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hey Linus how does tech news get made uh

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okay well you see when uh when a man

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and another man and then there's a third man who points

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the camera at it you know what i'll explain it to you when you're older okay two years after

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its ceo called bitcoin a fraud jp morgan

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has announced it will launch its own cryptocurrency called jpm coin it will

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reportedly be the world's first cryptocurrency backed by a major u.s

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bank unlike bitcoin or ethereum whose value is dependent on the fluctuations

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of their own ecosystems jpm coin will be a stable coin

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or a cryptocurrency that derives its value from another stable asset that

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stable asset is the us dollar so one jpm

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coin will always be worth one us dollar jp morgan says they transfer more than

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16 trillion dollars around the world every day for their clients so the new

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cryptocurrency will be used to simplify and facilitate faster transactions

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crypto enthusiasts are unsurprisingly

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a bit skeptical of the megabanks move because like what now is every bank just

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gonna have its own cryptocurrency how many jpm coins is one wells fargo

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buck worth i mean on the plus side jpm coin gives

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some more legitimacy to cryptocurrency but then at the risk of

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angering everyone who uses cryptocurrency and then removing a lot

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of the benefit of cryptocurrency which was that you didn't have to be reliant

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on jp freaking morgan this segue doesn't work because i

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ad-libbed a bit there but that's fine because open ai the artificial

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intelligence startup backed by elon musk could have taken that previous sentence

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that i said and written its own segue based on just watching my videos this

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thing is freaking incredible so they showed off a new ai model called

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2 which can write extremely convincing

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news stories and even works of fiction with just one or two sentences of input

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to get it started the system was trained on more than 10 million articles and

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stories collected from reddit posts with more than three upvotes but it doesn't

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really do much fact checking it just kind of writes from the heart yeah you

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know man like from the heart yeah um so

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here's a crazy thing openai thinks that gpt2 is so good that it's too dangerous

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to release to the public because it could easily be used to create an

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unending stream of fake news articles or

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it could be used to generate hundreds of positive online reviews for a product

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like this fantastic LTT stealth hoodie that i'm

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wearing right now so i guess the thing here is until we can

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develop an ai conscience it's probably best for gpt2 to stay in its room for

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now think about what it did nintendo unleashed a torrent of game

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news in its direct presentation on wednesday super mario maker 2 is coming

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to the switch along with dragon quest 11 a 3d remaster of legend of zelda link's

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awakening and astral chain the new game from the developers of nier automata

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fire emblem 3 houses is a strategy rpg with a bit of harry potter thrown in for

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fun and ononaki is the latest game from tokyo rpg factory perhaps the most

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interesting news though was the fact that tetris is now a battle where i

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thought this was fake tetris is a battle royale game are you for real

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surprisingly it's not just a gimmick people are actually really enjoying

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tetris 99 but the thing is like really why do we have to make why do we have to

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take a nice puzzle game and like make it about destroying our competitors what's

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wrong with us can't we just play tetris like

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next to each other without fighting you want to play tetris no it's time for

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at your own house in the comfort of your own chair with a headset and talk to

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them that way massdrop and sennheiser worked together to make the pc37x even

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better than ever before it's got angled drivers it's got an open back design

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with excellent locational accuracy and a noise cancelling microphone so go check

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it out it's 119.99 for a limited time at mass drop it's uh linked in the video

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description on to the quiddity bytes

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apple has been banned from selling the iphone 7 and 8 in germany ever since a

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german court sided with qualcomm in a patent dispute but now apple is planning

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to resume sales of the older models in germany after modifying them to use

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qualcomm modems instead of Intel ones that's the only way the company can get

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around the legal restrictions that were imposed by qualcomm's successful lawsuit

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now i'm not usually inclined to feel bad for apple but this this gets me pretty

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close

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real close like almost almost nubia the company behind the dual screen nubia x

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has shown off a flexible phone

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watch thing it's a wrist mounted device with a long

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flexible display and front-facing camera called the nubia alpha the company

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showed a preview of the device at ifa in berlin last fall but we should see more

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information at mobile world congress in a couple of weeks i'm having a hard time

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here is it is it ugly or just unsettling

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it's the future oh by the way speaking of the future remember Android tablets

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that was the past those were fun no wait they're not dead wow samsung

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just announced the galaxy tab s5e with a

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metal construction and slim bezels that call to mind the design of the latest

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ipad pros it'll ship with Android 9 pi out of the box modified with the

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company's new one ui and will start at 399 us that's very nice samsung good

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luck with that lg phones aren't really known for their drastic technological

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innovations actually some of them have been pretty pretty groundbreaking but

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anyway whether you think they have or they haven't you will be surprised because the

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upcoming lg g8 thinq is going to be packing a pretty big technological

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innovation a vibrating screen now the phone will have actual speakers on the

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back but front-facing sound will come from the crystal sound OLED or cso the

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audio will be so amazing that you'll be able to see it that's how it works no

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that's not how it works i've seen this before technology it's very cool it's

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very cool the screen vibrates but like it doesn't look like it's like vibrating

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it's just yeah and it sounds it sounded pretty good on a tv anyway and amazon is

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getting into electric vehicles the tech giant is leading an investment of 700

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million dollars into rivien a startup developing a line of fully electric

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pickup trucks and suvs fun fact amazon

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ceo jeff bezos also owns blue origin the rocket company elon musk owns spacex and

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tesla so i guess what we're seeing here

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is just like a billionaire like dick measuring contest you know it's like oh

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yeah i've got a football team oh yeah you know i'm going to go get a football team yo i see your football team raise

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you one electric car company you know what i'm going to make electric trucks

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because electric cars are for when are you making an electric car

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uh heavens we're out of time uh thank you

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for tuning in to this episode of TechLinked um but don't worry monday is the

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day as well and there will be tech news on monday presumably i mean it's a holiday up here but but riley riley

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doesn't get holidays i'll be here