WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.379 Google is preparing to launch a high-end laptop project called Chromebook X it's 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:12.480 like Malcolm X except for the everything about it except the X 00:00:10.019 --> 00:00:17.279 I'm Riley this is techlinked and this branding is similar to some Microsoft 00:00:14.639 --> 00:00:23.039 products like the Xbox series X and the Surface Pro X tablet X being arguably 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:27.779 the coolest letter in the alphabet Z is up there W no at least they didn't go 00:00:25.619 --> 00:00:31.439 with ultra not a letter now however the Chromebook X Program will allow Chrome 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:34.800 OS devices from third-party manufacturers that meet elevated 00:00:33.180 --> 00:00:39.660 Hardware requirements to receive additional features and special branding 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:43.739 marking them as a Chromebook X although I'm not sure how many laptop companies 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:47.940 will be eager to Brand their products as a perfectly acceptable laptop for 00:00:45.540 --> 00:00:53.039 children and seniors but better the X stands for extra adequate 00:00:50.640 --> 00:00:56.940 extra just okay also somewhat confusing is Google's 00:00:55.260 --> 00:01:03.860 apparent plans to equip these Chromebook X's with AMD Zen 2 plus or Zen 3 chips 00:01:00.239 --> 00:01:06.420 as well as Intel 12th gen Bria and Nissa 00:01:03.860 --> 00:01:10.380 n-series CPUs which are on the mid to low end of the power Spectrum not 00:01:08.340 --> 00:01:14.760 exactly chips you'd expect in a laptop with such a cool letter in its name but 00:01:12.900 --> 00:01:19.560 Google is more about software so the Chromebook X's special features include 00:01:16.740 --> 00:01:24.659 apparently live caption for calls a portrait blur option and voice isolation 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:28.380 Tech mind these are less special features than they are regular features 00:01:26.759 --> 00:01:33.240 that a standard Chromebook can't run without [ __ ] straight through the bed 00:01:30.240 --> 00:01:36.119 so that's pretty powerful though 00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:40.740 like I can't even that strong twitch is replacing its mature content toggle that 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:45.299 allows users to enable and disable adult material with a more informative system 00:01:42.659 --> 00:01:49.860 of content classification labels now instead of Simply marking the stream as 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:53.939 mature streamers can specify the exact kind of depravity they intend to 00:01:51.780 --> 00:01:58.579 broadcast be it mature rated video games intoxication violence sexual themed 00:01:56.399 --> 00:02:04.860 profanity gambling conversation going outside 00:02:02.579 --> 00:02:08.700 question if you manage to hit every single content warning in one stream do 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:12.120 you get a prize like in Bingo streamers that fail to correctly label their 00:02:10.140 --> 00:02:16.200 streams will not be banned but will receive an email warning after multiple 00:02:14.340 --> 00:02:20.280 warnings their Channel may be locked for a period of days or weeks if you get a 00:02:18.599 --> 00:02:24.660 bingo in front of an audience of under supervised 12 year olds the punishment 00:02:22.440 --> 00:02:28.860 is an extended opportunity to touch the grass ah there it is the change is an 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:32.700 interesting quality of life measure coming at a time when twitch is losing 00:02:30.660 --> 00:02:37.260 several of its top streamers the most viewed streamer xqc signed a 100 million 00:02:35.700 --> 00:02:42.959 dollar non-exclusive deal with quick with quick with Kik last week and now 00:02:40.020 --> 00:02:46.019 hot tub Queen amaranth who kick paid an undisclosed amount to apparently begin 00:02:44.519 --> 00:02:50.160 streaming herself and her friends showering twitch actually lost another 00:02:48.120 --> 00:02:55.019 prominent streamer this week not to kick but to burnout former pro fortnite 00:02:52.379 --> 00:02:59.340 player Turner T few Tenney has retired at the age of 25 after eight years as a 00:02:57.480 --> 00:03:03.360 twitch partner citing the stress of daily hours-long live streams many 00:03:01.500 --> 00:03:07.260 creators have criticized which is high requirements to maintain status 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:12.959 contributing to a culture of burnout and overwork xqc the poster boy for just 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:17.340 insane streaming schedules celebrated his two-year deal with kick by flirting 00:03:15.300 --> 00:03:21.720 with a band immediately violating the dmca policy by streaming The Dark Knight 00:03:19.560 --> 00:03:25.920 he's the hero kick deserves but not the one it needs right now 00:03:23.900 --> 00:03:31.200 it's just making things more complicated but where the other streamers going well 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:35.280 and while most of the subreddits protesting reddit's new ABI prizing have 00:03:33.239 --> 00:03:39.480 reopened many are still registering their disapproval by labeling themselves 00:03:37.140 --> 00:03:44.340 as not safe for work which adds an age gate on desktop requires app login to 00:03:42.180 --> 00:03:47.640 view on mobile and prevents ads from being run on the subreddit this follows 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:51.959 an earlier wave of subreddits that transitioned into non-stop thirst traps 00:03:50.220 --> 00:03:56.400 featuring comedian John Oliver thankfully fully pornographic John 00:03:54.299 --> 00:04:01.860 Oliver content has yet to emerge but it's only a matter of time fortunately 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:08.099 give me that all of us okay please please I'll live [ __ ] the only 00:04:05.700 --> 00:04:13.439 thing more obstinate and self-important than a moderator is an admin on Tuesday 00:04:10.860 --> 00:04:18.900 shortly after the users of R mildly interesting voted to set it to NSFW the 00:04:16.320 --> 00:04:23.100 entire mod team was removed and locked out of their accounts apparently by a 00:04:20.820 --> 00:04:29.040 Reddit employed admin then following report of The Purge from The Verge they 00:04:25.620 --> 00:04:30.780 were just as suddenly reinstated Reddit 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:34.560 refused to comment on whether it was behind either the removal or the 00:04:32.699 --> 00:04:39.259 reinstatement which I for one think is more than mildly interesting post that 00:04:37.620 --> 00:04:44.940 in our slash several other subreddits including r 00:04:41.880 --> 00:04:48.360 slash interesting is r slash thanks I 00:04:44.940 --> 00:04:50.040 hate it and r slash life Pro tips all of 00:04:48.360 --> 00:04:54.360 which have over a million subscribers are currently unmoderated having been 00:04:52.139 --> 00:05:00.000 hit by similar purges making their advice even worse 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:03.419 feel like Pro tip get banned while Reddit hasn't confirmed that they are 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:06.720 behind the removals they did threaten to remove mods that failed to comply last 00:05:05.340 --> 00:05:10.919 week it's a bit like when your business partner takes a long unexpected vacation 00:05:08.940 --> 00:05:15.180 to the Bahamas shortly after you told the entire Christmas party you wanted 00:05:12.780 --> 00:05:19.680 him dead yet another protest strategy was employed by at least two subreddits 00:05:17.460 --> 00:05:25.560 r slash March against Nazis and R political humor which made all members 00:05:22.440 --> 00:05:28.199 moderators in response to reddit's CEO 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:33.180 Steve Huffman calling moderators landed gentry who ignore the desires of rank 00:05:30.660 --> 00:05:38.460 and file users I don't like aristocracy Mr Huffman how about Anarchy I mean 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:42.180 you're trying it right now let's you spend first among equals 00:05:40.440 --> 00:05:45.320 now it's time for quick bits brought to you I'm back from on vacation 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:53.280 not on or any other planet it's time to 00:05:49.979 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00:06:39.900 the Galaxy don't threaten the audience Dennis 00:06:37.020 --> 00:06:43.919 a little bit of tech news in your life a little bit of this guy by your side 00:06:41.580 --> 00:06:49.259 that's right quick bits were inspired by Lou Bega which is why there's Mambo 00:06:45.960 --> 00:06:51.840 Number Five of them please laugh 00:06:49.259 --> 00:06:57.000 the FTC sued Amazon on Wednesday for making it trivial to subscribe to their 00:06:54.300 --> 00:07:01.380 Prime service but a labyrinthine process to cancel presumably by forcing you to 00:06:59.759 --> 00:07:07.080 fight a Minotaur if you don't want to pay 140 every year additional eight 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:10.919 bucks a month if you want magic yarn the commission's lawsuit alleges Amazon 00:07:08.699 --> 00:07:14.639 knowingly tricked millions of Americans into signing up for their Prime 00:07:12.180 --> 00:07:19.080 subscription using dark patterns a term that describes manipulative coercive or 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:23.940 deceptive user interface designs and not the sequence of increasingly problematic 00:07:21.180 --> 00:07:27.960 behavior of flashstar Ezra Miller and they still release that movie which is 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:33.840 the real crime if Twitter Clips are any indication EA has decided to split EA 00:07:31.139 --> 00:07:37.860 Games and EA Sports in the game into two distinct units so now you have two 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:43.259 corporate entities to hate instead of one also EA Games is being rebranded as 00:07:40.979 --> 00:07:48.419 EA entertainment suggesting they intend to expand Beyond games interpretive 00:07:45.960 --> 00:07:52.620 dance another Flash movie meanwhile EA Sports is expanding into the courtroom 00:07:50.340 --> 00:07:57.599 because they've been sued over their upcoming college football game is that 00:07:54.840 --> 00:08:03.120 the title college football game CA college and the college book EA Sports 00:07:59.819 --> 00:08:05.520 CFG the plaintiff is the brander group 00:08:03.120 --> 00:08:09.900 Noe which has deals to negotiate licensing contracts for several NCAA 00:08:07.740 --> 00:08:16.080 schools and therefore has an issue with EA Sports offering individual athletes a 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:19.139 flat 500 fee and no royalties for their 00:08:16.080 --> 00:08:22.740 name image and likeness in perpetuity 00:08:19.139 --> 00:08:24.060 yep that's ridiculous wow yay you're not 00:08:22.740 --> 00:08:28.860 allowed to take advantage of college athletes that's the brander group's job 00:08:26.400 --> 00:08:32.640 DP Review and invaluable digital photography resource was supposed to 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:37.200 close in April as part of Amazon's careless cuts and mass layoffs earlier 00:08:34.860 --> 00:08:41.820 this year but oddly the site continued publishing even after the deadline where 00:08:39.180 --> 00:08:46.080 the site was set to go read only it kept going and going well past its supposed 00:08:43.919 --> 00:08:50.640 due date just like the yogurt in the break room fridge sorry apparently this 00:08:48.779 --> 00:08:54.899 is because Amazon was instead approached by gear Patrol an independent tech 00:08:53.220 --> 00:08:59.279 review site which has officially acquired DP Review as of yesterday DP 00:08:57.720 --> 00:09:04.800 reviews editor-in-chief released a statement saying that the site will continue to operate as it was before 00:09:02.459 --> 00:09:09.480 with all editorial coverage and site features remaining the same and all 00:09:06.959 --> 00:09:16.500 historical content accessible former site editor Gannon Gannon Gannon former 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:18.420 site editor Gannon burget is quoted as 00:09:16.500 --> 00:09:22.620 saying you figure this sort of stuff out before shutting down an entire division 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:30.300 of your company not in hindsight after weeks of backlash and also quote Amazon 00:09:26.240 --> 00:09:33.300 and also quote link stop stopping my 00:09:30.300 --> 00:09:35.519 plans be kidnapped the princess 00:09:33.300 --> 00:09:40.080 I'm shedding real tears for this Kingdom Marvel Studios is facing controversy for 00:09:37.800 --> 00:09:44.399 using AI to create the opening credit scene for their secret Invasion 00:09:41.880 --> 00:09:49.019 miniseries upsetting artists people with taste and possibly epileptics they 00:09:47.160 --> 00:09:54.180 really need to smooth those Out director and executive producer Ali Salim told 00:09:51.420 --> 00:09:57.600 polygon he doesn't really understand how AI works and apparently also didn't 00:09:56.160 --> 00:10:02.160 understand that the writer's Guild of America is currently on strike to 00:09:59.700 --> 00:10:05.279 protect writers against AI so maybe throwing AI into one of the most hotly 00:10:03.839 --> 00:10:09.180 anticipated projects in a massively popular Cinematic Universe was a bad 00:10:06.899 --> 00:10:13.800 idea who can say fortunately the premiere episode has a lengthy cold open 00:10:11.220 --> 00:10:17.760 so geeky artists got to enjoy a solid eight minutes of the show before feeling 00:10:15.839 --> 00:10:23.339 angry and betrayed that's like a minute more than I got to spend in heaven with 00:10:19.560 --> 00:10:25.560 Stacy Carlisle when I was in sixth grade 00:10:23.339 --> 00:10:30.779 Jacob wrote that I wish that was true it's all Riley he's lying I 00:10:28.800 --> 00:10:35.399 actually it was me deep feelings 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:40.800 and Eve online has added a new feature in the form of a free add-on 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:43.260 of Microsoft Excel sounds weird but it's 00:10:40.800 --> 00:10:47.519 right up there Ally after years of being called a glorified spreadsheet simulator 00:10:45.180 --> 00:10:52.200 both by fans and detractors Eve online will be officially integrating Excel 00:10:49.740 --> 00:10:57.660 into its alleged space adventure game alleged now players will be able to 00:10:55.200 --> 00:11:03.000 create custom reports graphs and charts yes to better calculate their Fleet DPS 00:11:00.779 --> 00:11:07.140 and manage their in-universe corporate expense accounts without having to tap 00:11:05.579 --> 00:11:11.279 out of the game like they usually would so immersion breaking Eve online fans 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:15.420 were ecstatic when the partnership was announced and I think the rest of us can 00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:19.019 just be happy for them and we'll be happy too when you come back on Friday 00:11:17.040 --> 00:11:23.160 for another episode of techlinked I mean not like ecstatic you're not exactly 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:27.200 like a integrated spreadsheet but you know no offense but definitely pleased