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But I admit, we're not legal experts,
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and the only place the Internet Archive has left to take this case is the Supreme Court,
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so we'll see how things play out there.
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Though this does make me agree with Twitter user Gentlemanbug,
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if scanning books doesn't count as fair use,
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where is the publisher lawsuit against OpenAI?
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I mean, last I heard, they had scanned some things.
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Their butt.
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Don't let weirdos scan your butt.
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The Quick Bits are so fast,
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we can't say four score in seven years ago.
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We just say 87 years ago.
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We don't have time to be poetic.
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Ah!
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Version 6.0 of the Bluetooth standard has been released,
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a mere eight years after the last major version.
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Yes, I know 5.4 came out last year,
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but shh, ah, that doesn't...
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Why do you know so much about Bluetooth standards?
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In addition to reducing power consumption and increasing efficiency,
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Bluetooth 6's channel sounding feature will allow centimeter level accuracy
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for device tracking over considerable distances.
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This could allow Google's Find My Device network to catch up to Apple's,
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which currently uses ultra-wideband tech for precision tracking.
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Or Apple could ditch the ultra-wideband chips
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in their devices and make them cheaper for customers.
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And I'm just kidding, that's not gonna happen.
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Phone maker Honor is using AI to fight nearsightedness.
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Nearsightedness, or myopia, a condition from which I sadly suffer,
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occurs when eyes grow longer to better focus on close objects,
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something that has apparently grown more commonplace, in a world full of screens.
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Where are the people?
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Some of Honor's devices, like the Magic V3 foldable phone,
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use advanced display and AI tech to defocus certain colors.
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Apparently, this may help slow the progression of myopia.
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Could this also be solved with less screen time?
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Maybe,
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but Honor also has an AI-powered deep fake video detector.
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And yes,
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maybe that problem would also be solved with less screen time,
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but can I have one positive AI story?
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Please just let me have this.
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U.S. Navy chiefs got in trouble
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for illegally conspiring to install a Starlink satellite dish on their warship.
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Apparently, the internet on Navy ships is often restricted to preserve bandwidth
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and maintain operational security.
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But the big dogs on board wanted to check sports scores
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and stream movies uninterrupted.
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Is that real?
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So they smuggled the dish on board
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and bolted it to a wooden pallet strapped to the ship.
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They may have gotten away with it too,
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if they bothered to hide their network's SSID.
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Instead, rank and file sailors started asking why
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there was an unexplained wifi network named Stinky.
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And that just didn't smell right.
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California-based startup Reflect Orbital
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has the modest goal of being able to sell sunlight
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in the middle of the night using giant sky mirrors.
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While physically plausible,
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it's not actually clear Reflect Orbital
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even has the technology to pull this kind of orbital sun mirror stunt.
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I think it's plausible.
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The company has yet to launch anything into space,
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but it's currently taking four minute reservations
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via its website for late next year.
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As part of the reservation process,
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they ask you why you want your very own nighttime patch of sun.
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Perhaps because they also don't know why anyone would buy this over a hundred dollar spotlight.
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Do they?
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And engineers from Cornell and Florence University
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have created a new bio-hybrid robot
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that uses electrical signals from an edible mushroom to control a mechanical body.
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Why do we have to say it's edible?
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Mushrooms can sense different chemical signals from the world all around them.
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Which allows the bio-robot to dynamically respond to its environment.
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Obvious applications include recreating the predator-prey relationship
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as a form of enrichment for vegans.
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This isn't an entirely new concept.
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Nearly a decade ago,
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the Open Worm Project created a digital version of a worm's brain
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that could be uploaded into a Lego robot
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in a kind of black mirror, but for invertebrates concept.
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What are we doing here?
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Why?
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What's next?
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I created a cyborg celery.
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Why?
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Here's another concept.
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Come back on Monday for more tech news.
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I'm gonna hold my breath until then to make sure you show up.
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If you don't,
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I won't take another breath and I could die.
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Please.
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Warning.
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This episode may, or may not, contain a Tim Cook impression.
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Sometimes it happens organically, but we make no promises that one will occur.
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Viewer discretion is advised.
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Buy your mom an impression!
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At their It's Glow Time event this morning,
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