so you came to get linked up with the tech news
uh-huh makes sense oh yeah microsoft naturally
is always trying to make Windows 10 better and they
sometimes succeed but since they often don't the company
is reaching out to gamers for feedback on what they want to see in future
Windows builds microsoft's xbox team started a gaming on Windows 10 idea
drive complete with a website where gamers can suggest improvements this is
gonna be good like disabling background processes while playing a game another
popular idea was creating a separate version of Windows specifically for
gaming it's a nice thing to see from microsoft especially considering the
massive disaster that was the Windows 10 october update and at least one insider
build of Windows has now separated cortana from the search bar so you won't
need to feel bad about ignoring her every time you need to find something
hey you need help with something no god just just go basically every company
with a web presence including google scrambled to comply with europe's
general data protection regulation or gdpr when it was enacted last year but
despite their efforts google has now been saddled with a fine of 50 million
euros or around 57 million us dollars by
the cnil a french data protection agency
the fine is related to the setup process for a new Android phone and the alleged
lack of transparency about what user data is being collected and for how long
users are essentially required to set up a google account to fully make use of
the device which apparently runs afoul of gdpr google is reportedly studying
the fine and considering its next steps meanwhile a meeting among european
lawmakers to discuss article 11 and 13
of the eu corporate directive legislation has been delayed giving the
eu parliament little time to reach an agreement before elections are held in
may if you ask me and you shouldn't if google bothers europe so much they
should just make their own google yeah googly build your own personal data
hoarding mega corporation leave ours alone
come on yeah we're not even american and poor poor apple you know they were
pretty popular for a while there and now it's over now apple's still fine but
they did just put the iphone se back up
for sale in the clearance section of their store over the weekend the popular
model quickly sold out but it was certainly an unusual move by the company
to even release it which could have been motivated by low sales of the newer
iphone 10r or 10s or 10s max for that
matter in fact foxconn the biggest factory that assembles iphones has not
renewed the contracts of the 50 000 seasonal workers at its plant in
shenzhou
while such a thing is not uncommon doing it this early in the season is and
points to lower demand for apple's devices as a whole well i guess this is
it apple it's been fun press have to pay respects everybody i mean we can say
apple was cool at the very least they were cool
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all right a patent has surface that allegedly describes motorola's upcoming
revival of the incredibly popular razer flip phone the first phone i ever wanted
it looks like it would be the size of a regular smartphone but would then fold
in half to fit more easily in a pocket which my pants have with a small
external display it's a slightly different take than the folding tablet
designs that we've seen teased from other companies but motorola has always
been a little different you know that's okay that's fine you know yeah
facebook is apparently just as concerned as elon musk is about humanity
inadvertently developing robots that can't think of a reason
not to kill us so together with the technical university of munich facebook
has begun work on the institute for ethics in artificial intelligence these
guys ethics the company will provide 7.5
million dollars over five years to get the institute started hopefully someone
else doesn't already build killer robots before those five years are up
shared bikes and scooters have popped up in cities all over america and have also
been left all over the place in those cities but now uber is looking to fix
that by researching autonomous driving tech for the small vehicles which would
allow them to drive themselves back to recharging stations i hope they get this
working by halloween that'd be a great launch date
it's already a south park episode
you're so 2000 and late and german developers have managed to mod quake 2
to include ray tracing support yes is what i've been waiting for as an example
of the type of quality improvement you can get with the new rendering method
the project called q2 wikipedia is
basically the original game but with ray tracing and it looks pretty awesome
maybe i can't live without ray tracing after
all no james don't don't go towards the light very
bird boxy and our last story is just a video of richard browning ceo of gravity
industries flying a jet suit that he invented around a training course for
the royal marines browning is himself a former royal marine reservist and you
can't help but think that this is all just an attempt to impress his sergeant
never got that approval however it does look again pretty freaking awesome
what's not awesome is the fact that this episode is over ah lame but don't worry
we'll be back on wednesday with more tech news and then friday then the next
monday and the monday after that and of course another wednesday and then look
out sister because bam friday's going to hit you again like a big long wet
dreadlock to the face i'm never going to the water slides
again look at this