it's about time for some tech news so it's a good thing that lastpass
sponsored this episode otherwise it might never have been tech news time at
all thanks lastpass love you what i don't love is the fact that the european
parliament just passed their copyright directive legislation the directive has
been argued about for more than two years with two specific clauses article
11 and 17 singled out for their potentially disastrous effect on the
open internet article 11 requires platforms to pay for the privilege of
posting snippets from and links to publishers content so it's known as the
link tax the updated law allows short extracts of news articles to be shared
freely but anything beyond a certain limit will be taxed article 13
which has been renamed to article 17 in the current legislation requires users
to get licenses for using copyrighted content like photos or videos before
uploading it to web platforms like youtube facebook or instagram those
platforms would then be responsible for scanning and blocking all content
containing copyrighted stuff in it and they'd be liable and would have to pay
fines for any copyright infringement present on their platform that kind of
sucks for both creators and the big guys like google and facebook now the
internet apocalypse hasn't struck in full yet member states of the european
union now have two years to enact laws enforcing the new directive in
individual countries and there are some parts of the directive that might
improve free expression and better compensate creators for their work in
some places but a lot of people still think this legislation is not acceptable
in its current form although memes and gifs are exempt from
enforcement so techlinked may die
but the memes will live on
post some memes for me
huawei is kind of a meme at this point but that's not stopping them from
innovating in phone technology it's been leaked like crazy already but yesterday
the company officially unveiled the p30 and p30 pro the front has an in-display
fingerprint reader and a teardrop notch so no hole punch or pop-up selfie
cameras here and it's also got a vibrating screen sort of like lg's
recent phones but the p30 pro's focus is definitely on photography with three
rear cameras one of which is capable of five times optical zoom thanks to an
embedded periscope style zoom lens oppo has been working on a system like this
but the p30 pro appears to be the first such design to make it to market they're
also making smart glasses which actually look like they might be stylish and
useful it's so much easier to be suspicious and
avoid huawei devices when their phones aren't actually good stop it huawei ah
come on and sony tried their hand at a nintendo
direct style presentation on monday with the company's first state of play event
unfortunately there wasn't much in the way of video game meat to speak of we
got a celebration of the fact that sony has sold 4.2 million playstation vr
headsets in the three years since launch and accordingly sony is bringing 25 new
vr titles to ps4 in the next few months including the story driven action game
blood and truth an iron man vr game and
vr versions of five nights at freddy's and no man's sky we got some trailers
for other games as well but what we didn't get was teases for new hardware
we basically know the next five xboxes that are coming out what's going on
behind the scenes sony i guess you don't need to leak details when you already
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onto the quick bits the huawei p30 pro may have a camera with five times
optical zoom but oppo is hot on their heels with the
reno renault which will apparently have a 10
times optical zoom if a leaked video is any indication i can't help but feel
we're losing the appreciation for super zoomed in memes that lose all clarity i
want to zoom in on someone's face and see a blurry mess not high resolution
acne stop it dennis stop zooming in what what stop the eternal battle between
apple and qualcomm continues as
eternal battles do in one court case a judge ruled in apple's favor saying that
the company did not infringe on a qualcomm patent for a battery saving
feature in another case a different judge ruled that apple did infringe on
two other qualcomm patents and that ruling might lead to a u.s import ban on
certain iphone models it just goes to show if you're gonna switch the company
whose modems you're exclusively licensing make sure that you're not
infringing on any patents before you make the switch a lesson i think we can
all learn ASUS has released a fix for the shadowhammer backdoor vulnerability
that it accidentally distributed through its pc update software the newest
version of the live update app addresses the flaw so if you've got ASUS hardware
make sure you're updated and then just do a clean install of Windows and then
move to a cave in the mountains it's the only way to be safe steam has called for
some reinforcements in its battle with the epic game store and bethesda has
answered the developer has revealed that all of its currently announced and
upcoming games will be launching on steam as well as the bethesda launcher
including rage 2 wolfenstein youngblood and cyberpilot and do maternal
okay bethesda probably also needs some help after the fallout 76 debacle but
i'm sure steam appreciates it all the same and xiaomi has demonstrated a 100
watt charger that managed to completely fuel up a 4 000 milliamp hour battery in
just 17 minutes without exploding dang
lil rice ain't so little anymore cause little cause xiaomi
xiaomi means little rice excuse me for rice
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