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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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america i'm sorry i forgot your birthday on wednesday we're not friends on
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facebook so i don't have the little pop-up you know sorry maybe tech news will make it
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better the european union has rejected a proposed copyright bill called the
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copyright directive that would have changed the internet as we know it again
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while the gdpr concerned privacy protection this bill was an attempt to
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modernize the eu's copyright laws by a requiring online platforms like google
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or facebook pay royalties for linking to newspapers and other outlets kind of
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like what we do here and b requiring
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that online platforms have a built-in way to assess and filter their content
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like youtube's content id system
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the eu parliament has decided those rules might be a little too much though
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so they've sent the proposal back to the drawing board can you imagine getting
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slapped with copyright strikes every time you re-uploaded full episodes of
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westworld to your preferred platform
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pc gaming hardware makers are usually in fierce competition but cooler master
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appears to have kicked off a giant oem lub fest they started on twitter asking
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Corsair if they'd give away a mouse to go along with a cooler master keyboard
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soon after other companies started chiming in with their own contributions
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to the giveaway including fractal design MSI hyperx ASUS and even NVIDIA jumped
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on board with a 1080 ti now over 30 companies are in on it and
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there will be multiple winners because one person probably doesn't need two or
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three versions of every peripheral we do oh oh greedy the winners will be
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announced on the pc master race subreddit next week so stay tuned wow
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the love it's almost enough to make you forget that this will really only benefit one
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person and the real winner is these companies marketing departments
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inspiring elon musk's reputation as the real-life iron man maybe became more
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than just a fun phrase today as the spacex tesla and boring company founder
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is sending engineers to help with rescue operations in thailand on monday 12
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young members of the thai soccer team and their coach were found inside the
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flooded tam lang non cave system the
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thai military has been trying various methods to extract the boys but one thai
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diver has already died as part of the attempt musk responded to a tweet asking
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for assistance and is now apparently working with the thai government on several rescue options including
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injecting air into the cave system to flush the water out and provide an exit
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route route musk may be involved because he really cares about those boys or
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because this is a very intriguing physics and engineering problem can never really tell with that guy it's
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time for quick bits brought to you today by private internet access vpn or as i
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like to call them just kidding pia is an easy to use vpn
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shower doors seriously they've got servers in 28 countries to help you get
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across a multitude of platforms go check out pia at the link below alright come
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on and get your quick bits researchers from illinois and texas have created a
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new cooling solution for computers that works three times better than current
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coolers made of boron arsenide crystals
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this sounds nerdy that's what i was doing there that might give carbon nanotubes a run for its money i don't
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know your mom's a boron arsenide oh yeah thanks ah that's rude looking to upgrade
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to 2nd gen ryzen you might be interested in AMD's b450 motherboards which have
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been spotted at some e-tailer sites they support gen 1 and 2 and they won't break
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the bank or your heart researchers at mit are
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training ai to automatically generate molecules that could fulfill specific
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functions which could lead to even better faster synthesis of designer
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drugs which is great google assistant could just
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whip up some dope for you real quick whoa
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and mit has also added to its cheetah robot the ability to navigate run climb
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and even jump without using its visual sensors just using its accelerometers
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gyroscopes and leg positioning to feel its way around it's good knowing that
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the robots will still be able to come for us even if we blind them that's
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great that's it for tackling guys subscribe if you want to don't subscribe
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if you don't want to like if you want to dislike if you want to you know what do
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what you want aside from killing people and some other
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stuff too you know what forget i said it
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don't still don't kill people remember that part remember the not
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killing people part everything else is