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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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that's what the tech link has been missing a bit of the old james juice ew james
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juice for the tech link seems like huawei and oppo have been doing all the
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innovating in phone design recently samsung may have just got some of their
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street cred back the company just launched the galaxy a80 which features a
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sliding rotating camera the front of the
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device is all screen baby that's what samsung calls infinity display but the
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rear holds a triple lens camera setup when it's time for a selfie the camera
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section slides up and flips forward
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samsung also unveiled the galaxy a70 which is a step down from the a80 with
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its teardrop notch and non-rotating
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sucky camera the a80 is cool but it means that i can no longer secretly film
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people as i'm pretending to take a selfie and for that reason i just can't
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support them i'm sorry that's the right option creep's gonna creep it's time
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once again to talk about a weird yet interesting robot thing engineers at uc
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berkeley have taken the wraps off of blue a robot that's really just a pair
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of arms attached to a metal rod much like me a pair of strong
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powerful arms that make me feel safe in their embrace but blue can also
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manipulate an untold number of household objects and can be trained to do so by
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having a human pilot with a vr headset and controllers guide it through the
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motions and while similar sets of arms and pincers can cost around four hundred
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thousand dollars trust me i i've explored the pincer market blues
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creators are aiming for a five thousand dollar price tag relatively cheap
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still a lot sure i'd get one of those things just to fold my laundry riley
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thanks for asking oh i see what you're saying here and google's drone delivery company wing
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has been in testing with a limited number of residents in canberra
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australia for 18 months but now wing has received regulatory approval from the
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local government to begin commercial operations the city's general population
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can now use wing to have food drinks and other goods delivered to their residents
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via drone in a matter of minutes
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the drones can only operate during the day and are banned from crossing major
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roads and must maintain a minimum height
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i guess unless they're landing uh but apparently that won't stop any old bloke
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or sheila from getting their vegemite oh it's so gross
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NVIDIA's gtx 1650 graphics card
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all these dongles for i got dongles coming on my yin yang
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whatever spacex is the most fun thing you can do in space with another person
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spacex will launch the arab sat 6a telecom satellite into orbit later today
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marking the first commercial flight of its falcon heavy booster rocket all
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three rocket components of the falcon will attempt to land back on earth after
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the launch which actually it's probably already happened by the time you watch
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this uh let me know how it goes Intel laid out
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some more details about its obtained memory h10 m.2 module today after first
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showing it off back at ces it combines a small amount of obtained memory with a
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larger store of more traditional qlc nand memory which apparently makes
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things like opening documents and launching games and opening large media
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files significantly faster compared to normal ssds all i gotta say is if it's
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anything like previous opt-in products well it'll be moderately interesting
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and youtube is taking a cue from netflix and planning to offer interactive choose
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your own adventure style videos in all likelihood this is an attempt to make
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youtube originals that people actually care about because i haven't cared yet i
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just hope we won't have to suddenly write five different endings for every
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TechLinked episode like this one
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the that's a cliffhanger and that one james died no one knows what happens to
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james in that one or this one where i'm like oh my god my dreams have come true
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that's the ultimate mega happy ending uh there's another one where i just kill
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riley