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Speaker 1: one of the huge stories this week was the return
Speaker 1: of the astronauts after an extended stay on the the
Speaker 1: International Space Station. Had great ending. It's awesome, glad to
Speaker 1: have them back, Thank God. Now the question is what
Speaker 1: does the future hold for the troubled Boeing Starliner capsule.
Speaker 1: That's well, if you want to get right down to
Speaker 1: it was the reason all of this played out like
Speaker 1: it did. They were set up in that the capsule
Speaker 1: had issues. It was determined it was not safe for
Speaker 1: humans to get back in it to try to make
Speaker 1: it home, thus their extended stay. Do they continue to
Speaker 1: try to want to fly Starliner's capsule again? They answer?
Speaker 1: The short answers. Yes, NASA is continuing to look at
Speaker 1: their options for Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule, for that specific
Speaker 1: one that's up there on the whole design of the capsule.
Speaker 1: It's not up there. It's come back. It returned, but
Speaker 1: not with any humans now, and they're looking and assessing
Speaker 1: the main problems that presented themselves after it was launched
Speaker 1: that prevented the safe return of astronaut. I'm not getting
Speaker 1: on it. What strongly alluded to in this piece that
Speaker 1: I'm reading anyway from space dot com says that when
Speaker 1: and if this thing flies again, it's highly unlikely there'll
Speaker 1: be any human since.
Speaker 2: We've really had a website called space dot com. I
Speaker 2: or you were just scouring for the latest tech news
Speaker 2: and came across.
Speaker 1: It space dot Com. No, I know, but I was
Speaker 1: just I have my whole file saved of sites I
Speaker 1: go to for tech. It out. I got you. I
Speaker 1: just said, you pointed it out. I live in an
Speaker 1: area that the space industry is a huge part of,
Speaker 1: so I try to stay versed as I can a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: That's why a lot of people are here.
Speaker 1: Amazon Echo owners check this out. We all know that
Speaker 1: our smart devices listen to us, some more than others.
Speaker 1: Some have privacy settings that can limit that outside of
Speaker 1: our requests. Amazon Echoes are one of those lines of
Speaker 1: products that you know, if you get into the privacy settings,
Speaker 1: you can in most of those models have the thing
Speaker 1: not send your voice recordings to their cloud service where
Speaker 1: they're having access to everything. I think everybody should have
Speaker 1: that right with all devices. As of March twenty eighth,
Speaker 1: select echoes will no longer offer that privacy setting. It's
Speaker 1: going to be removed. Translation everything you say which is
Speaker 1: in your shot of some of these Echo devices will
Speaker 1: be fed to the Amazon Cloud, and they argue that
Speaker 1: this is more information for them to better hone in
Speaker 1: and enhance the capabilities of the Alexa plus thing that's
Speaker 1: coming out, and better ways to help you.
Speaker 3: So day out of my bitness, I'll want my privacy
Speaker 3: so there, Just so you know, if you own one
Speaker 3: of those devices after the twenty eighth, that privacy setting
Speaker 3: is slated to go.
Speaker 1: Bye bye Google. It is good to be the Google.
Speaker 1: They have made the biggest buy in the company's history.
Speaker 1: What they just goob up. They're they're stroking a check
Speaker 1: for thirty two billion dollars to buy the CyberSecure firm Whiz.
Speaker 1: I don't know who owns Whiz, but if I'm the
Speaker 1: Wiz owner and I got Google telling me that they're
Speaker 1: gonna pay me thirty two billion dollars, I'm like, where
Speaker 1: do I here's my keys, take the whole business out
Speaker 1: of here.
Speaker 2: Do whatever you want, just thirty two bill unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I mentioned this a while back. It is now available
Speaker 1: for select Verizon wireless users, satellites messaging service owners of
Speaker 1: some Android smartphones. As of yesterday, we'll be able to,
Speaker 1: at no extra charge, have access to Verizon's free satellite messaging.
Speaker 1: If you find yourself in an area where there is
Speaker 1: no sell coverage whatsoever, you'll be able to still have
Speaker 1: connectivity for texting and whatnot via that they hope to
Speaker 1: expand it to more devices at a future date. But
Speaker 1: Verizon customers, you lucky dogs, are the first ones in
Speaker 1: this country to have that access with your traditional wireless plan.
Speaker 1: Atari is now selling a smart watch that prioritizes fun
Speaker 1: over functionality. The watch's interface can be customized with Atari
Speaker 1: twenty six hundred themed artwork, sound effects, as well as
Speaker 1: offering on the watch capabilities to play classic Katari games Centipede, Pong,
Speaker 1: Super Breakout, and Missile Command just using the touch screen
Speaker 1: or the watches crown dial. It's just a little yeah.
Speaker 1: People who do stuff on small screens are used to
Speaker 1: doing stuff on small screens. Why not, you know, play
Speaker 1: some Atari twenty six hundred, Missile Command seventy nine ninety nine. Wow,
Speaker 1: it's affordable. Yes, sack that up against you know, some
Speaker 1: of these other smart watches, and well, there you go.
Speaker 1: The watch is available for pre order now through Atari's
Speaker 1: online store, will be shipping by June tenth. If you're
Speaker 1: an old school gamer or just plonged for those days.
Speaker 1: There you go. And finally this, I think this is
Speaker 1: something that is irritating to a lot of people who
Speaker 1: owned printers at home. The whole ink cartridge and ink racket.
Speaker 1: It is a racket. I have an HP printer at home,
Speaker 1: and I got caught up in this mess here. HP
Speaker 1: has somehow avoided monetary damages over bricked printers in a
Speaker 1: class action settlement. What they did was they sent out
Speaker 1: firmware updates, which they considered security updates, that would break
Speaker 1: your printer if you try to use non HP replacement
Speaker 1: cartridges and whatnot.
Speaker 2: You said you got caught up in this. Did that
Speaker 2: affect me too? Because I remember I had a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of those cartridges that we used to get from
Speaker 2: that company would not work.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: Yes, to answer, you and I had the same thing happened.
Speaker 1: I had been using those. Yeah, these security updates. Here's
Speaker 1: the other kicker. We're being sent down and forced updates.
Speaker 1: They would happen. You didn't even know it if your
Speaker 1: printer was on boom and updated. And then if you
Speaker 1: try to use one of these other non HP products
Speaker 1: because you didn't want to pay an arm and a leg,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's not working and it won't
Speaker 1: work unless you go back to an HP approved cardon
Speaker 1: more to the racket. So here's the settlement. They admit
Speaker 1: no wrongdoing, but from now on, user and you know,
Speaker 1: customers will have the option of declining there security updates.
Speaker 1: So if you're using the off brand cartridges on your
Speaker 1: HP and they're still working and HP sends you a
Speaker 1: security updates, yeah, I think twice. Yeah, because they're still
Speaker 1: going to be able to effectively brick here your hardware
Speaker 1: with this. The damage was already done mating, no wrongdoing.
Speaker 4: Course, that's what I got this week. You feel you
Speaker 4: feel like you've checked it out sufficiently, Oh, I definitely did. Okay, Well,
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