Apple using Deepfakes on Facetime!?
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·2020-05-05
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you know what Riley I I don't know what it is but I'm just feeling a little
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extra super today like there's a bit of
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more clock in my step NVIDIA shill yes
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lonus Media Group parent company NVIDIA released the GeForce RTX 260 super and
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2070 super yesterday after much teasing
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leaking and eyebrow wiggling Anthony did a
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review over on our lonus Tech tips channel so go check that out and
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definitely buy line is Tech tip shirt but here's the summary NVIDIA is
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discontinuing the original 2070 and 2080
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and replacing them with the 2070 super
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and 2080 super so the current gen lineup
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goes rtx2060 RTX 2060 super RTX 2070
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super RTX 2080 super and RTX 2080
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TI nons super the new cards are bringing
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performance boost of up to 25% compared
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to their predecessors while keeping the same price points although the rules are
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not Harden fast because the 2060 super is actually $50 more than the vanilla
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2060 and I guess that is going to make it even harder for AMD to make a dent in
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the market with the release of the upcoming Radeon 5700 and 5700 XT on July
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7th this Sunday it is nice to see NVIDIA
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give us more performance
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for free sorry I coughed on the script
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there and that they definitely weren't just holding extra pockets in their back
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performance cards this whole time and only giving it to us now because AMD has
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a competitive product coming out wow made it you made that make sense sort of
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large parts of the internet have had trouble staying accessible in the past
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couple of days Cloud flare experienced a major server overload yesterday that
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caused multiple sites to go down including Discord Okay
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Cupid pelaton and coindesk the overload
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was caused by a bad software deploy
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according to cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince which we're pretty sure means
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that someone accidentally threw a USB key at the server 10 internet points if
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you get the reference the issue was fixed within 30 minutes but then today
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more connectivity issues have been affecting social platforms worldwide
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including Facebook Instagram WhatsApp and Twitter at at the time of writing
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the companies were looking into possible causes and fixes but there was one side
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bonus at least for some users photos on Facebook were replaced with the tags
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assigned to them by the AI so like a photo of me it's like one person spiky
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hair stuck in '90s thanks for that and
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Apple has rolled out a feature to the iOS 13 developer beta that is both nice
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and kind of creepy FaceTime can now
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alter video of your face so it looks as though you are staring directly into the
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camera even if you're looking slightly down at the screen the feature is that's
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actually really cool the feature is only available on the iPhone 10s and 10s Max
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so it most likely uses a combination of those devices camera Tech and widely
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available deep fake techniques some users who have tried it out report that
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it's awesome to have a conversation that seems more natural thanks to proper eye
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contact but wonder if the other person
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is really looking at them like am I even looking at you right now I mean right
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now I'm not I'm looking at Riley but but
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now I am or am I epic games has made
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many a gamer salty with their Relentless
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drive to acquire exclusives for the epic
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game store particularly for crowdfunded games that were previously platform
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agnostic well epic is trying to mitigate the damage somewhat by paying for
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refunds to backers of games like shenmu
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3 so the developer won't be hurt by fan
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backlash to me this is really a bit like starting a fire using dollar bills and
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then hosing down the fire by smothering
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it with more money yeah it's inefficient and expensive it makes sense but it
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might just work speaking of just working you might want to cancel any upcoming
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work trips to the shinjang region of
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China as multiple reports claim the Chinese border officials have been
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confiscating Travelers phones and and returning them with a surveillance app
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installed the app may be used to scan phones for Content contempt for the
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Chinese government excuse me for Content deemed Dangerous by the Chinese
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government now as for myself I only trust my government to violate my
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privacy also the US government and probably the Chinese government too so
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so all of that a big no no mhm speaking of privacy violations Amazon has
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divulged that Alexa voice recordings may be kept on file by the company even
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after a user requests that they be deleted transcripts of the recordings
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may be used for training voice assistants and they are get this not
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anonymized see this would be scary but I
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know Alexa and I know that she would never do anything nasty with my
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information uh you don't know Alexa like
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I do okay 5G has already rolled out to a
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few places in America but now the EU is
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getting in on the action vone has rolled out their 5G Network in 27 cities across
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Europe so we're going to have to see whether the UK's weather satellites get
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screwed up by the interference not that they need them we all know it's just
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always rainy in the UK and Microsoft has been teasing
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something to do with Windows 1.0 on their social feeds without really saying
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anything about what it means could this be a special classic edition release of
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the first version of Windows well there's a lot of 80s imagery um and then
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stranger things season 3 releases on Netflix tomorrow so if I had to guess
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I'd say it's going to be a tie-in of some kind whoa yeah this is the most am
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ambitious crossover of all time Microsoft hold my beer Etc upside down
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Edition and that's quite enough Tech news for one day let's not overdo it you
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know too much of a good thing is still too much and uh sub subscribe to
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