It's time to CHOOSE A SIDE.
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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if there's one thing i love more than anything in the world
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it's tech news and that's not literally true but what
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is true is that i love you
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james i know the battle between the epic game store
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and steam for the hearts and minds
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and wallets of pc gamers is heating up so let's check in after they announced a
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bunch more exclusive games ceo tim sweeney says the epic game store will
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eventually stop with the exclusivity deals they're just trying to disrupt the
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industry a bit right now sweeney also made clear that the egc will not take
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valve's hands off approach to content moderation applying quality standards
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that will block games that they deem as inappropriate as it stands the company
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says around 40 of their 85 million users don't also have steam installed they
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just have epic game store and even if those are all young fortnite players
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it's undeniable that egc will have an impact on the industry that impact is
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arguably why steam is changing their ui to look a bit more modern it's time for
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pc gamers to choose a side steam
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or epic games
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well you gotta be why not both is what he said i don't speak spanish fans of
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nokia phones were excited when the brand was revived by another finnish company
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hmd global but they probably weren't excited this week to learn that a number
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of nokia 7 plus devices were suspected of sending data to a server in china
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while hmd global is located in finland current nokia models are manufactured in
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china at a foxconn factory hmd has issued a statement claiming that a
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device activation client meant for a different country was mistakenly
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included in a single batch of nokia 7 plus models and that's not convenient
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exactly but and they say no personal information was compromised and huawei
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definitely wasn't involved we know that for sure nevertheless the finnish
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government has opened an investigation into whether any data breaches occurred
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and if they find anything hmd could be subject to hefty fines from the european
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union who are sort of like the overzealous hall monitor of europe now
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except hall monitors didn't find you but they did give you stern looks
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and remember how a couple weeks ago mark zuckerberg wrote this giant post about
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how facebook was going to be super privacy focused now
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yeah well the news just came out that the company stored hundreds of millions of
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user passwords in plain text files that were easily searchable by thousands of
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facebook employees for years as far back as 2012. not the past riley oh yeah
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you're right you're right i shouldn't there's no evidence yet that user
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information was compromised as a result but still
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oh and also the company just admitted that they knew cambridge analytica was
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improperly gathering data as early as september 2015 and the story didn't
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really blow up in the public sphere until 2018.
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i mean at least they were being private about that you know you gotta
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gotta give them points where you can it's time for quick bits brought to you
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subscription so check it out at the link below on to the quick bits i think so
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NVIDIA is changing the way it releases drivers for its graphics cards
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when you update your driver there will now be two options a game ready driver
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with launch day support for the latest games and a creator ready driver which
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ensures stability and quality for creative workflows using apps like the
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adobe suite unreal engine and autodesk arnold
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exactly but what if you're equal parts gamer and creator what if you're neither
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and you don't even know what a graphics card is the answer
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google stadium
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macs don't get viruses except they do and since microsoft has
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lots of experience with having their software get screwed up they're helping
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out their rival a bit they've ported Windows defender to mac as microsoft
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defender advanced threat protection although i'm not sure what advanced
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threats they're protecting against since max don't get viruses as i've said
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maybe a scorned freelance artist spilling their latte on the macbook
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sorry canadian mac users tesla is under scrutiny over its autopilot feature once
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again as dash cam footage of a model x
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swerving towards a barrier on the highway has been posted online but the
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real issue is this is far from the first time this has happened and it comes
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after numerous software updates were pushed that seemingly fixed the problem
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until the dashcam footage came out it remains kind of weird that while other
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companies are really trying to smooth out the kinks in self-driving technology
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before they release it tesla is kind of using its customers like brandon as
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guinea pigs i'm not saying don't buy a tesla but maybe
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don't use autopilot just yet i don't know i don't know what the solution is
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i drive a mitsubishi does it though following google's announcement of
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stadia game streaming services are a hotter topic than ever and walmart wants
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in on the party usgamer reports that the retail giant is exploring the idea of
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launching their own service as part of their op gaming brand
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yep which was a rousing success and i don't see why this should be any
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different please go that's what gamers are saying to walmart
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just please no stop and mobile network testing company
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open signal tested the speeds of various mobile networks and found that at att's
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5ge ran a little slower than verizon and
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t-mobile's 4g networks probably because it's not actually 5g
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it's also 4g dang you know you know i just thought if we called it 5g you know
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it might give us that boost we needed i guess life's a little more complicated
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than you think huh hopes and dreams hopes and dreams dashed but the reasons
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for ending this episode now aren't complicated we're just out of tech news
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that's just the way life works but there will be more come monday so make sure
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you're subscribed like the video and give yourself a pat on the back
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because you're worth it tell brenda i said that tell brandon not to use
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autopilot