oh yeah you know what time it is you are
you're so good at keeping track of time that's why we call you the watcher
what truly blistering internet speeds just
got one step closer thanks to researchers in japan who just managed to
transfer data at a rate of one petabit paid a bit per second across
standard multi-core fiber no a petabit
doesn't have anything to do with animal rights it's the equivalent of 1 million
gigabits or 125 terabytes we're talking about
emailing a server's worth of information in one second now i know what you're
thinking but riley researchers at that same institute demonstrated petabit data
transmission way back in december 2020. and yes that's true which is another
reason we really appreciate you but that test was conducted using non-standard
optical fiber cables that require the signal to be unscrambled at the other
end this test used standard multi-core fiber and actually transmitted more than
a paid-a-bit per second 1.02 to be exact over a distance of 31
miles meaning this kind of speed is a lot closer to commercial reality than
before i feel like we do this a lot on the show but
nice job japan very cool it's not a kaiju fighting mech
which i would like more but it's cool close enough tim hortons
that bastion of canadian culture named after its founder and professional
hockey player tim horton has betrayed us all an investigation by our great
nation's privacy commissioner has found that the franchise's mobile app
collected user location data as often as
every few minutes even when the app wasn't in use the findings strengthened
the case being made by four proposed class-action lawsuits attacking the
company for being unclear about the scope of information being collected by
tim hortons but wait there's hope a co-defendant named in two of those
lawsuits is american company radar Labs
which helped tim hortons develop the app i knew it timmy's wouldn't do this to us
unless it was under the influence of the yanks we should have never shared our
timbits with you and new york state senate has just
passed two rather interesting bills with big implications for the tech industry
the first one is a moratorium on new permits for cryptocurrency mining
operations which had flocked to the state's many retired hydroelectric and
fossil fuel plants after china imposed
heavy restrictions on crypto last year existing miners won't be affected but
for how long fossils don't just grow on trees the
second bill passed this morning is a massive win for the right to repair
movement called the digital fare repair act it requires electronics
manufacturers to make device documentation parts and tools available
to basically anyone that wants it even babies
that's not in the that's not in there i just both bills still need to be signed
by the state's governor to become law but at this point you're allowed to feel
the kind of excitement you do when your team is up by two points with a minute
left is that was that accurate for sports is that
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amazon has launched an invite system for buying high demand low supply products
like gaming consoles which the company says may prevent inventory shortages and
price gouging any potential buyer will be able to request an invitation to buy
an item no 200 membership needed a best
buy so hopefully this keeps the bots out and
we can get back to the point where we have way more stuff than anyone will
possibly ever need the way it should be but we have no money but there's stuff
classified military information is leaked on the forums for vehicular
combat simulator war thunder for the third time after a chinese player posted
a photo of ammunition schematics for a chinese tank with one of the actual
rounds sitting on top of the paper the game's
developer gaijin entertainment has since removed the post and banned the player
who is trying to get them to make the tank's in-game assets more realistic i
mean what is this advance wars battle tanks for the n64 this is the tank game
for historical scholars like jono ford's ceo jim farley has
publicly said he wants his company to move towards online only sales for
electric vehicles a model prominently used by newer electric vehicle companies
like tesla and volkswagen has indicated they want to do something similar for
their scout ev line the problem is in many jurisdictions it's actually illegal
for traditional manufacturers like ford to sell directly to consumers instead of
through a massive complicated network of dealerships which add their own markups
because uh the economy duh
that pixel 7 that showed up on ebay and facebook marketplace apparently wasn't a
one-off after reading articles about it one reddit user discovered that the
pixel 6 pro he thought he had purchased a few weeks ago was actually a pixel 7
pro and it was remotely reset by google
presumably the day after the sketchy pixel 7 listings appeared in articles so
let this be a lesson to you only buy new phones from certified phone dealerships
where this stuff does not happen and as promised sony held a state of play event
yesterday to announce some cool things like the fact that the remastered
version of 2018's excellent ps5 exclusive spider-man game is coming to
pc in august yes
i've been waiting so long is it good it's awesome it's pretty good
it was it was ps4 game
i don't i don't i don't touch consoles so i didn't know that we also got
trailers for the upcoming open world street fighter 6 what a skating shooter
hybrid game uh roller drum
that actually looks cool a very dead space style game made by the people who
made dead space called callisto protocol and eternites an action dating game i
don't know exactly the meaning of what i just said but that's just how my life normally goes but i do know when you can
come back for more tech news monday why do i know that
it's just my gut