Apple says NO STEAM LINK FOR YOU!
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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what's the tech news today dennis oh my god i don't know what's the test i don't
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know i don't know tack see this is what you won't have to do today
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because techlinked has you covered for tech news okay i'm sorry dennis if you
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use literally any service on the internet you've probably seen quite a
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few updated privacy policies popping up that's because today is the day that the
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european union's general data protection regulation or gdpr goes into effect the
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gdpr actually was passed in 2016 and requires companies operating in the eu
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to obtain explicit consent from users before it collects personal data those
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users can also request all the data a company has collected on user with fines
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of up to 20 million dollars or higher if they break the new rules a number of
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companies caught off guard by the regulations have opted to straight up block users and suspend service while
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they try to get up to speed although the gdpr only applies to the eu because of
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the global nature of the internet pretty much every internet company has rushed
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to comply with the new rules and thus the heavy proliferation of terms of use
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emails and topical memes which are actually pretty good we should institute
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wide-ranging international personal privacy statutes more often often often
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valve's steam link app launched recently and after initially approving it apple
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has now rejected the app from being published on the app store the company
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cited business conflicts with app guidelines as the reason for the
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rejection valve says they were taken aback by the news not only because the
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app obviously made it through the approval process already but because
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there are quite a few other lan-based remote desktop apps already on the app
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store rs technica points out that apple might be rejecting the app because they
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won't get the standard 30 revenue share they require from in-app purchases if
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users buy games through steam while using the app or apple could just be
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being apple and saying no just because it's what they do after going on a bit
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of a twitter rant about how the public no longer respects big media companies
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elon musk has proposed a solution the tesla spacex and boring company founder
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plans to create a site where users can rate the truth and credibility of news
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outlets and journalists he wants to call it pravda which is russian for truth and
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as journalist mark harris pointed out musk actually created a company called
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pravda corp in october 2017. so this may
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be more than a throwaway idea from the real-life tony stark or now the
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real-life trump of tech that's not fair but this is kind of a
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scary idea crowdsourcing truth is kind of the way that pseudoscientific ideas
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gain popularity but what do you guys think leave a comment in the comments
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surprise me it's time for quick bits today brought to you by memory express
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whether you're a gamer business owner or literally anyone else memory express is
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talking laptops desktops hand tops also
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both in store and online so click the link in the description for all the
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details all right it's quick bits an alexa device accidentally recorded a
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couple's private conversation and sent it to their friend in what amazon has
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called an extremely rare occurrence except they only knew about it because
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the friend messaged the couple and was like did you mean to send this to me so
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what if you've got creepy friends who won't do that for you that's a whole
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nother issue outrage has erupted online over battlefield 5's historical
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inaccuracy by having a woman with a prosthetic limb on the cover but is that
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really the thing we're going to take issue with if we're talking about historical inaccuracy in games like this
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really guys really apple will make a car after all but it
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will be in collaboration with volkswagen and there'll be electric vehicles meant
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to ferry apple staff around the company's campuses but they'll be the
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most revolutionary reinvented re-engineered
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euro vans you've ever seen an NVIDIA jetson tx2 module with a pascal GPU will
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power game face lab's upcoming vr headset which will be able to work as a
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standalone unit or as a full-on room scale unit tethered to a pc it'll also
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work with steam vr that's all i wrote about that and some
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saddening news today as youtube personality john bain aka totalbiscuit
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has passed away due to cancer bane has been fighting the disease since 2014 but
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in his more than a decade of game coverage and analysis he brought sense
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logic and well-founded opinion into the space of game journalism
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rest in peace you glorious bastard that's it for
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sleeping i don't know where i was going with that but the episode's over now so
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i'll see you later guys