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wow i'm really feeling still pretty roasty after that roast what's that you
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want some tech news you're not cool enough for tech news boom roasted oh you
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like roast huh james yeah well you're probably like getting literally roasted
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more like cause you're uh you're a pork chop boom roasted yeah i would have cut
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that joke okay
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microsoft's new chromium-based version of the edge web browser has just started
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to show up for public consumption microsoft gave up on developing edge
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completely in-house some time ago and now you can go pick up an early canary
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channel version of the browser from microsoft's website which the company
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says it will be updating just about every day although bing will once again
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be the default search engine this new edge will actually support chrome
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extensions and includes a dark mode for your late night browser needs it's
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unclear exactly when the more stable beta version will be released to the
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public but it can't come soon enough i mean people need a browser to download
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chrome with so boom roasted it's still happening
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although samsung wasn't the first company to release a smartphone with an
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in-screen fingerprint reader the one inside its galaxy s10 has arguably been
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the most hyped but despite that it's already been shown to have a fatal flaw
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slow yes that too one user on imgur used
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the somewhat well-known trick of taking a photo of a fingerprint left on glass
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and reproduced it with a 3d printer the fake fingerprint was able to reliably
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unlock his galaxy s10 over and over again a legitimate security concern
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considering it was done with relatively cheap hardware in a matter of minutes
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this issue is a big problem for samsung and other companies who are pushing
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biometrics as a way to not have to fiddle around with pins or additional
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security so if you can unlock your phone with just a fingerprint maybe be a
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little more wary the next time you're visiting a friend who keeps a 3d printer
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in their basement these guys are all a little creepy anyways and rare
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yeah just use a password if you're that interesting of a person
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also why do you have a 3d printer in the basement why hide it you know show it
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off put it in the attic yeah if you've jumped on the apex legends hype train it
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looks like the experience could soon be a little less frustrating recently a new
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feature briefly appeared in a patch that would penalize players for leaving a
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match before a specified amount of time passes the idea is that it's a rather
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unsporting not cool move nice one john to just bail out of a
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match because they dislike something a teammate did such as picking a character
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they don't like or a drop location they don't agree with doing this means the
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teammate squad now has to fight the match short-handed meaning it's a pretty
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serious obstacle to an enjoyable gaming session although the feature in the
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patch was quickly pulled as it wasn't quite ready for prime time and it isn't
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clear if it will actually be rolled out at all it'll be nice to have a deterrent to the
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digital equivalent of flipping over the monopoly board which is very immature
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netflix's discontinuing support for apple airplay which previously allowed
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users to beam shows and movies from apple devices to a larger screen netflix
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says that they can't tell airplay 2 devices apart so they can't certify them
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and so they've had to just shut down support i mean netflix could have just
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saved everyone time here and just said apple left us out of their streaming
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service and we're upset microsoft is changing the default usb mode in Windows
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10 to quick removal lowering the chance that your data will get corrupted if you
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just yank your usb drive out of the port unceremoniously no but i love the eject
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ceremonies exactly oh you can still do it okay
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don't just listen all right an option for better performance remains but you'll
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have to enable it manually and there's a slightly higher risk of data loss if you
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don't eject your drive so you either eject all the time or don't eject at all
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choose wisely eject facebook wants to
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build another massive underwater data pipe that would almost completely
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surround the african continent the social giant wants to get more people in
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africa connected to its service as it remains a somewhat untapped market with
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limited infrastructure though i don't know that i would have gone with the
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incredibly on the nose name of simba
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u.s authorities are backing off their threats of withholding intelligence from
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the german government if the country went with huawei for its 5g deployments
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apparently german security standards are so high that the us thinks unreliable
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companies would never hope to meet them
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sounds pretty german to me i'm german sort of and what if you could
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travel nearly 60 000 miles in just 300 bucks wouldn't that be great i'd go yeah
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i'd go so far one man from the netherlands did just that as he recently
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completed a three-year electric car drive from amsterdam to sydney
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so boats were obviously involved but he did spend just 300 on charging up his
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car rather than the nearly five grand it would have cost him in gasoline so now
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he was helped by volunteers so the trip was probably a little cheaper than it
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would have been for the average joe but it still beats paying out the nose to
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check a bag i'll say that much the more you learn about that story the
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less impressive it is he used boats he had help oh it turns out he just flew i
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went on a really big road trip but but i
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drove an electric car yeah so follow me
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on twitter that's it for today guys come back on wednesday to embark on your own
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three-year tech journey that we cram into five minutes
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that's not how it works don't quote me on that