaming card but it's sat just under the
gtx 1080 and score so hopefully it's not AMD's next election
that'd be embarrassing
but not unusual yeah that's true the fcc
won't let california be as the golden state has agreed to delay its net
neutrality bill after the fcc claimed the proposed legislation would be
illegal not if it passed though then it would be legal
the bill now will now wait the bill's gonna wait until legislation concludes
concerning the fcc's rollback of its previous net neutrality rules which is
waiting on gus getting back to the office with that dang paperwork he's
been out getting coffee for at least an hour now that's good
come on gus you're screwing the pooch again guys
hopefully not literally facebook is working on augmented reality glasses
according to the company's head of ar ficus kirkpatrick wow
that's a name huh that's not a name that's a plant yeah
it sounds like the hero of a young adult novel or something like fico the
adventures of ficus kirkpatrick and the ring of
sauron anyways microsoft ceo satya nadella said
in the company's earnings call that the xbox game pass subscription service will
be coming to pc but do we need it it's already like a ton of these kind of
subscription services on pc already forza
none of them have forza though you know about that
yeah it's a racing game with cars yeah chuck wagons it's a chuck wagon
racing game you could call them truck wagons and time to throw out your
worthless 14 terabyte hard drives they're not even the biggest ones you
can get anymore western digital just launched the 15 terabyte ultrastar dchc
620. why
why are you even trying with 14 terabytes what can even fit on there
like a single word document like a haiku yeah like this dumb haiku you wrote for
your high school crush get out
just kidding it's time for me to get out of this video because it's over like
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