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Level1 News November 17 2021: From Steam to Vapor

Posted by wendell on Tue, 11/23/2021 - 17:19

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0:00 - Intro
1:35 - Apple will no longer break Face ID on repaired iPhone 13s
2:56 - Apple Can’t Delay App Store December Deadline as Epic Legal Battle Continues
4:16 - Valve Apologizes For Steam Deck Delay To February 2022
5:35 - Google’s parent company briefly hits $2 trillion valuation
6:27 - AMD Rallies After Landing Meta in Latest Server Chip Win
7:29 - Microsoft’s new $249 Surface Laptop SE is its first true Chromebook competitor
9:21 - Microsoft to Kill OneDrive for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 in Early 2022
10:41 - Huawei offloads x86 business as it chases self-sufficiency
11:54 - Reddit to reportedly tokenize karma points and onboard 500M new users
14:21 - Rolls-Royce gets funding to develop mini nuclear reactors
16:19 - Netflix rolling out AV1 support on TVs now
18:07 - Rivian goes public in one of the biggest IPOs ever
20:00 - 'Financial Colonialism': A Bitcoin Mine in Navajo Nation Flares Tensions
22:25 - Jeff Bezos-Backed Property Startup La Haus Plans to Accept Bitcoin as Payment
24:10 - Discord pushes pause on exploring crypto and NFTs amidst user backlash
25:34 - Unity to buy 'The Lord of the Rings' VFX studio Weta Digital in $1.63 bln deal
27:24 - General Electric (GE) Will Split Into Three Units, Ending Conglomerate for Good
28:26 - Meta Quest 2 Is Already Replacing Oculus Quest 2 Branding
29:10 - Elon Musk, Tesla Execs Are Cashing Out Billions as Stock Hits Record
30:51 - Bitcoin's Taproot Upgrade Should Occur On Saturday
31:55 - Patreon’s building native video hosting for creators to sidestep YouTube
32:54 - Windows 11 SE won’t be sold separately, can’t be reinstalled once removed
33:57 - Google is taking sign-ups for Relate, a voice assistant that recognizes impaired speech
35:09 - Nvidia's Riva Custom Voice lets companies create custom voices powered by AI
36:26 - SpinLaunch is a thing for space
38:00 - Microsoft is adding more AI smarts and other new tools to Office
39:18 - Iraqi PM Safe After Drone Attack on Residence, Military Says
40:16 - Drone attack: US electrical grid threatened last year, report reveals
41:13 - A broken toilet on SpaceX capsule means astronauts will return to Earth in diapers

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The NR200p! Again?!

Posted by wendell on Tue, 11/23/2021 - 17:19

This video was made before the Alder Lake release and was posted to our Floatplane and Patreon users first! Head over to those places if you want to see our videos as soon as they're made!
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Sleepless In The Start Menu

Posted by wendell on Tue, 11/23/2021 - 17:19

Wendell walks you through the Windows 11 start menu and store, and lets you in on what it represents for the tech industry on a larger scale.

Level1 News November 19 2021: Windows SE: Snitch Edition

Posted by wendell on Tue, 11/23/2021 - 17:19

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - A pair of PS5 hacks could be the first steps towards jailbreaking Sony’s latest console
1:49 - Transparency Activists Dump 1.8 Terabytes Of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage
3:11 - The Infrastructure Bill Requires Drunk Driving Tech In New Cars
4:54 - REvil: Day of reckoning for notorious cyber gang
6:13 - Truckload of GPUs stolen on their way out of San Francisco
8:10 - Robinhood Says It Was Hacked and Extorted But Nobody Lost Any Money
9:05 - Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires
9:46 - Intel: These 50+ PC Games Are Incompatible With 'Alder Lake' CPUs Due to DRM
10:54 - Microsoft will now snitch on you at work like never before
12:21 - Peloton Blames Part of Its Latest Financial Woes on Apple
13:24 - Deer spotted in Michigan with plastic pumpkin stuck over its face
14:37 - N.L. health-care cyberattack is worst in Canadian history, says cybersecurity expert
15:31 - Black Holes May Gain Mass From the Expansion of the Universe Itself
17:24 - Number of credit cards in U.S. hits all-time high
20:06 - Police debunk “stabbed with drugs” Astroworld theory
21:22 - Woman Had to Poop 9 Times During Marathon, Got Personal Record
22:37 - Naughty NFT artist makes $100,000 in 12 days hawking pixel pingas
25:28 - Revealing Johnson’s talks with BP not ‘in public interest’, UK government says
26:34 - Doorbell camera records California woman giving birth on lawn
28:00 - Universal Creates Virtual NFT Band Kingship with Jimmy McNelis

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Looking at the Prime Z690M-Plus D4

Posted by wendell on Tue, 11/23/2021 - 17:19

Prime Z690M-Plus D4 checklist.
A motherboard made for the Intel i7? Check! A video showcasing the motherboard? Check! A build using the motherboard? Coming soon!

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Level1 News November 23 2021: That's Really Fugaking Fast

Posted by wendell on Tue, 11/23/2021 - 17:19

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0:00 - Intro
1:25 - NASA’s Moon landing will likely be delayed ‘several years’ beyond 2024, auditors say
2:57 - States are investigating how Instagram recruits and affects children
3:45 - Bank-only stablecoins limit innovation, official says at Cleveland Fed conference
4:27 - US government seizes $56 million in crypto from BitConnect’s ‘number one promoter’
5:44 - BlockFi in SEC Crosshairs for Crypto Accounts
6:41 - Elon Musk: SpaceX will hopefully launch Starship flight in January
7:51 - Apple (AAPL) Aims for Fully Self-Driving Car
9:23 - Apple sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for digital ID rollout
11:34 - The end of “click to subscribe, call to cancel”? One of the news industry’s favorite retention tactics is illegal, FTC says
12:16 - VR treatment for chronic pain gets FDA authorization
14:32 - Nvidia’s Arm Bid Gets U.K. Probe on National Security Concerns
15:52 - Adviser to EU’s top court suggests German bulk data retention law isn’t legal
16:39 - French government to speed up deployment of open source
18:18 - Fugaku remains world's fastest supercomputer on Top500, behind secret Chinese exascale systems
19:47 - Secretive Chinese Committee Draws Up List to Replace U.S. Tech
20:56 - Bitcoin falls as China takes aim once again at 'extremely harmful' crypto mining
21:55 - White House Spurns Intel Plan to Boost Chip Production in China
23:17 - Portugal: Proposed law tries to sneak in biometric mass surveillance.
24:07 - OpenAI ends developer waiting list for its GPT-3 API
26:15 - Discord is quietly building an app empire of bots
27:47 - New York City passed a bill requiring 'bias audits' of AI hiring tech
28:57 - Cerebras Systems raises $250M for the ‘fastest AI processor on Earth’
29:55 - Jeff Bezos: Earth Will One Day Be 'Yellowstone National Park'
33:11 - Russia may have just shot down its own satellite, creating a huge debris cloud
35:05 - America is hiring a record number of robots

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Preserving the Past: In Defense of Emulation

Posted by wendell on Sat, 11/13/2021 - 09:40

Wendell gives us the rundown on the history of game console emulation and why it matters more now than ever before.

Level1 News November 12 2021: 4 Years Late and a Lunar Lander Short

Posted by wendell on Sat, 11/13/2021 - 09:40

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0:00 - Intro
0:37 - Alphabet is launching a company that uses AI for drug discovery
2:08 - Bezos' Blue Origin loses lawsuit against NASA over SpaceX lunar lander
3:39 - Australia is putting a rover on the Moon in 2024 to search for water
4:22 - Amazon’s satellite launch schedule puts it nearly 4 years behind Starlink
5:21 - We mapped every large solar plant on the planet using satellites and machine learning
6:47 - Boston Dynamics' Robots Recreate Rolling Stones' 'Start Me Up' Video
8:32 - Amazon wants us to stop talking to Alexa so much
9:07 - McDonald’s McRib is now an NFT
12:31 - Billionaire Seeks to Build Largely Windowless Dorm In ‘Social and Psychological Experiment’
15:29 - PUBG: New State Release Date, Krafton Share Price Future
16:39 - Endangered birds experience 'virgin birth,' a first for the species
18:19 - Homeless students at California college can now sleep in their cars in parking garage
20:12 - Former Oklahoma inmates forced to listen to 'Baby Shark' on repeat file federal lawsuit
21:39 - Social media addiction: Rise of selfie deaths leads experts to talk about a public health problem Edition
23:11 - Police rush to protect comic book artists after threats over bisexual Superman
25:14 - QAnon Believers Gather In Dallas Awaiting Return Of Long-Dead JFK Jr.
27:12 - Pizza Hut responds to sexual sauce complaint
30:36 - ‘Christmas dinner in a can’ promises answer to supermarket shortages
32:54 - Police warn woman not to wear Halloween costume as protest

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MSI MEG Z690 UNIFY: A Worthy Chariot For Alder Lake?

Posted by wendell on Sat, 11/13/2021 - 09:40

Wendell puts the MSI MEG Z690 Unify motherboard through its paces. Is it worthy of Alder Lake? Let's find out!

Level1 News November 9 2021: Mastodon Addresses The Elephant In The Room

Posted by wendell on Wed, 11/10/2021 - 17:21

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0:00 - Intro
1:39 - Google Wants to Work With the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns
3:10 - US sanctions four companies selling hacking tools, including NSO Group & Candiru
4:15 - Cyber Official Warns ‘American Way of Life’ at Risk From Hackers
5:02 - The free laptop program built into the Biden reconciliation plan
7:10 - The US Copyright Office just struck a blow supporting right to repair
8:09 - The Dalles sues to keep Google’s water use a secret
10:28 - CPS teachers ‘blindsided’ after access to popular classroom software yanked due to new student privacy law
12:30 - U.S. regulators say issuers of 'stablecoins' should be policed like banks
13:28 - The US Government Wants Signal’s Private User Data That It Simply Doesn't Have
14:55 - U.S. Telecoms Are Going to Start Physically Removing Huawei Gear
15:31 - China tightens control over company data with transfer rules
16:14 - Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Citing 'Business and Legal Environment'
16:20 - Epic pulls plug on Fortnite in China
16:30 - Josh Hawley Bill Seeks $3B Boost to Taiwan's Arsenal to Deter China
17:38 - Clearview AI told it broke Australia’s privacy law, ordered to delete data
18:22 - Google pays fines to Russia over banned content
19:38 - Nigeria's eNaira Android wallet deleted days after launch
20:49 - Microsoft Tests Its Own Corporate Metaverse for Early 2022 Launch
22:47 - Facebook documents reveal company targeted children as young as 6
24:01 - To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants to Build Stores
25:35 - Facebook's 'Meta' Name Faces Trademark Battle With Startup
26:45 - Mastodon puts Trump’s social network on notice for improperly using its code

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