Welp - that's it for Huawei!
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·2020-05-05
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1,410 words · ~7 min read
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ah nothing like hosting TechLinked on a holiday when there's no one else in the
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office got the got the tech news all to myself
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not lonely at all oh unless you count
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dennis uh hi dennis i forgot i forgot you were here yeah i'm here so remember
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last week when the u.s government banned american companies from doing business
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with huawei yeah uh turns out that's a
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really huge deal in compliance with the white house order google suspended
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business with huawei which means huawei will no longer have access to the latest
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Android os and system updates huawei devices will still have access to the
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play store and updates for their apps but on a system level the company will
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be restricted to using whatever version of Android is available from the Android
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open source project or aosp like a like
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a common peasant but guess what other companies are also american and have to
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comply with the order Intel qualcomm and broadcom who are also suspending sales
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of components to huawei now for their part huawei have guaranteed their
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customers will receive in-house security updates but it's clear this move will
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have a significant impact on the company's global ambitions and its
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customers experience it's important to note that all of these anti-huawei
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developments are recurring despite a lack of concrete evidence that the
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company is being used as a spying tool for the chinese government u.s
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intelligence apparently showed classified information to tech giant
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executives in recent months to brief them on the dangers of companies like
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huawei but any proof of spying if it
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exists has yet to make it to the public the american commerce department
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actually said that parts of the huawei ban may be scaled back to mitigate the
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potentially disastrous effects this situation might have on the businesses
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of both huawei and american companies
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all this to say if you were thinking about getting a huawei phone
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maybe just wait until the dust settles a bit
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there's lots of other really great chinese phones oh no
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no no no Intel is facing a crisis of their own in the fallout from last
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week's revelations concerning more speculative execution vulnerabilities
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found in the company's processors Intel chips will soon be getting patches for
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the flaws known as zombie load ridl fallout store to leak forwarding and
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collectively known as mds AMD has taken this opportunity to let the public know
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their chips are completely safe from these attacks thanks to hardware
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protection checks in their architecture not only that but Intel chips will
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suffer a performance hit thanks to the patches and according to pharonix that
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could mean anything from a 16 to 50 percent decrease depending on the
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workload meanwhile AMD's chips are sitting pretty with a minimal impact
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from any fixes that need to be applied so the whole Intel chips are best for
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gaming might not be true for very long i mean it's kind of a
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net negative for overall chip performance but i like to celebrate the
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small wins with AMD keep going guys you're doing great
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and google glass is coming back why it's
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anyone's guess you want a google glass dennis
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yes do you know everything google anything google ah that sounds dangerous
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you want google spying on you sure watch me
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but the division behind the wearable formerly known as google x and now known
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simply as x has officially unveiled glass enterprise edition 2 running a
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qualcomm snapdragon xr1 system on chip the device also features improved camera
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performance bluetooth 5 and the exact same physical design apparently it looks
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like the x team responsible for glass are moving out of alphabet's moonshot
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division and into the ar vr division of google where it will
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continue to develop its products alongside the daydream and ar core teams
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maybe in a post pokemon go and minecraft earth world there will be a bit more
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acceptance for people with computers and cameras on their heads but not computers
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and cameras foreheads i'm sorry dennis we're just not ready
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least they'll be able to talk to nintendo because that company is joining the powwow and is apparently looking
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but they just wanted him for his cloud streaming technology
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the classic story google's newly released pixel 3a and
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3axl phones are doing what newly released pixel phones do and
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experiencing problems users are reporting the phones are shutting
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themselves down booting into safe mode or performing a factory reset may help
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the issue but until google gets a patch out all 3a users can do is take this
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opportunity to put their phone down and look around at the real world for pete's
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sake you don't have to see everything through a gender swap filter
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you do want to see everything through that dennis early builds of microsoft's
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itself now we just need someone to hack the hackers who hack the hacking form
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and the rest of us will probably be safe i mean we can just we can just chill let
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them fight it out among themselves you know i'm sure that's how that works and it's
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safe to say that's enough tech news for one day guys thanks for watching and if
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