wow i'm really feeling still pretty roasty after that roast what's that you
want some tech news you're not cool enough for tech news boom roasted oh you
like roast huh james yeah well you're probably like getting literally roasted
more like cause you're uh you're a pork chop boom roasted yeah i would have cut
that joke okay
microsoft's new chromium-based version of the edge web browser has just started
to show up for public consumption microsoft gave up on developing edge
completely in-house some time ago and now you can go pick up an early canary
channel version of the browser from microsoft's website which the company
says it will be updating just about every day although bing will once again
be the default search engine this new edge will actually support chrome
extensions and includes a dark mode for your late night browser needs it's
unclear exactly when the more stable beta version will be released to the
public but it can't come soon enough i mean people need a browser to download
chrome with so boom roasted it's still happening
although samsung wasn't the first company to release a smartphone with an
in-screen fingerprint reader the one inside its galaxy s10 has arguably been
the most hyped but despite that it's already been shown to have a fatal flaw
slow yes that too one user on imgur used
the somewhat well-known trick of taking a photo of a fingerprint left on glass
and reproduced it with a 3d printer the fake fingerprint was able to reliably
unlock his galaxy s10 over and over again a legitimate security concern
considering it was done with relatively cheap hardware in a matter of minutes
this issue is a big problem for samsung and other companies who are pushing
biometrics as a way to not have to fiddle around with pins or additional
security so if you can unlock your phone with just a fingerprint maybe be a
little more wary the next time you're visiting a friend who keeps a 3d printer
in their basement these guys are all a little creepy anyways and rare
yeah just use a password if you're that interesting of a person
also why do you have a 3d printer in the basement why hide it you know show it
off put it in the attic yeah if you've jumped on the apex legends hype train it
looks like the experience could soon be a little less frustrating recently a new
feature briefly appeared in a patch that would penalize players for leaving a
match before a specified amount of time passes the idea is that it's a rather
unsporting not cool move nice one john to just bail out of a
match because they dislike something a teammate did such as picking a character
they don't like or a drop location they don't agree with doing this means the
teammate squad now has to fight the match short-handed meaning it's a pretty
serious obstacle to an enjoyable gaming session although the feature in the
patch was quickly pulled as it wasn't quite ready for prime time and it isn't
clear if it will actually be rolled out at all it'll be nice to have a deterrent to the
digital equivalent of flipping over the monopoly board which is very immature
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netflix's discontinuing support for apple airplay which previously allowed
users to beam shows and movies from apple devices to a larger screen netflix
says that they can't tell airplay 2 devices apart so they can't certify them
and so they've had to just shut down support i mean netflix could have just
saved everyone time here and just said apple left us out of their streaming
service and we're upset microsoft is changing the default usb mode in Windows
10 to quick removal lowering the chance that your data will get corrupted if you
just yank your usb drive out of the port unceremoniously no but i love the eject
ceremonies exactly oh you can still do it okay
don't just listen all right an option for better performance remains but you'll
have to enable it manually and there's a slightly higher risk of data loss if you
don't eject your drive so you either eject all the time or don't eject at all
choose wisely eject facebook wants to
build another massive underwater data pipe that would almost completely
surround the african continent the social giant wants to get more people in
africa connected to its service as it remains a somewhat untapped market with
limited infrastructure though i don't know that i would have gone with the
incredibly on the nose name of simba
u.s authorities are backing off their threats of withholding intelligence from
the german government if the country went with huawei for its 5g deployments
apparently german security standards are so high that the us thinks unreliable
companies would never hope to meet them
sounds pretty german to me i'm german sort of and what if you could
travel nearly 60 000 miles in just 300 bucks wouldn't that be great i'd go yeah
i'd go so far one man from the netherlands did just that as he recently
completed a three-year electric car drive from amsterdam to sydney
so boats were obviously involved but he did spend just 300 on charging up his
car rather than the nearly five grand it would have cost him in gasoline so now
he was helped by volunteers so the trip was probably a little cheaper than it
would have been for the average joe but it still beats paying out the nose to
check a bag i'll say that much the more you learn about that story the
less impressive it is he used boats he had help oh it turns out he just flew i
went on a really big road trip but but i
drove an electric car yeah so follow me
on twitter that's it for today guys come back on wednesday to embark on your own
three-year tech journey that we cram into five minutes
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