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Is Zuckerberg a Actually a Robot? | Serious Business
This week: mass surveillance on school children, lots of insane Mark Zuckerberg news, Starlink updates, and lots of controversial stuff about autism. Oh, and the Bethesda (and AAA) shitshow. Links: Gene editing rids mice of DNA segment linked to autism | Spectrum | Autism Research News AI allows paralyzed person to ‘handwrite’ with his mind | Science | AAAS SpaceX intends to offer Starlink satellite broadband service starting in 2020 | TechCrunch NASA Innovator Experiments with Force Fields for Moving Matter SuperGLUE Benchmark Republicans propose mass student surveillance plan to prevent shootings | World news | The Guardian Mark Zuckerberg asked by Katie Porter to moderate Facebook, declines – Business Insider MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air | MIT News Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel Reminder that the same people making the decision to put a paid sub in Fallout 76 are making decisions for The Elder Scrolls 6. : pcgaming Fallout F&*^ YOU First Fallout 76’s Premium Private Servers Are Not Private, Its Scrap Box Is Deleting Scrap (8) Logan on Twitter: “Post a trailer of the best horror game of 2019. This is for the show tomorrow. I …
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Blizzard? More Like Sh!t Storm | Serious Business
Thanks to Legion for sponsoring the video. Check out their Legion Products: www.lenovo.com/us/en/legion/ Yes, we talk about Blizzard and their nonsense this week… but it’s not just Blizzard. All these big companies are the same and we look deeper. Links: (11) Logan on Twitter: “CONTEST: Win an Audio-Technica ATH-G1WL Wireless Gaming Headset. Contest & Video here: t.co/23kZND9BUT @USAudioTechnica @teksyndicate” / Twitter Flashforge Adventurer 3: The Best 3D Printer for Beginners? – YouTube Biden campaign wants Facebook and Twitter to remove misleading Trump ads, both refuse – The Verge Donald Trump Is Streaming On Twitch Zuckerberg says brain-reading wearables come before implantables Florida data collection scheme for schoolchildren criticized Elon Musk says that NASA is free to share all SpaceX IP with ‘anyone it wants’ | TechCrunch Hacking Spacetime with a Warp Drive – YouTube Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel Tales from the Loop RPG: Rulebook – Free League Publishing | Tales from the Loop | DriveThruRPG.com ‘Blitzchung’ suspended by Activision Blizzard over Hong Kong support – YouTube After Hearthstone player’s ban, Blizzard is in hot water with lawmakers – The Verge Blizzard employees organise walkout following Hong Kong controversy | GamesIndustry.biz Activision Blizzard faces corporate culture …
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Maybe DON’T Abuse Animals? | Serious Business
What the hell is with all these YouTubers and Twitch streamers abusing their animals? We discuss what should be done. Also, Brain implants, AMD making a GPU comeback, anti-aging, and a bunch of pc gaming info. Links: AMD is ahead of Nvidia in overall GPU shipments for the first time since 2013 | PC Gamer PCGamer’s “Best CPU for gaming 2019” article ignores Ryzen 3000 and uses benchmarks from a year ago : pcgaming Acer announces a $14,000 gaming chair because why not | TechCrunch Crops under solar panels can be a win-win | Ars Technica Brain Implants Like Elon Musk’s Neuralink Could Change Humanity Forever | Inverse Volkswagen will help turn old Beetles and microbuses electric – The Verge These engineers and tech execs want to create a peaceful lunar settlement Cutting-edge robots showcased at Beijing’s 2019 World Robot Conference | South China Morning Post Tesla’s insurance program will use direct driver data where it can with permission, exec says – Electrek Facebook to make deepfake videos with paid actors to help flag fakes – Business Insider First hint that body’s ‘biological age’ can be reversed T-Mobile Metro stores sell used phones as new, charge “fake taxes,” NYC says …
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Amazon & The Tech Giants Are Becoming Nation States | Serious Business
New merch in the store! GET THEM: epicpants.com Links: Amazon Is Looking More and More Like a Nation-State – VICE The Next Recession Will Destroy Millennials – The Atlantic France climbs aboard hydrogen train revolution Elon Musk: ‘A.I. will make jobs kind of pointless’ — so study this Fast-food restaurants in America are losing 100% of workers every year Human-like brain waves detected in mini brains grown in a dish – CNET (553) Engineers Created A New Bionic Arm That Can Grow With You – YouTube Majority of patients cancer-free after treatment developed at Rice – HoustonChronicle.com This mini snake-shaped robot can navigate winding spaces in models of the inner brain GIF by (@sirtsix) | Find, Make & Share Gfycat GIFs Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel Skullport: Dragon Swindle – Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild Battle (or Befriend) Guy Fieri in Dungeons & Dragons Dungeons & Deceptions: The First D&D Players Push Back On The Legend Of Gary Gygax (553) The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | Trailer | Netflix – YouTube (553) Terminator: Dark Fate – Official Trailer (2019) – Paramount Pictures – YouTube (1) Splexy 🥀 on Twitter: “What the fuck …
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Juggalos Forever | Serious Business
Why the hell are we talking Juggalos again. Also in thei episode: Scientists improve teleportation, doctors can predict when you’ll die, Google is being evil, etc. Also, lots of D&D, hentai games, and PC games. Thanks to Legion for sponsoring: www.lenovo.com/us/en/legion/ New Shirts in the store: Hail Coffee, Drink Satan | Men’s T-Shirt Links: Scientists share new details about mysterious ‘ghost particle’ – CNN Our Galaxy’s Black Hole Suddenly Lit Up and Nobody Knows Why – VICE One could fly to Mars in this spacious habitat and not go crazy | Ars Technica Quantum teleportation breakthrough announced by scientists | The Independent Nepal bans single-use plastics in Everest region Researchers are creepily close to predicting when you’re going to die | Ars Technica A Crackdown on the Use of Face Recognition Tech Is Brewing in the EU: Report Google Chrome’s new anti-fingerprinting controls will still allow advertisers to track you – Vox Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel 3 Simple Storytelling Rules From ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ How to start playing D&D, a crash course for Critical Role fans and beyond | GamesRadar+ Cyberpunk 2077 livestream will show off 15 minutes of gameplay next week | PC Gamer …
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Serious Business | SPONSORED BY COFFEE
GET COFFEE: henryshouseofcoffee.com/ This episode: Lots of tabletop RPG talk (we argue about furry games), artificial coffee, real coffee, the most popular D&D classes, and plenty of insanity. Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ —————————– Discord: discord.gg/vsCxNSD Facebook: www.facebook.com/TekSyndicate/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/teksyndicate/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/teksyndicate/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/MidnightDojo/ Twitter: twitter.com/teksyndicate/ Serious Links: The Trump administration drafted an executive order to censor the internet Single-layer OLED design could dramatically reduce display costs | Laser Focus World Impossible Burger investor bets big on bean-free coffee | Grist Scientists discover new state of matter Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals From Deep Space These robo-shorts are the precursor to a true soft exoskeleton | TechCrunch UPS Has Been Delivering Cargo in Self-Driving Trucks for Months And No One Knew Washington State Patrol finds driver playing Pokemon Go on 8 phones at once | The Seattle Times FlowScape on Steam Killer Kobolds from Outer Space – Dungeon Masters Guild | Dungeon Masters Guild (333) The Elder Scrolls: Skyblivion – Teaser Trailer – YouTube Marlon Wayans Wants to Play PLASTIC MAN for DC and Warner Bros. — GeekTyrant USAGI YOJIMBO Tabletop Role-Playing Game …
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Video Games Cause All Global Violence | Serious Business
This week we discuss how out of touch the old people running the show are when it comes to the internet, video games, pop culture, and everything other than taking our money. Also, Amazon is abusing employees again, Facebook is evil… again, and Disney loves money. Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ The Links: Why Amazon pays warehouse employees to tweet about their jobs – Vox Biden says violent games are “not healthy” but not the cause of “carnage” | Ars Technica Researchers discover troubling new security flaw in all modern Intel processors Doctors altered a person’s genes with CRISPR for the first time in the U.S. Here’s what could be next. | Popular Science Burger King’s Impossible Whopper changes the game Group sex app leaks locations, pics and personal details. Identifies users in White House and Supreme Court | Pen Test Partners Elizabeth Warren Promises to Kill State Laws That Ban Locally-Owned ISPs – VICE China Deploys First AI Robot Police That Tackles Criminals And Now We’re Living in ‘Black Mirror’ A Mexican Physicist Solved a 2,000-Year Old Problem That Will Lead to Cheaper, Sharper Lenses Amazon …
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FUTURE THREAT NOW! | Serious Business
Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ This week we talk about future threats we may be ignoring, we make fun of Mississippi (sorry), and talk a lot about the newest games. —————————– Discord: discord.gg/vsCxNSD Facebook: www.facebook.com/TekSyndicate/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/teksyndicate/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/teksyndicate/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/MidnightDojo/ Twitter: twitter.com/teksyndicate/ Links: Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google for $50 Million – The New York Times Windows 10 camera, microphone, and privacy – Microsoft privacy A Bipartisan Bill That Could End Our Robocall Hell Just Passed the House 429-3 It’s not just the Russians anymore as Iranians and others turn up disinformation efforts ahead of 2020 vote – The Washington Post Tinder will warn users in countries where LGTBQ relationships are punishable by law – The Verge Facebook Knows More About You Than the CIA | WIRED Forget the fine—we should have taken Facebook to court, says FTC commissioner – MIT Technology Review The French Army is hiring science fiction writers to imagine future threats – The Verge Moon has more water ice than previously thought | UCLA Hyperloop track to be built in Saudi Arabia – BBC News Rice device channels heat into …
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Face Database from Outer Space | Serious Business
This week we talk about face app, facebook, and the overreach of facial recognition technology. Links: Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech From Company Linked to IBM and Google FaceApp’s viral success shows how little we’ve learned about data privacy – CNN Don’t Regulate Facial Recognition. Ban It. DEA tracked every opioid pill sold in the US. The data is out—and it’s horrific | Ars Technica Elon Musk Says We Can Land on the Moon in Less Than 2 Years | Time Peter Thiel says Elizabeth Warren is ‘dangerous;’ Warren responds: ‘Good’ | TechCrunch Toyota shows off solar Prius with 860 W output from 34% efficient cells | Natural Solar See-Through Solar Panel Breakthrough Could Lead to Self-Powered Smartphones | Inverse Quantum Supremacy Is Coming: Here’s What You Should Know | Quanta Magazine Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel Netflix is losing beloved shows, subscribers, and confidence – The Verge Quentin Tarantino says that, actually, “Pulp Fiction in space” is exactly what his Star Trek movie will be Warhammer 40,000 to become a live-action TV show – Polygon San Diego Comic-Con: Batman Beyond getting remastered in HD for Blu-ray – Polygon Wonderdraft Let’s Play: Dungeons & Dragons …
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Politicians Suck at Video Games | Serious Business
This week: Google is spying on you, obviously… but now private conversations are being leaked. Kanye West is building housing, Cuphead is getting a show, and you can’t kill kids in Cyberpunk. WATCH! Links: Google admits workers listen to private audio recordings from Google Home smart speakers | The Independent Google admits leaked private voice conversations Thank God it’s Thursday: the four-day work-week some want to bring to the U.S. – Laredo Morning Times The German Navy Is Building A Laser Cannon | The National Interest Restoring Vision With Bionic Eyes: No Longer Science Fiction | News & Opinion | PCMag.com Costa Rica Has Banned Styrofoam — A Major Win for the Environment Porn pirating lawyer jailed for five years – BBC News The United States is headed for a battery breakthrough – pv magazine International Deepfakes will influence the 2020 election — Quartz Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel Kanye West is putting his love of Star Wars to use for the public good Don Cheadle Jumps Into Warner Bros.’ ‘Space Jam 2’ – Deadline Wizards Of The Coast Says 40 Million Are Playing “Dungeons & Dragons” ‘Cuphead’ Animated Comedy Series in the Works at Netflix …
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Surprise Mechanics | Serious Business
Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ —————————– Discord: discord.gg/vsCxNSD Facebook: www.facebook.com/TekSyndicate/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/teksyndicate/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/teksyndicate/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/MidnightDojo/ Twitter: twitter.com/teksyndicate/ Article Links: Update Firefox now! Zero-day found in the wild – Naked Security Yicai Global – China’s Zhaoxin Semiconductor Unveils New CPU Chip Kano PC Kit Lets Your Kid Build a Working Windows 10 Tablet | News & Opinion | PCMag.com Kano Computer & Coding Kits | Creative Coding For All Ages AMD’s Entire Epyc ‘Rome’ Product Stack Just Leaked – ExtremeTech Hackers, farmers, and doctors unite! Support for Right to Repair laws slowly grows | Ars Technica Facebook unveils ‘its most invasive and dangerous form of surveillance yet’ with launch of Libra cryptocurrency Driverless cars are going to disrupt the airline industry MIT’s new AI for robots can ‘feel’ an object just by seeing it What if AI in health care is the next asbestos? – STAT Good Omens protesters demand show be removed from completely wrong company – The Verge ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Will Be Re-Released with New Footage | Time Blog – ANNOUNCEMENT: OSPREY GAMES TO LAUNCH OSPREY ROLEPLAYING SERIES – Osprey Publishing Yora Adventures: The Smart …
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We Don’t Need No Education | Serious Business
Juicy Links: Watch Jeff Bezos playing with giant remote-controlled robot hands – Business Insider Apple Is Still Trying to Sue the Owner of an Independent iPhone Repair Shop – VICE Microsoft discreetly wiped its massive facial recognition database YouTube’s anti-extremism crackdown targets journalist who documents extremism | Ars Technica YouTube Bans Minors From Streaming Unless Accompanied by Adult Google confirms that advanced backdoor came preinstalled on Android devices | Ars Technica Dawn of the noisy electric car: EU laws requiring audible warning sounds take effect July 1 Evan Horowitz: IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries and that doesn’t bode well for humanity Harvard breakthrough shows stem cells can be genetically edited in the body Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel Halo Infinite will be shown at E3 on PC, not Xbox – report – VG247 Blizzard cancelled a StarCraft FPS, are making Overwatch 2 | Rock Paper Shotgun Microsoft’s support of Steam is exactly what Valve needs right now | PC Gamer Borderlands 2 free DLC with ties to Borderlands 3 leaked via Steam – Polygon Take-Two CEO Says There Is “No Downside” To Releasing Red Dead Redemption 2 On PC – GameSpot Quake II …
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How the World Will End | Serious Business
This week: We discuss some possible “end of the world” scenarios. How do you think it could happen. Also, some Linux/Ubuntu news, GitHub sponsorships, Knights Of The Old Republic movie, lots of D&D stuff, Chex Quest 3 (we play it on the show), and plenty more gaming news. Links: Ubuntu 19.10 To Bundle NVIDIA’s Proprietary Driver Packages As Part Of Its ISO – Phoronix Apple Agrees to Tell Users If an iOS Update Will Slow Down Their iPhones – VICE Comcast does so much lobbying that it says disclosing it all is too hard | Ars Technica GitHub launches Sponsors, a Patreon-style funding tool for developers – The Verge What’s the most likely cause of the extinction of humans? : Futurology Air conditioner ‘in a patch’ provides portable cooling : Research Highlights High-tech wood could keep homes cool by reflecting the sun’s rays | New Scientist Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel New “Star Wars” Movie Based On “Knights Of The Old Republic” Game In The Works B7nljZlDJDabs-QD – Streamable Sonic the Hedgehog Movie Is Being Pushed to 2020 Says Fowler This teacher earns six figures teaching Dungeons & Dragons classes online Stephen Colbert Plays D&D with …
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You’re All The Man Now Dog | Serious Business
This week: We discuss facial recognition happening around the world, but not in San Francisco. Also, O’Neil Colonies may be the best way to live in space, Starlink from SpaceX is rolling out, plenty of D&D news, and lots of PC Gaming News. Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate Patreon: www.patreon.com/teksyndicate Website: teksyndicate.com/ Forum: forum.teksyndicate.com/ —————————– Discord: discord.gg/vsCxNSD Facebook: www.facebook.com/TekSyndicate/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/teksyndicate/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/teksyndicate/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/MidnightDojo/ Twitter: twitter.com/teksyndicate/ Want to know what we use to make these videos? Check out our Kit: kit.com/TekSyndicate For marketing (sponsorship opportunities) inquiries email [email protected] Ask us LITERALLY ANYTHING: [email protected] Follow the team: Logan: twitter.com/Logan_RTW Pistol: twitter.com/pistolsteph Justin: twitter.com/DatAwesomeRobot Links: Lyft executive: Drivers should become mechanics for self-driving cars – Business Insider Thousands of Facebook Groups Go Secret in Fear of the Great ‘Zuccing’ – VICE SOURCE: Wall GoFundMe sponsor just paid for a ‘nearly’ $1 million yacht (UPDATED II) San Francisco just banned facial-recognition technology – CNN California: Speak Out for the Right to Take Companies That Violate Your Privacy to Court | Electronic Frontier Foundation RealTalk: This Speech Synthesis Model Our Engineers Built Recreates a Human Voice Perfectly (Part… O’Neill Colonies: A Decades-Long Dream for Settling Space …
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Bethesda Rips off D&D, GoT Ranting, & More FB Insanity | Serious Business
Juicy Links: Politicians rally behind Chris Hughes’ call for Facebook breakup – CNET Facebook co-founder calls on the government to break up the company – POLITICO Facebook Algorithms Make It Harder to Catch Extremists – The Atlantic Jeff Bezos unveils Blue Origin’s ‘Blue Moon’ lunar lander spacecraft – Business Insider Killer robots must be stopped, Pax tells the world — Quartz U.S. Senator Introduces Bill To Ban Loot Boxes And Pay-To-Win Microtransactions Epic Pants | PC Gaming Gear & Nerdy Apparel LMAO – Imgur Game of Thrones could be doing so much more with its big dragon metaphor – The Verge Earthworm Jim Official Comic Announced – Niche Gamer Earthworm Jim Comic Bethesda Pulls Free Elder Scrolls Tabletop RPG That Ripped Off A D&D Module Bethesda’s latest Elder Scrolls adventure taken down amid cries of plagiarism | Ars Technica UNO Confirms Players Can’t Stack +4 or +2 Cards | HYPEBEAST Get Age of Wonders III for free CRYENGINE 5.7: DX12, Vulkan, ray tracing support in 2020 New Saints Row Being Teased by Deep Silver – Seasoned Gaming (48) NEON NOIR: Real-Time Ray Traced Reflections – Achieved With CRYENGINE – YouTube (48) FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE for State of Play – …
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Microtransaction HELL: The Elder Scrolls Blades | Serious Business
This episode: We rant a lot about bs microtransactions in games, especially Bethesda’s new The Elder Scrolls Blades game. Also, energy weapons, retail stores closing like crazy, animal crossing for Doom, EA screwing up Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Ubisoft making Splinter Cell a microtransaction game. It’s a fun time… Store: epicpants.com, Music: bit.ly/Trk2ik Fenek on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s/keywords=fenek Fanatical Game Deals: www.fanatical.com?ref=teksyndicate —————————– Discord: discord.gg/vsCxNSD Facebook: www.facebook.com/TekSyndicate/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/teksyndicate/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/teksyndicate/ Twitch: www.twitch.tv/MidnightDojo/ Twitter: twitter.com/teksyndicate/ Want to know what we use to make these videos? Check out our Kit: kit.com/TekSyndicate For marketing (sponsorship opportunities) inquiries email [email protected] Ask us LITERALLY ANYTHING: [email protected] Follow the team: Logan: twitter.com/Logan_RTW Pistol: twitter.com/pistolsteph Justin: twitter.com/DatAwesomeRobot The links: Intel Releases Specs for Its Optane+QLC NAND H10 Memory – ExtremeTech AMD’s Zen 2 Architecture Is Coming. What Kind of CPU Improvements Should You Expect? – ExtremeTech Millions watch as House votes to restore net neutrality ‘Retail apocalypse’ now: Analysts say 75,000 more U.S. stores could be doomed. – Laredo Morning Times Shanahan: China Is Deploying Directed Energy Weapons « Breaking Defense – Defense industry news, analysis and commentary Chinese scientists have put human brain genes in monkeys—and yes, they may be smarter – MIT Technology …
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