Facebook's deleting my history!?
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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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hey we're back hey sorry we missed friday's episode guys we were too busy
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pelting lined us with paintballs do you have any welts yeah i have one on my
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calf actually it's pretty hardcore
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facebook is taking another step to try and bolster user privacy after it's
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become well known that the site tends to track logged in users around the web
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there's now an option to disable app and website history in facebook settings
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currently sites can share information about user viewing habits to facebook
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which will then serve that user relevant ads however with this kind of targeting
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growing increasingly unpopular in light of recent scandals the option to disable
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it will also delete any browsing history of outside sites that facebook has
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stored the setting will be called off facebook activity with ireland south
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korea and spain being the first three countries to get it though it should be
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available everywhere else within a few months if you don't want zuck knowing
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how many socks and sandals you you go through
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those are important you ever gotten the feeling that google just just knows
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what you've been talking about like it's listening to you for sure because you say something that ad comes up right
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after well it's about to know more about what photos you take as optical
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character recognition is coming to the google photos app the idea is that if
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you snap a photo of anything that has text in it you'll be able to search by
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the text in that photo which could prove very useful if you snapped a menu at a
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restaurant for example if you snap a bunch of restaurant menus and then you
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search chicken and then you're out of luck show me only menus
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that say chicken oh okay that could be useful you get it way too much chicken the
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feature isn't available to everyone just yet but a number of attentive users have
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already discovered it with google confirming that this is something
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they're rolling out more broadly since this feature works for cloud stored
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photos google is scanning your photos for text and tagging them accordingly so
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maybe don't snap any passages from that horrible piece of fanfic you've been
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writing about luke and Linus running away together oh luke i thought i'd
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never find you everybody dies although there's been plenty of hype around
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apple's new credit card as is the case with most apple products one pretty
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obvious flaw has been discovered but has nothing to do with the card's security
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or functionality instead apple is warning card holders not to carry the
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card in a leather wallet apparently having the card rub up
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against leather or denim can permanently discolor the card which obviously isn't
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ideal given that the appeal of many apples products including its credit
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card is based around aesthetics no not leather stains i got a patina on my
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credit card i i will say that nicely designed products with flaws that become
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obvious once you start using it is very quintessentially apple so kudos to them
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for continuing this proud tradition it's time to quick bits away
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brought to you by raid shadow legends the free to play collection rpg that's
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been downloaded by 10 million players worldwide it's got a fully voiced story
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campaign strategic gameplay and great graphics to render the over 400
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champions in exquisite detail
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they got orcs undead knights elves you
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name it and you can play with your friends whether you want to dive into
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the story take on other players in pvp or collect and customize all the
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characters you possibly can rage shadow legends has something for everyone right
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now raid is offering a new daily reward for the first 90 days in the game and
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you can get 50 000 silver and a free epic champion by clicking our link in
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the description so check it out at the link below razer is opening a new store
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in las vegas which would be larger than its only other us store the one in san
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francisco scheduled to debut on september 7th at the link the razer
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store will take up two floors and include a space or esports tournament as
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well as dedicated streaming area if you want a game for an audience while giving
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razer a little bit of free advertising wow i'm going next time remember that
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south park episode where cartman tried to trick his girlfriend into eating
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meatless beyond kfc well life is now going to imitate art as beyond fried
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chicken is scheduled to begin testing this week at one kfc location in atlanta
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it'll be interesting to see if it can catch on nationwide especially as
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competitor impossible foods is now a fixture at burger king and if it will
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revive conspiracy jokes about kfc's chicken not actually being
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chicken well now it's not not all of it solved they don't have
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chicken mystery solved that's what the story's about on the horizon what's
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there chickens fly
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although one big selling point of gaming consoles is their exclusive titles that
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are unavailable on other platforms sony looks to be open to making some of its
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playstation exclusives available on pc in order to better compete with
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microsoft's xbox ecosystem we still might not see the biggest titles moving
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off of the playstation itself but don't be surprised to see more games overall
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become available on both platforms especially if they suck
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netflix is well known for using an algorithm to serve suggested movies and
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tv shows based on your watch history but the streaming giant is now bringing in
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human curators to recommend titles as
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well the new feature is called collections and is currently available
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only on iOS though it appears that their
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human employees will only be putting together these playlists based on their
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own tastes and won't actually be seeing what you've watched in the past we think
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mercifully that's we think you'd like this movie i know everything about you
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i used to be on the alexa listening team are you tired of making sure that you're
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not trying to carry too much pepsi onto your flight
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well 3d scanning at airport security might make these liquid restrictions a
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thing of the past at least in the uk whose government has ordered all
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airports get the scanners by 2022. although the technology is already in
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place at a few airports in the us there's no word on when the restrictions
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might be changed in either country though uk officials have hinted they may
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be on their way out hopefully it'll be soon as i recently had to throw out my
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entire 12-step skin care system when i when i got to the metal detector no more
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strapping gatorade to my butt that's it for today so join us back here
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on wednesday for another dose of tech news that's how you
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keep you looking sprightly and youthful 12-step tech news program you look about
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12 years old