21st floor tech news a new ruling by a
french court has declared that steam does not sell subscriptions to its users
like a netflix for games but instead sells licenses and consumers should have
the right to do what they want with their purchases including reselling
their digital goods the consumer rights group ufc
french stuff they've been locked in a legal battle with valve corporation for
years and now they say that they plan to challenge other digital markets and
platforms who follow the same business model as part of the ruling steem now
has to reimburse users any remaining currency in their steam wallet if the
user's account is closed rather than just pocketing that paper like they
currently do valve has appealed the ruling but if it goes through there
could be a seismic shift in the way digital games are distributed and
redistributed maybe you digital guys could give little game stop a helping
hand huh think of the little guy huawei unveiled its flagship mate 30 and
mate 30 pro smartphones in munich yesterday confirming that due to the
trump administration's executive order banning u.s companies from doing
business with huawei the devices do not
come with any google apps no google maps
no google chrome and most importantly no google play store uh
you lost me at google maps i i refuse there's no other maps
if i don't have my maps instead mate 30 users will have to surf the web through
the huawei browser and download apps
through the huawei app gallery which apparently has around 45 000 apps
compared to the play store's estimated 2.7 million the mate 30 phones will
instead be powered by open source Android running huawei's emui 10 their
user interface that approximates google's Android 10. this means that
huawei will only be able to bring security updates to the mate 30 phones
when those updates hit open source Android but they've never been the
fastest to roll out security updates anyway so that part
probably won't be very different you see Colton you set the bar low
no one's ever disappointed exactly that's my life
as if amazon wasn't controlling enough sectors of the world alexa users will
soon be able to donate money to the 2020 u.s presidential candidates through a
new feature called alexa political contributions candidates themselves have
to sign up to the system to be eligible and must have a whole host of us-based
documentation such as bank accounts and addresses to prevent
you know sending money to a pirate
ahoy Colton once activated in your alexa purchasing
settings alexa users can donate between a minimum of five dollars and a maximum
of two hundred dollars through amazon pay to their chosen candidate by simply
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everyone's gonna donate now crap and then you'll receive a receipt as a token
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uh the script is written by a british person so
i don't know how to sing that song this is likely a partnership deal coinciding
with the batman fortnite crossover that was officially teased on fortnite's
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would be sweet let's make a batmobile
is there a way to tea bag a corpse in a vehicle
doing a donut over them or something it's like i don't think so okay we got to stop disney plus doesn't launch until
november but thanks to just watch you can already browse the streaming
services 621 different movies and shows
and plan out your re-watching of classics from fantasia to frozen before
disney remakes them all and ruins your childhood again after all it's a circle
are you even here i don't know anything about disney i didn't have a childhood
i thought you still were a child just watches database doesn't currently
include upcoming releases such as star wars the mandalorian but disney's saying
that it expects to spend over one billion dollars on original content
in the first year and then up to two and a half billion by 2024 so you might want
to start counting your pennies kids and if you're an adult start planning your
your sick days off work i mean plan your allotted vacation days and if you're a
kid with a job call the police google's sister company
wing is teaming up with fedex walgreens and sugar magnolia whatever that is to
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sign up sign up now and never leave your couch again speaking of the future
google and amazon have recently announced plans to commit to renewable
green energy sources in wake of the demonstrations happening around the
world today amazon ceo jeff bezos outlined amazon's
promise of being a carbon neutral company by 2040 and claims that a
hundred thousand electric delivery vehicles have been ordered to reduce
fuel consumption while google says it's purchased of a 1600 megawatt package of
renewable energy deals is the biggest corporate purchase of renewable energy
in history it's a lot of solar panels
what are you good for cole
all right you're off the hook that's it for the news today come back on monday
ugh Colton please leave leave