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a tech news a day keeps industry-specific ignorance away so it's

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too bad we only do three videos a week you're screwed i'm sorry large portions

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of the internet may no longer work for those with phones running Android 7.1.1

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or earlier that's Android nougat for you sweet tooths sweet teeth i like to think

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of myself as a sweet teeth

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the issue is that a security certificate used by many sites is set to expire next

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september so older Android versions will no longer trust it an issue that

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highlights yet again the issue of Android updates

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for non-pixel phones phones have so much baggage

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some older phones are locked out of updates entirely while others are very

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slow to get new versions due to staggered rollouts of course you might

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be asking why anyone would be running an Android version that old but apparently

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nearly 34 percent of users on the google play store use a version before 7.1

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thankfully there's an easy fix that's readily available for all affected users

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right now it's called buying a new phone yes yes scrub scrubs come on virgin's

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hyperloop is a step closer to reality as its first test with a human crew aboard

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reportedly went off in nevada without a hitch launch

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the company's co-founder and head of passenger experience were the two guinea

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pigs who were flung down a 500 meter human pipe going 107 miles per hour they

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were turned into guinea pigs although that sounds really fast the system is

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actually capable of going 240 miles per hour though the speed for this test was

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limited so the riders could be comfortable and avoid excessive acceleration and braking over such a

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short distance i wonder if it was as loud as the size in the background

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although obviously 500 meters isn't very far the company is expected to build

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another testing ground in west virginia which is expected to feature longer runs

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and not turn anyone into guinea pigs

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maybe in the future it'll even be more appealing than flying i love being stuck

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in a metal tube with a bunch of strangers so think about how much better the experience would be without Windows

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it's no surprise that websites that rely on advertising revenue don't

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particularly like it when people use ad blockers with plenty of sites throwing

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up warnings denying you access unless you disable them well now one major

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streaming service is taking a different approach as twitch is reportedly

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limiting stream resolutions to only 480p if it detects an ad blocker many users

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of u-block origin an extremely popular browser ad block extension have

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confirmed that the service's usual max quality of 1080p at 60 frames per second

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is no longer available to them although some users have unsurprisingly found a

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way to bypass this restriction it remains to be seen if this will end up

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being a permanent change as twitch's advertising policies have already drawn

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the ire of some of its viewers for doing things like injecting ads in the middle

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of a stream we have no plans to do mid-roll ads on TechLinked however

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on to the quick bits if you've used google photos on your

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phone lately you might have noticed that a colourpop feature that was previously

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available to everyone is now behind a paywall yeah i love that

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great news the paid version gives additional editing options though to

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photos without depth information and it looks like it's being rolled into the

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company's google one subscription service which will set you back two

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bucks a month two bucks no for something i haven't heard of

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i'm sure this will go over very well with a user base that might already be

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cash strapped from a pandemic in case it wasn't clear john meant that

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as sarcasm t-mobile might not be the first name you think of when you hear

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the words home internet but it's offering its lte-based alternative to

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cable and fiber in over 130 more cities

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primarily areas in the american midwest the heart of the country lte home

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internet was initially focused on rural areas with limited connectivity options

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but it's not a bad idea for cities if the existing isps all suck who am i

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kidding that's never happened before right

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oh i guess the midwest the midwest isn't like the super rural part

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we're canadians it's right in the midwest a general in

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the british army has said in an interview that he thinks a full one-fourth of the army will be robotic

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by the next decade only one quarter of their bodies

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there are no firm dates yet but he wouldn't be surprised if robots saw

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frontline combat especially as the uk has had problems recruiting enough

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soldiers hopefully that rollout will happen without a hitch and we won't end

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up living in the terminator franchise my question is does anybody ask the robots

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how they feel about this not even their robots want to be in the terminator friends

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movie podcast subscribe today after eight long years halo 4 will finally be

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released next week on pc after beta testing ended this weekend the game was

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originally released on xbox 360 in 2012 and next week's release marks another

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step towards the entire main halo series being playable on pc with halo 5 now

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being the only exception maybe we'll see that one in 2028

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no way before then john they're coming fast time to get my old gang back

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together time to have the recruit a squad of 13

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year olds to call other people's moms bad names and

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mcdonald's is joining other food chains and introducing a plant-based meatless

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patty that it's fittingly calling mcplant

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that's horrible that's so bad mcplant

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would you like to order mcplant the company is looking at putting it on

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everything from burgers to breakfast offerings with test products rolling out

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in limited markets next year personally i can't wait to shove a mcplant in my

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face as i've already been meeting eating mcanimal for years now

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that's why it's funny that's our show come back wednesday for more tech news

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with no soy protein filler unless it's this

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these new soy protein stuff that's really good

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probably dude they're not gonna have soy john

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come on john get with the don't you love that