The Technology Thread - Part 1

[blueharvest]

After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship

To be fair, it's hard to live without Wi-Fi.

arstechnica.com

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Lily Adler]

It's like people played/watched The Last Of Us and thought we should do that.

 

[blueharvest]

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It's like people played/watched The Last Of Us and thought we should do that.

To be fair, those games are pretty fun to play.

 

[Lily Adler]

A year ago: Ugh Windows keeps pushing me to use their Bing AI Chat! Thank God I use Google.

Now: No I don't want to use Gemini to send a text or explain my search results!

 

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https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/japan-to-start-building-1st-zeta-class-supercomputer-in-2025-1000-times-more-powerful-than-todays-fastest-machines

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[Lily Adler]

 

[blueharvest]

Youtube Premium is only $139 a year.

 

[Lily Adler]

Youtube Premium is only $139 a year.

I can get Amazon Prime for that.

 

[Lily Adler]

Meta Fined $102M for Storing Facebook Passwords in Plain Text

There's no evidence that the passwords were accessed by anyone, but Meta still broke European privacy rules.

www.cnet.com

Oh look the EU doing what the US should have been doing for over a decade now.

 

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Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners

Ecovacs robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers.

www.abc.net.au

 

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Future 6G data speeds could hit 1 Tbps — up to 10,000 times faster than 5G — after transmission breakthrough

Scientists combined two existing wireless technologies — high-speed electronics and millimeter wave photonics — for the first time to achieve record-breaking wireless data transmission speeds.

www.livescience.com

 

[Brutikus]

New technology creates unique view of famous Van Gogh painting​

In 1889, Vincent Van Gogh checked himself into a psychiatric hospital in southern France. While there, he completed some of his most notable works, including “Irises.” The masterpiece has been studied by artists and historians for more than a century, and now, researchers are using the latest technology to take a look at the painting in a brand new way.

 

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Breakthrough coming? Iceland could get solar power from space in 2030

The space-based solar power demonstration aspires to be the world's first.

www.space.com

 

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'Quantum CD' could hold up to 1,000 times more data than today's optical discs

A new proposal borrows from the principles of quantum mechanics and a technique called "wavelength multiplexing" to hypothesize an ultra-dense new storage format.

www.livescience.com

Coming to Playstation 20

 

[Lily Adler]

Should I feel bad that outside of Tinashe, I have no clue who the "celebrities" are in the Meta Ray-Ban commercial?

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

I can get Amazon Prime for that.

And that at least gets you free shipping.

 

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Watch this terrifying robotic torso spring into life

Startup Clone Robotics has created an ultra-creepy humanoid torso with artificial muscles that are activated through a battery-powered hydraulic system and covered in ghostly-white "skin."

www.livescience.com

 

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LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors

This stretchable display unlocks an infinite number of possibilities.

www.tomshardware.com

 

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World's 1st silicon anode EV battery will let you drive up to 186 miles after just 5 minutes of charging

The world’s first 100% silicon anode battery will be manufactured from 2027 and will offer future EVs a 186-mile range with just five minutes of charging time.

www.livescience.com

 

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https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/this-is-a-marriage-of-ai-and-quantum-new-technology-gives-ai-the-power-to-feel-surfaces-for-the-1st-time

 

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Forget white Christmas. Microsoft "predicts" the world will melt before the end of the year.

A bug causes the Windows 11 weather widget and some other weather graphics powered by Microsoft to show temperature over 30,000 degrees.

www.windowscentral.com

Talk about extreme global warming.

 

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'It explains why our ability to focus has gone to hell': Screens are assaulting our Stone Age brains with more information than we can handle

Modern technology has fundamentally changed how our ancient minds work.

www.livescience.com

 

[Teelie]

Was just watching something about this on QI. This goes back to literal ancient Greece. Every new technology is somehow lessening our attention spans or making us lose focus or making is dumber. And in 20 years whatever new thing is going to do the same thing literally every piece of technological advancement has been accused of since the written word was created.

BTW, none of it is true. Modern technology is just better at grabbing our attention as opposed to keeping it. TikTok is short little clips of video, Youtube is a slightly longer version of that. Nothing has changed except how to game our attention temporarily.