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google has dropped a fat load of cash on fitbit and by dropped a fat load of cash
on i mean of course bought yes the tech giant has acquired the fitness wearable
maker for 2.1 billion dollars setting a great example
for kids everywhere oh your classmate arnold is getting better grades than you
in your wearables class buy him
facebook was apparently also in the running to make the purchase but they
were offering about half of what google was that probably made the decision a
little easier now that fitbit is part of the google combine we may actually see
some wearables that have a chance at taking on the apple watch with its you
know life-saving electrocardiogram or
whatever we also might see google collect
fitbit's user data so that's neat
the us department of the interior has grounded its fleet of around 800 drones
used for monitoring endangered species and inspecting federal reserve land
because they suddenly realized that they were made by dji a chinese company
that's only partially a joke though homeland security did express
concern about the use of dji drones in 2017 saying the company was collecting
and exploiting sensitive us data the aircrafts have been in use for years
without apparent issues for their part dji says that they worked with the doi
for 15 months to develop drone solutions that met the department's needs and that
the government of china has never asked the company for data but it doesn't look
like there's going to be a quick resolution for the situation in sight because this is only the latest example
of the us government cracking down on cooperation with chinese companies
regardless of what they say about whether or not their government is
asking them for data hopefully we can avoid situations like
these by you know hitting the google before buying 800 of
anything next time where did you get that hat
uber is facing scrutiny over the way it handled a massive data breach that the
company suffered in 2016. state prosecutors investigating the case say
that when uber was made aware of the hack it paid the hackers a hundred
thousand dollars to delete the stolen user data then uber tracked down two of
the three hackers involved met them in person but then did not turn them over
to police company representatives apparently had the hackers sign a
non-disclosure agreement promising not to reveal the details of the
arrangement and at this point you gotta kind of ask like
getting criminals to sign a legally binding document preventing them from
incriminating themselves
what even what even is that like if that if the hackers broke the non-disclosure
agreement what's uber going to do like
sue them anyways these details came out when uber
finally publicly reported the hack in 2018 and those two hackers have just
been arrested and have pleaded guilty to their crimes it remains unclear whether
this means that uber can also sue them for breach of contract but um
i mean hey maybe that would be a solution to all the money they keep losing hey now's time for the big quits
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more images have leaked of motorola's upcoming foldable razer phone showing
more angles of what looks like an impossibly thin device with a much
sharper crease than the samsung galaxy fold there's also what looks like a
fingerprint sensor and a front-facing camera that you can use even while the
phone is folded but will we still be able to use it as a ninja star
only time will tell remember that commercial you're doing it peter
no no this is the next thing and by peter i mean the youtube community in
general because hashtag team trees the tree planting initiative spearheaded by
mr beast and mark rober has passed the halfway mark with 11 million seven
hundred thousand trees primed to be planted at the time of filming today so
if you haven't donated yet it's one dollar per tree so like
go for it plant a tree it's just a dollar
you know what it's not really tech news is it that's okay
i love trees except when i kill them here's some tech
for you Gigabyte has launched the aorus gen4aic SSD an eight terabyte pci
express storage drive that can reach sequential read and write speeds of 15
gigabytes per second that amazing speed is achieved using pci
express gen 4 which is only currently available on AMD x570 motherboards with
ryzen 3000 cpus installed hard drives
you're a joke you're done come on you're done bud get over it unless you don't
have a lot of money in which case hard drives reviews for the much anticipated
ps4 game death stranding
is that whatever i don't anticipate ps4 games i don't have one you don't know
what that is and this being the first game that hideo kojima okay i know that
is has made free of the restraints imposed by his former studio konami it's
in a massive surprise to everyone apparently pretty whack
while the game is undoubtedly brilliant one reviewer also called it a compelling
mess and the ending sequence alone is apparently over 45 minutes so if you
like your gaming entertainment with a side of confusion get excited oh and
it's coming to pc next summer so see that's what i would have heard about
and and blizzard finally announced diablo 4
at blizzcon today the company got flack last year for announcing diablo immortal
a mobile only adaption which i thought was fine i mean don't you guys have
phones yeah you guys but that still hasn't even been released
and now fans are finally getting what they want so everyone is in love with
blizzard again right yeah right
oh right no no
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