The Apple Card can’t buy crypto??
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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oh so just because you clicked this video you think you get tech news now
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that's that's correct that's how this works
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apple's apple card is not proof of your subscription to a monthly fruit delivery
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service but it is a real credit card and if you were hoping to use it to buy some
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cryptocurrency you're out of luck reuters went through
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the cards customer agreement posted by apple on friday and spotted the no
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crypto restriction now this actually isn't that unusual there are widespread
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rules and laws prohibiting using credit to buy cash equivalents like crypto or
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assets explicitly used for gambling like casino gaming chips or lottery tickets
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so this shouldn't be too much of a scandal what's a bit more interesting is
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another clause in the agreement banning owners of jail broken iphones from using
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the card that's because signing up for the card involves getting approval
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through the wallet app on iOS which can apparently detect whether you jailbroke
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your phone i mean it's not surprising apple loves telling its users the very
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specific way they're allowed to use their products uh hey can i repair my own computer
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no no that's for the peasants network provider cloudflare announced this
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morning that they dropped service for the internet forum 8chan the decision
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was made after evidence appeared to indicate that the shooter who allegedly
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killed 21 people in el paso texas over the weekend posted an anti-immigrant
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manifesto on the site the perpetrator of the christchurch mosque shootings in new
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zealand also posted something similar on the site before his rampage in march
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cloudflare ceo matthew prince said that 8chan has repeatedly proven itself to be
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a cesspool of hate and that while the company values free speech a-chan has
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become lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths another
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network provider bit mitigate stepped in to restore service to a-chan but they
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were soon cut off by their infrastructure provider voxility and
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finally tuko's the domain name registrar for 8chan also pulled their service
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well 8chan see you later
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and amazon has joined apple and google in suspending or at least allowing
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people to opt out of having humans listen to voice recordings taken by
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smart speakers after multiple reports called out the three tech giants for the
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practice and a german privacy regulator announced an investigation apple and
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google globally suspended their human listening programs which they say allows
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for better development of their respective digital assistants amazon
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hasn't completely stopped its human workers from listening in but the
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company is allowing customers to opt out of the program by changing an option in
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the settings menu of the alexa mobile app so now amazon will only record the
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voices of people who don't know they might be listened to by humans
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below watch out hot quick bits coming in
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don't burn your hands facebook owns whatsapp and instagram but
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in case you forgot that those apps will now come with subtitles soon they'll be
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listed as whatsapp from facebook and instagram from facebook while it would
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be good to see visually just how much of a monopoly facebook has on popular apps
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it's unclear what will happen to instagram spin-off apps layout and
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boomerang i don't want to have an app on my phone called layout from instagram
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collage from facebook it's a little excessive
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i don't have that app on my phone now so i do we're finally starting to see some
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third-party versions of the surprisingly good Radeon rx 5700 and 5700 xt with
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designs from ASUS power color and xfx seeing the light of day this weekend xfx
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brought back their awesome minimalist design but then went and called it the
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xfx thick 2
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with with two c's i should have made that the last story
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because i want to go home now htc will add a feature called vive port streaming
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to the vive focus plus standalone vr headset that will allow it to stream pc
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titles over a 5 gigahertz wi-fi connection that sounds pretty cool
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except you need to subscribe to htc's viveport infinity service to use the
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feature and also streaming over wi-fi is
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never latency free even using 5 gigahertz so you might as well be
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subscribing to motion sickness infinity sounds like
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i don't i don't know i might be good i haven't tried it rumors have been flying about fan favorite cooling company cryo
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rig potentially folding but the company says they're not dead yet they're only
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mostly dead do you get the reference
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you do thank goodness well what they said is they've been affected by the tariffs
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instituted as part of the us-china trade war and they're still active in asia and
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europe actually so so hold on to hope cryo fans they'll live to rig another
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day i'm sorry i just nope and hey
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frankie zapata is not italian he's
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french and he just successfully crossed the english channel using his green
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goblin looking hoverboard contraption after the first attempt failed zapata
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made the 22 mile journey in 22 minutes that's
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about a minute a mile refueling on a boat halfway through the flight i'm
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surprised spider-man didn't stop him but there's really nothing to swing on out
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there in the ocean you know and that's it for this episode of
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techlinked whether you like it or not if you don't like it come back on wednesday
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we'll have more tech news for you if you do like it
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good riddance