Does EA Just Hate Their Customers!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,136 words · ~5 min read
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i'm not the tech news anchor that you deserve but i'm the one you're gonna get
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anyway
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yay batman wouldn't take his glasses off
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Windows 10 has had a bad month microsoft released the october update only to have
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it delete users files and they're still trying to fix it in order to re-release
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it but then yesterday users with activated copies of Windows 10 pro
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received messages saying that their os was not in fact activated and that they
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had to either install Windows 10 home or purchase a genuine copy of Windows when
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some affected users contacted microsoft support they were told they would need
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to buy proper licenses to fix the problem and apparently some people
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actually did this microsoft has started rolling out a see
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that's why these microsoft tech support scams work all you have to do is be like
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hi i'm microsoft you have to buy something and people just do it they
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have that kind of power wow billy now microsoft has started rolling out a fix
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so if your Windows does suddenly deactivate itself
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don't panic and just run the activation troubleshooter but all these problems
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are just not a good look for microsoft's Windows division they might just drive
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people to switch back to vista wait who's billy
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yeah bill gates ea has been being ea about things and
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complicating the launch of battlefield 5 with a three-tiered rollout
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strangely if you pre-ordered the game you won't get to play it on launch day
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which is today that honor belongs to origin access premium subscribers on pc
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origin access basic and ea access
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subscribers on the xbox get a 10 hour
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trial of the game starting today
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as for those of you who bought the 80 deluxe edition
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well you get to play on november 15th just like the plebs who bought the oh
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wow no they get to wait even longer and the plebs who bought the 60 standard
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edition they have to wait till november 20th the setup is so convoluted that ea
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had to make a dedicated graphic just to explain when you'll get to play the game
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that you bought hopefully they don't follow this model for all their releases but
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i'm getting a chill in my spine telling me that they
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might so what day is the release date am i getting the game early or late am i
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even getting the game at all no i'm just kidding i already have it yeah we have like five keys vine the six
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second video platform may have been shut down in 2016 but it had a huge impact on
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the short video format and now its spirit will live on vines creator dom
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hoffman announced yesterday that his new looping video app bite not to be
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confused with vine will launch in spring 2019 but others
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are also getting on the short video train giphy excuse me jiffy is launching
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a 30-second video platform that it's promoting with a short film festival
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excuse me so that's a short film festival not a short film festival
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and facebook has released lasso its competitor to the wildly popular 15
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second video lip-syncing act tik-tok finally it has been so hard for me to
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stand out hopefully there's an audience on lasso for my rendition of papa poker
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face poker face
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no did you ask if i can or if i did
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neither tech jesus stephen burke over at gamersnexus got his hands on some rtx
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2080 ti's that have been experiencing issues and as it turns out the reasons
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for many cards failing are not so simple issues with the cards were
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hard to reproduce but were definitely present and it's still unclear how many
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cards are affected so you can head to their channel to see their findings and
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to gaze longingly at steve's majestic flow
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sony's upcoming playstation classic mini console will cost a hundred dollars and
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the company will probably make a killing on it because the device runs an open
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source emulator called pcsx rearmed
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which anyone can install on a pc and use
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for free now to be fair it makes sense for sony
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to use an existing well-made emulator for the classic it just makes the 100
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price tag a little harder to swallow probably because you shouldn't swallow
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price tags don't tell them what to do microsoft and amazon have been teasing
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alexa and cortana integration for some time but now you can download and
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install alexa on Windows 10. as for how that will make cortana feel
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when you use alexa for everything instead of her
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well pretty sad i would think
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has reported that the north korea linked hacker group lazarus is behind the theft
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of tens of millions of dollars from atms in asia and africa using the fast cash
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malware lazarus was responsible for the sony hack in 2014 as well as the
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wannacry ransomware outbreak last year and china's state-run press agency
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xinhua xinhua has debuted what they're calling ai anchors
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virtualized avatars that read out the news in a synthesized voice but what's
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really creepy is that the ai modifies footage of a real anchor so it does look
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like a real person speaking not a lizard person because who needs real humans to
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stand in front of a camera and read a teleprompter sounds pretty dumb to me
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hey wait a second you know what else sounds dumb the fact that this episode
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is over stupid but it's okay because we'll be back on
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monday with more news and lots of it trust me it's going to be the biggest
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news you've ever seen hey why are you wearing this
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because i'm an actor
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it's broken detective oh broke it just broke
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oh it's not a real gun is it
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no