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