hey i know you've been stuck in a youtube vortex watching a million videos in the
background while you pound noobs not for this one okay sit up pay attention
we got tech news to discuss actually they could probably watch this in the
background pretty easily it's kind of like a background thing it's fine the
department of homeland security in the united states that is has issued an
emergency directive to government agencies to up their web security by
securing their dns records with two-factor authentication the urgent
bulletin follows a massive hijacking campaign on the domain name system or
dns which is kind of like the internet's phone book you plug in a url a dns
service connects you to the right ip addresses this cyber attack saw hackers
believed to be from iran hijack dns requests for various nefarious various
nefarious various nefarious various nefarious purposes like making login
credentials pass through their server before being routed to the real website
it's unclear how many companies or agencies have been affected by the
attack and it's harder than normal to actually get answers because of the
ongoing united states government shutdown winning
yeah i mean it's almost like having a functioning government is actually kind
of important we are pretty rude to apple on this show i mean i i i don't mean to
be it's just there's always something to make fun of and the latest debacle is
what some netizens are calling flexgate
apparently a lot of macbook pros from 2016 and later are experiencing a staged
lighting effect where the screen looks like it's being illuminated by a bunch
of lights from below users are also reporting that the backlight shuts off
completely after opening the lid to a certain degree as ifixit points out the
problems are reportedly caused by apple's decision to use a weaker ribbon
cable instead of the beefier wire cables used in previous designs and the new
cables aren't up to the stresses of being bent forward and back every time
the laptop opens and shuts and to make matters worse to fix the problem you
have to replace the whole display of course of course which costs around 600
instead of replacing the cables which cost about six coincidence
yeah that is kind of weird very like it's a perfect factor of multiplication see now i know
why we make fun of apple it's because they think they're so cool it's like ooh
yeah look at my brush sandblasted aluminum and my excellent color accuracy
and perfect software that always works the way it's supposed to the worst
we don't need that give me janky Android any day and xiaomi
has come out of the woodwork to show off a folding phone that actually doesn't
look stupid while the designs we've seen from royol and samsung involve bending a
small tablet-sized device in the middle xiaomi's design folds twice
leaving a central panel about the size of a regular smartphone
xiaomi senior vice president wang zhang tweeted
xiaomi senior vice president wang shang
tweeted a video of the device although it's pretty low resolution so i sure
hope it didn't come from the phone's camera eh james
oh the company says they're still considering whether to turn the device
which is a prototype into an actual product well i'll help you out with that
one mr wang shang do it meanwhile we're gonna do the quick
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link below got a lot of phone news quick bits today honor a sub brand owned by
huawei had an event this week to launch their newest flagship the vue 20. Linus
actually went to paris to attend the launch and Linus tech tips already has a
video up about it it's one of the first phones to actually launch featuring a
punch hole cut out camera type design and it's also got a 48 megapixel camera
that apparently isn't terrible at the mobile world
congress coming up on february 24th lg is apparently going to show off some
sort of touchless gesture technology exactly what i didn't know i didn't want
exactly but it's coming the company released a
teaser with a hand waving over a piece of paper as text magically appears i
mean this might help you keep your phone screen smudge 3 but it sure looks a bit
doinky speaking of doinkie how about a phone with no buttons
or ports yup sounds like my kind of phone
not really the meizu zero which its name
checks out doesn't even have a sim card slot or speakers it relies on esim
technology while the phone's display apparently produces the sound and the
device does charge wirelessly at up to 18 watts you don't just buy it and use
it until it dies you can charge it wireless charging only yep no thanks
jeff welcome to the future whether you want to be here or not you're come on
let's go google is working on blocking ad blockers from chrome as seen in changes
made to the open source chromium browser which is the basis for future versions
of chrome so get ready for an internet that's a little more colorful until
someone makes an ad blocker blocking unblocker
and the future is now robots that deliver you food are coming and some are
already here amazon they brought food and they brought food
welcome amazon has begun testing their six wheeled delivery bot called the
amazon scout colonial
near seattle washington but at virginia's george mason university
starship has actually launched a robot food delivery service with the company's
units delivering pizza coffee and other food to students for just two bucks
a lot of technological advances have some complicated issues involved but i
think this one is pretty simple build a robot get it to bring me pizza i'll tell you
what's not to like the fact that this episode is over but don't cry for me
argentina because we'll be back on friday with more tech news pineapple
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