nothing my friends can stop the tech news not even my neighbor firing up his
chainsaw right as i'm about to get started here
if you're one of the lucky gamers that is currently in possession of a nintendo
switch seriously these things are going for like 500 bucks now make sure you've
got two-factor authentication on your nintendo account turned on there have
been lots of recent reports of unexpected logins across the service
oftentimes from countries outside of the user's home base which in this climate
i'm sure isn't you over the weekend many people on twitter
and reddit started complaining about it and seeing as many people have payment
accounts linked permanently you're definitely going to want to check that
hackers haven't dipped into your credit cards or even worse messed with your cloud
saves for mario kart
can't even imagine facebook has released an Android app for their twitch-like
game streaming platform facebook gaming what a creative name you'll be able to
watch live streams play facebook's library of proprietary games and even
stream mobile game play yourself rather surprisingly the app will not be
ad supported with facebook instead selling their own version of twitch bits
called stars the whole idea is for facebook to get more of a foothold in
the streaming world as it lags well behind twitch and even youtube even
though facebook has gotten a few big-name streamers to defect the app
goes live today and will only be available to Android users for now which
makes sense i guess sort of i mean apple isn't exactly synonymous with gaming but
then again neither is facebook the apple google rivalry has often been
characterized as one company trying to copy something the other one is doing
and that certainly looks like the case with the debit card google is developing
to compete with apple's credit card similarly to apple you'll get a pay with
your phone option that will track spending as well as virtual account
numbers for enhanced security of course unlike apple's offering it's a debit
card so don't expect any buy now pay later flexibility it's not clear yet
exactly what banks google will be working with but there is one thing we
know for sure finding out how everyone spends their money will be pretty close
to a literal gold mine of data for google aside from that we can only hope
that the cards will be made of metal so that we can all feel like big shots when
we slap down our debit cards to pay for dinner
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if you're a Windows insider you might want to check and see if the may 2020
update is now available in your settings app as it's being delivered to folks on
the program right now but if you're not the update should start appearing on pc
soon enough there are lots of cool new features on the way like updates to
cortana which i can't wait although rl
crime seems to actually be down a bit due to the pandemic cyber crime is
unfortunately up and even governments are falling victim as it appears a
fishing scheme cost one german state tens of millions of euros that were
supposed to be for coronavirus relief so as always guys be careful what you're
clicking on especially if it's a hot zoom date that you met 10 minutes ago
cursed you lawn mower amazon has started using thermal cameras
to take warehouse workers temperatures instead of doing it the old-fashioned
way which is you know kind of hard to do with six feet of separation
seems like a safe idea although now amazon workers can add getting blasted
with infrared lasers to the long list of crap that they have to deal with
seriously though amazon workers thank you
thank you and cyberpunk 2077 isn't due until
september but apparently you'll be able to get your first taste of it in june as
a special cyberpunk 2077 edition of the xbox one x will be coming out well
before the game's launch now obviously the release of the new series x xbox
later in the year and also the fact that you won't even be playing cyberpunk 2077
on this xbox you're buying right now might give some people pause but you
know hey if you just like can't wait to give out your money to get cyberpunk
branded stuff for some kind of instant gratification i mean i won't judge you
we all have needs like that lawnmower shutting up
and if you live in new york you can now get married over zoom if you just can't
wait until the pandemic is over the state governor has allowed clerks to
conduct marriage ceremonies via video conference and you can even apply for a
marriage license from your home pc as well it's funny how life always finds a
way to go on you just might have to postpone the honeymoon hey
well that's it for today come back on wednesday to spend more time with your
true love the tech news come on