WEBVTT 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:07.359 Now, what's the name of that feeling you get? You know, when you're like you kind 00:00:04.720 --> 00:00:11.200 of see stars and your left ARM starts to go a little bit numb and you kind of 00:00:10.559 --> 00:00:17.279 short of breath. Yeah. Are you okay? No. No, that's not the one. No, it's the uh 00:00:14.559 --> 00:00:22.720 tech news. Hey, AMD released the RX 5600 XT yesterday, 00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:28.480 calling it the ultimate graphics card for 1080p gaming. And it seems like that 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:31.840 might just be true. At $279, the card 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:34.239 slots in right between the GTX 1660Ti 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:37.920 and the RTX 2060, performing slightly better on average than NVIDIA's 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:41.680 competitors, especially after board partners released BIOS updates that 00:00:39.440 --> 00:00:45.040 bumped performance up a bit. NVIDIA seemed to know that the 5600 XT was 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:50.800 going to be good, though, and they slashed the price of the RTX 2060 by $50 00:00:48.160 --> 00:00:55.360 down to $299 just a few days before AMD's launch, which is what AMD did to 00:00:53.360 --> 00:01:01.199 NVIDIA when Team Green released the first Super Cards. 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:06.159 What's that smell? Smells like Justice. The price drop makes the RX 5600 XT a 00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:09.680 bit harder to recommend if you also care about getting some of the special team 00:01:07.760 --> 00:01:14.479 green features like endbank encoding, but overall it is not a bad pick. So, go 00:01:12.080 --> 00:01:18.799 watch our full review over on LT. It's got Anthony in it. He loves you. Facial 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:21.759 recognition is cool and all, but the EU and Google think that we might be 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:25.280 getting a little bit ahead of ourselves with it. The new leadership of the EU 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:29.920 are drafting a document that would propose banning the use of facial 00:01:26.960 --> 00:01:34.079 recognition in public spaces for up to 5 years until proper regulations can be 00:01:32.320 --> 00:01:39.439 put in place to minimize the risks of using the technology. Google actually 00:01:36.720 --> 00:01:43.360 agrees with CEO Sundar Pachai saying at a conference in Brussels that there 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:46.960 should perhaps be a waiting period while governments figure out how to avoid 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:50.320 letting facial recognition undermine civil liberties and potentially 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:55.680 discriminate against people because of algorithmic bias. But Microsoft, 00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:59.520 they're having none of that. Probably because they're the ones working on the 00:01:57.520 --> 00:02:03.600 technology. Chief legal officer Brad Smith compared a ban to using a meat 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:06.880 cleaver instead of a scalpel to solve the problem, saying that the only way to 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:11.680 make the tech better is to actually continue developing it. And while that 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:15.760 makes some sense, this guy was also just talking about meat cleavers a second 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:20.480 ago. I don't know if he can be trusted. Scary. And a report claims to have 00:02:18.480 --> 00:02:24.400 evidence that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Muhammad bin Salman, hacked the 00:02:22.640 --> 00:02:29.120 phone of Amazon and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. Bezos commissioned FTI 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:35.360 Consulting to make a report after he became suspicious of a video bin Salman 00:02:31.920 --> 00:02:37.280 sent to him over WhatsApp in 2018. FTI 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:41.440 found that shortly after Bezos received the video, his phone started uploading 00:02:39.360 --> 00:02:45.440 unprecedented volumes of data to an unknown source, indicating that the 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:49.760 video file was infected with some sort of malware. Some analysts believe Bezos 00:02:48.239 --> 00:02:55.360 was hacked because of the Washington Post's coverage of Saudi Arabia, which 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:57.200 was sometimes less than favorable. Go 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:01.440 figure. The scandal has gained enough steam to prompt a call for investigation 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:06.159 from human rights experts at the UN. So hopefully we'll get more information 00:03:02.959 --> 00:03:08.239 about what exactly happened soon. Just 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:12.080 goes to show you guys be careful about opening attachments even when they come 00:03:10.239 --> 00:03:16.720 from heads of state. 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Reddit users have spotted a 00:05:23.840 --> 00:05:30.240 change in the Office 365 Pro Plus installer, which businesses use to 00:05:27.840 --> 00:05:37.440 install Office. Go figure. That would inject a Chrome extension that changes 00:05:32.479 --> 00:05:40.000 the default search engine to Bing. 00:05:37.440 --> 00:05:44.240 Gross. Code has also been found in the latest Windows Insider build that would 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:48.160 make ads for Office pop up inside Wordpad. You wrote that. That's not too 00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:51.680 bad. That's terrible. No, that's you. You wrote that. 00:05:49.919 --> 00:05:56.160 I DID NOT WRITE THAT. You wrote the script. 00:05:53.039 --> 00:05:56.639 No, I am. Do I look like Ron Burgundy to 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:01.840 you? A little bit. Oh, there he is. 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