whoa looks like you're dangerously low on your supply of tech news
let me top that up korea i love to help oh apple and google are working on
contract tracing together this could solve kovit for good
well hold on a second there sparky turns out not everyone is super jazzed about
the two tech giants working together to track coronavirus infections through
bluetooth exchanges between our phones as wired points out despite the system
being designed to keep everyone as anonymous as possible the whole idea is
centered around identifying people who get diagnosed with kovid and the people
they have interacted with recently that straight up makes our digital lives
inherently less private there's also potential security risks if hackers find
out which bluetooth identifiers correspond with which user leading to
so-called linkage attacks and besides all that questions remain about whether
bluetooth contact tracing will even work at all
because once the API is actually completed it will have to be integrated
into apps downloaded by people who will also have to update their phones to make
it work and assuming the false positive rate isn't through the roof users
potentially exposed to infected people will have to get tested for kovid which
isn't exactly easy in many parts of the world obviously we're not trying to poo
poo the whole endeavor and say it's doomed only that there are some major
hurdles to leap over but if you are worried about
your privacy you already know what can help hashtags stay home baby sales of
the nintendo switch have skyrocketed as people try to find things to do while
staying home and price gougers have capitalized on the opportunity by
using bots to automatically buy up stock as soon as it's available well one
intrepid imgur user refused to participate in that nonsense and built
their own nintendo switch from scratch well
not quite from scratch the user sarbaz 37 bought individual u-switched
components on craigslist and ebay and assembled them into a working swish
while legit models are going for anywhere between 450 to 600 dollars
right now this frankenswitch cost about 200 dollars to make well done sarbas37
you're a quarantine inspiration to us all i hope you gave those parts a good wipe
down and chinese company chuwi has listed a business focused compact pc
that's hiding an xbox one s inside
well not really see tech radar says chewie
told them that their aerobox pc is built
around the xbox one s motherboard and a previously unseen AMD a9 9820 CPU the
GPU from the xbox one s has apparently been disabled and replaced with the
Radeon r7 350 but see unlike the xbox
one s the motherboard in the aero box has four upgradeable dimm slots for RAM
and the io layout on the back is completely different from
microsoft's console while the CPU has some similarities to the xbox one s's
chip there's no evidence that it's the same chip we're not sure why chewie
would make the claim that this is an xbox one s inside a pc but hey
they got us talking about it so
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didn't see that coming amazon has had their french warehouses shut down by the
french government after the company did not comply with an order to stop selling
all non-essential supplies in france
amazon distribution centers in the country must now remain closed until
april 20th while the company thinks about what they've done that's right
france just gave amazon a time out you know sometimes
europe's pretty cool facial recognition company clearview ai has had
another data breach this time leaving its source code cloud storage
credentials and in-house apps exposed in
a public server this is the company that says it can store identifiable pictures
of absolutely everyone's face i think they may taking their name a
little too literally spacex has scheduled the launch of their crew
dragon spacecraft for may 27th this would be the first time that astronauts
have blasted off from american soil in nearly a decade one can only hope it's
not one of elon musk's crazy pranks that guy is so hard to read facebook's libra
has slowly shriveled from a grandiose idea for the future of cryptocurrency to
what is essentially facebook's paypal instead of being a single universal
currency libra will now be tied to various local currencies making it not
that much different from your garden variety online payment network
they almost got there until someone said the word
facebook and samsung's lifestyle tvs
will be packaged in cardboard that can be repurposed into various household
items like a magazine holder or a cat house
because that's more sustainable until you have to eventually get rid of it because
it's cardboard and i mean cats don't need one more thing to ignore
you know i'm ignoring the fact that i want to continue this episode because
it's over come on back on monday for more tech news
and uh in the meantime i'm going to find out which box i fits in and sits in
this is uh oddly dirty riley i don't think you meant
to say it like that well it's done