A Facebook cryptocurrency? HA!
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,273 words · ~6 min read
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look you wanted the tech news didn't you
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well here it is oh why are you so mad
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i'm always mad facebook probably isn't the first company you trust with
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managing your finances but they've gone ahead and launched their very own
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cryptocurrency called libra which i i
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guess they're hoping this project will help them balance the scales so to speak
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okay that metaphor actually kind of makes sense because unlike bitcoin or
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ethereum libra will be tied to a number of traditional stable currencies that
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could protect it from wild swings in value but do we really want facebook
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controlling our money well thankfully the company knows you don't really trust
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them so they won't actually control libra facebook is just one of the 28
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members in the libra association which also includes more trustworthy people
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like mastercard paypal visa and ebay customers can use libra through
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facebook's calibra crypto wallet platform which
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will be available worldwide except for regions that aren't very friendly to
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crypto like india which is facebook's biggest market whoops another hurdle
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that facebook will have to face is scrutiny from the u.s government
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lawmakers have called for the company to halt development of libra until they can
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take a closer look at it and the senate banking committee has already announced
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a hearing on july 16th to question facebook about its plans senate hearings
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or no i think i'll stay away
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myself libras and lee leos do not mix well i'm a libra actually
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he's a leo apparently yeah that's scorpio
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nobody likes scorpios imessage on apple devices is a
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feature-rich encrypted modern text messaging extravaganza
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but while google has been trying and trying to get cell carriers to implement
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rich communication services or rcs as a replacement for regular old sms text
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messages on say Android devices carriers have been dragging their feet because
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there's no real monetary incentive to upgrade their infrastructure and google
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has had it up to here with that nonsense the tech giant will be launching its own
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rcs messaging service later this month yes with an initial rollout in france in
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the uk crap many questions still remain about
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whether google rcs will feature end-to-end encryption or multi-platform
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support but hopefully google taking things into their own mighty hands will
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light a fire under the carriers to roll out rcs on their own and you know make
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life a little better for their customers imagine that because that's what cell
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carriers are known for isn't it yeah
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my mouth is closed i'm saying it and sound the alarm vape nation is under
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attack san francisco may become the first u.s
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city to outlaw e-cigarettes good-bye
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city supervisors voted unanimously because they're old people yesterday on
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a bill that would ban the manufacturing distribution and sale of e-cigarettes on
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city property the legislation is part of an effort to reduce e-cigarette usage
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among high schoolers which the cdc says could be as high as 20
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it's also particularly interesting because joule the most popular company
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in the industry is headquartered in san francisco and would have to move their
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operations if this ban goes into effect that's amazing it will reportedly take
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at least seven months for any legislation to be enacted but in the
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meantime stay strong vape niche i would tell you to consider quitting but you're
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an adult uh unless you're one of those high schoolers i was talking about before
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then yeah make smart choices for future you say no to popcorn
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now it's time for quaker bakes brought to you by private internet access pia
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in the exact level of privacy protection that you need they've got apps for
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other platforms coming imminently you can connect up to five devices at the
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same time and other features include dns and ipv6 leak protection and an internet
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kill switch to block all traffic if the vpn becomes disconnected unexpectedly
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which won't happen because that's pi8 god dammit check it out today
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at the link below on to the quaker bakes
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delicious are you a quaker i'm a quaker
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ea is not guilty of pushing loot boxes on miners because they're not loot boxes
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you see they're surprise mechanics
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that's what ea's vp of legal affairs terry hopkins told a uk committee
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likening loot boxes to children's toys with unexpected prizes inside like
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kinder surprise eggs or are hatchimals you know what those are
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no i'm assuming you put that in there for the americans who don't have kinder surprise anymore
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hopkins said that enjoying loot boxes in a healthy way is actually quite ethical
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and quite fun well carrie tell that to the eight-year-old malcolm who was caught
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during his 18th blackjack game at the local casino
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he wasn't i made that up but he could be
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he was on a roll too damn you carry come on
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a developer named bylaws has managed to get Android running on a nintendo switch
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and quite smoothly i might add the modder booted up NVIDIA shield software
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and was then able to stream the pc version of overwatch to their switch via
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GeForce now although they might have been breaking a few bylaws in the
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process see i made a pun Linus he's not here
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okay speaking of switches we all might be getting a mini version soon if leaks
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from a chinese retailer are any indication device protectors and cases
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are being listed and promoted online so keep your eyes peeled for a switch mini
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in the next few months or years or never this is a rumor after
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all use your brain people come on use your one collective brain fable the
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augmented reality company magic leap is suing fellow ar company unreal claiming
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that one of unreal's founders chi shu stole magic leaps technology when he was
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an engineer there she left the company in 2016 and then showed up at ces in
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january with the unreal ar glasses
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well it's not the most lucrative theft to make it it doesn't seem like ar
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companies are making much money right now anyways but stealing is wrong kids
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children kids and so so is naming your company in real
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real and really if we're being serious i don't like it
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and Intel has released a processor auto overclocking app called Intel
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performance maximizer or ipm the app will overclock your CPU with just one
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single click although pc perspective noted that it won't do it as well as a
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human generated overclock so you might have to just roll up the sleeves of your Linus
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tech tip stealth hoodie and twist those greasy old knobs yourself
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don't forget the engine oil uh riley how do you how do you think overclocking
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works dude there's no oil in there i'll tell you what doesn't work
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continuing this episode so we're shutting it down come on back on friday
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for more tech news oh yeah it's gonna be good
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is that what you meant by ooh oh ho ho ho ho ho yeah
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oh it's gonna be god
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that's enough