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wow cyber monday we made it so
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are we inside the computer now are you a tron
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what do you think cyber monday is wow cyber stuff t-mobile says they've
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officially launched america's first nationwide 5g network quote unquote
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covering more than 1 million square miles and more than 200 million people
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but wait a second the u.s has about 330
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million people and 3.53 million square
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miles i'm not an electromagnetic
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spectromologist but that doesn't seem like a nationwide network to me james
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unless t-mobile means that only people who can afford 5g phones and who live in
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an area with coverage qualify as members of the nation that doesn't seem like a
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nation at all it seems like an exclusive club just like the one i wasn't allowed
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into on friday because of my insistence on bringing james dog with me who's
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james dog it's a really cool guy now t-mobile's 4g
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network covers 325 million people and it seems like the uncarrier is definitely
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banking on that to fill out the gaps if you have a 5g phone you'll still have to
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wait until friday to use its particular capabilities and even then you probably
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won't see more than a 20 increase in speed as current 5g uses the same 600
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megahertz spectrum as 4g that is if you're part of the nation that's
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supposedly getting this nationwide coverage i mean i'm not even getting any
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service in vancouver corporate fat cats
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ah we're in canada oh
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corporate fat beavers apple has now fully ingested or acquired
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the smartphone modem department of Intel after announcing the meal i mean deal
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back in july stupid the one billion deal leaves Intel
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still able to work on 5g modems for non-smartphone devices like pcs and
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vehicle systems the deal was born out of an interesting situation apple started
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buying Intel modems in 2016 after its patent lawsuit with qualcomm got intense
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meanwhile Intel was complaining about qualcomm's anti-competitive practices
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including being a real hard ass about patent fees and supposed copyright
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infringement which left team blue's mobile modem business dead in the water
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however apple reached a 4.5 billion settlement with qualcomm in may so until
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cupertino can develop an in-house modem with their new acquisition they'll
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reportedly use qualcomm modems in future iphones and Intel has been left a little
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salty about the whole ordeal supporting the ftc's investigation of qualcomm for
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anti-competitive behavior even after their modem business was sold
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man it is just not Intel's year i'm starting
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to feel bad for for old bob swan and a fresh leak of the playstation 5 dev kit
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has kicked off some discussion about the upcoming next-gen console war turns out
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that wacky v-shaped design is real
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and while the console will almost certainly look less early 2000s when it
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launches next christmas people seem to be experiencing a bit of a
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cyber truck moment with it like after your initial gag reflex hits
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you start to realize well
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you're right i love it the cooling system being on top could
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work great even with the console sitting on a carpet or something the leaked picks led to some
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commentators asking about the xbox project scarlet dev kit which is
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reportedly not quite finished and in the hands of very few developers jason
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schreier suggested that microsoft is trying to surprise sony this time
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by not having the dev kit ready regardless
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head of xbox game studio's matt booty
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that is his real name told gamesradar that scarlett aims to be backwards
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compatible with every xbox game which would be awesome it's probably just a
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regular box without a cool v-shape though it's shaped like an x
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the european space agency has approved the budget for their half of the
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asteroid impact and deflection assessment or ida mission ida is a joint
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mission set for 2027 in which nasa's dart probe would smash into the dual
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asteroid system didymos didymus
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creating an impact crater and a change in trajectory that would be analyzed by
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the esa's hera that's a spacecraft it's a greek goddess
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and that too and no this isn't the result of some astrophysicists getting
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drunk and wanting to smash into stuff the point is to learn whether we could
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prevent a deadly asteroid impact because the dinosaurs couldn't
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even with all their technology
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facebook has rolled out a new tool in ireland that will allow users to easily
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transfer all of their facebook pictures to google photos why would they want to
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do that i'm getting off the platform
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how are you doing you'll never have me lucky picks
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see you later well for one they want to do it to appease critics who accuse them of
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having a social media monopoly plus if google has your photos too facebook can
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point at them and say no see they're do they're doing it they're doing data
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collection too it just might confuse europe enough to work sources inside
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tiktok say the social video company has suppressed the distribution of posts by
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users with disabilities videos by such
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users were made to only appear in their country of origin or taken out of
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circulation once they had a certain view count the move was ostensibly designed
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to prevent these users from facing bullying or discrimination by
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discriminating against them these antibodies let me get bullied by foreign
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powers yeah the logic there is a little i only want to be bullied by locals
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right then it's fine these anti-bullying policies have now been discontinued but
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for me the damage is done i'm never tick-tocking again amazon has
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joined microsoft and google in launching a quantum computing service even though
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quantum computers are basically still in the research phase amazon is also
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launching amazon transcribe medical an ai power transcription service that will
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help doctors keep track of details during conversations with patients like
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dosage amounts and symptoms wow neither of those things seem ready
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for prime time prime oh like amazon i didn't even get that
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you did it and a new update for super mario maker includes a master sword
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power-up that turns mario into link
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through some sort of dark sorcery link can block attacks with a shield and
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attack with a sword arrows and bombs this is cool but guys link is not part
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of the mario universe i was willing to forgive his inclusion in mario kart but
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how much further can we go before every mario game is just super smash bros all
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right well i guess that's it for this episode come back on monday for more
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tech news everybody is monday
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oh no it's cyber money