What is Samsung DOING!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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some days you read the tech news
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other days the tech news
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it reads you samsung galaxy fold devices weren't in
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reviewers hands for long before they started breaking partly due to user
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error but also partly due to the device's design ifixit published one of
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their extensive teardowns of the fold as they usually do for new tech
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highlighting the fragility of the OLED display the gaps in the hinge where
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particles of gunk can get in and the apparent lack of proper fold testing
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well samsung understandably doesn't want all that bad press out there in the wild
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so they asked ifixit to tear down the
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down ifixit doesn't technically have to comply with samsung's request but they
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did allegedly out of respect so i guess that
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worked out okay for samsung except now in addition to talking about how the
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fold was messed up we're talking about how samsung took down an article about
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the fold being messed up and that's messed up it's called the streisand
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effect oh why because it makes
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it makes you into a successful singer and actress very
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adored beloved love barb when the epic game store
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launched back in december it was initially praised for only taking a 12
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cut of game sales leaving a fat 88 for
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developers steam by contrast gives developers around 70 to 80
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uh depending on how many titles they've sold but many pc gamers opinions of the
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epic game store soured when they started announcing a huge number of exclusive
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games which would not release on steam at all well now epic game ceo tim
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sweeney says there'll be a simple solution for that he tweeted that if
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steem committed to a permanent 88 revenue share for developers epic would
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not only stop the exclusives but also consider putting their own games like
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fortnite onto steam yeah i see
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wow i guess uh tim sweeney really is a sweet boy just trying to make pc gaming
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better and i'm not the head of a corporation who's trying to gain market
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share it's so clear to me now i thanks for the tweet tim
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tim sweetie they should call him and some corners of the internet are talking
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about a seemingly net neutrality breaking service from cox
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cox internet cox internet called cox elite gamer the service promises pc
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gamers 34 less lag 55 fewer ping spikes
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and 45 percent less jitter by routing
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game activity through a dedicated gaming network to reduce latency hey that
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sounds like a fast lane well actually the service doesn't increase or decrease
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speed it's only available on Windows computers and in reality it's just a
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rebranded version of wtfast a service that has been available
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since at least 2017 and furthermore it only really reduces your ping in certain
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scenarios so so i don't think we need to call our representatives about this one
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wacky quacky bits a couple weeks ago it was discovered
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that some amazon employees monitor echo users spoken commands to alexa but now
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bloomberg is reporting that employees can also access users location data and
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easily find users home addresses amazon has assured the press that access to
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these tools is highly controlled but it's enough to
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make you switch to google home isn't it ah not sponsored by google i'm
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sure there are no similar risks with that one much safer totally different
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samsung has unveiled this successor to its giant vue Android tablet the vue 2
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is a 17 inch 1080p slate that comes with
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a kickstand and a price tag of 740
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that's a big tablet it's the chunky boy of tablets oh low
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this tablet coming it's there
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after banning six play store apps from chinese company do global google has
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gone ahead and just banned the rest of them it just banned all the rest of the
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apps that that company has that's about 100 apps these apps had over 600 million
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installs and were found to be committing ad fraud on behalf of do global well
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thank goodness they're gone i know i'm going to be sleeping much safer in my
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Android bed tonight those apps aren't coming for you anymore i live at the
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play store if you've been having trouble installing the latest Windows update it
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could be because you've still got your usbs plugged in that's a rookie move
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unplug all your usb storage then try it again this is your first time trying to
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install an update come on and a road map of Intel's
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processor launches has leaked revealing that we can expect comet lake cpus next
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year followed by rocket and tiger lakes
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in 2021 who knows what that means practically but it sure sounds cool
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especially that mike tyson face tattoo tiger lake i can't wait for that one and
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when you're talking about processors the sound the sound of it is really
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important they need to get better at it and it's important that we end this
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episode now because it's over and i i need to get to the weekend so thanks for
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watching guys and i hope your weekend is stellar and we'll see you on monday for
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more tech news all right it's a date