america i'm sorry i forgot your birthday on wednesday we're not friends on
facebook so i don't have the little pop-up you know sorry maybe tech news will make it
better the european union has rejected a proposed copyright bill called the
copyright directive that would have changed the internet as we know it again
while the gdpr concerned privacy protection this bill was an attempt to
modernize the eu's copyright laws by a requiring online platforms like google
or facebook pay royalties for linking to newspapers and other outlets kind of
like what we do here and b requiring
that online platforms have a built-in way to assess and filter their content
like youtube's content id system
the eu parliament has decided those rules might be a little too much though
so they've sent the proposal back to the drawing board can you imagine getting
slapped with copyright strikes every time you re-uploaded full episodes of
westworld to your preferred platform
pc gaming hardware makers are usually in fierce competition but cooler master
appears to have kicked off a giant oem lub fest they started on twitter asking
Corsair if they'd give away a mouse to go along with a cooler master keyboard
soon after other companies started chiming in with their own contributions
to the giveaway including fractal design MSI hyperx ASUS and even NVIDIA jumped
on board with a 1080 ti now over 30 companies are in on it and
there will be multiple winners because one person probably doesn't need two or
three versions of every peripheral we do oh oh greedy the winners will be
announced on the pc master race subreddit next week so stay tuned wow
the love it's almost enough to make you forget that this will really only benefit one
person and the real winner is these companies marketing departments
inspiring elon musk's reputation as the real-life iron man maybe became more
than just a fun phrase today as the spacex tesla and boring company founder
is sending engineers to help with rescue operations in thailand on monday 12
young members of the thai soccer team and their coach were found inside the
flooded tam lang non cave system the
thai military has been trying various methods to extract the boys but one thai
diver has already died as part of the attempt musk responded to a tweet asking
for assistance and is now apparently working with the thai government on several rescue options including
injecting air into the cave system to flush the water out and provide an exit
route route musk may be involved because he really cares about those boys or
because this is a very intriguing physics and engineering problem can never really tell with that guy it's
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on and get your quick bits researchers from illinois and texas have created a
new cooling solution for computers that works three times better than current
coolers made of boron arsenide crystals
this sounds nerdy that's what i was doing there that might give carbon nanotubes a run for its money i don't
know your mom's a boron arsenide oh yeah thanks ah that's rude looking to upgrade
to 2nd gen ryzen you might be interested in AMD's b450 motherboards which have
been spotted at some e-tailer sites they support gen 1 and 2 and they won't break
the bank or your heart researchers at mit are
training ai to automatically generate molecules that could fulfill specific
functions which could lead to even better faster synthesis of designer
drugs which is great google assistant could just
whip up some dope for you real quick whoa
and mit has also added to its cheetah robot the ability to navigate run climb
and even jump without using its visual sensors just using its accelerometers
gyroscopes and leg positioning to feel its way around it's good knowing that
the robots will still be able to come for us even if we blind them that's
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