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tech news is kind of like a box of chocolates you never know what you're
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gonna get but it'll definitely be chocolate so it's definitely gonna be
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tech news google has responded to privacy concerns about audio recordings
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captured by the company's google home devices according to a belgian report
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which we talked about on wednesday by the way those recordings are sometimes
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captured when no activation phrase has
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been spoken so many of the recordings contain private and even personally
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identifying information in their response google says the problem here
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isn't their practices but rather the fact that the contractor
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violated their data security policies by
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leaking the audio the company defends their practice of having humans review
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audio saying that it is critical to the development of google assistant and that
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only 0.2 of all audio snippets are ever reviewed
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wow that sounds like a lot doesn't it
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my goodness and those snippets are not
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associated with user accounts reviewers are directed to not transcribe
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background conversation only speech that is directed at google but thing is those
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people are still potentially hearing personal information which they could
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use themselves in any number of nefarious ways so if you're concerned
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you can turn off voice and audio recording in your google account
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settings but i mean now the question becomes can you even trust google to
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honor that choice uh
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no sweet no you've never been able to speaking of google being sneaky deep
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mind the company's ai focus division is inserting its pro starcraft player
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beating ai alpha star into the game's european competitive servers
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alpha star will apparently play a small number of games against human players
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and while us flashbags will be able to opt into the program for a chance to
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play the ai alpha star will be anonymous
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so you won't know whether you're playing it or a regular meat bag as was the case
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for its matches with professionals multiple variants of alphastar will be
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competing and results will be recorded to publish as data in a peer-reviewed
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scientific paper after the trial now importantly this time around alpha star
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will have tighter restrictions on its actions per minute than it did
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previously and will only be able to perceive parts of the map using a
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camera-like view rather than the all-seeing
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sauron type omniscience that it used in january you know i'm actually fine with
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being killed by a robot as long as it's like a fair fight you know the robot has
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to use the eyes on its head like me no lasers no lasers
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and the walkie-talkie function on apple watches apparently fell victim to a
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vulnerability that could allow users to listen to another person's iphone
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without their knowledge yes my friends if you go like this in your
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walkie-talkie apple watch if someone's standing near the other person they
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might be able to hear it actually no it's a little more complicated than that so the issue was reported directly to
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apple via the security portal on apple's website and so far it doesn't appear to
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have been exploited by any bad actors the flaw calls to mind a similar
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facetime bug from earlier this year that similarly allowed people to listen in
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before the call was accepted on the other end so apple has disabled the
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walkie-talkie feature while it fixes the issue so if you were having lots of fun
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pretending that you live in stranger things land
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i'm sorry man uh with all these audio recording security flaws i think it
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might just be time to like now it's time for the zippity zaps
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zippities apps a bit of a strange report from french site cow cotland is that a
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french word um anyway it's circulating right now claiming that the AMD Radeon 7
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has been discontinued the info apparently comes from supply chain
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sources who say that remaining stock is being sold off and that AMD declared the
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card end of life last month what do you mean last month that card was only just
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released in january so i i mean uh hopefully this means that
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we'll be getting a higher-end navi-based card soon
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and uh not that AMD let NVIDIA like get inside their head you know ignore
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them AMD yeah they're just bullies
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big green bullies with great graphics cards
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nintendo just launched the switch light but in other news the company also just
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submitted an fcc filing stating its intention to update the original switch
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with new hardware including updated memory and some kind of updated integra
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processor now it should be made clear that this news does not concern the
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rumored switch pro because filing specifically refers to a new revision of
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the same model of product so i'll say this nintendo as a current switch owner
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i must say this is not fair and my attorneys and i will be pursuingly well
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i don't care i'm upset that's just in the script they get the better one why
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are you mad we don't even know that it's better i'm very upset the leagues for
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the samsung galaxy note 10 and 10 plus appear to have reached their zenith
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their apex their highest point
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with screenshots that basically leave nothing to the imagination samsung will
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apparently officially reveal the phones at an event on august 7th which will
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forever be remembered as the day that the headphone jack truly died and i
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stopped getting new note devices it's not enough that google and amazon
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record our voices when they're not supposed to now they're gonna follow us
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around the house too amazon is working on a home robot that's being described
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as a sort of mobile alexa
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so it's going to be able to wheel around after you and supposedly report
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everything that you do to its data hungry masters i mean it could also make
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it easy to order more laundry detergent or track your calories or whatever so
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that sounds that sounds pretty worth it sounds friendly and AMD said that pci express
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4.0 will remain exclusive to their x570
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chipset but now ASUS has actually published a table of x470 and even value
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b450 motherboards which they say could support the feature with a BIOS update
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that's pretty cool because i've always wanted four pcies
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jk PCIe gen 4 it's faster and i've
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always wanted to end this episode of techwing always every moment of my life
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up until now i have thought of nothing but ending this episode episode number
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69 20 127 of tech
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so thanks for watching guys i hope you have a fabulous weekend and i'll see you
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back here on monday with more tech news i'm gonna be rested and refreshed and
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you know you guys should get some rest too you look tired oh yeah that's not
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very nice it's bad it's a bad thing go brush your teeth oh
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breath smells hi gene it's important