welcome to Friday's TechLinked where we bring you Tech news the moment Linus is
through getting a week's worth of grievances off his chest Apple has been
accused of poaching employees to steal technology developed by medical tech
company Massimo I'm simul Apple
allegedly contacted the company in 2013 to discuss a working relationship but
turns out they were only really interested in working with two of their
Executives who Apple hired to basically develop end patent technology extremely
similar to massimos allegedly allegedly
if this feels like old news it's probably because apple has a persistent
habit of being inspired by other companies this
phenomenon has been named sherlocking after the time Apple updated their
Sherlock Search tool with features copied from the Indie app Watson in 2002
the same year Apple ended their famous think different campaign I wonder why
answer that cook I think we should start thinking the same more recently Blix Inc
alleged the sign in with apple feature infringed on their patent tile raised
concerns about the air tag and a live core Inc developed an ECG band for the
Apple watch only for Apple to add the functionality themselves and update
watch OS in a way that stopped olivcore's ban from working at all
anymore just standard corporate stuff you know
Apple does have fantastic products though I wonder what another company will think
of for Apple next Seagate has been charged 300 million dollars for shipping
hard drives to Huawei because I guess it's illegal to ship hard drives to your
buddies now like I got a whole Discord group about it
in August of 2020 the U.S Commerce Department expanded export restrictions
against Huawei after they allegedly tried to obtain Advanced Technologies to
undermine U.S national security so naturally california-based Seagate did
the responsible thing and sold 7 million hard disk drives to the Chinese company
throughout the next 11 months but come on no one else was selling them hdds
what were they supposed to do not be the sole source provider of hard drives to
Huawei and bleed and disregard for the law talk in fact Federal Regulators allege
that not only did Seagate sell Huawei as many hdds as they could afford but they
also extended lines of credit worth one billion dollars to Huawei so the Chinese
giant could buy even more the 300 million dollar penalty is meant to be
double seagate's estimated profit from the sales so hopefully the next time
they want to do business with a potential National Security risk they
think twice the government's punishments come with a side of extra SAS
interpretive dance of justice and Elon
Musk AKA Professor X everything happened
is friends off with Microsoft after the
company announced it would be dropping Twitter from its advertising platform
due to Twitter's new API fees this means
that potential advertisers won't be able to post to the birth site through
Microsoft's ad portal in response Elon accused Microsoft of using Twitter data
to train illegally so it's lawsuit time
which I can only assume is the name for musk's custom workout routine I didn't
know companies could do steroids training illegal feels so good to train
illegally we can speculate that Elon was either referring to the new Bing
training on Twitter data or Microsoft's second most successful chatbot Tay which
Twitter famously turned racist real quick back in 2016. looking for answers
BBC News reached out to Twitter via its press email receiving a carefully
considered and nuanced response that I'm just kidding they send a poop emoji at
least they didn't leave them on red
meanwhile the Twitter API's new paywall has also caused Microsoft to disable the
ability to share game uploads to Twitter from Xbox consoles and the Windows game
bar Minecraft influencers they thought they were safe from elon's nonsense but
the guy seems determined to break as many previously working features as
possible just pay Twitter to use it now it's time
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some rare quick bits on sale stranger SpaceX successfully launched their
starship Rocket yesterday and shortly thereafter it successfully exploded a
major setback for SpaceX or was it while
many people online have been quick to point their fingers and laugh the fact
is this was a flight test SpaceX launched the largest rocket ever made
into the air with the intent to gather data I mean we spent three years testing
and discarding different designs for a screwdriver I would imagine launching 33
jet engines strapped to a tube would take an extra level of data collection
the exploding really is just it's a bonus you know it doesn't have to happen
but it's kind of cool it was supposed to explode it's like fireworks but scary it
was gonna explode whether we launched it or not we just had to get it out of the
way a German magazine published the first interview with Formula One Legend
Michael Schumacher since he suffered a severe brain injury in 2013 is what I
would say if said magazine didn't instead publish a conversation with an
AI chatbot the magazine claimed it was Schumacher up until the end of the
article and now his family are planning to sue I'd lie about interviewing
someone with debilitating disabilities simply for profit if I could but
unfortunately I do have feelings a brain
and the ability to pause for these seconds it would take to consider the
ramifications of my actions it's unfortunate really
uh it could be a millionaire I could be so rich by now an upcoming first-person
game called unrecord has sparked some debate online a trailer for the first
person body cam style FPS game looks incredibly real and apparently too real
for many people who accused the so-called in-game footage of being fake
in response one of the game's co-creators posted a screen recording of
the game being developed within Unreal Engine 5. imagine doing such a good job
that No One Believes you now I truly
understand DJ khaled's seminal album Suffering From Success oh truly a profit
and he was a prophet I love you too Riley there's another one and another
one isn't there another quote another one we the best tech news
Atari has announced they have acquired the rights to over a hundred classic 80s
and 90s games well not acquired exactly
most of these classic games are assets the company originally had to sell off
when they declared bankruptcy in 2013. and saying classic games isn't exactly
right either since one of the few acquired games they actually revealed is
Bubsy 3D which looks like this uh
oh no so let's all be extra nice to
Atari from now on otherwise
they'll release more they'll release more Bubsy and that's
and the Red Cross launched a bizarre
campaign last weekend to raise public awareness of the real-life rules of War
as defined in the Geneva Convention by encouraging Gamers to play by those
rules in first person shooters those rules include no thirsting AKA shooting
it down to enemies you can still follow dual leap on Instagram perfectly valid
didn't say anything about thirst trapping no shooting non-violent NPCs or
their buildings and using medkits on everyone friend or enemy the Red Cross
recruited several twitch streamers to play by the rules in games like ARMA 3
Pub G Warzone and even fortnite running
the slogan how you play FPS makes a difference on battlefield's IRL but they
didn't explain how that's possible does the Red Cross think all video games
follow the plot of the 1984 classic The Last Starfighter for the recent TV show
future man or the recent movie that was written based off of the novel Enders
Game I have a expect their next campaign will be to stop armies recruiting
Esports Pros son we need a Teemo main on
our Squad someone's got a jungle and if you want to play by our rules you'll
come back on Monday for more Tech news and make sure you tell Atari that
they're your favorite game company and beg for their Mercy I don't get this
because of Bubsy Riley oh we're sorry
but for what we said about Bubsy I'm not