what's the tech news today dennis oh my god i don't know what's the test i don't
know i don't know tack see this is what you won't have to do today
because techlinked has you covered for tech news okay i'm sorry dennis if you
use literally any service on the internet you've probably seen quite a
few updated privacy policies popping up that's because today is the day that the
european union's general data protection regulation or gdpr goes into effect the
gdpr actually was passed in 2016 and requires companies operating in the eu
to obtain explicit consent from users before it collects personal data those
users can also request all the data a company has collected on user with fines
of up to 20 million dollars or higher if they break the new rules a number of
companies caught off guard by the regulations have opted to straight up block users and suspend service while
they try to get up to speed although the gdpr only applies to the eu because of
the global nature of the internet pretty much every internet company has rushed
to comply with the new rules and thus the heavy proliferation of terms of use
emails and topical memes which are actually pretty good we should institute
wide-ranging international personal privacy statutes more often often often
valve's steam link app launched recently and after initially approving it apple
has now rejected the app from being published on the app store the company
cited business conflicts with app guidelines as the reason for the
rejection valve says they were taken aback by the news not only because the
app obviously made it through the approval process already but because
there are quite a few other lan-based remote desktop apps already on the app
store rs technica points out that apple might be rejecting the app because they
won't get the standard 30 revenue share they require from in-app purchases if
users buy games through steam while using the app or apple could just be
being apple and saying no just because it's what they do after going on a bit
of a twitter rant about how the public no longer respects big media companies
elon musk has proposed a solution the tesla spacex and boring company founder
plans to create a site where users can rate the truth and credibility of news
outlets and journalists he wants to call it pravda which is russian for truth and
as journalist mark harris pointed out musk actually created a company called
pravda corp in october 2017. so this may
be more than a throwaway idea from the real-life tony stark or now the
real-life trump of tech that's not fair but this is kind of a
scary idea crowdsourcing truth is kind of the way that pseudoscientific ideas
gain popularity but what do you guys think leave a comment in the comments
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details all right it's quick bits an alexa device accidentally recorded a
couple's private conversation and sent it to their friend in what amazon has
called an extremely rare occurrence except they only knew about it because
the friend messaged the couple and was like did you mean to send this to me so
what if you've got creepy friends who won't do that for you that's a whole
nother issue outrage has erupted online over battlefield 5's historical
inaccuracy by having a woman with a prosthetic limb on the cover but is that
really the thing we're going to take issue with if we're talking about historical inaccuracy in games like this
really guys really apple will make a car after all but it
will be in collaboration with volkswagen and there'll be electric vehicles meant
to ferry apple staff around the company's campuses but they'll be the
most revolutionary reinvented re-engineered
euro vans you've ever seen an NVIDIA jetson tx2 module with a pascal GPU will
power game face lab's upcoming vr headset which will be able to work as a
standalone unit or as a full-on room scale unit tethered to a pc it'll also
work with steam vr that's all i wrote about that and some
saddening news today as youtube personality john bain aka totalbiscuit
has passed away due to cancer bane has been fighting the disease since 2014 but
in his more than a decade of game coverage and analysis he brought sense
logic and well-founded opinion into the space of game journalism
rest in peace you glorious bastard that's it for
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