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tech news is kind of like a box of chocolates you never know what you're

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gonna get but it'll definitely be chocolate so it's definitely gonna be

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tech news google has responded to privacy concerns about audio recordings

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captured by the company's google home devices according to a belgian report

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which we talked about on wednesday by the way those recordings are sometimes

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captured when no activation phrase has

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been spoken so many of the recordings contain private and even personally

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identifying information in their response google says the problem here

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isn't their practices but rather the fact that the contractor

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violated their data security policies by

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leaking the audio the company defends their practice of having humans review

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audio saying that it is critical to the development of google assistant and that

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only 0.2 of all audio snippets are ever reviewed

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wow that sounds like a lot doesn't it

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my goodness and those snippets are not

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associated with user accounts reviewers are directed to not transcribe

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background conversation only speech that is directed at google but thing is those

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people are still potentially hearing personal information which they could

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use themselves in any number of nefarious ways so if you're concerned

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you can turn off voice and audio recording in your google account

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settings but i mean now the question becomes can you even trust google to

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honor that choice uh

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no sweet no you've never been able to speaking of google being sneaky deep

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mind the company's ai focus division is inserting its pro starcraft player

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beating ai alpha star into the game's european competitive servers

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alpha star will apparently play a small number of games against human players

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and while us flashbags will be able to opt into the program for a chance to

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play the ai alpha star will be anonymous

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so you won't know whether you're playing it or a regular meat bag as was the case

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for its matches with professionals multiple variants of alphastar will be

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competing and results will be recorded to publish as data in a peer-reviewed

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scientific paper after the trial now importantly this time around alpha star

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will have tighter restrictions on its actions per minute than it did

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previously and will only be able to perceive parts of the map using a

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camera-like view rather than the all-seeing

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sauron type omniscience that it used in january you know i'm actually fine with

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being killed by a robot as long as it's like a fair fight you know the robot has

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to use the eyes on its head like me no lasers no lasers

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and the walkie-talkie function on apple watches apparently fell victim to a

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vulnerability that could allow users to listen to another person's iphone

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without their knowledge yes my friends if you go like this in your

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walkie-talkie apple watch if someone's standing near the other person they

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might be able to hear it actually no it's a little more complicated than that so the issue was reported directly to

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apple via the security portal on apple's website and so far it doesn't appear to

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have been exploited by any bad actors the flaw calls to mind a similar

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facetime bug from earlier this year that similarly allowed people to listen in

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before the call was accepted on the other end so apple has disabled the

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walkie-talkie feature while it fixes the issue so if you were having lots of fun

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pretending that you live in stranger things land

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i'm sorry man uh with all these audio recording security flaws i think it

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might just be time to like now it's time for the zippity zaps

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zippities apps a bit of a strange report from french site cow cotland is that a

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french word um anyway it's circulating right now claiming that the AMD Radeon 7

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has been discontinued the info apparently comes from supply chain

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sources who say that remaining stock is being sold off and that AMD declared the

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card end of life last month what do you mean last month that card was only just

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released in january so i i mean uh hopefully this means that

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we'll be getting a higher-end navi-based card soon

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and uh not that AMD let NVIDIA like get inside their head you know ignore

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them AMD yeah they're just bullies

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big green bullies with great graphics cards

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nintendo just launched the switch light but in other news the company also just

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submitted an fcc filing stating its intention to update the original switch

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with new hardware including updated memory and some kind of updated integra

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processor now it should be made clear that this news does not concern the

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rumored switch pro because filing specifically refers to a new revision of

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the same model of product so i'll say this nintendo as a current switch owner

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i must say this is not fair and my attorneys and i will be pursuingly well

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i don't care i'm upset that's just in the script they get the better one why

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are you mad we don't even know that it's better i'm very upset the leagues for

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the samsung galaxy note 10 and 10 plus appear to have reached their zenith

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their apex their highest point

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with screenshots that basically leave nothing to the imagination samsung will

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apparently officially reveal the phones at an event on august 7th which will

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forever be remembered as the day that the headphone jack truly died and i

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stopped getting new note devices it's not enough that google and amazon

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record our voices when they're not supposed to now they're gonna follow us

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around the house too amazon is working on a home robot that's being described

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as a sort of mobile alexa

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so it's going to be able to wheel around after you and supposedly report

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everything that you do to its data hungry masters i mean it could also make

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it easy to order more laundry detergent or track your calories or whatever so

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that sounds that sounds pretty worth it sounds friendly and AMD said that pci express

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4.0 will remain exclusive to their x570

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chipset but now ASUS has actually published a table of x470 and even value

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b450 motherboards which they say could support the feature with a BIOS update

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that's pretty cool because i've always wanted four pcies

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jk PCIe gen 4 it's faster and i've

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always wanted to end this episode of techwing always every moment of my life

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up until now i have thought of nothing but ending this episode episode number

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69 20 127 of tech

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so thanks for watching guys i hope you have a fabulous weekend and i'll see you

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back here on monday with more tech news i'm gonna be rested and refreshed and

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you know you guys should get some rest too you look tired oh yeah that's not

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very nice it's bad it's a bad thing go brush your teeth oh

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breath smells hi gene it's important