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Well, welcome back.

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I'm gonna stay here for this one, is that cool? Mark?

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A hot new wireless carrier and smartphone have been announced by none other than the Trump

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organization, which is currently being run by the president's son, Eric.

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So there's no conflict of interest. I mean, they hardly know each other. The carrier service, Trump Mobile,

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will operate as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator,

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or MVNO, that will license parts of Verizon, AT&T,

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and T-Mobile's network to offer the T1 phone.

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A $500 gold-colored iPhone knockoff Android phone,

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apparently built entirely in the US of A.

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Now, there have been many claims about how making iPhones entirely in the US would be impossible,

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but as reported by 404 Media, there is at least one smartphone that did it,

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the Liberty Phone from Purism. It just also costs $2,000,

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while the version made overseas is 800 bucks.

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The T1 phone lists some pretty decent specs, 12 gigabytes of RAM, expandable 256 gigs of storage.

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Wait, it doesn't say what processor, 120 Hertz screen.

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None of this matters though, because it's probably not real. The only evidence we have is this low-res bad Photoshop job.

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But it doesn't have to be real to revolutionize cell phones

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because it'll have more internet, more international dial-in for free.

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This phone has the most internet you've ever seen. It'll be the biggest bang for your buck

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if you sign up for the 47 plan for 47.45 a month.

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Okay, apparently this is because Trump is the 47th

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and the 45th president, but if I'm gonna be swindled into pre-ordering

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a fake gold Chinese phone, I expect you to commit to the bit.

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I'm staying on this stool the whole time. Microsoft has confirmed user reports that Windows Hello

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just doesn't work anymore in the dark. After an April update, changed the sign-in feature

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to require your face to be visible to your computer's color camera,

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not just the infrared sensor. The change was made to mitigate a vulnerability

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that made it easy for attackers to spoof Windows Hello,

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and while basement dwellers may be upset about this, you can't say the same about Mark Hatchman,

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author of the PC World article, Windows Hello webcams have stopped working in the dark.

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I don't care. If you can't log into your laptop because of a power outage

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and you live in that town in Alaska that doesn't get daylight for two months, hey, that's not my problem.

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In other Windows news, users running an insider build

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were surprised to log into their Windows 11 PCs and hear the startup chime from Windows Vista.

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Microsoft called the switch Rue a delightful blast

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from the past in the release notes, and a manager on the Windows Insider team says,

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he had some fun with the sound files on Twitter

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before clarifying that, okay, yeah, it's an actual bug, and we're working on a fix, we're so sorry.

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The online ad ecosystem is being shaken up right now.

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Following Amazon's new AI video ad features,

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TikTok is expanding their symphony suite of AI ad tools

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to include generated videos of products. Advertisers can generate a bunch of five second clips

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by uploading an image of their product, either directly on TikTok or through the tools

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that the company is licensing to third parties like Adobe Express, which is terrible

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because the ads were one of the only things on TikTok that I knew was real.

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What I didn't know about was the updates tab in WhatsApp,

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where the chat app will be introducing its first ever ads.

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The company described the addition of ads as helping you find more stuff on WhatsApp,

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which was my primary complaint before. WhatsApp is cool,

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but I wish it could help me find more channels and businesses. I use Reddit for that,

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which will now allow advertisers to attach user-generated positive posts

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about a product to their ads, along with an AI-generated summary

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of the discussion in those threads. I'm assuming they'll skip over the replies

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accusing the OP of hating thing X, because they said they liked thing Y.

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Okay.

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We'll want some quick bits or... Intel may be planning a massive return

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to powerful desktop chips next year. If this leak mentioning the company's

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next-gen Nova Lake S platform is anything to go by.

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Twitter leaker Golden Mango listed a lineup with a flagship CPU featuring 52 cores,

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16 performance, 32 efficient, and four low power.

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I'm not sure if that's real, but this one probably is.

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Also Twitter leaker Momomo posted an Intel slide

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describing the Core 5 processor 120F,

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a no frills gaming CPU with six performance cores

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and nothing else. Intel doesn't care which one you buy,

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but please just buy one of them, anything.

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Controller maker Gullykit?

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Claims they've figured out how to make their controllers wake the Nintendo Switch 2 from sleep mode,

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something gamers were dismayed to discover was only possible with the Switch Pro controller

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thanks to a new system protocol. Hopefully more companies figure this out too,

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so gamers can wake their Switch 2s only to find out that the Ethernet port in its dock is borked.

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Nintendo has acknowledged the issue, which is being experienced by a bunch of people apparently,

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but so far there's no permanent fixes, maybe because Nintendo wants you to take a break,

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get up and get outside for a change, meet some people, bond over how annoying

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and restrictive Nintendo's infrastructure is, work together on a company that lets people bypass it

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so Nintendo can sue you, not me, I'm staying inside.

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The founder of 23andMe and Wojcicki has successfully reclaimed the assets

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of the genetics testing company after winning its bankruptcy auction.

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Phew, now all of that genetic data will land back

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in the hands of the person who started the company

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that collected all of it in the first place. Is this better?

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The cycle never ends. And how much did she bid to win the auction?

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23 million dollars?

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The number 23, no, it was 305 million.

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But I'm sure you can divide that to get to 23 somehow. Etsy is cracking down on the sale of 3D printed products,

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saying that physical items made using computerized tools

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must be produced based on a seller's original design.

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Now, Etsy's new rules allow non-original 3D printed designs

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if they're sufficiently modified by hand, so sticking on some googly eyes

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to your thousands of chain link plastic dragons is probably not gonna cut it.

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If you put feathers on them, maybe. Dragons didn't have feathers and Nexus mods,

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perhaps the internet's biggest game mod repository

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has apparently been sold. In a blog post, the platform's founder,

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RobinDarkOneScott, basically said, he's been doing this since 2001.

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And despite having his team handle more and more of the site recently, he's frickin' tired.

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So he's handing the site over to new ownership. Although we don't know the real names of the new owners,

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their handles on Nexus mods are Fulladino and Rapsack.

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And I think they might be Pokemon. Scott assures the Nexus mods community

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that the values and direction of the platform won't change.

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It'll always be community first and mod author focused.

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Whether those authors are crafting fleshed out, story driven expansions for Skyrim

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or flesh driven gooner outfits for Stellar Blade.

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Somebody get Nintendo to check on those guys. And I mean, hey, you know, that's,

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as you know, it's a, it's a heck of a thing.

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More tech news on Wednesday?

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Yeah, probably.