NEW ways Apple can TAKE UR MONEY!
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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monday can be the worst especially if you've been off for a week like me
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i'm back but it can also bring the promise of something fresh
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something new and today it's a few new goodies from
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apple who announced at today's event that they are dipping their toes uh
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deeper into the financial world apple is
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rolling out their own credit card and as much as this might seem like a bit of a
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step backwards it'll be closely integrated with iOS to make tracking
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your spending easy and then there's going to be a physical card
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made from titanium because why not i mean
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i i don't get it because like um we already have apple uh no this is awkward
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samsung pay but sure sure physical cards
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great apple is also launching an ad-free all-you-can-eat game subscription
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service in the app store as well as a video subscription service including
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original content the company invested two billion dollars in this particular
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venture as an attempt to compete with netflix hulu and amazon so all these new
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offerings from apple will come out later this year so get ready to bust out your
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shiny new apple credit card and start giving them your money to give them your
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money bam now if you've got an ASUS motherboard you may have been affected
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by an attack that was delivered unwittingly by ASUS software updates
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according to kaspersky roughly 500 000 pcs received updates that were
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infected after hackers accessed ASUS update servers kaspersky claims that the
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bad updates were being pushed out for nearly half a year and that the company
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was rather slow to react after they found
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out about the malware curiously although thousands of computers were at risk the
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hackers appeared to be targeting specific machines by their mac addresses
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as only a few hundred pcs were accessed through the hidden malware at this time
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there isn't any update on whether ASUS will issue some kind of fix but i do
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hope that they will and that it'll be better than most of their software
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if you've been waiting for a nintendo switch refresh you might finally get
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your wish as soon as this summer it looks like nintendo will be releasing
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not one but two new switch models now
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that's switching it up one is said to be a less expensive one
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with a smaller footprint while the other one may be more powerful and possibly
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even competitive with sony and microsoft's stay in the living room
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where you're put down in the first place consoles there is a report though that
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says that not all the news might be good the once highly touted hd rumble feature
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which nintendo was hoping would bring a new level of immersion to console gamers
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may be axed to save money as many developers simply didn't take advantage
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of the feature there's no word on pricing or what features the new switch
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models might have but that won't prevent nintendo fanboys from being excited
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about it and people who don't care about nintendo from not giving any cares
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whatsoever now it's time for quick bots
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done by a robot brought to you by ting the mobile
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carrier that's focused on customers you speak to a human not a robot for
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customer service you pay only for what you use with the average ting bill
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coming in at just 23 bucks a month per device and they'll cover up to 75
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dollars of any cancellation fees from your old provider when you switch after
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the second Gigabyte data is only another 10 bucks for each additional gig and
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right now you can get 25 off at the ting shop oh by the way they're also giving
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away samsung note 9 so click on the link below to check it out
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now for the quack bats i'm sure at some point you've wanted to take back a
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message that you sent to someone online i sure have and now telegram is allowing
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you to do just that users of the popular encrypted messaging service now have an
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unsend option that will delete your message from both your account and the
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receiver's account no matter how old the message is you know what i don't know
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why this isn't standard for all platforms i mean how many
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drunk messages could have been deleted saving how much
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embarrassment over the years i think you should take responsibility i think what
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we really need is an edit button on twitter
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your city might already have an indoor arena for basketball hockey and concerts
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but where is the dedicated facility just for
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esports well that's coming in
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philadelphia in about two years time the
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city's overwatch team will have built
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the first esports specific arena in the
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western hemisphere it's going to feature 3 500 seats bars and training areas and
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you know i wonder if one day the city of brotherly love is going to celebrate
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esports the way that it partied after the eagles won the super bowl
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actually yeah maybe no yeah that would not be ideal now we've seen everything
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from sneakers to chat bots that allow people to order pizza quickly and
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domino's is taking things a step
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further loading its own software into the
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infotainment systems of new cars
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really so even if you don't have a smartphone
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you'll be able to order pizza with a few taps on your way home on select new cars
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later this year do i not sound enthusiastic enough about this i guess
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that's gonna be yet another way to get your recommended
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daily dosage of salt and fat into your bloodstream without getting a texting
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while driving i mean can you i just want to come home to a nice hot pizza look
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the way the law works here is you're not allowed to fumble around with really
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anything and i think if you're staring at your console trying to pick your
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freaking toppings that's going to be just as much of a problem as a phone
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speaking of problems it looks like a software update for boeing's 737 max
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airplanes will be coming out soon as the faa has tentatively approved a patch
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that might fix issues that are suspected
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to have contributed to the crashes of two of these jets in the past few months
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now the fix still has to go through testing before it'll find its way onto
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your plane and given that the 737 max series has been grounded in um well most
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of the world they probably won't get back into the skies for quite some time
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until after that when the patch gets final approval microsoft thinks it might
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have the solution to our growing storage needs and recently unveiled an automated
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data storage system based on dna so because dna has very high data
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density and lasts a very long time researchers think that it could be used
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to store the same amount of information as an entire data center while taking up
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only a few cubic centimeters of space
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that's like a cubic inch for the americans out there now although this
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system took nearly a day to store and
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decode a mere five bytes
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so that is 40 bits like 40 zeros and ones the company says
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that's not the point the point is to demonstrate that automatic data storage
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and retrieval with dna is possible and
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should get much faster in the future i wonder what kind of memes might
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already be lurking in our own cells speaking of memes
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that's all for our memes today so come back wednesday for more tech news and
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memes or don't i can handle the rejection get out of here it's fine get
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up no i'm okay it's over if they don't come back i'll move on
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okay move on get out of here
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move