Repair ALL The Things!
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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welcome back to tech lead everybody and today it's ew
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james i'm not saying that that's gross you do what with the kiwi
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what the heck say it
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no no god this is a tech news show the right
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to repair movement has won a major victory as the u.s federal government
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has essentially made it legal for citizens to bypass digital rights
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management or drm systems in order to repair their devices the new rules come
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from the library of congress and the u.s copyright office in the form of several
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new exemptions to the digital millennium copyright act or dmca which criminalizes
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copyright infringement they don't serve to make drm illegal but they do include
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broad protections for users who bypass drm and other technological protection
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measures for the maintenance of a device or system in order to make it work in
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accordance with its original specifications so jailbreaking and
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unlocking phones is fair game as part of this
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yeah there's even protections for modifying games or other software that
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doesn't work properly anymore when online functionality is shut off like
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when game servers are shut down yeah this is glorious news especially
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for bob the builder fans can we fix it
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you're supposed to spoil the gas i'm supposed to say yes we can
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and Android phone manufacturers can fix their devices also as google has now
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made it mandatory for oems to release more regular security and software
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updates a new licensing agreement has google requiring Android device makers
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to provide at least four security updates for a device within one year of
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its launch and to provide regular software updates for two years after
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launch if specific security flaws are identified by google the oem has 90 days
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to push a patch out if device manufacturers fail to abide by the terms
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of the agreement google could withhold approval of future devices this is
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excellent yes because out of all the phones in the Android universe really
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only pixels have gotten software updates within any with any timeliness or
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regularity but now non-pixel peasants
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can join our brothers in the sun
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wow i thought we were going to add that in post but now we don't have to
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wow feels good and twitch has announced a
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number of interesting updates at twitchcon where else squad streaming
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will enable up to four streamers to squad stream their stream makes sense
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squad
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would you like to join my squad oh
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yes so independent streamers can link their stream so you can watch multiple
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people in split screen that's how that works meanwhile twitch sings is a
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karaoke game that well karaoke should be pretty straightforward
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snap inc maker of snapchat james that's a app that the young people use
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has also partnered with twitch to bring their ar filters to twitch as part of
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the newly launched snap camera desktop app
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i know and in related news Intel has partnered with streamlabs on a number of
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nuk mini pcs intended for use as dedicated streaming pcs including some
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that you'll be able to rent for 30 bucks a month altogether streaming is more
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accessible and exciting than ever but if everyone is streaming then who's
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watching this stream
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check out bia at the link below it's time
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you said it oh no well almost Linus almost said quick but almost an
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unidentified new vega GPU has been spotted by videocards.com in the
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benchmark results for final fantasy xv there's no definitive information on
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whether this might be an existing Radeon instinct workstation card with display
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connectors attached or a new rx vega gaming card but it's sat just under the
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gtx 1080 and score so hopefully it's not AMD's next election
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that'd be embarrassing
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but not unusual yeah that's true the fcc
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won't let california be as the golden state has agreed to delay its net
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neutrality bill after the fcc claimed the proposed legislation would be
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illegal not if it passed though then it would be legal
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the bill now will now wait the bill's gonna wait until legislation concludes
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concerning the fcc's rollback of its previous net neutrality rules which is
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waiting on gus getting back to the office with that dang paperwork he's
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been out getting coffee for at least an hour now that's good
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come on gus you're screwing the pooch again guys
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hopefully not literally facebook is working on augmented reality glasses
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according to the company's head of ar ficus kirkpatrick wow
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that's a name huh that's not a name that's a plant yeah
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it sounds like the hero of a young adult novel or something like fico the
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adventures of ficus kirkpatrick and the ring of
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sauron anyways microsoft ceo satya nadella said
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in the company's earnings call that the xbox game pass subscription service will
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be coming to pc but do we need it it's already like a ton of these kind of
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subscription services on pc already forza
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none of them have forza though you know about that
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yeah it's a racing game with cars yeah chuck wagons it's a chuck wagon
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racing game you could call them truck wagons and time to throw out your
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worthless 14 terabyte hard drives they're not even the biggest ones you
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can get anymore western digital just launched the 15 terabyte ultrastar dchc
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620. why
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why are you even trying with 14 terabytes what can even fit on there
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like a single word document like a haiku yeah like this dumb haiku you wrote for
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your high school crush get out
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just kidding it's time for me to get out of this video because it's over like
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dislike be neutral subscribe these are all things you can do but regardless
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we'll be back on monday with more tech news
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