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and now for the tech news youtube ceo susan wojcicki has warned video creators
that the european union's copyright directive a wide-ranging legal proposal
currently under consideration by the european parliament would have terrible
ramifications for independent create that's us independent creators
the controversy surrounds article 13 of the proposed legislation which would
require that all online platforms
including youtube that's us again
Floatplane that all online platforms automatically
block content that may be copyrighted and if a copyright violation were to
occur the platform itself would be
liable rather than the user wachiski writes that this would
essentially force youtube to only accept
uploads from a small number of large companies as it would be too risky to
allow just anyone to upload anything as
long as youtube has to be on the hook for any legal damages that scenario
could actually destroy the independent content creator industry now of course
youtube already uses their content id system to address copyright infringement
proactively but the copyright directive would hold them liable to someone else
which means money lost and there it is it all comes down to money doesn't it
here i thought good old shoes you know was looking out for us
yeah well no i mean she she's she's right this is bad for youtube bad for
creators and quite frankly bad for the consumer so let's all hope and or take
action to ensure that the eu doesn't pass the proposal at least with its
current wording when they vote on it in january other google news they're
channeling the spirit of apple apple's not dead so they're channeling the the
the the the the soul of apple
yeah that's true with some closed ecosystem hijinks
related to wireless charging on the new pixel 3 and pixel 3 xl reports emerged
yesterday that the new phones were charging at only 5 watts on third-party
wireless charging pans pans
that's coming in the future just a pen you throw all your stuff in it it just
all charges like magic it's going to happen while charging could reach 10 watts on
the official google pixel stand while the qi wireless charging standard does
support up to 15 watts google has now confirmed that the pixel 3 and 3 xl
support qi charging but they only support it up to 5 watts and if you want
to charge it 10 you need the pixel stand which uses google's proprietary wireless
charging standard which they made specifically for these phones
yeah and that's isn't that's not even the only issue that users are having with
the pixel 3s there's a bug preventing photos from saving correctly complaints
about excessive vibration from the speakers okay i can't say i've experienced that one and a random side
notch appearing on the display on the xl you see people this is why we
can't have nice things this is what happens when you pre-order
yeah you did this talking to google right now not our
viewers they didn't do this they just enabled it and speaking of phones and
notches these two things may soon be a thing or two things of the past after
leaks pointed to samsung working on a number of under display technologies the
company has teased the a8s an all-screen
phone at the launch event for the galaxy a9s in china
what the what those are the model numbers
i don't know why they're seemingly working backwards with their naming
schemes i mean that's actually worse than what
apple did going from seven to eight to x
they're working their way down to one okay whatever meanwhile honor is teasing
their magic 2 phone which hides the front facing dual cameras behind a
slider and then xiaomi's me mix 3 will use a similar design so next year my
friends next year is going to be the year of no notches yes
yep and there's something in the script about ding dong the notches down they're
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co-founder of oculus brendan aribe
uh sure that's not how you pronounce that is leaving facebook after news
broke that the company had cancelled the next gen version of the oculus rift vr
headset which isn't to say that oculus isn't making more rift headsets it's
just that the current version they were working on the rift too so to speak was
cancelled so brendan's leaving seems like a bit of an overreaction maybe
although his exit does follow on the
heels of the exodus of co-founders of instagram and whatsapp so
maybe it's just crappy to have a lizard person for a boss i don't know i don't
know what's it like for you smart glasses might be making a comeback
maybe well they are if north the company formerly known as thalmic Labs has
anything to say about it they're launching smart glasses called focals
that look like regular glasses instead of a bad attempt at cyborging yourself
it's cyborg i'm not sure speaking of wearables mobvoi has announced the 200
tick watch classic 2 or c2 take your
pick it runs google's wear os now instead of their own Android based
system with nfc included but it's running the last gen snapdragon wear
2100 chip making it still probably one of the best Android smart watches out
there but that's not really saying something wow it's a slow news day htc's
buzzword-worthy blockchain phone the exodus one is now up for pre-order this
is news complete with its own cryptocurrency
called blatant cash excuse me uh zion uh
but you can only purchase it with cryptocurrency which is 0.15 bitcoins
478 ether tokens or
that equates to 960 us dollars worth you know htc we can google how
much that converts to in real money
that's a lot that's a lot finally apple
and samsung have been fined by italy for allegedly releasing software updates
that slow down old phones on purpose in order to force users to upgrade to a
newer model samsung has denied the allegations and interestingly the last
release of iOS actually sped up the performance for a lot of older iphones
so italy is going to have to prove that this actually happened this might just
be a ploy for our attention like italy italy's all like like
is anyone looking at us yeah we're the boot one well that's it for the tech
news today uh wednesday october the 24th but don't worry there's lots more days
left and hopefully some of them are better that was boring what is terrible news
crypto phone no are you for real one quick bit yep i mean well the main news
like the first news topic was just awful what do you want from me it was depressing yeah this show is supposed to
be fun i didn't know it is fun i didn't have
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