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the only thing hotter than a vancouver summer is the tech news baby

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wait that what if you're just itching to try out

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Windows 11 before general availability you're in luck as microsoft has made an

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early preview of it available through their developer channel so you'll need

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to sign up for their Windows insider program in order to get it this early

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build does not include a few of the promised features notably those Android

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apps that Windows 11 is supposed to be able to run natively but it does include

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snap layouts the new widgets panel and

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virtual desktops and yes you'll be able to move the taskbar icons back to the

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left side of the screen which actually i'm not going to do of

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course remember that because this is an early build you might run into bugs and

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things that simply don't quite work as intended um also it's Windows so

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it never works as intended speaking of Windows bugs microsoft has

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an egg on his face today as the company disclosed that it accidentally signed a

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driver called filter driver signing is supposed to let

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users know that a driver has been verified not to be malicious but it

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turns out that netfilter is malicious specifically it tricks gamers into

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thinking that they're installing a geospoofing feature but contains a kit

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that can be quite difficult to remove and it connects to known malware servers

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in china the good news though is that the malicious driver is not believed to

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have had a broad impact and you had to specifically install the driver manually

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in order to be affected but still remember that it never pays to cheat

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just ask the houston astros sports reference guys do you like sports

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remember when the trend in portable gadgets was to make everything smaller

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well we still want things to be lightweight but it turns out that larger screens are really useful shocker right

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anyway apple is reportedly applying this concept to the upcoming ipad pro as a

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report indicates that the company wants to make future ipads larger than the

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current 12.9 inches people tend to do a lot of multitasking on their tablets

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these days so it does make sense although any redesign is still likely to

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be a couple of years away of course if ipads get much bigger we might start

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asking if they're really tablets anymore or just laptops without keyboards you

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below quick let's have them

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youtube tv is offering a new 4k option that will also allow you to download

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content that you've saved to the cloud dvr so you can watch it offline and on

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the go if your tv is a laptop i guess unfortunately cable channels still

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aren't offering much in the way of 4k content so the 20 bucks a month youtube

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is asking for for the future seems kind of steep but we promise tack linked will

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always be available in glorious 4k for free

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there's a new top dog or rather top dragon in Android soc land qualcomm has

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just announced the new snapdragon 888 plus which will now feature a top speed

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of 3.0 gigahertz on one core the company

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also says that their ai engine is 20 faster but that's about it there isn't

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anything in the way of new features so don't feel like that thousand dollar

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phone with a regular 888 you've just started to pay off is suddenly out of

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date or anything china made headlines last month for the successful landing of

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its mars rover and now we've gotten its first photos and video from the martian

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surface the videos show the rover coming down the ramp of the spacecraft as well

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as it backing away from a camera it placed on the ground china says the hope

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is that the rover will work for a minimum of 90 days

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mars time of course apple made headlines last year when they warned people that

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the iphone 12 should be kept away from pacemakers due to its magsafe feature

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but now apple has released a long list of devices in addition the iphone 12

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that should be kept six inches away from pacemakers or 12 inches away if the

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device has wireless charging the list includes air pods apple watches

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home pods ipads mac computers and beats

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headphones yikes these devices all

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contain magnets hence their inclusion on the list so i'm assuming the insane

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clown posse aren't big time apple users

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or they just don't get apple how does it work

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and volkswagen has announced they're going to stop selling gas-powered cars

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in europe by 2035 joining other automakers like ford and volvo who have

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pledged to switch to all-electric in europe even sooner than that vw will

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also phase out gas cars in other parts of the world sometime shortly thereafter

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so if you want a gas-powered beetle you won't have forever get your hands on one

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before vw says that's all folks

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oh honestly i wish i wrote that

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and that's all for our show today so come back on wednesday for more tech

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news and most assuredly more terrible puns