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Spectrum comparing and contrasting like your teacher told you to do to understand where your news comes from and break free of media bias ground news breaks down the political leanings and ownership of each news source so you can understand why they may report the way they do and what you may be missing take this story from earlier this week EU Regulators charged apple with non-compliance with their digital markeet act with ground news we can see that more left leaning Outlets reported on this story focusing on Apple's Behavior while right leaning Outlets highlighted the EU specifically targeting apple with fines same thing different perspectives I feel so smart if you already know where you're getting most of your news from their blind spot feature can show you stories you're most likely missing as well so get the transparency you deserve from your news and save 40% on ground news's Vantage plan by using our Link in the description okay now you're going to want to get in a more stable stance for when these quick bits come through okay and when they hit you don't don't push back just let them go cuz you do not want to make these things angry due to a glitch with Apple pay many Hungarian iPhone users found themselves getting mistakenly charged for payments they never made thankfully it seems that affected customers will be reimbursed in the coming week while typically these charges were only small amounts some users found themselves getting charged several times in a row with one user getting get charged for nearly $1,500 across 74 transactions in the space of 5 minutes before the bank blocked any further withdrawals it's like your bank account deciding on your behalf that you deserve a little treat a little treat a little treat oh I see Intel has shown off a prototype Optical interconnect chip that could allow server processors to support up to 4 terabits per second interlinks interl interl sorry it's still early days for the Prototype but Intel is apparently working with select customers on incorporating it into s so designs Thomas liberg a director on the project said that server needs are straining the capabilities of electrical IO designs and that servers also look super super boring right now so we need to get some laser action in their stat oh no servers are getting boring somebody plays Sandstorm open aai has announced a new AI model intended to critique Chachi BT and help human trainers spot errors in its output they called it critic GPT so don't worry AI Skeptics AI can now do your job too the same day Google announced a partnership with data services giant Moody which should help Google's Enterprise customers to create AI chat Bots grounded in facts instead of what they were previously grounded in forchan green text stories I for one celebrate our AI overlord's attempts to not blatantly make up the FCC has been inundated with complaints against T-Mobile following the company's decision to raise prices for cellular customers to whom it repeatedly and explicitly promised a lifetime price freeze however it turns out that in a separate FAQ the only real guarantee in the uncarrier UN contract was to pay customers final phone bill if they decided to cancel following their inevitable betrayal it was always a little fiscally dubious for T-Mobile to promise so many of its customers a lifetime price freeze back in 2017 unless for some reason it thought that most of those customers were going to die in a terrible plague only a few years later I'm just saying T-Mobile are psychic and a computer comprised of plastic cubes which can change its pattern to represent data without using any electricity has been developed by researchers at North Carolina State University why I don't know seems weird the design was inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami which I can only describe as origami remastered binary ones and zeros are represented in the positions of the component cubes which can be pushed up and down either manually or using 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