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twitter can often be a toxic place because its structure encourages
impulsive thought diarrhea from accounts protected from repercussions by
anonymity while limiting space that could be used to flesh out nuanced positions but also bans people for
breaking tos sometimes elon musk is concerned about the second part so after
asking in a tweet what should be done he apparently thought the answer was to
spend about 3 billion dollars to buy nine point two percent of twitter that's
what you do when when you're that rich they let you do it so stupid the
purchase makes him the platform's single largest shareholder now owning four
times more than its founder jack dorsey
some analysts expect musk to use his new position to leverage changes at twitter
or maybe eventually buy the company out to make sure that users can steal reddit
memes and contribute to the marketplace of ideas with cutting analysis like oh
hi lol with impunity not to mention manipulating markets
google's deadline for Android app developers to actually use its google
play billing system has arrived and as expected some companies have suspended
sales of digital goods as a result because paying google a commission can
understandably be a burden on small developers like
amazon that's right you didn't see this coming audible which is owned by amazon
will no longer support purchasing ebooks through the Android app although signing
up for a subscription will still work barnes noble has also removed the
ability to buy ebooks through its Android apps meaning you can't even buy
books on their own nook branded tablets they're just tablets now notes without
books i ain't looking
it was actually always a requirement for developers to use google play billing
for digital goods but for years google mostly looked the other way when
developers didn't comply and strangely decided to enforce its policy around the
time that epic sued it and apple for their app store policies maybe google
just makes so much money that they didn't even realize they were missing out on commissions i don't know hey elon
maybe you should buy google too and Intel has unveiled new details about
its block scale asic which promises to play a major role in helping crypto
mining companies achieve both sustainability and hash rate scaling
objectives in the years ahead because we were all worried about them not being
able to profit off their huge investments in mining farms it matters
what if they couldn't do it no the block scale unit can hit up to 580
giga hashes per second meaning miners are gonna want this chip but Intel
claims it won't eat into production of its other cpus and gpus because to
produce them it seems like Intel may be using other foundries like tsmc rather
than its own so it's only taking up bandwidth that tsmc could be using to
make other chips that people want leaving Intel with lots of capacity to
make the only chips that anyone wants Intel chips you see how that's better
they're the good guys yeah the blue stuff oh what the hey you got any blue
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quick bits are slow but we still call them quick bits or they get really
offended dmitry rogozin the chief of
russia's space agency roz cosmos said on twitter that the restoration of normal
relations with the country's western partners on shared projects like the
international space station is only possible if the illegal sanctions placed
on russia are removed russia's an expert on legal
we know we know the iss depends on russian operated modules to maintain its
orbit and if russia pulls out of the project it's unclear how it will
actually uh uh stay in space
maybe elon can buy it nine point two percent's all we need to stay lower
dormant baby that'll help video cards is reporting
that according to their sources AMD will soon launch five new Radeon rx 6000
series cards the rx 6400 6500 6650 xt
6750xt and 6950xt with the xt model sporting a faster 18
gigabit per second memory bandwidth the cards are expected to launch may 10th
and like almost all of AMD's mid-generation refreshes all signs point
to them being pretty okay
just different cards there were these cards and now there's
other ones the uk government has picked the perfect
time to announce that the royal mint will be creating an nft as part of its
forward-looking approach to crypto assets yes the total market value of
nfts dropped from 23 billion to 10 billion dollars between december and
march as more and more people become aware of the litany of scams pervasive
in the nft community but i don't know maybe nfts can benefit from the royal
mints initiative just as much as the world benefits from the royals a token
for every car use give them to the peasants robotics
engineering student ken pillinell gained some fame for building an iphone with a
functioning usb-c port and now he's done it again but in reverse usb-c part with
the functioning iphone oh oh my god that's right the man somehow fitted an
Android phone with a functioning lightning port making it materially
worse material but for april fool's day it's okay to
spend a lot of time on something just for the memes that's what i told myself
and eldon ring is notoriously hard but some people sought to beat the game
while making it even harder for themselves for some reason i don't
understand why twitch streamer seki managed to complete the entire game
without taking any damage at all while youtuber iron pineapple beat it without
directly giving any damage using only summoned spirits to do his bidding and
my question is why do these people punish themselves have some self-respect
you're a human being it's like punching yourself in the head the game i don't
get it things are ugly in it and that's cool oh man that was some good tech news
and i bet it'll even be even better on wednesday so
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