Galaxy Fold - WORST Launch of 2019?
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·2020-05-05
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Colton you're back i'm back baby you're gonna say something this time i'm gonna
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try yeah it's like the biggest troll ever was heckling by being silent
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do you have an extra two thousand dollars just laying around that you'd like to spend on something that could
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just easily break well you're in luck as the samsung galaxy fold is finally set to release on
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friday 18t will be the only carrier to offer the phone to start with but
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unlocked models will also be available through samsung and best buy samsung has
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reportedly incorporated a number of fixes for the phone's widely reported
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issues that professional reviewers noticed back in april including sealing
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the hinges to prevent debris or schmoo as alex calls it from getting in there
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fitting the edge of the protective layer under the bezel so you can't peel it off
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and incorporating extra layers of metal to make the phone sturdier overall
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however the device is probably still going to be more fragile than your
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average smartphone so try not to drop it Linus
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google was recently caught with its pants down regarding its internal
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program that had actual humans listening in on the okay
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google conversations so the tech giant is now making some changes the company
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said that anyone who opts into their voice and audio activity feature will be
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explicitly reminded that actual employees might listen in and that they
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would also vastly reduce how much user-generated audio they keep
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on their own servers or their servers in general the plan is for google to delete
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most audio that's older than several months but it isn't clear how they'll
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decide which snippets to keep ultimately though it should be good news
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for privacy conscious folks when the policy does go into effect next year in
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the meantime try not to google too many questions about that uh weird rash that
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doesn't go away Colton i've got four of those things in
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my house rashes if you're one of the many people
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that play fortnite or pub g on your iphone a fix is coming for iOS 13 issue
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that's essentially rendered those games unplayable a three finger press which is
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my favorite kind of press brings up the text editing commands in the latest
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version of apple's mobile os but unfortunately players often have to use
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three fingers on the screen in those games which brings up the iOS options
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during gameplay sucky there isn't an option to disable
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this feature right now so apple is pushing out a fix tomorrow which will prevent the commands from coming up if
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the user isn't editing text and will give flexibility to developers to keep
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users from activating them inadvertently if only there was a similar thing to
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keep me from tweeting under the influence i'm a drunk tweeter
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you're drunk don't do that i always at you yup you up
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now for the Colton bits if you're a safar user your ad blocking days
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may be at an end mister at least if you're a fan of you block origin the new
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safari update has seriously limited third party extensions particularly ad
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blockers in favor of stripped down content blockers the developer of ublock
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origin has come out and said that in no uncertain terms the extension will no
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longer work on safari so it might be time to think about switching or you
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know just supporting your favorite creators
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help us lttstore.com
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8k is now going to be an official standard for tvs with the consumer
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technology association rolling out a set of requirements for tvs to use the
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official 8k logo other than just the actual you know resolution aktvs also
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need to support 60fps 10-bit color and
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HDR so it should be easier for consumers to know that they're they're what
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they're getting other than just like a you know a piece of tech that isn't um
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able to play any content right now google's play pass service launched in
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the us today if you haven't heard and well it's a subscription service where
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users can pay 4.99 a month for unlimited access to hundreds of premium apps
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they're also offering a 12 month special for two bucks a month instead not a bad
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deal considering a number of popular games are included
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just don't go crazy with the micro transactions
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if you were my child i would cut off your credit card access
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it's been a while since the last of us took the playstation world by storm
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and now we finally know when the sequel will be coming out a seller in
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switzerland has listed the last of us part two as available starting on
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february 28th of next year so it won't be too much longer before
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you can get back to busting zombies in the head like a boss it's an amazing
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game you love it yeah solid game
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save the date baby and if you're the type of person that likes keeping track
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of your FPS count while your game like Colton
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microsoft has brought a feature to Windows 10 that might eliminate the need
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for third-party software to do that there's now an FPS counter in the
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Windows 10 xbox game bar to get it just go to the microsoft store
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and download the appropriate update though it's not available for everyone
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just yet personally i'm looking forward to seeing videos about
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you know whether there's a big discrepancy between the Windows offering and other FPS counters and the
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subsequent flamewars in the comments because i love the drama hey microsoft
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nicotine that's it for today guys come back on
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wednesday for more tech news featuring Linus as the host probably and if you're
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leaving a comment remember to be nice to each other for once
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you guys all love you all have the same interest we love tech peace
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that's nice okay see you later