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·TechLinked
·2020-05-05
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1,391 words · ~6 min read
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oh my goodness have you guys seen the tech news today no no they
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they haven't that's why we're doing you got to tell us what it is
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right yeah so spacex has finally managed
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to get their first bundle of starlink satellites into orbit after two launch
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attempts were delayed by weather after the falcon 9 rocket carrying the
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satellites released them into orbit it landed safely on the of course i still
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love you drone ship back on earth the 60
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starlink satellites were then released and slowly drifted away with no
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observable deployment mechanism so it
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might have worked well we're going to find out soon
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because the satellites are meant to deliver high-speed internet and these
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initial 60 are hopefully going to be part of a network of 800 to 12
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000 satellites once it's fully built out that is a lot of space satellites
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and that's that doesn't even mention the competing satellite systems being
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developed by telesat one web and a host
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of other companies i swear if the aliens ever do come here like they're gonna
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have to elbow their way through the atmosphere
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first that's how we know they really want to meet us now a big draw for early
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snapchat users was privacy as the app
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features time-limited self-destructing messages
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but the company is in hot water for allegedly allowing its employees to
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breach the privacy of its users two former employees told motherboard
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that multiple parties within the company abused internal tools that gave them
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access to user data including user locations saved photos and videos phone
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numbers and email addresses one of these tools called snap lion is used by snap
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to collect data on users to comply with valid requests from law enforcement
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because everyone knows that lions are the cops of
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the animal kingdom now such tools are common in tech
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companies and snap has responded denying the accusations of spying but this is
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just yet another reminder that however
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private you might think your data is if you're giving it to a company a human
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probably has eyes on it at some point and
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you just don't know where those eyes have been
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speaking of not knowing about your data and eyes looking at things uh uh the
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consequences of the u.s huawei ban continue to expand with the company now
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being kicked out of the sd association
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the body that controls the standards related to sd cards and ports
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wow that's like being kicked out of like the cheerleading squad
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except for giant nerds
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so what this means is that huawei will no longer be able to produce devices
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with ports for sd or microsd cards with
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that said this might not be that the death blow that some people have been
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waiting for because the chinese tech company has been slowly introducing
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their own nano memory format which uses
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modules that are smaller than microsd for a couple of years now
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huawei has also been temporarily restricted from working with the wi-fi
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alliance and jdec which set standards for wi-fi and semiconductors
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respectively now huawei will reportedly still be able to use those standards but
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they will not be able to contribute to them so it's like they can come to the
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meeting but they can't speak but i think if we could just
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wait wait look are you guys gonna stop spying
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click the link below on to the blippity blops NVIDIA has released a teaser for
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some kind of g-force product with super
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in the title or on the product itself um
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it could be a supercharged and super expensive new variant of the rtx 2080 ti
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it could be a a new NVIDIA shield it could be a
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superior vena cava and we only just saw the first part
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it's it's a blood vessel no it's part of the heart i don't remember it doesn't matter the point is
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we're probably going to find out next week at computex NVIDIA you guys are
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such teases how will i wait speaking of teasing would you tease
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amazon with a scan of your nearly naked body for a 25 gift card
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well if you would head to new york because the company is collecting data
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for internal product research which will ostensibly be used to develop
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clothing that will fit people's bodies better that makes total sense seems
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credible enough but then when you hear that amazon is also preparing a wearable
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device that allows alexa to read human emotions it starts to sound more and
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more like amazon has been taken over by an ai that's trying to learn more about
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us humans so that it can destroy us
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is that worth a 25 gift card well i guess it depends what's on sale
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what kind of prime add-ons they got google's duplex is supposed to use ai to
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call businesses on the phone for you but the company told the new york times that
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about 25 of duplex calls start out with
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a human on the other end the times also reported that in their own tests a real
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person finished the booking in three out of four duplex calls so i guess what
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i've been saying all along which is that if you still can't figure out how to
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okay google you know remind me something when i get to a place but like at a
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certain time um they probably can't figure this out
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so we probably got a few more years to live before we get murdered by
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intelligent boston dynamics robots enjoy it
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and you can enjoy it by checking out game developer panics play date a tiny
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handheld gaming device with a black and white screen a d-pad two buttons and of
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course naturally a hand crank
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it's gonna come with 12 indie games when it launches for 149 us dollars early
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next year and we really don't know much about it other than that 2020 may be the
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year that 2d black and white fishing simulator
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finally you know really takes off yeah wow got the image there the air force is
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planning to use the xq58 valkyrie drone
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made by kratos defense as an unmanned
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sidekick for fighter jets that are flown by human pilots as part of a program
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called skyborg that's not ominous at all so the drones
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would be networked to the man craft and serve as an ai wingman of sorts which
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would fly ahead to scout or draw fire from attackers now i'm assuming that
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these military folks have done their prerequisite research here and watched
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stealth uh the classic bad action movie starring jessica beale right should be
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required i certainly hope so also independence
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day that's really important too also
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according to my research this episode is now over thanks for watching guys and if
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you liked the tech news today well just wait until monday cause it's gonna be
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even better we actually have no way of knowing that do we you can't guarantee that please
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don't oh magic
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it's a crystal ball yeah magic magic ball
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okay seeing into the future is not magic