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apple's apple card is not proof of your subscription to a monthly fruit delivery
service but it is a real credit card and if you were hoping to use it to buy some
cryptocurrency you're out of luck reuters went through
the cards customer agreement posted by apple on friday and spotted the no
crypto restriction now this actually isn't that unusual there are widespread
rules and laws prohibiting using credit to buy cash equivalents like crypto or
assets explicitly used for gambling like casino gaming chips or lottery tickets
so this shouldn't be too much of a scandal what's a bit more interesting is
another clause in the agreement banning owners of jail broken iphones from using
the card that's because signing up for the card involves getting approval
through the wallet app on iOS which can apparently detect whether you jailbroke
your phone i mean it's not surprising apple loves telling its users the very
specific way they're allowed to use their products uh hey can i repair my own computer
no no that's for the peasants network provider cloudflare announced this
morning that they dropped service for the internet forum 8chan the decision
was made after evidence appeared to indicate that the shooter who allegedly
killed 21 people in el paso texas over the weekend posted an anti-immigrant
manifesto on the site the perpetrator of the christchurch mosque shootings in new
zealand also posted something similar on the site before his rampage in march
cloudflare ceo matthew prince said that 8chan has repeatedly proven itself to be
a cesspool of hate and that while the company values free speech a-chan has
become lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths another
network provider bit mitigate stepped in to restore service to a-chan but they
were soon cut off by their infrastructure provider voxility and
finally tuko's the domain name registrar for 8chan also pulled their service
well 8chan see you later
and amazon has joined apple and google in suspending or at least allowing
people to opt out of having humans listen to voice recordings taken by
smart speakers after multiple reports called out the three tech giants for the
practice and a german privacy regulator announced an investigation apple and
google globally suspended their human listening programs which they say allows
for better development of their respective digital assistants amazon
hasn't completely stopped its human workers from listening in but the
company is allowing customers to opt out of the program by changing an option in
the settings menu of the alexa mobile app so now amazon will only record the
voices of people who don't know they might be listened to by humans
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don't burn your hands facebook owns whatsapp and instagram but
in case you forgot that those apps will now come with subtitles soon they'll be
listed as whatsapp from facebook and instagram from facebook while it would
be good to see visually just how much of a monopoly facebook has on popular apps
it's unclear what will happen to instagram spin-off apps layout and
boomerang i don't want to have an app on my phone called layout from instagram
collage from facebook it's a little excessive
i don't have that app on my phone now so i do we're finally starting to see some
third-party versions of the surprisingly good Radeon rx 5700 and 5700 xt with
designs from ASUS power color and xfx seeing the light of day this weekend xfx
brought back their awesome minimalist design but then went and called it the
xfx thick 2
with with two c's i should have made that the last story
because i want to go home now htc will add a feature called vive port streaming
to the vive focus plus standalone vr headset that will allow it to stream pc
titles over a 5 gigahertz wi-fi connection that sounds pretty cool
except you need to subscribe to htc's viveport infinity service to use the
feature and also streaming over wi-fi is
never latency free even using 5 gigahertz so you might as well be
subscribing to motion sickness infinity sounds like
i don't i don't know i might be good i haven't tried it rumors have been flying about fan favorite cooling company cryo
rig potentially folding but the company says they're not dead yet they're only
mostly dead do you get the reference
you do thank goodness well what they said is they've been affected by the tariffs
instituted as part of the us-china trade war and they're still active in asia and
europe actually so so hold on to hope cryo fans they'll live to rig another
day i'm sorry i just nope and hey
frankie zapata is not italian he's
french and he just successfully crossed the english channel using his green
goblin looking hoverboard contraption after the first attempt failed zapata
made the 22 mile journey in 22 minutes that's
about a minute a mile refueling on a boat halfway through the flight i'm
surprised spider-man didn't stop him but there's really nothing to swing on out
there in the ocean you know and that's it for this episode of
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