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today is a bittersweet day

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you know it's been fun doing TechLinked but i think it's time for me to

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go away for two weeks

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yeah for two weeks yeah did i not i'd say that it's two weeks leave now ah

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i'll be back guys look bro we get it

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you vape but you might not be able to blow sick strawberry flavored clouds for much

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longer if the current vape apocalypse continues new york is set to join

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michigan in banning flavored e-cigarettes governor andrew cuomo on

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sunday called vaping dangerous and said that it is addicting young people to

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nicotine at a very early age so the state is issuing an emergency regulation

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banning all vape flavors except tobacco

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and menthol meanwhile a group of democratic senators are calling for a

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nationwide ban on flavored e-cigarette products and a crackdown on sites like

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ebay selling counterfeit and legitimate vaping products despite that being

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illegal this comes less than a week after president trump announced his

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administration would seek a similar ban and all this comes after the cdc revised

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the national number of illnesses linked to vaping from 450 to 380 though the

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number of vaping related deaths hasn't changed at six

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those medical incidents are believed to have something to do with contaminants

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in counterfeit black market or home mixed vape liquids so if you're going to

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vape buy the good stuff or do what i do just stick your head in the freezer to

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see your breath it's basically that's so crazy that the batting cigarettes look the same

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what do you mean no they're just banning flavors of it oh they're not banning

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actual cigarettes that are way worse for you they're not also banning those yeah

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no those are fine listen yeah yeah yeah yeah those are yeah they're cool it's

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the strawberry toxin am i right in a wall street journal report amazon

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has been accused of manipulating search results to favor more profitable

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products rather than more relevant or best-selling listings the shopping giant

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reportedly optimized their search algorithm in this way last year so that

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jeff bezos could buy more colossal yachts which are to be fair

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very nice plus they go to space do they

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but amazon tried to be sneaky about it rather than just assigning a

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profitability value to certain products then boosting the most profitable

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products they made the algorithm prioritize factors that correlate with

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profitability that way the feds won't be

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none the wiser indeed the wall street journal says amazon's lawyers vetoed a

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proposal to add profitability directly to the algorithm because it would create

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trouble with anti-trust regulators now companies change things to maximize

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profit all the time but this is lame because i could be looking for one of

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those cool travel mugs that looks like a camera lids you know

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but instead of sending me to the the one that's high quality and reasonably

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priced they send me to the cheap knockoff one and then i'm spilling coffee all over my shirt you know and

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and everyone knows it's not actually a lens but it's a coffee mug i don't want

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to find myself in such an embarrassing situation

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plus i'll have to buy new shirts but that won't be so bad because ltd

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ltgstore.com and i hope this is the last time we have to report on pixel 4 leaks

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but there are more so we know we're getting a pixel 4 and pixel 4 xl soon

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but a new geekbench listing describes a google pixel 4 xl 5g which is presumably

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a third different model well maybe the regular pixel 4 xl has 5g i hear you say

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well maybe there are a reference for rs5g

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i knew it but that's not true because the pixel 4 xl has been shown to have

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six gigs of RAM in the torrential downpour of leaks we've already seen

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while this model has 8 gigabytes and guess what else

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code found in the new camera app for Android contains references to another

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device codenamed needlefish which is rumored to be the cheaper pixel 4a

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ah it's also the worst gun in halo 7.

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now it seems a bit soon for google to release a 4a just a few months after we

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got the pixel 3a but who knows we'll have to wait until october 15th because

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that is the official date now for google to put an end to all these leaks because

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they're really taking the jive out of my walk you know really taking the pep out

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of my stuff i used to i used to be like

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yeah it's just like

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that's me walking you're more spider-man 2 than spider-man 3.

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heart it's time for the quick bits bro

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you hear about apple arcade that's what every tech outlet was talking about this

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morning as gizmodo cnet the verge and more got a hands-on look at the games

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available and gadget said arcade's best selling point is that it has games

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you'll actually want to play like frogger yeah stop playing games you

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don't want to play guys like that doesn't make sense all the kids are

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like fortnite

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i play fortnite for work apparently some users on the iOS 13 beta

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already have access so if you have it let us know what it's like to play games

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that are actually good for once they're not quite at pixel 4 levels but

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leaks have revealed the rumored specifications for microsoft's surface

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pro 7 with configurations ranging from an Intel core i3 with four gigs of RAM

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to an Intel core i7 with 16 gigs of RAM

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that's not super interesting but what might be is a 15 inch surface laptop

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powered by a AMD processor we're also

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expecting to see a snapdragon powered notebook and a dual screen device at

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microsoft's event on october 2nd so hold onto your butts until then

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or grab onto a your mustache

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and go for a run half-life is not dead no matter what you

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say to me i will believe that especially considering recent evidence publicized

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by valve news network valve developer kerry davis gave a talk recently and

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disclosed that valve is working on a flagship vr title and signs point to it

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being released this coming year even james

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that's in the next 14 months yeah it could be could be cool though vr

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borderlands 3 launched this weekend and despite the enormous backlash the game

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received for signing up as an epic game store exclusive gearbox ceo randy

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pitchford claimed that on pc the peak concurrent number of players on launch

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day was twice that of borderlands 2. now

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of course the epic game store doesn't publicize player numbers so there's no

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way to verify this and there being more players doesn't really diminish the fact

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that people are experiencing performance issues with the game and its drm might

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have a key logger in it but hey that's good nice job randy and vivo has fully

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unveiled the next three a smartphone that is chock full of cool stuff

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including a bezel-less waterfall screen a pop-up camera 5g support and a

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64-megapixel main camera that's part of a three camera array get on it apple

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yeah china gets all the good phones wake up apple alright that's quite enough

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come back on wednesday for more tech news and i'll see you guys i think it's

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october 7th when my mustache will be even greasier and i will have an accent

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you will not even notice me

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goodbye that's not how the french people talk