EA PROMISES no loot boxes...?
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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1,438 words · ~7 min read
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wow the tech news it just it just keeps on coming doesn't it like a tidal wave
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of soft serve from a 12 buffet but we
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promise you it'll be a lot better than that sounds today americans are if
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they're organized filing their taxes but europeans might
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soon be dealing with a far worse kind of
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government encounter today the european union gave final
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rubber stamp approval to its new copyright directive which has been a
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huge source of controversy for quite literally months opponents argue that
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the law will both overburden businesses and stifle free expression online
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because not only will sites that host video content including behemoths like
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facebook and youtube have to obtain licenses first they will also need to
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pass all content through copyright infringement detecting filters
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so not only might this effectively ban
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things like memes it's also unclear how
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in the world the eu plans to enforce a scheme this far-reaching especially
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because they did say i think at one point that there was a carve out for
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memes what's the difference between a meme and
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some other kind of copyright infringement i i don't know
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how they managed to pass a law like this in the first place that makes about as
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much sense as like that law in mobile
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that bans confetti i think that even might make more sense yeah because
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confetti is it's litter it's horrible and and there's a way to enforce it
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it was announced last month that apple is going to offer a new gaming
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subscription service as part of apple arcade that really does sound like the
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stuffiest arcade doesn't it the pretentious arcade but it wasn't
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clear exactly what to expect from it other than pretension well a recent
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report might shed some light on the situation as apple is apparently
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investing about a half a billion dollars
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into getting this project off the ground now obviously that isn't a small amount
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of money but at the same time major aaa
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titles can have budgets into the nine figures so
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this could be an indication that apple wants to focus on having a large number
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of simpler games that might take less development effort but would still be up
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to a given quality standard a number of well-known developers like giant squid
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konami and sega are all involved so
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hopefully there will be some pretty robust options i i'm hoping for angry
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birds 13. cut the rope yeah
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like marvel edition ea doesn't have the best
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reputation when it comes to micro transactions in games but the company is
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asking gamers for a chance to learn from its mistakes i mean you don't have to
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ask us for a chance to learn you just learn anyway this weekend the developer
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released the trailer for star wars jedi fallen order coming this november
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importantly ea asserted that the game would be
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ready prepare yourself completely devoid of microtransactions and loot
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boxes and taking it a step further the company
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said they wouldn't surprise users by adding them later on
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personally i believe it because no one was going to be surprised when they
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added it later on many gamers were understandably
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skeptical i mean the fact that this is a single player game might have
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decreased the temptation that ea could have had to add these features that
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could give players an advantage over human rivals but
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i guess it remains to be seen how this works out the game itself is set in
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between episodes three and four featuring third person combat and a
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strong emphasis on lightsaber skills as the player takes control of one of the
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few jedi who survived the purge hopefully it'll actually be worth
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picking up and not part of a money-grabbing sith plot this time
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because that's right it's a sith plot the sith they want more love money
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though they love money just give me the money i'm assist now speaking of money
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for the bit quacks brought to you by dollar shave club now you might say well
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i don't really shave so they probably got nothing for me
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well that's where you're wrong bucko dsc
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has all your grooming needs shower products oral care products hair
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products skin products butt wipes and of course shaving stuff if you have a
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physical body in this plane of existence they got you covered right now dsc is
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offering a number of starter sets for only five bucks like the shower starter
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set which comes with three trial sized versions of their amber lavender body
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cleanser citrus and hawaiian ginger face cleanser and sage and black pepper
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shampoo get your starter set for only five bucks
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with free shipping and check out dollar shave club's regular subscription plans
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at dollarshaveclub.com techlinked
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on to the bad quacks facebook is looking to simplify its
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messaging options by adding messenger functionality back
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to the facebook app itself firing off a quick chat will work fine but then if
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you want to send a photo or make a call you'll still need to use the dedicated
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messenger app uh facebook thinks this move makes sense to save data as in
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helping facebook save your data by bringing you back into the full facebook
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platform wait what is simpler about this you know what forget it i'm sticking to
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what's oh wait
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no if you're in the market for a self-driving tesla you might want to act
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quickly as elon musk has confirmed that models with the full self-driving
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feature will get more expensive on may the first by a few thousand dollars the
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good news though is that if you do buy one now you'll still be able to get the
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upgraded self-driving computers in a few months by having your car retrofitted of
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course nothing guarantees that tesla's
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full self-driving feature will actually ever get certified to fully self-drive
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on the road so that's cool
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as well but but by now the uk is very
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concerned about tactics that it says social media outfits used to keep
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younger users addicted to their services
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and specifically it mentioned facebook's venerable like button really the country
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is reportedly looking at banning the like button
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for users under 18 years old and this is part of a larger group of suggestions
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mostly focused around limiting how much data can be collected from miners okay
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that sounds like a good idea funnily enough the uk talked to a few hundred
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children as part of putting these recommendations together which i guess
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means that they were collecting data from miners
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hypocrisy if you live in san francisco washington
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dc or new york city you might not see any lift-branded e-bikes for a while as
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they've been apparently braking too hard
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that is to say that they're still intact they just slow down too fast reportedly
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the brakes have put too much force on the front wheel resulting in several
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dozen injuries in new york although a new fleet of electric bikes
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is going to be arriving in the near future lyft is temporarily replacing
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them with traditional pedal-powered bicycles for the time being at least
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this way you know that if you go over the handlebars well it's your own dang
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fault and in something of a modern version of the computer deep blue
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beating chess grandmaster gary kasparov
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openai5 has recently triumphed over one of the world's best dota 2 teams og the
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same team that won the valve international last year however open ai
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also used machine learning to work out how to play on the same team as humans
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and you can actually register to either play alongside or against the ai these
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matches start in just a few days so get on it if you're excited to be
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embarrassed by a computer or to have an unfair advantage against human players
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sorry why are we doing this yeah i don't get it and that's all the time we have
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for today so get back here on wednesday for more tech news it won't be compiled
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by an ai but hopefully we'll figure out that out pretty soon so that we can
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something something layoff writers wait what that's a great idea john john wrote
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that yeah