{"video_id":"ePvIgtAt4no","title":"EA PROMISES no loot boxes...?","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2019-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":498,"segments":[{"start_s":0.32,"end_s":6.72,"text":"wow the tech news it just it just keeps on coming doesn't it like a tidal wave","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":6.08,"end_s":12.48,"text":"of soft serve from a 12 buffet but we","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.8,"end_s":16.48,"text":"promise you it'll be a lot better than that sounds today americans are if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.44,"end_s":22.56,"text":"they're organized filing their taxes but europeans might","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.039,"end_s":25.439,"text":"soon be dealing with a far worse kind of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.56,"end_s":29.359,"text":"government encounter today the european union gave final","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.199,"end_s":33.44,"text":"rubber stamp 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organized filing their taxes but europeans might soon be dealing with a far worse kind of government encounter today the european union gave final rubber stamp approval to its new copyright directive which has been a huge source of controversy for quite literally months opponents argue that the law will both overburden businesses and stifle free expression online because not only will sites that host video content including behemoths like facebook and youtube have to obtain licenses first they will also need to pass all content through copyright infringement detecting filters so not only might this effectively ban things like memes it's also unclear how in the world the eu plans to enforce a scheme this far-reaching especially because they did say i think at one point that there was a carve out for memes what's the difference between a meme and some other kind of copyright infringement i i don't know how they managed to pass a law like this in the first place that makes about as much sense as like that law in mobile that bans confetti i think that even might make more sense yeah because confetti is it's litter it's horrible and and there's a way to enforce it it was announced last month that apple is going to offer a new gaming subscription service as part of apple arcade that really does sound like the stuffiest arcade doesn't it the pretentious arcade but it wasn't clear exactly what to expect from it other than pretension well a recent report might shed some light on the situation as apple is apparently investing about a half a billion dollars into getting this project off the ground now obviously that isn't a small amount of money but at the same time major aaa titles can have budgets into the nine figures so this could be an indication that apple wants to focus on having a large number of simpler games that might take less development effort but would still be up to a given quality standard a number of well-known developers like giant squid konami and sega are all involved so hopefully there will be some pretty robust options i i'm hoping for angry birds 13. cut the rope yeah like marvel edition ea doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to micro transactions in games but the company is asking gamers for a chance to learn from its mistakes i mean you don't have to ask us for a chance to learn you just learn anyway this weekend the developer released the trailer for star wars jedi fallen order coming this november importantly ea asserted that the game would be ready prepare yourself completely devoid of microtransactions and loot boxes and taking it a step further the company said they wouldn't surprise users by adding them later on personally i believe it because no one was going to be surprised when they added it later on many gamers were understandably skeptical i mean the fact that this is a single player game might have decreased the temptation that ea could have had to add these features that could give players an advantage over human rivals but i guess it remains to be seen how this works out the game itself is set in between episodes three and four featuring third person combat and a strong emphasis on lightsaber skills as the player takes control of one of the few jedi who survived the purge hopefully it'll actually be worth picking up and not part of a money-grabbing sith plot this time because that's right it's a sith plot the sith they want more love money though they love money just give me the money i'm assist now speaking of money for the bit quacks brought to you by dollar shave club now you might say well i don't really shave so they probably got nothing for me well that's where you're wrong bucko dsc has all your grooming needs shower products oral care products hair products skin products butt wipes and of course shaving stuff if you have a physical body in this plane of existence they got you covered right now dsc is offering a number of starter sets for only five bucks like the shower starter set which comes with three trial sized versions of their amber lavender body cleanser citrus and hawaiian ginger face cleanser and sage and black pepper shampoo get your starter set for only five bucks with free shipping and check out dollar shave club's regular subscription plans at dollarshaveclub.com techlinked on to the bad quacks facebook is looking to simplify its messaging options by adding messenger functionality back to the facebook app itself firing off a quick chat will work fine but then if you want to send a photo or make a call you'll still need to use the dedicated messenger app uh facebook thinks this move makes sense to save data as in helping facebook save your data by bringing you back into the full facebook platform wait what is simpler about this you know what forget it i'm sticking to what's oh wait no if you're in the market for a self-driving tesla you might want to act quickly as elon musk has confirmed that models with the full self-driving feature will get more expensive on may the first by a few thousand dollars the good news though is that if you do buy one now you'll still be able to get the upgraded self-driving computers in a few months by having your car retrofitted of course nothing guarantees that tesla's full self-driving feature will actually ever get certified to fully self-drive on the road so that's cool as well but but by now the uk is very concerned about tactics that it says social media outfits used to keep younger users addicted to their services and specifically it mentioned facebook's venerable like button really the country is reportedly looking at banning the like button for users under 18 years old and this is part of a larger group of suggestions mostly focused around limiting how much data can be collected from miners okay that sounds like a good idea funnily enough the uk talked to a few hundred children as part of putting these recommendations together which i guess means that they were collecting data from miners hypocrisy if you live in san francisco washington dc or new york city you might not see any lift-branded e-bikes for a while as they've been apparently braking too hard that is to say that they're still intact they just slow down too fast reportedly the brakes have put too much force on the front wheel resulting in several dozen injuries in new york although a new fleet of electric bikes is going to be arriving in the near future lyft is temporarily replacing them with traditional pedal-powered bicycles for the time being at least this way you know that if you go over the handlebars well it's your own dang fault and in something of a modern version of the computer deep blue beating chess grandmaster gary kasparov openai5 has recently triumphed over one of the world's best dota 2 teams og the same team that won the valve international last year however open ai also used machine learning to work out how to play on the same team as humans and you can actually register to either play alongside or against the ai these matches start in just a few days so get on it if you're excited to be embarrassed by a computer or to have an unfair advantage against human players sorry why are we doing this yeah i don't get it and that's all the time we have for today so get back here on wednesday for more tech news it won't be compiled by an ai but hopefully we'll figure out that out pretty soon so that we can something something layoff writers wait what that's a great idea john john wrote that yeah"}