Your phone is spying on you.
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,280 words · ~6 min read
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so is this is this like a tech news show thing
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Colton you've hosted techlink before uh what linked do i need to sign a waiver
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oh boy it's an exciting day as AMD's third generation ryzen cpus have been
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released five models are hitting store shelves initially ranging from the six
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core 12 thread ryzen 5 3600 up to the 12
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core 24 thread ryzen 9 3900 x with the
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16 core model coming in september the entire ryzen 3rd gen family uses the 7
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nanometer manufacturing process which is a first for desktop consumer cpus and
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will also increase performance while decreasing power consumption early
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reviews including the one from our sister channel Linus tech tips were very
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positive as the new ryzen ships best Intel in quite a few categories and
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offer excellent value for money though they still lag behind just a bit in
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single threaded performance but it's cool to see how AMD has risen to the
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challenge and is really putting pressure on Intel
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you know rising up yeah we got to get rid of that joke
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it's over keeping it it's over never
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you've probably told an app at some point that it doesn't have permission to collect certain kinds of data but
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unsurprisingly many of them do anyway a recent study indicated over a thousand
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apps on the google play store collected personal data even after users set the
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apps not to do that that's scary apparently the researchers that
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conducted the study alerted google to the problems last fall and google in
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turn promised to address these problems in Android q by making it tougher for
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apps to get their hands on whatever information they want although the
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offending apps are only a small fraction of what's available in the play store
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some of those apps are quite popular much of the shared data was tied to
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geolocation so hopefully your crazy ex didn't decide to become an app developer
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recently because it can be quite lucrative
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yeah oh no yeah i know i got to watch out
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app developers yep there aren't many things that are more
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annoying than autoplaying video unexpectedly screeching at you when
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you're trying to read an article but google thinks that they might have the
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solution to this ever so pressing societal problem the software giant is
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looking at adding a feature to the chrome browser that would allow you to
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control any video on the page from the address bar and stop any offending video
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without having to hunt for it on the page the feature is currently in beta
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testing and reportedly doesn't work perfectly but if you're curious you can
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try it out by downloading the latest version of the canary browser which is
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chrome's dev version i think an easier solution would be just to stop baking
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auto playing videos into web pages but i'd also like world peace it'll be a
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while before they add that as a chrome feature
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yeah this is serious okay
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huawei is reportedly developing its own hongmeng os in case continuing sanctions
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from the united states mean that it can't use Android on its phones however
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huawei has claimed that its os will probably be 60 faster than Android that's pretty fast
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even if that's true it's anyone's guess as to whether it'll catch on or go the
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way of the hd dvd that was a big oof
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yeah oof oof remember those yeah i do actually they're terrible amazon wants
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to launch over 3 000 satellites into orbit in order to provide internet
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service and has just asked the fcc for permission to do so the hope is to cover
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about 95 of the world population with ka
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band internet connectivity which is quicker than previous implementations of
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satellite internet three thousand satellites is a lot but spacex is
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planning to launch nearly four times as many by the mid-2020s hopefully whomever
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wins the race to blanket the earth and satellites won't use their powers to
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track out what we're likely to buy on amazon but who are we kidding did you
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say whomever whomever messiah good sir
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yes amazon prime day is just around the corner and while its distribution
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centers around the us will certainly be busy one location looks like it will be
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bracing for a strike workers at an amazon warehouse in minnesota will be
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striking for six hours on prime day to draw attention to the desire for more
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permanent job opportunities amazon hasn't commented but their large number
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of fulfillment centers should prevent the strike from having a huge impact
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good for us shoppers terrible for them
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facebook is fighting a never-ending war against fake news but it turns out that
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it has one program it developed to fight fake news about itself dubbed storm
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chaser the software keeps an eye out for people making untrue claims about
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facebook and even sending out messages to respond in some cases while it's
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understandable for them to want to protect their brand image some have criticized the company for not instead
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diverting the resources to fight fake news about more sensitive topics like
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politics i wonder what stormchaser would think of the claims that zuck is
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actually a robot or what if stormchaser is zuck
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yeah that's good and as common as offensive comments are on instagram
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users may soon have a powerful tool to cut down on harassment the company is
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testing a shadow banning feature that will hide in offending users comments
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from everyone but themselves so they won't know that they've been banned the
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feature will be officially called restricting and is one of instagram's
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many recent attempts to curb harassment because asking people to be excellent to
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each other is like asking Android and iOS fans to get along
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i was never talking to another hey do you use an Android i hate you
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no i'm an Android guy oh thank goodness
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that's our show so come back on wednesday where we promise to only make
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you feel good about yourself with the tech news this is a tech news show
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yes right got it gotta get it cool you do have to sign a waiver though oh okay
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sign your life away love when they say that sign your life away you're like no thanks no one says that all right uh
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like it hold on we got any more stuff no that's it okay cool like the video see
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