Working TOGETHER?? They must be up to something…
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,125 words · ~5 min read
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you know tech news it's a funny thing
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oh no google amazon and apple are collaborating on something and no i
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checked there are no zombies running around so this isn't the apocalypse
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yet the tech giants are joining forces to develop an open source standard for
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smart home technology that is that wow
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that's pretty awesome because up until this point the industry has been crowded
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with a million competing ecosystems and the big three aren't even the only ones
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involved here other big name partners include the zigbee alliance ikea samsung
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smartthings and signify that's what
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philips hue transmorphed into that is almost all of them the project is called
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connected home over ip which is weird because you'd think putting that many
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smart people in a room would uh turn into a cooler name like like ultimate
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smart home club robot house robot house
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sure thing bender we finally got our heads out of our bikes oh boy have i got
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some bad news for you though you know how we've been told for years that the
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blue light from our phones is what's been preventing us from getting a good
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night's sleep so uh every software company went out and added blue light
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filter modes that warmed up the screen colors to a more orangey red well
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unfortunately a new study from the university of manchester apparently
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shows that these filters don't do in scientific terms
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jack at all the researchers studied the reactions of mice to various light
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conditions and found that because it more resembles the color of daylight
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warmer colored light actually affected internal body clocks more than blue
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light but the study concludes that instead of reversing coarse and exposing
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ourselves to blue light in the evening we should probably just refrain from
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using devices with screens right before bed
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they didn't even mention though that i'm not a mouse so i really don't know how
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seriously to take this and puma has come along to answer the
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question of why you just haven't been pwning as many noobs lately
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well you didn't have their new active gaming footwear gaming socks
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yeah dummies it is designed for indoor and
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in arena use and delivers seamless
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comfort support and grip so gamers can
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adapt to you know what no i'm not even reading this this is the stupidest press
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release that i have ever read i have read a lot of stupid press releases
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what is this attack mode heal up stability and cruise and defense this is
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in their literature this is awful this is awful they're bad
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they should feel bad they apparently have a gaming seat so you can rock back
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and forth for a tactical re it helps you get more headshots now it's time for the
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queckbacks brought to you by the soundcore liberty 2 pro earbuds we
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actually did a sponsored video for these a while back and ended up loving them
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but don't take our word for it they're also endorsed by 10 grammy-winning
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engineers the liberty 2 pros feature studio quality audio thanks to their
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astria coaxial acoustic architecture and can be customized using the here id
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system in the companion app they feature eight hours of play time with an extra
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24 hours in the charging case and can be charged either wirelessly or through usb
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type c right now soundcore is selling a
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Linus tech tips limited edition until december 27th and if you're not into
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that i guess you can win one of them in their giveaway for the next 48 hours so
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check them out at the link below and enter the giveaway
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i remember dreaming a dream of quack backs and then it was real google has
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released a fix for a chrome update on Android that caused data in other apps
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to disappear the tech giant explained that the data wasn't actually gone per
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se it was just rendered invisible by a
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bug which has now been fixed so no i
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guess we haven't finally found the proof we need that google is actually an extra
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dimensional alien who consumes our data and uses it as nourishment for her
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legion of unhatched alien eggs maybe next time
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ASUS will apparently soon be showing off a gaming monitor with a 280 hertz
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refresh rate the 27-inch 1080p model was listed on taiwanese retail store taobao
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with an ips panel and support for adaptive sync i'm sure if you get this
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thing and the gaming socks you are going to be on something no i will not i will
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not talk about the gaming socks any further
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reports have sprung up this week about the pixel 4's inability to charge itself
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while using certain usb a to USB-C cables most c cables seem to work fine
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but if they don't support the usb pd standard they might be about as useful
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as an umbrella in arizona so make sure you test your cables before going on a
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trip or whatever by the way in arizona you could use an umbrella but it would
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be to block out the sun it's called a parasol a loophole has been closed that allowed
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ads for e-cigarettes to appear on facebook and instagram such ads were
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already banned but influencers could skirt the rules by publishing sponsored
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posts promoting vape products so it's part of a crackdown across multiple
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social platforms on content that's related to vaping and frankly i've
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already been talking about this for far too long we're gonna get demonetized way
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to go riley and californians are about to see more
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autonomous vehicles on their streets as the state's department of motor vehicles
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is pushing a proposal through for a permitting system that would let more
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companies test and deploy driverless vehicles helicopters aren't included yet
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but if companies like skyrise continue their r d we might soon live in cities
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where we can worry about nothing anymore except
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driverless planes falling on our heads
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other than that anyway that's it dang it we're straight out of tech news i guess
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you'll have to come back on friday for more and trust me the news is going to
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be good on friday well it's coming on friday you know what's going on i don't
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know i assumed you knew what's gonna happen on friday well how the hell am i supposed to know friday hasn't happened
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yet we gotta go back marty