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i'll tell you what doesn't work","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":399.36,"end_s":405.44,"text":"continuing this episode so we're shutting it down come on back on friday","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":403.199,"end_s":410.4,"text":"for more tech news oh yeah it's gonna be good","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":408.4,"end_s":415.039,"text":"is that what you meant by ooh oh ho ho ho ho ho yeah","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":413.36,"end_s":421.96,"text":"oh it's gonna be god","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":418.639,"end_s":421.96,"text":"that's enough","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"look you wanted the tech news didn't you well here it is oh why are you so mad i'm always mad facebook probably isn't the first company you trust with managing your finances but they've gone ahead and launched their very own cryptocurrency called libra which i i guess they're hoping this project will help them balance the scales so to speak okay that metaphor actually kind of makes sense because unlike bitcoin or ethereum libra will be tied to a number of traditional stable currencies that could protect it from wild swings in value but do we really want facebook controlling our money well thankfully the company knows you don't really trust them so they won't actually control libra facebook is just one of the 28 members in the libra association which also includes more trustworthy people like mastercard paypal visa and ebay customers can use libra through facebook's calibra crypto wallet platform which will be available worldwide except for regions that aren't very friendly to crypto like india which is facebook's biggest market whoops another hurdle that facebook will have to face is scrutiny from the u.s government lawmakers have called for the company to halt development of libra until they can take a closer look at it and the senate banking committee has already announced a hearing on july 16th to question facebook about its plans senate hearings or no i think i'll stay away myself libras and lee leos do not mix well i'm a libra actually he's a leo apparently yeah that's scorpio nobody likes scorpios imessage on apple devices is a feature-rich encrypted modern text messaging extravaganza but while google has been trying and trying to get cell carriers to implement rich communication services or rcs as a replacement for regular old sms text messages on say Android devices carriers have been dragging their feet because there's no real monetary incentive to upgrade their infrastructure and google has had it up to here with that nonsense the tech giant will be launching its own rcs messaging service later this month yes with an initial rollout in france in the uk crap many questions still remain about whether google rcs will feature end-to-end encryption or multi-platform support but hopefully google taking things into their own mighty hands will light a fire under the carriers to roll out rcs on their own and you know make life a little better for their customers imagine that because that's what cell carriers are known for isn't it yeah my mouth is closed i'm saying it and sound the alarm vape nation is under attack san francisco may become the first u.s city to outlaw e-cigarettes good-bye city supervisors voted unanimously because they're old people yesterday on a bill that would ban the manufacturing distribution and sale of e-cigarettes on city property the legislation is part of an effort to reduce e-cigarette usage among high schoolers which the cdc says could be as high as 20 it's also particularly interesting because joule the most popular company in the industry is headquartered in san francisco and would have to move their operations if this ban goes into effect that's amazing it will reportedly take at least seven months for any legislation to be enacted but in the meantime stay strong vape niche i would tell you to consider quitting but you're an adult uh unless you're one of those high schoolers i was talking about before then yeah make smart choices for future you say no to popcorn now it's time for quaker bakes brought to you by private internet access pia supports a variety of vpn protocols and types of encryption allowing you to dial in the exact level of privacy protection that you need they've got apps for Windows macOS Android iOS Linux and google chrome with support for several other platforms coming imminently you can connect up to five devices at the same time and other features include dns and ipv6 leak protection and an internet kill switch to block all traffic if the vpn becomes disconnected unexpectedly which won't happen because that's pi8 god dammit check it out today at the link below on to the quaker bakes delicious are you a quaker i'm a quaker ea is not guilty of pushing loot boxes on miners because they're not loot boxes you see they're surprise mechanics that's what ea's vp of legal affairs terry hopkins told a uk committee likening loot boxes to children's toys with unexpected prizes inside like kinder surprise eggs or are hatchimals you know what those are no i'm assuming you put that in there for the americans who don't have kinder surprise anymore hopkins said that enjoying loot boxes in a healthy way is actually quite ethical and quite fun well carrie tell that to the eight-year-old malcolm who was caught during his 18th blackjack game at the local casino he wasn't i made that up but he could be he was on a roll too damn you carry come on a developer named bylaws has managed to get Android running on a nintendo switch and quite smoothly i might add the modder booted up NVIDIA shield software and was then able to stream the pc version of overwatch to their switch via GeForce now although they might have been breaking a few bylaws in the process see i made a pun Linus he's not here okay speaking of switches we all might be getting a mini version soon if leaks from a chinese retailer are any indication device protectors and cases are being listed and promoted online so keep your eyes peeled for a switch mini in the next few months or years or never this is a rumor after all use your brain people come on use your one collective brain fable the augmented reality company magic leap is suing fellow ar company unreal claiming that one of unreal's founders chi shu stole magic leaps technology when he was an engineer there she left the company in 2016 and then showed up at ces in january with the unreal ar glasses well it's not the most lucrative theft to make it it doesn't seem like ar companies are making much money right now anyways but stealing is wrong kids children kids and so so is naming your company in real real and really if we're being serious i don't like it and Intel has released a processor auto overclocking app called Intel performance maximizer or ipm the app will overclock your CPU with just one single click although pc perspective noted that it won't do it as well as a human generated overclock so you might have to just roll up the sleeves of your Linus tech tip stealth hoodie and twist those greasy old knobs yourself don't forget the engine oil uh riley how do you how do you think overclocking works dude there's no oil in there i'll tell you what doesn't work continuing this episode so we're shutting it down come on back on friday for more tech news oh yeah it's gonna be good is that what you meant by ooh oh ho ho ho ho ho yeah oh it's gonna be god that's enough"}