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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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staying up to date with the tech news is really important
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after all isn't that what makes us human
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no well oh i suppose
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face unlock on phones is a cool feature but it seems that google forgot that
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there's this vulnerable period of time where people have to do this thing
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called sleep because the pixel 4's face unlock
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feature does not attempt to detect whether your eyes are open unlike
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apple's face id bbc reporter chris fox identified the issue and posted proof in
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a video later confirming with google that the current version of face unlock
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is one that will ship to customers
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although the company says they'll improve face unlock over time which
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that's not going to help if your kid is like ah i want to buy all the things
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bam hopefully they don't take long enough for every pixel 4 owner's roommate to
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wreak havoc on their digital lives while they're sleeping well you know what
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that's that's kind of similar to what i just said yeah it is yeah that's fine
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yeah you're supposed to say wait what about the good roommates well there are no good children okay but google isn't
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the only one having trouble with biometrics samsung has acknowledged a
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flaw in this galaxy s10 under display fingerprint reader that lets any
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fingerprint unlock the phone through a silicone cover or screen
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protector what yeah yeah
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i mean yeah yeah fingerprint it's just detecting that there's a fingerprint there right
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yeah yeah samsung says they'll push an update out next week
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until then though better hold your phones tighter than your hopes of
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maintaining a semblance of privacy in 2019 oh that's real that cuts real deep
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yeah so not very tight no and the smartphone news just keeps on rolling in
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motorola is apparently gearing up to unveil their foldable razer phone
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remember those yeah wow
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i was actually working at a call center at the time when the first razor came
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out and everybody wanted one and then it became a really cheap phone that nobody
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wanted anymore the company sent invites to the press for an event on november
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13th with a gif that is how it's said
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showing what looks like the shell of the original razer flip phone peeling away
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to reveal a hinge reminiscent of samsung's galaxy fold the text reads
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unoriginal unlike any other it's the
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most original original you've ever seen
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motorola actually confirmed back in february that they were working on a
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foldable device and we've also seen a number of official looking renders
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showing a phone that folds in half to become smaller rather than a
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tablet-sized device that folds down to the size of a regular phone the phone
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was originally dated for summer but i guess they wanted samsung
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to just kind of clear the path first
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do the work right yeah gotta have a meat shield and
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videocards.com doing their thing once again they've
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leaked information regarding the launch of AMD's third gen threadripper cpus a
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source at AMD reportedly provided documents claiming that the threadripper
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3960x 3970x 3990x and compatible
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motherboards would be announced on november 5th with the launch two weeks
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later saved for the 3990x which would launch in january 2020 some somewhat
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like the 3950. yeah a lot better names
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than team blue gotta say less digits less digits they
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should have started over video cards notes that these dates were accurate a
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few weeks ago but they're unsure if the plan has changed other leaks have also
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pointed to a november launch for the mainstream non-threadripper 3950x
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and leaked benchmarks for that part shows it beating the 2nd gen
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threadripper 2950x so it looks like we're about to have some real bangers on
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our hands now it's time for quake baits brought to
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you by private internet access pia allows you to dial in the exact level of
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privacy protection that you need online with support for a variety of vpn
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the type of fake friend who runs away the kind that holds the doors of the
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gymnasium so you can escape pia also features dns and ipv6 leak protection an
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pia TechLinked or the link below quake
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baits
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they go down easy amazon and newegg
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appear to have leaked two of NVIDIA's next shield devices
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one of them looks pretty much exactly like the old shield Android console but
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the other one is a small tube with a Ethernet connection HDMI and microsd
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card ports on the other side it's like a chromecast
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i don't i don't know why you ask what i don't know both come with a clunky remote with a
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dedicated netflix button straight out of 2014. remember boxee box i had one of
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those and will apparently launch on october 28th google has made some bold
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promises with stadia like claiming the wireless controller will connect
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directly to stadia servers which is really
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apparently that will only be true for the tv-based streaming a stadia
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explainer video said that if you're playing on a computer or phone you'll
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need to plug the controller in not only that but you won't be able to stream
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games over mobile data listen google if i want to use up all my
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gigs playing destiny for 15 minutes that is my right
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honestly sometimes you disgust me other times
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google's alright as their fellow alphabet subsidiary wing has just
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launched america's first commercial drone delivery service in christiansburg
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virginia local residents will be able to have fedex
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what the hell is fedex express
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can you people please not name things terribly like that fedex
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local residents will be able to have fedex express walgreens and sugar
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magnolia orders delivered by unmanned drones i don't know what sugar magnolia
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sells but it definitely sounds like something i'd want lowered down to me
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from a hovering robot i really don't know if that's true
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but uh if you
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were suckered into buying an AMD fx bulldozer or a piledriver CPU well you
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can claim some of AMD sweet green that they've made from selling so many ryzen
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processors as we previously reported AMD settled a lawsuit that claimed the
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company falsely advertised its eight core fx processors and customers can now
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claim a cash settlement of up to three hundred dollars per CPU what wow that's
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a whole CPU in any event that's how much money your
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emotional torment from being lied to about core counts is worth right yeah
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and the us air force is switching to ssds in its nuclear weapons holy sh
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what have they been using tape and no longer using the eight inch floppy disks
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they've had since the 1970s people think that corporate culture is
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slow might seem crazy that they've held on
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this long but apparently you can't hack these floppy disks because they were so
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freaking old so time to hire some old geezers for
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bodyguards they're more experienced all right well that's about enough of this
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come back on monday for some more tech news i'm sure there will be some
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if there's not we can just talk about the kardashians oh my that's gross i've
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been waiting really this whole time i have so much to say
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i mean okay there's a lot to say about them there is i'm not sure if most most
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of it is like you know advertiser friendly content but
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yeah that yep that's it we're out