WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040 Welcome to Friday's TechLinked, where we bring you tech news, the moment Linus is through getting 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:10.800 a week's worth of grievances off his chest. Apple has been accused of poaching employees to steal 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:17.600 technology developed by medical tech company Massimo. Massimo! Apple allegedly contacted the 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:23.680 company in 2013 to discuss a working relationship, but turns out they were only really interested in 00:00:23.680 --> 00:00:29.120 working with two of their executives, who Apple hired to basically develop and patent technology 00:00:29.120 --> 00:00:35.680 extremely similar to Massimo's. Allegedly, allegedly, if this feels like old news, it's probably because 00:00:35.680 --> 00:00:42.960 Apple has a persistent habit of being inspired by other companies. This phenomenon has been named 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:48.320 Sherlock-ing. After the time Apple updated their Sherlock search tool with features copied from 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:54.960 the indie Apple Watson in 2002, the same year Apple ended their famous Think Different campaign. 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:00.480 I wonder why? I think we should start thinking the same. 00:01:00.480 --> 00:01:05.760 More recently, Blix Inc. alleged the sign-in with Apple feature infringed on their patent, 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:12.560 Tile raised concerns about the airtag, and Alivcore Inc. developed an ECG ban for the Apple Watch, 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:18.720 only for Apple to add the functionality themselves, and update WatchOS in a way that stopped Alivcore's 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:23.440 ban from working at all anymore. Just standard corporate stuff, you know? 00:01:23.440 --> 00:01:28.480 Apple does have fantastic products, though. I wonder what another company will think of for 00:01:28.480 --> 00:01:34.560 Apple next. Seagate has been charged $300 million for shipping hard drives to Huawei, 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.840 because I guess it's illegal to ship hard drives to your buddies now. 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:40.800 I got a whole discord group about it. 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:50.160 In August of 2020, the U.S. Commerce Department expanded export restrictions against Huawei 00:01:50.160 --> 00:01:55.840 after they allegedly tried to obtain advanced technologies to undermine U.S. national security. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.080 So, naturally, California-based Seagate did the responsible thing, 00:02:00.080 --> 00:02:04.480 and sold 7 million hard-disk drives to the Chinese company throughout the next 11 months. 00:02:04.480 --> 00:02:08.080 But come on, no one else was selling them HDDs? What were they supposed to do? 00:02:08.080 --> 00:02:12.640 Not be the sole source provider of hard drives to Huawei and blatant disregard for the law? 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:18.160 That's crazy talk! In fact, federal regulators alleged that not only did Seagate sell Huawei 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:25.360 as many HDDs as they could afford, but they also extended lines of credit worth $1 billion to Huawei, 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:30.640 so the Chinese giant could buy even more. The $300 million penalty is meant to be 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:35.920 double Seagate's estimated profit from the sales, so hopefully, the next time they want to do business 00:02:35.920 --> 00:02:42.080 with a potential national security risk, they think twice. The government's punishments come with a 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:49.600 side of extra sass. And Elon Musk, a.k.a. Professor X the Everything app, 00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:55.200 is friends off with Microsoft after the company announced it would be dropping Twitter from its 00:02:55.200 --> 00:03:00.560 advertising platform due to Twitter's new API fees. This means that potential advertisers 00:03:00.560 --> 00:03:05.040 won't be able to post to the birth site through Microsoft's ad portal. In response, 00:03:05.040 --> 00:03:12.400 Elon accused Microsoft of using Twitter data to train illegally. So it's lawsuit time, which I 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:22.480 can only assume is the name for Musk's custom workout routine. We could speculate that Elon was 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:28.240 either referring to the new Bing training on Twitter data or Microsoft's second most successful 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:36.000 chatbot, Tay, which Twitter famously turned racist real quick back in 2016. Looking for answers, 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:40.720 BBC News reached out to Twitter via its press email, receiving a carefully considered and 00:03:40.720 --> 00:03:45.680 nuanced response that I'm just kidding, they send a poop emoji. At least they didn't leave them on red. 00:03:48.080 --> 00:03:53.280 Meanwhile, the Twitter API's new paywall has also caused Microsoft to disable the ability to 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:59.760 share game uploads to Twitter from Xbox consoles and the Windows game bar. Minecraft influencers 00:04:00.320 --> 00:04:04.800 thought they were safe from Elon's nonsense, but the guy seems determined to break as many 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:11.760 previously working features as possible. Just pay Twitter to use it. Welcome. Got some rare quick 00:04:11.760 --> 00:04:18.080 bits on sale, stranger. SpaceX successfully launched their Starship rocket yesterday and 00:04:18.080 --> 00:04:26.320 shortly thereafter, it successfully exploded. A major setback for SpaceX. Or was it? While many 00:04:26.320 --> 00:04:31.520 people online have been quick to point their fingers and laugh, the fact is this was a flight 00:04:31.520 --> 00:04:37.760 test. SpaceX launched the largest rocket ever made into the air with the intent to gather data. 00:04:37.760 --> 00:04:42.400 I mean, we spent three years testing and discarding different designs for a screwdriver, 00:04:42.400 --> 00:04:47.760 I would imagine launching 33 jet engines strapped to a tube would take an extra level of data 00:04:47.760 --> 00:04:52.000 collection. The exploding really is just, it's a bonus. You know, it doesn't have to happen, 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:58.800 but it's kind of cool. It was supposed to explode. It was going to explode whether we launched it or 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:03.600 not. We just had to get it out of the way. A German magazine published the first interview with 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:09.440 Formula One legend Michael Schumacher since he suffered a severe brain injury in 2013 is what I 00:05:09.440 --> 00:05:15.600 would say if said magazine didn't instead publish a conversation with an AI chatbot. The magazine 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:22.080 claimed it was Schumacher up until the end of the article and now his family are planning to sue. 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:26.720 I'd lie about interviewing someone with debilitating disability simply for profit if I could, 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:33.040 but unfortunately I do have feelings, a brain, and the ability to pause for the seconds it would 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:40.320 take to consider the ramifications of my actions. It's unfortunate really. I could be so rich by 00:05:40.320 --> 00:05:46.800 now. An upcoming first-person game called Unrecord has sparked some debate online. A trailer for 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:53.280 the first-person bodycam style FPS game looks incredibly real and apparently too real for many 00:05:53.280 --> 00:05:58.720 people who accused the so-called in-game footage of being fake. In response, one of the game's 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:04.000 co-creators posted a screen recording of the game being developed within Unreal Engine 5. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:11.200 Imagine doing such a good job that no one believes you. Now I truly understand DJ Khaled's seminal 00:06:11.200 --> 00:06:18.160 album suffering from success. Truly a profit. And he was a profit. I love you too Riley. There's 00:06:18.160 --> 00:06:25.840 another one. And another one. Isn't there another quote? Another one. We the best tech news! 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:32.560 Atari has announced they have acquired the rights to over a hundred classic 80s and 90s games. Well, 00:06:33.200 --> 00:06:38.480 not acquired exactly. Most of these classic games are assets the company originally had to sell off 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:44.080 when they declared bankruptcy in 2013. And saying classic games isn't exactly right either, 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:49.520 since one of the few acquired games they actually revealed is Bubsy 3D, which looks like this. 00:06:50.160 --> 00:06:56.480 Ah. Oh no. So let's all be extra nice to Atari from now on, otherwise 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:09.200 they'll release more Bubsy. And the Red Cross launched a bizarre campaign last weekend to raise 00:07:09.200 --> 00:07:15.520 public awareness of the real-life rules of war as defined in the Geneva Convention by encouraging 00:07:15.520 --> 00:07:21.360 gamers to play by those rules in first-person shooters. Those rules include no thirsting, 00:07:21.360 --> 00:07:28.480 aka shooting at downed enemies. Perfectly valid. Didn't say anything about thirst trapping. 00:07:28.480 --> 00:07:36.000 No shooting nonviolent NPCs or their buildings, and using medkits on everyone, friend or enemy. 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:41.120 The Red Cross recruited several Twitch streamers to play by the rules in games like Arma 3, 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:47.840 PUBG, Warzone, and even Fortnite, running the slogan, How You Play FPS Makes a Difference on 00:07:47.840 --> 00:07:53.600 Battlefield's IRL. But they didn't explain how that's possible. Does the Red Cross think all 00:07:53.600 --> 00:08:04.720 video games follow the plot of the 1984 classic The Last Starfighter? I half expect their next 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:15.360 campaign will be to stop armies recruiting esports pros. And if you want to play by our rules, 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:20.000 you'll come back on Monday for more tech news. And make sure you tell Atari that they're your 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:27.440 favorite game company and beg for their mercy. I don't get this. Oh, we're sorry for what we said 00:08:27.440 --> 00:08:29.520 about Bubsy. I'm not.