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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,510 words · ~7 min read
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hear ye hear ye
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the tech news is nigh
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open thine ears peasant that i may
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wiggle my tech news pinky in them
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it's all over humanity is doomed because the alpha ai developed by deepmind has
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beaten human professional starcraft 2 players for the first time our most
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cherished and complex game i i mean that's only partly sarcasm
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sarcasm starcraft starcraft is much
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much more complicated than both chess and go which have already been mastered
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by deepmind's ai this one called alpha
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star prepared for its matches by playing versions of itself over and over again
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at an accelerated rate playing 200 years worth of games
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in about a week let's take that korea alphastar was put up against the
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starcraft pros known as tlo and mana
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beating them both five to zero however
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while deepmind did set human-like limits
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on alpha star's ability in order to make it a fairer matchup the ai was able to
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essentially see the entire game map out oh come on
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though it couldn't see through the fog of war
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and deepmind's analysis did show that alpha star focused attention on specific
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areas at specific times
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mana has defeated alpha star once this advantage was removed however
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mana was able to defeat alpha star in one last game so the headlines probably
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should read ai defeat starcraft 2 pros with screen
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peeking send one over deepmind i'm gonna take it
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on myself no i'm not now we all love to bash facebook but
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they also own instagram and whatsapp another two of the most popular social
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networks and soon they won't be that different mark zuckerberg has announced
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plans to integrate the messaging services of instagram whatsapp and
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facebook messenger in order to consolidate facebook services and keep
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users engaged with the what the hell are they doing
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this is literally straight out of the how to acquire something totally destroy
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it and make nobody care about it anymore playbook
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under the new system all three messaging services will effectively be the same
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system incorporating end-to-end encryption which whatsapp has already
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and allowing users on any one of those platforms to send a message to either of
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the others i mean that's why people are on instagram so they don't get messages
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from mom on facebook you're upset the move represents a sharp redirection as
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facebook has previously allowed instagram and whatsapp to operate
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largely autonomously it also arrives alongside an op-ed from zuckerberg
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published in the wall street journal defending facebook's business practices
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and expressing openness to federal regulation in response to its many
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scandals during the year of 2018 which
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wasn't that long ago so whether you feel the need to hashtag delete facebook or
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not they're not deleting themselves anytime soon they're just making it so
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we won't care about them good job and google has petitioned the us supreme
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court to overturn a ruling that would have potentially disastrous consequences
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for the software industry you see in 2010 oracle the company that owns the
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rights to the java programming language sued google for implementing java apis
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in some of its software like the Android operating system in 2014 the case
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reached the federal circuit appeals court which ruled that google had
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breached oracle's copyright but copyright laws had never been used to
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restrict the use of apis before and google believes that they shouldn't so
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they appealed it there was a second ruling last year which upheld the
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original ruling and now in a massive shocker google is appealing
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that ruling because they still don't agree the reason this is such a big deal
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is that new software is often based off of existing apis and if every developer
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was forced to pay licensing all the way back up the chain it could drastically
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alter the landscape of software development you know what come on oracle
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mr ellison don't you don't you have anything better to do you guys you guys
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basically have a monopoly on database software just enjoy your billions upon
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smartphone for people with a lot of gray matter
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no no that's what is that the name up zero buttons ah it's a smartphone with
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no buttons or ports and then get this
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vivo has now announced their own super smooth phone the apex 2019 which also
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has no buttons or ports i mean we knew this was coming but we were like kind of
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joking you know like back remember okay remember when phones kept getting
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smaller and smaller and people would make these funny videos where they're
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just like holding a phone that's the size of a tic tac like yeah oh hello yes
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yeah i love it you know like that kind of thing well we
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would we joked about it soon the phone with no ports and nobod
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they're here then not just one two of them so the only seam is a microphone
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hole in the bottom and it relies completely on wireless charging now
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chinese phone makers have actually been responsible for a lot of innovation in
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phones recently including oh i wish i had that
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that uh next that has the two screens one on the back but i was not asking for
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this kind of change not like this
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valve will be making an appearance at the game developers conference in march
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to present a talk entitled brain computer interfaces
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one possible future for how we play how we play
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half-life for how we play half-life 3 is that what
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you meant valve whether it's meant to control gordon freeman or not the idea
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of playing video games with your mind is certainly intriguing especially if
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there's a gravity gun involved smart watches are pretty blah these days but
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google might be looking to kickstart the industry again code names for what are
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allegedly pixel branded watches called salmon
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and madaka have leaked with the rumor mill
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indicating we might see these devices this fall internet access for the island
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nation of tonga was completely wiped out this past weekend when an undersea fiber
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cable was damaged by cthulhu excuse me a ship's anchor a satellite dish was
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hastily set up in the capital and residents could line up to use it for 20
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minutes at a time is the entire world a south park episode now
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is this where we're at i mean can you imag can you imagine
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spending a good 30 seconds composing an unimaginably tasty tweet only to have
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your entire country's internet cut off
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and then someone else kicks you off the computer and they need the spot but you
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haven't pressed send yet i don't want to think about it and take this last item
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with a hefty dose of salt but a reddit post with what are supposedly specs for
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the next gen series of xbox consoles was posted yes my friends on reddit earlier
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this week before being removed screenshots were captured before that
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happened though thanks reddit showing a spec list that included 12 teraflop
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Radeon navi gpus and ray tracing support
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that does seem a little far-fetched but come 2020 and microsoft's announcement
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of the rtx box you guys will say
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hey those techlink guys they're pretty in the know they
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they they got it yeah and you know what else i've got
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some bad news because that's it
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for the tech news today unless you haven't watched the lan show
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in which case you could go do that now there it's not really tech news anymore
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people were worried when that TechLinked was going to kind of kill the wan
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show the WAN Show's just like an hour of now
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that's yeah it's not dead it's just stupid
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