hey we're back hey sorry we missed friday's episode guys we were too busy
pelting lined us with paintballs do you have any welts yeah i have one on my
calf actually it's pretty hardcore
facebook is taking another step to try and bolster user privacy after it's
become well known that the site tends to track logged in users around the web
there's now an option to disable app and website history in facebook settings
currently sites can share information about user viewing habits to facebook
which will then serve that user relevant ads however with this kind of targeting
growing increasingly unpopular in light of recent scandals the option to disable
it will also delete any browsing history of outside sites that facebook has
stored the setting will be called off facebook activity with ireland south
korea and spain being the first three countries to get it though it should be
available everywhere else within a few months if you don't want zuck knowing
how many socks and sandals you you go through
those are important you ever gotten the feeling that google just just knows
what you've been talking about like it's listening to you for sure because you say something that ad comes up right
after well it's about to know more about what photos you take as optical
character recognition is coming to the google photos app the idea is that if
you snap a photo of anything that has text in it you'll be able to search by
the text in that photo which could prove very useful if you snapped a menu at a
restaurant for example if you snap a bunch of restaurant menus and then you
search chicken and then you're out of luck show me only menus
that say chicken oh okay that could be useful you get it way too much chicken the
feature isn't available to everyone just yet but a number of attentive users have
already discovered it with google confirming that this is something
they're rolling out more broadly since this feature works for cloud stored
photos google is scanning your photos for text and tagging them accordingly so
maybe don't snap any passages from that horrible piece of fanfic you've been
writing about luke and Linus running away together oh luke i thought i'd
never find you everybody dies although there's been plenty of hype around
apple's new credit card as is the case with most apple products one pretty
obvious flaw has been discovered but has nothing to do with the card's security
or functionality instead apple is warning card holders not to carry the
card in a leather wallet apparently having the card rub up
against leather or denim can permanently discolor the card which obviously isn't
ideal given that the appeal of many apples products including its credit
card is based around aesthetics no not leather stains i got a patina on my
credit card i i will say that nicely designed products with flaws that become
obvious once you start using it is very quintessentially apple so kudos to them
for continuing this proud tradition it's time to quick bits away
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south park episode where cartman tried to trick his girlfriend into eating
meatless beyond kfc well life is now going to imitate art as beyond fried
chicken is scheduled to begin testing this week at one kfc location in atlanta
it'll be interesting to see if it can catch on nationwide especially as
competitor impossible foods is now a fixture at burger king and if it will
revive conspiracy jokes about kfc's chicken not actually being
chicken well now it's not not all of it solved they don't have
chicken mystery solved that's what the story's about on the horizon what's
there chickens fly
although one big selling point of gaming consoles is their exclusive titles that
are unavailable on other platforms sony looks to be open to making some of its
playstation exclusives available on pc in order to better compete with
microsoft's xbox ecosystem we still might not see the biggest titles moving
off of the playstation itself but don't be surprised to see more games overall
become available on both platforms especially if they suck
netflix is well known for using an algorithm to serve suggested movies and
tv shows based on your watch history but the streaming giant is now bringing in
human curators to recommend titles as
well the new feature is called collections and is currently available
only on iOS though it appears that their
human employees will only be putting together these playlists based on their
own tastes and won't actually be seeing what you've watched in the past we think
mercifully that's we think you'd like this movie i know everything about you
i used to be on the alexa listening team are you tired of making sure that you're
not trying to carry too much pepsi onto your flight
well 3d scanning at airport security might make these liquid restrictions a
thing of the past at least in the uk whose government has ordered all
airports get the scanners by 2022. although the technology is already in
place at a few airports in the us there's no word on when the restrictions
might be changed in either country though uk officials have hinted they may
be on their way out hopefully it'll be soon as i recently had to throw out my
entire 12-step skin care system when i when i got to the metal detector no more
strapping gatorade to my butt that's it for today so join us back here
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