wow the tech news it just it just keeps on coming doesn't it like a tidal wave
of soft serve from a 12 buffet but we
promise you it'll be a lot better than that sounds today americans are if
they're 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
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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