I'm ALMOST sad for Apple...
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·TechLinked
·2019-05-06
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hey Linus how does tech news get made uh
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okay well you see when uh when a man
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and another man and then there's a third man who points
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the camera at it you know what i'll explain it to you when you're older okay two years after
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its ceo called bitcoin a fraud jp morgan
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has announced it will launch its own cryptocurrency called jpm coin it will
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reportedly be the world's first cryptocurrency backed by a major u.s
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bank unlike bitcoin or ethereum whose value is dependent on the fluctuations
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of their own ecosystems jpm coin will be a stable coin
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or a cryptocurrency that derives its value from another stable asset that
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stable asset is the us dollar so one jpm
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coin will always be worth one us dollar jp morgan says they transfer more than
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16 trillion dollars around the world every day for their clients so the new
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cryptocurrency will be used to simplify and facilitate faster transactions
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crypto enthusiasts are unsurprisingly
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a bit skeptical of the megabanks move because like what now is every bank just
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gonna have its own cryptocurrency how many jpm coins is one wells fargo
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buck worth i mean on the plus side jpm coin gives
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some more legitimacy to cryptocurrency but then at the risk of
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angering everyone who uses cryptocurrency and then removing a lot
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of the benefit of cryptocurrency which was that you didn't have to be reliant
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on jp freaking morgan this segue doesn't work because i
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ad-libbed a bit there but that's fine because open ai the artificial
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intelligence startup backed by elon musk could have taken that previous sentence
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that i said and written its own segue based on just watching my videos this
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thing is freaking incredible so they showed off a new ai model called
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2 which can write extremely convincing
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news stories and even works of fiction with just one or two sentences of input
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to get it started the system was trained on more than 10 million articles and
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stories collected from reddit posts with more than three upvotes but it doesn't
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really do much fact checking it just kind of writes from the heart yeah you
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know man like from the heart yeah um so
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here's a crazy thing openai thinks that gpt2 is so good that it's too dangerous
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to release to the public because it could easily be used to create an
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unending stream of fake news articles or
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it could be used to generate hundreds of positive online reviews for a product
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like this fantastic LTT stealth hoodie that i'm
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wearing right now so i guess the thing here is until we can
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develop an ai conscience it's probably best for gpt2 to stay in its room for
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now think about what it did nintendo unleashed a torrent of game
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news in its direct presentation on wednesday super mario maker 2 is coming
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to the switch along with dragon quest 11 a 3d remaster of legend of zelda link's
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awakening and astral chain the new game from the developers of nier automata
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fire emblem 3 houses is a strategy rpg with a bit of harry potter thrown in for
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fun and ononaki is the latest game from tokyo rpg factory perhaps the most
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interesting news though was the fact that tetris is now a battle where i
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thought this was fake tetris is a battle royale game are you for real
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surprisingly it's not just a gimmick people are actually really enjoying
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tetris 99 but the thing is like really why do we have to make why do we have to
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take a nice puzzle game and like make it about destroying our competitors what's
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wrong with us can't we just play tetris like
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next to each other without fighting you want to play tetris no it's time for
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quibble bits brought to you by the mass drop x sennheiser pc37x gaming headset
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that's right my friends why sit next to your friends and game when you can sit
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at your own house in the comfort of your own chair with a headset and talk to
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them that way massdrop and sennheiser worked together to make the pc37x even
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better than ever before it's got angled drivers it's got an open back design
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with excellent locational accuracy and a noise cancelling microphone so go check
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it out it's 119.99 for a limited time at mass drop it's uh linked in the video
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description on to the quiddity bytes
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apple has been banned from selling the iphone 7 and 8 in germany ever since a
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german court sided with qualcomm in a patent dispute but now apple is planning
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to resume sales of the older models in germany after modifying them to use
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qualcomm modems instead of Intel ones that's the only way the company can get
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around the legal restrictions that were imposed by qualcomm's successful lawsuit
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now i'm not usually inclined to feel bad for apple but this this gets me pretty
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close
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real close like almost almost nubia the company behind the dual screen nubia x
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has shown off a flexible phone
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watch thing it's a wrist mounted device with a long
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flexible display and front-facing camera called the nubia alpha the company
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showed a preview of the device at ifa in berlin last fall but we should see more
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information at mobile world congress in a couple of weeks i'm having a hard time
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here is it is it ugly or just unsettling
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it's the future oh by the way speaking of the future remember Android tablets
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that was the past those were fun no wait they're not dead wow samsung
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just announced the galaxy tab s5e with a
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metal construction and slim bezels that call to mind the design of the latest
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ipad pros it'll ship with Android 9 pi out of the box modified with the
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company's new one ui and will start at 399 us that's very nice samsung good
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luck with that lg phones aren't really known for their drastic technological
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innovations actually some of them have been pretty pretty groundbreaking but
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anyway whether you think they have or they haven't you will be surprised because the
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upcoming lg g8 thinq is going to be packing a pretty big technological
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innovation a vibrating screen now the phone will have actual speakers on the
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back but front-facing sound will come from the crystal sound OLED or cso the
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audio will be so amazing that you'll be able to see it that's how it works no
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that's not how it works i've seen this before technology it's very cool it's
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very cool the screen vibrates but like it doesn't look like it's like vibrating
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it's just yeah and it sounds it sounded pretty good on a tv anyway and amazon is
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getting into electric vehicles the tech giant is leading an investment of 700
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million dollars into rivien a startup developing a line of fully electric
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pickup trucks and suvs fun fact amazon
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ceo jeff bezos also owns blue origin the rocket company elon musk owns spacex and
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tesla so i guess what we're seeing here
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is just like a billionaire like dick measuring contest you know it's like oh
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yeah i've got a football team oh yeah you know i'm going to go get a football team yo i see your football team raise
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you one electric car company you know what i'm going to make electric trucks
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because electric cars are for when are you making an electric car
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uh heavens we're out of time uh thank you
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for tuning in to this episode of TechLinked um but don't worry monday is the
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day as well and there will be tech news on monday presumably i mean it's a holiday up here but but riley riley
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doesn't get holidays i'll be here