THERE ARE TOO MANY ECHO(S)
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,230 words · ~6 min read
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oh i see what this is about you came for tech news didn't you
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i can see it in your eyes let's start off with a story that is a
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little more personal to me anyways because ncix the now bankrupt
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electronics retailer and my former employer has had its customer and
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employee data from the last 15 years including home addresses phone and
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credit card numbers and social insurance numbers leaked this freaking company
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apparently didn't encrypt its servers or wipe them before they left them with the
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company's landlord because they owed a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
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rent and those servers and the data contained therein are being sold to
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anonymous buyers this was all uncovered by travis doering of cyber security firm
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privacyfly who personally met with the guy selling all this stuff so if you've
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had any business with ncix ever you should probably take extra steps to
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prevent identity theft and cancel your credit cards there are helpful links in
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the news sources below the farther i get away from my time at ncix the happier i
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become i bought it you bought it
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yeah no oh can i i'm gonna order pizzas to your
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house buying buy me pizzas sending pizzas
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to me you gotta pay for them well that's okay i mean i like pizza yeah let's give
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me ones you don't like no
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amazon surprised the tech world with a hardware event completely out of the
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blue save for a few leaks a day or two before and
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actually i think we should just take a moment and appreciate that i mean
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yeah good job good job amazon i didn't think it was possible anymore anyways we
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got way more alexa devices than anyone wanted or asked for including
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a new echo dot with louder speakers the echo auto a 50 dashboard dongle the 130
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echo sub which is exactly what it sounds like no oh no it's a subwoofer the 230
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dollar fire tv recast which will beam live tv to other devices in your home a
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new 10-inch echo show that now works with skype the ring stick up camera
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since amazon bought ring earlier this year the 35 echo input which lets you
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turn any normal speaker into an alexa enabled one an amazon basics microwave
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and clock with built-in alexa see what i meant at the beginning
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about there being too many things a new echo plus with fabric this time
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the amazon smart plug so you can tell alexa to turn on and off anything that's
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plugged into it and finally the echo link and link amp which will plug into
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your existing sound system and also alexa will now use neural networks for
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hunches to guess at something you normally want to do like reminding you to turn off the porch light or lock the
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front door and also also alexa will now listen for potential so home security
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threats like broken glass or a smoke alarm geez amazon can you cool it with
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this i mean like i i do feel at this rate like we're gonna just be
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wading through echoes as we walked oh
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now google on the other hand they apparently can't manage to keep a single
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thing under wraps as leaks have now revealed a new chrome os device
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codenamed nukturn that's not how you say
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that nocturne it appears to be a convertible tablet and keyboard dock situation with
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the only visible port being one USB-C jack on the left side although there's
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supposed to be an sd card slot on there somewhere as well there's also
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reportedly a power button with an integrated fingerprint reader on the top
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left the nocturne is expected to be revealed at google's october 9th event
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along with a larger 4k enabled pixel book codenamed atlas wouldn't it be cool
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if techlink covered those kind of events that would be cool that would be cool i
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would like that but that's all i'm going to say but that's not all i'll say about today's
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catches the sunlight honor to the quick beats china they
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don't like twitch or the government doesn't anyways as they blocked the streaming service shortly after it
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enjoyed a bump in popularity among chinese gamers some analysts have
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suggested the block is a temporary measure that the party applies to any
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western media platform that becomes popular but i wouldn't necessarily be
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overly optimistic speaking of china huawei decided to troll fans lining up
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to buy the new iphone 10s and 10r with a juice van selling brain boosting drinks
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with no traces of apple to recharge mines and actual battery
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bags to recharge their phones because apparently iphones don't have good battery life is that a
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is that a thing i'd have you heard
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anyways nice one huawei way to go huawei wait
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see you later facebook is set to unveil its portal video chat device next week
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which was previously rumored to launch back in may but apparently all that
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stuff about cambridge analytical has settled down now and they have to have
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something to challenge the 47 new echo devices that we all have now
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automatically they've been they've been ordered for you they're coming i don't
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want them gopro has taken the wraps off their new lineup of hero 7 action
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cameras which have built-in stabilization but most importantly a new
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ui that mimics that of smartphones wow yeah
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revolutionary the white silver and black models aren't just colors they're
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different in functionality so don't just go with your gut here and
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nintendo switch online service just launched giving users access to some
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classic nes games through a built-in emulator which has already been cracked
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to run user's own roms the switch version apparently uses the same
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emulator found in the nes classic which was also
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hacked pretty quick why would they base it yeah that's nintender
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got him derp bad move
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not smart this episode's over now guys so i love you so much subscribe to
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techlink for more tech news but it's gonna come on monday either way so if
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you want to subscribe that'd be nice if you don't want to i don't know it's like
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it's your life you know live it alexa eat up my lunch
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kiss my ass