light speed is too slow we're going to have to go to Ludicrous Speed actually
Elon Musk kind of ruined that joke for me Japanese researchers have announced a
new record download speed of 402
terabits a second using standard commercially available Fiber Optic
Cables that's 25% faster than the former record which is also crazy fast that's
fast enough to download the entire 400 GB file for Arc survival evolved in
under 7 thousand of a second these
Engineers used as many trans transmission banss as possible in
combination with bleeding edge amplifiers and gain equalizers Glen to
achieve a total signal bandwidth of
37.6 terahertz sadly even the highest
end gaming rig would be unable to take advantage of that kind of speed due to
multiple Hardware bottlenecks not to mention the total population collapse
that will follow once Gamers no longer have to leave their homes for the bare
few hours it takes to install Cod regardless there are more modest
innovations that users can access in the Here and Now such as the newly launched
Thunderbolt 5 which offers an amazing but comparatively piddling 120 gigabit
per second of bandwidth and 240 watts of power that's a lot of power the new
cords are available for about the cost of a relatively decadent burrito bowl
which would be great if only there were more than a single model of laptop
available with thunderbow 5 ports right now and also these burrito bows just
keep they're decadent guacamole keeps going up and up I need to pay rent
Chipotle according to Android authority sources within Google tell them that the
upcoming pixel 99 will have new AI
features these include adme studio and
pixel screenshots the first is apparently a camera feature that helps
capture a group of people in a single shot while the second is rumored to be
some kind of AI image generator as for Pixel screenshots sources say it's an
opt-in feature that will collect user screenshots alongside metadata and an AI
generated summary of the image I'll figure out a way to use it other leaks
from the sources have claimed that all three pixel9 models normal one pro and
big one will have M14 OLED screens from
Samsung display there's also at least one guy waving around what appears to be
a Pink pixel9 on Twitter claiming that the phone is already out in Algeria they
always get things first however if it's a genuine pixel9 it's very likely he got
it from a local reseller not Google
however if you don't want to give out any more of your life to a single
company or the AI Menace there's always proton new end to-end encrypted version
of Google docs with no AI training either that or you might consider simply
walking into the SE if youw of salt the European commission has charged meta
social media platforms with violating the eu's digital markets act according
to the commission meta's binary choice of paid subscription with no ads or
unpaid subscription with targeted ads is not offering users who don't want Mark
Zuckerberg sniffing their dirty laundry an equivalent but less personalized
product he is an underwear sniffer that guy it's offering them an option they
might choose and an option they definitely won't which is paying 120 EUR
a year to watch your friends from high school get gradually more racist the
commission laid similar charges against apple and Microsoft last week possibly
indicating that they're just working their way down a list of the largest
tech companies by market share speaking of which France is reportedly preparing
antitrust charges against NVIDIA after citing concerns about the closed nature
and limited compatibility of NVIDIA's Cuda in a report on competition in
generative AI s blue if any Americans
feel like they're missing out the FTC sent warning letters to ASRock Gigabyte
and Zotac for placing warranty void if remove stickers on their product and for
implying that continued warranty coverage requires the use of specific
Parts and Services when in fact you are free to repair your laptop with bacon if
you see fit this is America damn it and if you did repair your laptop with bacon
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boy design company with a weird name
figma has disabled its recently launched AI powered app design tool after
accusations it was ripping off Apple's weather app developer Andy Allen found
the two tools output remark similar I mean the AI designed app even featured a
matter baby whatever that is what's a matter baby nothing what's the matter
with you nothing go back to sleep figma Executives have since revealed they didn't train the model it uses
off-the-shelf llms as a bespoke design system that they commissioned but didn't
make either they're lying or once again a tech company is shocked that
haphazardly slapping a plagiarism machine and something has
consequences figma balls and the leadup to the American presidential catastrophe
I mean election a network of websites apparently based out of Russia are
pumping out large amounts of fake AI generated news stories while pretending
to be local American news outlets they're using names like the Houston
Post the Boston times DC weekly and even
the titles of real but defunct newspapers the highest profile of these
fake stories was a lurd claim that the first lady of Ukraine had bought a brand
new Bugatti in Paris using money from
American military aid she then presumably burnt the star spangle Banner
in front of a a starving veteran and drop kicked a puppy with terminal cancer
I heard she doesn't even like apple pie she likes borch pie they're sick over
there researchers that two Chinese universities have developed a brain
computer interface chip designed to allow small lab grown brain organoids to
control electronics and eventually robots and my brain is definitely an
organoid this is not sci-fi this is actually real although that picture of
the little brain ball in the robot is just a mockup processing chips powered
by hundreds of thousands of human brain cells are currently being developed by
cortical Labs in Australia University of Indiana researchers and swiss startup
final spark who are researching using dopamine as a reward mechanism what we
really need is other scientists to create adolescent anthropomorphic
fighting reptiles to take these things down if they get out of hand and also
prop up the pizza economy a new San Francisco app called toight wants to
help people determine what nightclub they want to hit by installing cameras
in partner venues and live streaming Club interiors and you're not going to
believe this but some clubgoers are upset sure the average American is
captured on multiple security cameras every day but those camera feuds aren't
turning random people trying to have fun into involuntary reality TV stars if you
want to observe people getting Wilder and more embarrassing over time that's
what Twitter's for and drone maker DJI has announced an electric mountain bike
called the am flow PL making what the
company calls a natural move into an adjacent product category perhaps
because they're staring down the barrel of a US ban on their own drones and the
CCP has never spied on anyone through a bike yet in other news Sky elements just
got FAA approval to attach fireworks to its drones because Americans might be
scared of Chinese drones but they're apparently fine with attaching glittery
explosives to a swarm of flying American drones and you should swarm on back to
another episode of TechLink this Friday nobody's going to lose a finger I promise it's almost never happened here
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