Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, August 9th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the new Galaxy Note 9 is unveiled.

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The continuing saga of Alex Jones and

what's up with Elon Musk now?

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Samsung has that other flagship phone line and today it the Galaxy Note lineup got its

official announce with the unveiling of the new Galaxy Note 9, sporting a 6.4 inch

Super Amyled-plus display dual rear cameras and a 128 gigabyte six gigs of ram version for $999 as well as a

512 gigabyte storage 8 gigs of RAM model for $1,250.

Pre-orders begin tomorrow August 10,

and the phone will be available August 24th

from all major carriers.

The Note 9 looks pretty identical to its predecessor to my eyes, but apparently

the rear fingerprint sensor has been moved slightly. The cameras I think are the exact same

ones from the Galaxy S9 Plus. The add in a micro-SD card, so if you loaded a 512 gigabyte card into the 512 gigabyte

model, I suppose you would have a phone with a terabyte of storage, which is a little nuts. The phones will

ship with Android 8.1 Oreo, and the available colors are blue and pink purple. There's no

black option, which is a little weird. There's a new S-pen that has added Bluetooth low energy so that you can use it as a sort of remote

control especially with the camera and a lot of chatter has been about the battery. The new note sports a 4,000

milla-amp hour battery, the largest ever in a note. Samsung says you can get about a

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