Is Apple out of Ideas!?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,190 words · ~5 min read
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so you came to get linked up with the tech news
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uh-huh makes sense oh yeah microsoft naturally
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is always trying to make Windows 10 better and they
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sometimes succeed but since they often don't the company
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is reaching out to gamers for feedback on what they want to see in future
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Windows builds microsoft's xbox team started a gaming on Windows 10 idea
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drive complete with a website where gamers can suggest improvements this is
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gonna be good like disabling background processes while playing a game another
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popular idea was creating a separate version of Windows specifically for
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gaming it's a nice thing to see from microsoft especially considering the
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massive disaster that was the Windows 10 october update and at least one insider
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build of Windows has now separated cortana from the search bar so you won't
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need to feel bad about ignoring her every time you need to find something
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hey you need help with something no god just just go basically every company
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with a web presence including google scrambled to comply with europe's
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general data protection regulation or gdpr when it was enacted last year but
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despite their efforts google has now been saddled with a fine of 50 million
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euros or around 57 million us dollars by
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the cnil a french data protection agency
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the fine is related to the setup process for a new Android phone and the alleged
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lack of transparency about what user data is being collected and for how long
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users are essentially required to set up a google account to fully make use of
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the device which apparently runs afoul of gdpr google is reportedly studying
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the fine and considering its next steps meanwhile a meeting among european
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lawmakers to discuss article 11 and 13
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of the eu corporate directive legislation has been delayed giving the
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eu parliament little time to reach an agreement before elections are held in
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may if you ask me and you shouldn't if google bothers europe so much they
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should just make their own google yeah googly build your own personal data
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hoarding mega corporation leave ours alone
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come on yeah we're not even american and poor poor apple you know they were
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pretty popular for a while there and now it's over now apple's still fine but
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they did just put the iphone se back up
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for sale in the clearance section of their store over the weekend the popular
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model quickly sold out but it was certainly an unusual move by the company
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to even release it which could have been motivated by low sales of the newer
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iphone 10r or 10s or 10s max for that
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matter in fact foxconn the biggest factory that assembles iphones has not
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renewed the contracts of the 50 000 seasonal workers at its plant in
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shenzhou
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while such a thing is not uncommon doing it this early in the season is and
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points to lower demand for apple's devices as a whole well i guess this is
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it apple it's been fun press have to pay respects everybody i mean we can say
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apple was cool at the very least they were cool
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all right a patent has surface that allegedly describes motorola's upcoming
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revival of the incredibly popular razer flip phone the first phone i ever wanted
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it looks like it would be the size of a regular smartphone but would then fold
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in half to fit more easily in a pocket which my pants have with a small
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external display it's a slightly different take than the folding tablet
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designs that we've seen teased from other companies but motorola has always
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been a little different you know that's okay that's fine you know yeah
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facebook is apparently just as concerned as elon musk is about humanity
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inadvertently developing robots that can't think of a reason
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not to kill us so together with the technical university of munich facebook
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has begun work on the institute for ethics in artificial intelligence these
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guys ethics the company will provide 7.5
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million dollars over five years to get the institute started hopefully someone
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else doesn't already build killer robots before those five years are up
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shared bikes and scooters have popped up in cities all over america and have also
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been left all over the place in those cities but now uber is looking to fix
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that by researching autonomous driving tech for the small vehicles which would
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allow them to drive themselves back to recharging stations i hope they get this
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working by halloween that'd be a great launch date
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it's already a south park episode
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you're so 2000 and late and german developers have managed to mod quake 2
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to include ray tracing support yes is what i've been waiting for as an example
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of the type of quality improvement you can get with the new rendering method
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the project called q2 wikipedia is
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basically the original game but with ray tracing and it looks pretty awesome
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maybe i can't live without ray tracing after
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all no james don't don't go towards the light very
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bird boxy and our last story is just a video of richard browning ceo of gravity
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industries flying a jet suit that he invented around a training course for
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the royal marines browning is himself a former royal marine reservist and you
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can't help but think that this is all just an attempt to impress his sergeant
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never got that approval however it does look again pretty freaking awesome
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what's not awesome is the fact that this episode is over ah lame but don't worry
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we'll be back on wednesday with more tech news and then friday then the next
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monday and the monday after that and of course another wednesday and then look
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out sister because bam friday's going to hit you again like a big long wet
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dreadlock to the face i'm never going to the water slides
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again look at this