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whoa looks like you're dangerously low on your supply of tech news

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let me top that up korea i love to help oh apple and google are working on

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contract tracing together this could solve kovit for good

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well hold on a second there sparky turns out not everyone is super jazzed about

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the two tech giants working together to track coronavirus infections through

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bluetooth exchanges between our phones as wired points out despite the system

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being designed to keep everyone as anonymous as possible the whole idea is

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centered around identifying people who get diagnosed with kovid and the people

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they have interacted with recently that straight up makes our digital lives

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inherently less private there's also potential security risks if hackers find

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out which bluetooth identifiers correspond with which user leading to

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so-called linkage attacks and besides all that questions remain about whether

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bluetooth contact tracing will even work at all

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because once the API is actually completed it will have to be integrated

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into apps downloaded by people who will also have to update their phones to make

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it work and assuming the false positive rate isn't through the roof users

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potentially exposed to infected people will have to get tested for kovid which

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isn't exactly easy in many parts of the world obviously we're not trying to poo

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poo the whole endeavor and say it's doomed only that there are some major

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hurdles to leap over but if you are worried about

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your privacy you already know what can help hashtags stay home baby sales of

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the nintendo switch have skyrocketed as people try to find things to do while

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staying home and price gougers have capitalized on the opportunity by

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using bots to automatically buy up stock as soon as it's available well one

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intrepid imgur user refused to participate in that nonsense and built

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their own nintendo switch from scratch well

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not quite from scratch the user sarbaz 37 bought individual u-switched

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components on craigslist and ebay and assembled them into a working swish

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while legit models are going for anywhere between 450 to 600 dollars

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right now this frankenswitch cost about 200 dollars to make well done sarbas37

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you're a quarantine inspiration to us all i hope you gave those parts a good wipe

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down and chinese company chuwi has listed a business focused compact pc

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that's hiding an xbox one s inside

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well not really see tech radar says chewie

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told them that their aerobox pc is built

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around the xbox one s motherboard and a previously unseen AMD a9 9820 CPU the

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GPU from the xbox one s has apparently been disabled and replaced with the

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Radeon r7 350 but see unlike the xbox

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one s the motherboard in the aero box has four upgradeable dimm slots for RAM

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and the io layout on the back is completely different from

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microsoft's console while the CPU has some similarities to the xbox one s's

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chip there's no evidence that it's the same chip we're not sure why chewie

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would make the claim that this is an xbox one s inside a pc but hey

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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

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french government after the company did not comply with an order to stop selling

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all non-essential supplies in france

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amazon distribution centers in the country must now remain closed until

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april 20th while the company thinks about what they've done that's right

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france just gave amazon a time out you know sometimes

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europe's pretty cool facial recognition company clearview ai has had

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another data breach this time leaving its source code cloud storage

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credentials and in-house apps exposed in

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a public server this is the company that says it can store identifiable pictures

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of absolutely everyone's face i think they may taking their name a

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little too literally spacex has scheduled the launch of their crew

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dragon spacecraft for may 27th this would be the first time that astronauts

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have blasted off from american soil in nearly a decade one can only hope it's

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not one of elon musk's crazy pranks that guy is so hard to read facebook's libra

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has slowly shriveled from a grandiose idea for the future of cryptocurrency to

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what is essentially facebook's paypal instead of being a single universal

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currency libra will now be tied to various local currencies making it not

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that much different from your garden variety online payment network

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they almost got there until someone said the word

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facebook and samsung's lifestyle tvs

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will be packaged in cardboard that can be repurposed into various household

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items like a magazine holder or a cat house

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because that's more sustainable until you have to eventually get rid of it because

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it's cardboard and i mean cats don't need one more thing to ignore

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you know i'm ignoring the fact that i want to continue this episode because

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it's over come on back on monday for more tech news

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and uh in the meantime i'm going to find out which box i fits in and sits in

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this is uh oddly dirty riley i don't think you meant

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to say it like that well it's done