whoa oh what are you guys up to
tech news ha far out past the tech news dude
what timeline are we in answer the confusing one because apple
and google have apparently joined forces
the two web giants are developing technology that can alert people if they
have come in contact with others who later get diagnosed with covid19 it's a
process called contact close
it's a process called contact tracing and it usually involves simply asking
someone about their past activities okay
the new method uses bluetooth because you can't just straight up talk to
people anymore you're in quarantine okay you gotta use good technology see our
phones are constantly sending out little pings storing anonymized data about what
other devices are in close proximity once those other devices bluetooth
signatures are cataloged this method could tell whether we had been close to
someone that was infected with coven researchers at mit are working on a
similar system as well so they might join apple and google's unholy union
i mean if you needed any more evidence that were in the apocalypse
google and apple and mit all we're gonna
they all hate each other and my blooper t stop it's not a thing stop trying to
make it a thing google's busy doing other things in addition to cooperating with their sworn
rival in their latest messaging strategy twist the text-based hangouts chat and
video focused hangouts meet are being rebranded to google chat and google meat
now this isn't the same consumer version of hangouts that has existed since 2013
which was itself a rebranding of g chat
if you're not a g suite business user hangouts will still exist
for some reason i mean it kind of makes sense google has
said they'll discontinue hangouts for a long time now so it just made the
confusion worse to have the brand name hanging around if this is called
google me then what are they going to call it when they acquire beyond me
have you tried our new google meet
the move follows an increased emphasis on video calling by a bunch of companies
during the pandemic microsoft just added custom backgrounds to teams to compete
with zoom although it looks like they won't have to try so hard since zoom is
being banned in some places due to its security problems pretty sad that we
can't hang out anymore james but i guess we'll find a way
you left our carpool i did and talk about shooting the messenger
animal crossing new horizons has been abruptly pulled from retailers in china
after the game was used by pro hong kong protesters as a way to demonstrate while
remaining inside why didn't they ban blizzard
we'll talk about that later protesters have posted messages reading free hong
kong and various images of hong kong governor carrie lam and chinese
president winnie the xi jinpoo
pin duo duo and taobao have both pulled the game from sale and although it's not
clear if the reason for this was a government directive it's
i mean it's it's these guys
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bits i don't know what i was thinking when i wrote that google is reportedly going to
have to start paying french publishers for linking to their content after a
ruling by france's competition watchdog
the ato rote de la concoraos
okay if this model is adopted by other eu countries and eventually north
america it could mean a massive restructuring of the way the internet
economy works and this channel would might be screwed
to be to be to be frank mercy references
to a high performance GPU have been spotted in documents published by Intel
and it started a round of rumor-mongering about whether this could
be Intel's high-end gaming GPU we saw a
z-GPU at ces but it was positively weak
it appears that low power model could have just been paving the way for a high
power model and that's the one we actually want so hurry it up Intel
i want to see jensen tremble in his leather the Ethernet technology
consortium has published specifications for the new 800 gigabit Ethernet
standard if you have no context for what that means 800 gigabits a second
translates to a hundred gigabytes a second
that's too much actually i'd like to take a step back can we can we slow down here it's just the specs so far and this
tech probably won't be in consumer products for like
a decade so put your pants back on for now and then take them off again because
this smart toilet has sensors that will be able to detect health issues and
identify you from your unique this is not i did not make up this word okay
anal print they didn't make that up
i know well they didn't make it up they're doing that for years
so we can thank salvador dali for the idea he's the one who picked him up with
that word apparently he's a freak okay get that out of your
mind we'll cleanse it with the news of an engineered enzyme that can break
plastic down into its component materials which can then be used to
create new plastic items do you like that don't you james i love life you
love the environment i want to throw it away freak
all right that's quite enough of this come back on monday for more tech news
and what else can i say hope you have a good friday
hope you have a good friday