oh my goodness have you guys seen the tech news today no no they
they haven't that's why we're doing you got to tell us what it is
right yeah so spacex has finally managed
to get their first bundle of starlink satellites into orbit after two launch
attempts were delayed by weather after the falcon 9 rocket carrying the
satellites released them into orbit it landed safely on the of course i still
love you drone ship back on earth the 60
starlink satellites were then released and slowly drifted away with no
observable deployment mechanism so it
might have worked well we're going to find out soon
because the satellites are meant to deliver high-speed internet and these
initial 60 are hopefully going to be part of a network of 800 to 12
000 satellites once it's fully built out that is a lot of space satellites
and that's that doesn't even mention the competing satellite systems being
developed by telesat one web and a host
of other companies i swear if the aliens ever do come here like they're gonna
have to elbow their way through the atmosphere
first that's how we know they really want to meet us now a big draw for early
snapchat users was privacy as the app
features time-limited self-destructing messages
but the company is in hot water for allegedly allowing its employees to
breach the privacy of its users two former employees told motherboard
that multiple parties within the company abused internal tools that gave them
access to user data including user locations saved photos and videos phone
numbers and email addresses one of these tools called snap lion is used by snap
to collect data on users to comply with valid requests from law enforcement
because everyone knows that lions are the cops of
the animal kingdom now such tools are common in tech
companies and snap has responded denying the accusations of spying but this is
just yet another reminder that however
private you might think your data is if you're giving it to a company a human
probably has eyes on it at some point and
you just don't know where those eyes have been
speaking of not knowing about your data and eyes looking at things uh uh the
consequences of the u.s huawei ban continue to expand with the company now
being kicked out of the sd association
the body that controls the standards related to sd cards and ports
wow that's like being kicked out of like the cheerleading squad
except for giant nerds
so what this means is that huawei will no longer be able to produce devices
with ports for sd or microsd cards with
that said this might not be that the death blow that some people have been
waiting for because the chinese tech company has been slowly introducing
their own nano memory format which uses
modules that are smaller than microsd for a couple of years now
huawei has also been temporarily restricted from working with the wi-fi
alliance and jdec which set standards for wi-fi and semiconductors
respectively now huawei will reportedly still be able to use those standards but
they will not be able to contribute to them so it's like they can come to the
meeting but they can't speak but i think if we could just
wait wait look are you guys gonna stop spying
no okay well then flip it now it's time for quick bits
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click the link below on to the blippity blops NVIDIA has released a teaser for
some kind of g-force product with super
in the title or on the product itself um
it could be a supercharged and super expensive new variant of the rtx 2080 ti
it could be a a new NVIDIA shield it could be a
superior vena cava and we only just saw the first part
it's it's a blood vessel no it's part of the heart i don't remember it doesn't matter the point is
we're probably going to find out next week at computex NVIDIA you guys are
such teases how will i wait speaking of teasing would you tease
amazon with a scan of your nearly naked body for a 25 gift card
well if you would head to new york because the company is collecting data
for internal product research which will ostensibly be used to develop
clothing that will fit people's bodies better that makes total sense seems
credible enough but then when you hear that amazon is also preparing a wearable
device that allows alexa to read human emotions it starts to sound more and
more like amazon has been taken over by an ai that's trying to learn more about
us humans so that it can destroy us
is that worth a 25 gift card well i guess it depends what's on sale
what kind of prime add-ons they got google's duplex is supposed to use ai to
call businesses on the phone for you but the company told the new york times that
about 25 of duplex calls start out with
a human on the other end the times also reported that in their own tests a real
person finished the booking in three out of four duplex calls so i guess what
i've been saying all along which is that if you still can't figure out how to
okay google you know remind me something when i get to a place but like at a
certain time um they probably can't figure this out
so we probably got a few more years to live before we get murdered by
intelligent boston dynamics robots enjoy it
and you can enjoy it by checking out game developer panics play date a tiny
handheld gaming device with a black and white screen a d-pad two buttons and of
course naturally a hand crank
it's gonna come with 12 indie games when it launches for 149 us dollars early
next year and we really don't know much about it other than that 2020 may be the
year that 2d black and white fishing simulator
finally you know really takes off yeah wow got the image there the air force is
planning to use the xq58 valkyrie drone
made by kratos defense as an unmanned
sidekick for fighter jets that are flown by human pilots as part of a program
called skyborg that's not ominous at all so the drones
would be networked to the man craft and serve as an ai wingman of sorts which
would fly ahead to scout or draw fire from attackers now i'm assuming that
these military folks have done their prerequisite research here and watched
stealth uh the classic bad action movie starring jessica beale right should be
required i certainly hope so also independence
day that's really important too also
according to my research this episode is now over thanks for watching guys and if
you liked the tech news today well just wait until monday cause it's gonna be
even better we actually have no way of knowing that do we you can't guarantee that please
don't oh magic
it's a crystal ball yeah magic magic ball
okay seeing into the future is not magic