I now have a child so you are all legally obligated to call me a Papa Jean
ah Papa Jean so Amazon Prime day is
currently in full swing right now but that doesn't mean Amazon is the only
place online where you can score a special deal other retailers are trying
to cut into the Amazon hype including Walmart Target and notably eBay which is
already offering a number of highly discounted electronic gadgets so you
might want to give these other also-rans or less cool retailers look because last
year Amazon actually totally got taken down by a glitch on prime day because so
many of us need stuff or we think we do
when it's a little bit cheaper if Amazon goes down again this year eBay will
offer a crash sale with deals that it promises are even more outrageous so get
down yet keep your eyes peeled if you really want to save some money by
spending money you otherwise wouldn't have to spend get down you got stuff I'm
trying to sell Microsoft Office 365 is now in the same
legal territory as crack and machine guns at least in the eyes of the
government of hesse a federal state in Germany last week the state's government
declared office 365 illegal due to the productivity software's penchant for
sending user data back to Microsoft HQ in that creepy privacy invading us na
esta casa si ah not German enough si has
roughly 6 million people many of whom are now criminals ok it's not that bad
the state's leadership appears to be using this declaration as the means to
pressure Microsoft into changing their software in both office and Windows 10
to comply with German law as well as Europe's notorious gdpr or general data
protection regulation has these government does specify conditions under
which schools or offices could continue to use the software including storing
data on German servers instead of American ones but it makes you think
about what we do if office was suddenly
made illegal Google Docs it's no secret that online
shopping has been the demise of many a brick-and-mortar retail chain but Game
Stop is hoping to fight back even in an era where online distribution platforms
like Steam I've taken over the industry the chain is partnering with a design firm to
revamp its stores promising new layouts new ways to track games before
committing to buying them and even eSports leagues
you can see I'm skeptical additionally some stores will be dedicated to selling
old-school retro hardware in games and just that that seems like even worse of
an idea overall it's a game Saab wants to turn their stores into more of an
experience rather than just a place to buy games which would be pretty cool
except I probably would just experience them there and then go buy them online
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smart smart person ROFL quick bets the European Union's Galileo satellite
system an alternative to the well known GPS has been down for the entire weekend
and was still not working at the time we wrote this episode Wow none of its 26
satellites are currently working for the public due to an issue on the ground no
word on when it'll be back up but I'm sure Galileo himself is turning over in
his grave telescopes wryly
it's game over for the suite of internet
games that came with Windows XP and Windows 7 ha if you're still using an
older version of the OS Internet backgammon checkers heart's not hearts
spades and reversi are all going away
soon at the end of the month of using XP in January 2020 for Windows 7 users I
actually really missed those but not quite as much as a space cadet pinball
well I just wore my arrow keys were just
Dunn's up it wasn't long ago that Donald Trump
announced that the u.s. wanted to develop a space for us but now it looks
like they're allies the French won't be too far behind as Emmanuel macron wants
to create a Space Command is that what they're calling it that's not as good as
for us a Space Command to help defend Frances satellites hopefully they'll
have an easier time with that than Buzz Lightyear did against Zerg that that
joke sucks that's a brutal joke that's not okay that's not even a French
movie French I don't even get a joke sucks and speaking of movie stuff a
movie based on the iconic retro game space invaders is one step closer to
reality ah it's gonna be bad new line
cinema has hired the same writer responsible for the moral Kombat reboot
to work on the film of course the game didn't really have much of a plot to
begin with other than shoot this group of pixels that kind of looks like an alien but it can't be more disappointing
than the Independence Day sequel right weird comparison that's not a video game
and the US Army has announced it will start testing robotic combat vehicles
next year these vehicles will be unmanned and controlled by remote
operators who could be men or women and while the first of these vehicles will
only feature 7.62 millimeter machine guns the idea is that heavier remote
vehicles with expanded capabilities assisted by AI will be available in the
coming years ultimately the Americans hope that the vehicles will be more
effective than the droid army that Jar Jar being somehow took down
that's all for today so come back for the sequel attack of the clones on
Wednesday which would be just as good to stay but more clones
fewer clones
the appropriate about fewer than zero clothes Wow