TVs can get VIRUSES? U kidding me?
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,288 words · ~6 min read
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tech news it's in you to give
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see only some people will get that joke because it's the canadian blood services
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slogan it's in me to give to you let's move on
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apple's thousand dollar monitor stand has been making the headlines but now
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we're getting some news about apple doing something that's actually useful
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monitor yeah where have those been this whole
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time adding 5g support to the iphone so
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it's not that report indicates that the higher end iphone models will get 5g
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support in the second half of next year with all iphones following suit sometime
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in 2021 now some Android manufacturers like samsung already have 5g phones on
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the market and there's also motorola's 5g moto mod add-on but apple's not
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necessarily behind the curve on this one as 5g is only just starting to roll out
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in parts of the us apple moving forward with 5g might be a
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sign that the company is making the most of their recent reconciliation with
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qualcomm after years of ridiculously complicated patent lawsuits hopefully
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apple won't attach the 5g modem to a dongle that costs an extra thousand
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bucks that's something they would do
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those guys running a virus scan probably isn't something you think about much
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anymore especially you a dirty dirty box i haven't had a virus
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in here because many of our devices are built to handle security in the
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background but samsung is now advising people to run manual scans on their
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televisions of all things although cyber attacks against smart appliances are
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nothing new samsung tweeted out an instructional video that recommended
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owners of its qled tvs perform manual
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virus scans once every few weeks every few weeks yeah well depending on what
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they're doing with the tv i guess eh now the tweet was deleted a short time later
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after the internet started mocking it mercilessly but it already started
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fueling speculation that there might be some specific vulnerability with
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samsung's high-end tv lineup that prompted this warning samsung hasn't yet
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acknowledged the speculation but until we get to the bottom of this i advise
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viewers to always use protection like wear sunglasses or something
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maybe like the 3d glasses while you're watching that way
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you're just not happy today he's over it there are much bigger worldwide scandals
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than cheating in a free to play mobile game but niantic is attempting to drop
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the legal hammer on the group global plus plus which has created and
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distributed hacked versions of pokemon go and ingress which allowed players to
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spoof their locations niantic has filed a lawsuit against the group and is
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attempting to compel them to stop distributing their freaking spin-off
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apps as well as to get monetary damages claiming that the unauthorized apps harm
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their business by discouraging honest players you know
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like me and not james i'm a cheater in response
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global plus plus has taken down its website and it's also notable that the
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lawsuit comes shortly before the expected launch of niantic's harry
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potter ar game so uh
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accio preliminary injunction
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i don't know what that means but john wrote the script and he is he's a he used to be a lawyer i guess and a harry
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potter fan and a harry potter fan now it's time for quick bits brought to you
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by drop and the control keyboard this baby has it all it's constructed with a
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solid cnc aluminum frame with a built-in switch plate making it stable and
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extremely durable it's fully programmable with RGB lighting and qmk
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can also choose between cherry mx kaijua
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and halo switches at checkout so pick it up today on drop.com for a limited time
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through the link below uh quick bits ever heard of them
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airplane wi-fi is notoriously unreliable but you may get a noticeably better
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experience in the near future if you fly american airlines on the regular
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the aviation giant has finished installing ka and ku-band satellite
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internet on its mainline planes which will offer better speeds and less
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congestion conjecture conjecture congestion is what i meant
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less congestion more conjecture about what that means
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upset stomach you'll still have to pay for the privilege but it beats paying
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for something that sucks like dinners at the tail end of a failing relationship
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yup why that sucks of course you can always
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cheer yourself up from your lifetime of bachelorhood with a little binge eating
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and if you're in houston domino's is all set to begin delivering pizzas with
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robotic vehicles once the nero r2 arrives at your door
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you can unlock a compartment with a pin and retrieve your delicious pizza this
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isn't just meant to be a novelty domino's believes this method could
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improve efficiency which i get as there's nothing i hate more than waiting
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more than 30 minutes for my salt and fat quick
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before i start to think i should have a salad instead
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beep boop get the i love it there's nothing they
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can do to stop me from putting something into oh
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oh no crazy pranks
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gotcha i hope you didn't sell off all your cryptocurrency during the crash as
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bitcoin has quietly gotten back above 9000 us
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dollars which is nearly three times where it was
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back in december ethereum and litecoin are also rising in value with the
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renewed interest in crypto apparently being driven by the fact that facebook
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is set to launch its own cryptocurrency next week
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incidences of miners telling their friends told you so are also increasing
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and will continue to do so at least until the next crash
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those miners i hate young people
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use paper bills and get off my lawn
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if you use google calendar to organize your life be on the lookout for a new
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phishing scam in your calendar entries the scheme takes advantage of the fact
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that google calendar automatically adds events you're invited to by default so
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the bad guys will send out invites with links to phishing sites under the guise
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of legitimate events a good workaround for now is to adjust your settings so
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that calendar won't just auto add any invites which would also be useful for
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filtering out invitations from your in-laws don't get me
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started oh i hope they don't have your family i
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know they don't watch that and i didn't write that come on guys and on the lighter side a
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regional information minister in pakistan got more than he bargained for
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as during a facebook live stream of his news conference someone accidentally
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activated a cat filter giving the official whiskers and pointy ears for a
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few minutes before the error was caught the political party that streamed the
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conference posted a very serious sounding apology on twitter but i think
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we can all forgive the volunteer who ran the stream for taking a little cat nap
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on the job i mean they were working hard you know
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we all need a little break sometimes that's our show for today guys so tune
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back in on wednesday when we'll put a cat filter on Linus
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can we put a cat filter on they're telling me yes not on me please
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don't next on wednesday there was already a cat filter on you oh
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no