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Speaker 1: tech news here. TikTok has lost its bid to strike
Speaker 1: down a law that could result in the platform being
Speaker 1: banned here in the United States. Haven't heard much about
Speaker 1: this lately? Right well? On Friday, a US appeals court
Speaker 1: upheld the law in a ruling denying TikTok's argument that
Speaker 1: the law was unconstitutional. The judges found that the law
Speaker 1: does not contravene the First Amendment to the Constitution of
Speaker 1: the United States, nor does it violate the Fifth Amendment
Speaker 1: guarantee of equal protection of the laws. What does this mean?
Speaker 1: It means the platform is one step closer to facing
Speaker 1: a ban here in the US. Unlus it can convince
Speaker 1: its Chinese parent company byteedance to sell and find a
Speaker 1: buyer by January nineteenth, twenty twenty five. After that deadline,
Speaker 1: US app stores and internet services could face hefty fines
Speaker 1: for hosting TikTok if it is not sold to a
Speaker 1: non Chinese entity. There is the possibility that there could
Speaker 1: be a one time extension to the deadline issued by
Speaker 1: the Biden administration. I would not hold your breath on that,
Speaker 1: so to be continued. We'll see if that all comes
Speaker 1: to a head here in less than a month. If
Speaker 1: you are a job seeker then you use Android platform,
Speaker 1: be careful. There is a very sophisticated mobile phishing campaign
Speaker 1: targeting you intended to install dangerous, malicious soft where on
Speaker 1: your Android devices.
Speaker 2: That's so uncool, targeting people that are trying to get
Speaker 2: a job at the end goal financial reasons.
Speaker 1: Here's the bottom line and what to look out for.
Speaker 1: You're an Android user, you receive an out of the
Speaker 1: blue job solicitation slash offer. Be very very wary of
Speaker 1: opening that up. Okay, all right, that's how they're trying
Speaker 1: to you know, trojan horse it into your personal information.
Speaker 2: I get those those texts anyway, and I just immediately delete.
Speaker 2: Report is junk.
Speaker 1: General Motors has decided to pull the plug on its
Speaker 1: robotaxi experiment after having spent ten billion dollars on the
Speaker 1: GM Cruise model, which are these you know robotaxis that
Speaker 1: you've seen utilized in various parts of the country. They basically,
Speaker 1: it's too expensive, it had too many regulatory hurdles to
Speaker 1: overcome to make it a viable revenue stream. GM said
Speaker 1: instead they would rather try to focus on developing privately
Speaker 1: owned driverless cars because in the end they believe that's
Speaker 1: what people will end up gravitating towards once the technology
Speaker 1: gets to that point where your option is to go
Speaker 1: out and buy it an evy traditional gas lean powered
Speaker 1: car or an automatic car that has the capability to
Speaker 1: drive itself.
Speaker 2: That's what they're banking. I told you don't trust it.
Speaker 2: Ten billion dollars they wasted. Wow.
Speaker 1: Do you know what chatters are? Taco Bob chatters?
Speaker 2: Uh, somebody in a chat room or people that sit
Speaker 2: around and answer questions on the online for you.
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Speaker 1: to try to keep up with their fans. Their subscribers,
Speaker 1: they will employ chatters who impersonate them. So you're paying
Speaker 1: whoever whatever amount per month to have some special attention
Speaker 1: given to you. You may not even be talking to
Speaker 1: the person you think you're talking to, but instead a
Speaker 1: chatter who is assuming their identity.
Speaker 2: Well, guess what it could be a guy named Rex
Speaker 2: sitting down in his mom's basement.
Speaker 1: Now, these very popular OnlyFans models are cutting out the
Speaker 1: middleman with the chatters, and guess what they're utilizing instead.
Speaker 2: AI.
Speaker 1: You got it, ding ding ding ding. So not only
Speaker 1: is you're not going to get a poor substitute for
Speaker 1: the person you're subscribing and hoping to have a private
Speaker 1: conversation with their personal conversation with No, No, it's some AI.
Speaker 2: Telling you. I don't want to sound like my ster
Speaker 2: old fuddy duddy with this AI.
Speaker 1: But there's a startup called phantom neuro that is building
Speaker 1: an implant that sits under the skin and promises to
Speaker 1: give amputees more accurate control of their electronic prosthetics without
Speaker 1: having to have any kind of brain surgery. It's really
Speaker 1: cutting stuff here. That's that's whole school, very early stages
Speaker 1: of this, but found that interesting Electronics News here LG
Speaker 1: announcing they will cease and assist producing Blu ray players
Speaker 1: both DVD and four K ultrate DVD players, marking an
Speaker 1: end of an era. If you want to buy an
Speaker 1: LG Blu ray player, you better grab them before they're gone,
Speaker 1: because once the remaining inventory is sold, that's it. That'll
Speaker 1: leave pretty much Panasonic and Sony as the major players
Speaker 1: when it comes to the DVD game. Which is interesting
Speaker 1: that LG's bailing on at a time when DVDs and
Speaker 1: especially four K ultra DVDs are experiencing a surge in popularity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look what happened with record players and vinyl. Uh
Speaker 2: so'dl LG. I mean, you know what you're doing, I'd
Speaker 2: chill out for.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what they're I don't think they're too
Speaker 1: worried about missing that revenue stream because they're high end
Speaker 1: TVs are the shiz right now?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I tell you what. The fridge I got from
Speaker 2: them sucked, right, Yeah, some of this stuff, but I
Speaker 2: remember that's the one I had to spend. I think
Speaker 2: goes what seven dollars to fix an ice maker. Dear
Speaker 2: Lord could have brought a fridge for that.
Speaker 1: People in dozens of US cities can now buy the
Speaker 1: car of their choice on Amazon, as long as it's
Speaker 1: a Hundai. The online retail giant has launched its Amazon
Speaker 1: Autos service, just over a year after it was first denounced.
Speaker 1: It is currently available in forty eight cities. Said Pundai
Speaker 1: is the only partner for now, but Amazon says it
Speaker 1: plans to work with more automakers and dealerships next year.
Speaker 2: We've said that you can buy anything on Amazon.
Speaker 1: How does it work? Amazon says customers can search available
Speaker 1: vehicles from local participating dealers by model, trim, color, features,
Speaker 1: and more, all in one place. Once customers select a vehicle,
Speaker 1: they can secure financing, e sign paperwork, and complete their
Speaker 1: order with a few clicks. This is basically it said.
Speaker 1: Just sounds like Amazon taking all the workaway from the
Speaker 1: folks that the dealerships that have to deal with their
Speaker 1: their existing online purchasing programs.
Speaker 2: It is the Amazon worker in the background, that person chatting,
Speaker 2: chatting me up.
Speaker 1: Do they haggle with you? The customers end up picking
Speaker 1: up the new car from the dealership. You don't have
Speaker 1: the Amazon driver bringing it to you. So there you go.
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