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whoa guys let's just take a deep breath before we get upset

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it's just tech news okay this intro is brought to you by they're just movies

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the podcast we just did squid game that's not a movie we're doing june next

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week that's not a movie either okay it's a

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lifestyle whatever works blockchain technology we love it it's on the rise

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but apparently valve isn't a fan yesterday the pc gaming giant banned all

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steam games that use blockchain technology they didn't make a big deal

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about it though the change was spotted by age of rus developer space pirate

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games who tweeted about a new entry in steam's rules and guidelines section

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banning applications built on blockchain technology that issue or allow exchange

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of cryptocurrencies or nfts

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pictures gameplay in age of rust involves solving puzzles to collect nfts

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so they're obviously not too jazzed about the decision but for valve this is

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less about staying in the stone age and more about blocking in-game items that

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have real world value since that's what got them caught up in a legal snafu i

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love the word snafu over gambling laws in 2018. so lame valve will i get the

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thrill of playing the nft market except literally anywhere else on the

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internet nft after htc's vive flow vr headset leaked

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earlier this week the company officially unveiled it yesterday answering all of

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our burning questions like were most or all of those press images of people

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happily using the headset photoshopped the answer is yes most or all of them

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were turns out the flow is intended for media playback and very simple vr apps

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use an Android phone as the controller and it can't run for more than a few

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minutes without being plugged into a battery pack that's the way i

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it honestly seems like a google daydream view or an oculus go

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but worse if that's possible also worse is this tweet from the

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president of htc china asking facebook's andrew bosworth affectionately known as

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boss if he'd like to trade oculus's lightweight vr prototype for a vive flow

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a deal boss rejects don't fight guys no one wants either of

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these although i might be speaking too soon the us army just delayed their

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testing at microsoft's hololens to make sure it can meet requirements and i mean

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that thing's been it's like 20 years old at this point so maybe htc is involved

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somehow certainly not and the internet hasn't had a good ok

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boomer moment for some time thankfully the governor of missouri has stepped up

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governor mike parson which is a very boomery name has threatened to sue the

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st louis post dispatch for hacking after

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they published a story about a security flaw found in the state's public records

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database the flaw made the social security numbers of education workers

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visible simply by inspecting the site's html source code which can be done by

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pressing f12 what you can also right-click i'm a hacker i knew it

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i've been blackhead this whole time making the story even more amazing is

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the fact that this flaw was reported to the state many years ago and the post

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dispatch held off on publishing the story until officials could remove the

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affected web pages to be fair i get how

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governor parson wasn't able to parse how all all this works in his mind

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the internet's just a series of tubes y'all went down the wrong tube we only

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go through some tubes in missouri now it's time for the quick bits brought to

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you by the MSI spatium m480 SSD built on

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PCIe and NVMe the m480 can achieve sequential reads of up to 7000 megabytes

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per second and writes up to 68 000 but a

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super fast car needs to be super safe which is why this drive has built-in

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data security with error correction capabilities with capacities from 500

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gigabytes to 2 terabytes in the m.2 2280

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or wherever you want to be plus it comes with a 5 year warranty learn more about

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the spatium m480 SSD at the link below what do you mean you don't know what

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quick bits are we do this every time many customers are visible a wireless

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provider owned by verizon reported that their accounts were hacked this week

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leading to fraudulent purchases and changed passwords

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millennial hacked visible blamed reused passwords from outside sources for the

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hack but also admitted to experiencing technical issues with its platform last

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week so while visible may have screwed up here the real takeaway is use a

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password manager and two-factor

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the authentication one two three four no

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after best buy essentially locked the ability to purchase a ps5 behind a 200

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pay wall scout buy sony has decided enough is

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enough and now they're offering a direct buy option this is revolutionary they're

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vertically integrated this is crazy psn account owners can register to buy a

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single console only on playstation's website and will be selected based on

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their previous interests and playstation activities wow i never thought a stock

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shortage would lead to another gamer gate keeping we're gatekeeping

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who gets to buy only true fans can buy a ps5 can you do the playstation thing

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no playstation roblox is weathering some player backlash after announcing a

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number of upcoming changes including a ban on the use of vpns and the addition

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of realistic player avatars with reactive facial expressions

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i have a canker sore i have to eat like this i get the pushback because as far as i

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understand roblox is supposed to be kind of ugly so if your realistic face is

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pretty it's no bueno it fulfills the deep need in all of us to have to

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inhibit the body of something that looks like a mutated lego person it's

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fundamental that hair just clicks on do i really am

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yes i wish a new phone called the zimbezi z2 it's a

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phone made by an la-based company that's designed to share the profits from the

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sale of your personal data with you for a change

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the zim beezy is that what is it i don't know i don't know the zimbzz2

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will go for 550 sporting some real mid-range specs but

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don't worry you'll make your money back in no time with every piece of your soul

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you sell to advertisers honestly i may prefer that they have my data if it

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means i can pronounce the name of my phone

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and it's happened they put a gun on spot okay it's not actually spot from boston

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dynamics but it's a very similarly designed dog robot robot dog called

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qugv from ghost robotics who recently showed

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off models equipped with both a sniper rifle and a spy drone we now live in a

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world with flying robot sniper spy dogs in hindsight it was inevitable

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they're still good boys and this episode's ending is inevitable so come

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back on monday with more tech news more good boys and everything will just be

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fine just fine not if those dogs show up