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·2019-05-06
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hey i know you've been stuck in a youtube vortex watching a million videos in the
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background while you pound noobs not for this one okay sit up pay attention
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we got tech news to discuss actually they could probably watch this in the
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background pretty easily it's kind of like a background thing it's fine the
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department of homeland security in the united states that is has issued an
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emergency directive to government agencies to up their web security by
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securing their dns records with two-factor authentication the urgent
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bulletin follows a massive hijacking campaign on the domain name system or
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dns which is kind of like the internet's phone book you plug in a url a dns
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service connects you to the right ip addresses this cyber attack saw hackers
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believed to be from iran hijack dns requests for various nefarious various
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nefarious various nefarious various nefarious purposes like making login
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credentials pass through their server before being routed to the real website
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it's unclear how many companies or agencies have been affected by the
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attack and it's harder than normal to actually get answers because of the
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ongoing united states government shutdown winning
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yeah i mean it's almost like having a functioning government is actually kind
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of important we are pretty rude to apple on this show i mean i i i don't mean to
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be it's just there's always something to make fun of and the latest debacle is
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what some netizens are calling flexgate
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apparently a lot of macbook pros from 2016 and later are experiencing a staged
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lighting effect where the screen looks like it's being illuminated by a bunch
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of lights from below users are also reporting that the backlight shuts off
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completely after opening the lid to a certain degree as ifixit points out the
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problems are reportedly caused by apple's decision to use a weaker ribbon
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cable instead of the beefier wire cables used in previous designs and the new
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cables aren't up to the stresses of being bent forward and back every time
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the laptop opens and shuts and to make matters worse to fix the problem you
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have to replace the whole display of course of course which costs around 600
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instead of replacing the cables which cost about six coincidence
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yeah that is kind of weird very like it's a perfect factor of multiplication see now i know
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why we make fun of apple it's because they think they're so cool it's like ooh
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yeah look at my brush sandblasted aluminum and my excellent color accuracy
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and perfect software that always works the way it's supposed to the worst
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we don't need that give me janky Android any day and xiaomi
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has come out of the woodwork to show off a folding phone that actually doesn't
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look stupid while the designs we've seen from royol and samsung involve bending a
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small tablet-sized device in the middle xiaomi's design folds twice
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leaving a central panel about the size of a regular smartphone
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xiaomi senior vice president wang zhang tweeted
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xiaomi senior vice president wang shang
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tweeted a video of the device although it's pretty low resolution so i sure
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hope it didn't come from the phone's camera eh james
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oh the company says they're still considering whether to turn the device
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which is a prototype into an actual product well i'll help you out with that
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one mr wang shang do it meanwhile we're gonna do the quick
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link below got a lot of phone news quick bits today honor a sub brand owned by
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huawei had an event this week to launch their newest flagship the vue 20. Linus
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actually went to paris to attend the launch and Linus tech tips already has a
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video up about it it's one of the first phones to actually launch featuring a
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punch hole cut out camera type design and it's also got a 48 megapixel camera
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that apparently isn't terrible at the mobile world
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congress coming up on february 24th lg is apparently going to show off some
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sort of touchless gesture technology exactly what i didn't know i didn't want
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exactly but it's coming the company released a
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teaser with a hand waving over a piece of paper as text magically appears i
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mean this might help you keep your phone screen smudge 3 but it sure looks a bit
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doinky speaking of doinkie how about a phone with no buttons
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or ports yup sounds like my kind of phone
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not really the meizu zero which its name
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checks out doesn't even have a sim card slot or speakers it relies on esim
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technology while the phone's display apparently produces the sound and the
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device does charge wirelessly at up to 18 watts you don't just buy it and use
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it until it dies you can charge it wireless charging only yep no thanks
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jeff welcome to the future whether you want to be here or not you're come on
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let's go google is working on blocking ad blockers from chrome as seen in changes
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made to the open source chromium browser which is the basis for future versions
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of chrome so get ready for an internet that's a little more colorful until
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someone makes an ad blocker blocking unblocker
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and the future is now robots that deliver you food are coming and some are
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already here amazon they brought food and they brought food
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welcome amazon has begun testing their six wheeled delivery bot called the
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amazon scout colonial
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near seattle washington but at virginia's george mason university
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starship has actually launched a robot food delivery service with the company's
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units delivering pizza coffee and other food to students for just two bucks
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a lot of technological advances have some complicated issues involved but i
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think this one is pretty simple build a robot get it to bring me pizza i'll tell you
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what's not to like the fact that this episode is over but don't cry for me
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argentina because we'll be back on friday with more tech news pineapple
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pizza no maybe
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subscribe to make sure you're up to date with more convenient ways to get pizza
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that is not hawaiian i'm assuming you don't like it the average person doesn't
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apparently