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This is interesting.
www.reuters.com
U.S. officials order Nvidia to halt sales of top AI chips to China
Chip designer Nvidia Corp said on Wednesday that U.S. officials told it to stop exporting two top computing chips for artificial intelligence work to China, a move that could cripple Chinese firms' ability to carry out advanced work like image recognition and hamper Nvidia's business in the country.
No shit, nothing big has changed for a few generations now.
www.macrumors.com
Kuo: iPhone 14 Plus Pre-Orders Worse Than iPhone 13 Mini, Product Strategy 'Fails'
The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus have seen "bad" pre-order results, indicating that Apple's positioning of the two new standard models...
www.macrumors.com
I'm relieved. Then again, if some state/authority with a lot of money wants to do it, it'll happen anyway.
www.axios.com
Exclusive: Boston Dynamics pledges not to weaponize its robots
The company joined other robotics firms in pledging to curtail projects that turn robots into war machines.
www.axios.com
"How dare you stop us from losing your bag?!"
Lufthansa "bans AirTags in luggage" after passengers publicly shame it with location of lost bags | Boing Boing
Apple’s AirTags are an excellent way to know where your luggage is—and a snitch on airlines who don’t know where your luggage is. Lufthansa is the first to ban them after “an awfu…
boingboing.net
*Can break 8 character passwords in under an hour.
www.tomshardware.com
Eight RTX 4090s Can Break Passwords in Under an Hour
Even faster if it's still "password"
www.tomshardware.com
SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
newatlas.com
Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second
The speed record for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip has been shattered once again. Engineers have transmitted data at a blistering rate of 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s), almost twice the global internet traffic per second.
newatlas.com
It's official now.
www.macrumors.com
EU Gives Final Approval to Law That Will Force iPhone to Switch to USB-C
The European Union today gave final approval to legislation that will force technology companies like Apple to switch to USB-C across a wide range of...
www.macrumors.com
Stybar
Yeah, groupsex seems to be the way to go
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Incoming: Apple announces end of cable charging, with future models only having wireless charging.It's official now.
EU Gives Final Approval to Law That Will Force iPhone to Switch to USB-C
The European Union today gave final approval to legislation that will force technology companies like Apple to switch to USB-C across a wide range of...
Of course, with proprietary charging tech.
Deadline is end of 2024, I'm still hoping that they'll have to switch, since wireless charging isn't nearly as fast. (and probably won't be much faster by then)
Nobody should be happy about this.
news.yahoo.com
Apple is now worth more than Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta combined
Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi breaks down the stat of the day on Apple's $2.3 trillion valuation.
The perfect Christmas gift
futurism.com
Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game
Palmer Luckey claims to have invented a VR headset that kills the wearer in real life, if they die in a virtual reality game. Ha ha. Cool...
futurism.com
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*heavy Sword Art Online breathing*The perfect Christmas gift
Oculus Founder Builds VR Headset That Kills User If They Die in Game
Palmer Luckey claims to have invented a VR headset that kills the wearer in real life, if they die in a virtual reality game. Ha ha. Cool...
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It's an anime, where people get stuck in a VR game with a similar situation: if they die in the game, they die in real life. Except they can't log out either, and are stuck in the game for up to a year (I think it was a year. Been a while since I've seen it). They are only released after they manage to "beat" the game.I Did Not Understand That Reference Did GIF - I Did Not Understand That Reference Did Not - Discover & Share GIFs
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If that premise sounds like a cool idea, the first season is pretty nice. But then it starts to get weird, and introduces villains with weird rape fantasies, cousins falling in love with the protag, arranged marriages, shit like that. It's the staple of "oh god anime is so weird".
Ah classic.
What a milestone.
Nailed It: Amazon Becomes the First Company Ever to Lose $1 Trillion in Stock Value
The top four most valuable U.S. companies reportedly lost a combined $4 trillion in market cap this year. Ouch.
gizmodo.com
Hey Alexa, time to die.
arstechnica.com
Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year
Layoffs reportedly hit the Alexa team hard as the company's biggest money loser.
