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standing directly next to one another |
were offered the exact same jobs for different amounts of money. |
This was particularly drastic in Lyft's case, |
where the pay for a trip could vary as much as $3, |
potentially adding up to hundreds over the course of a normal month. |
And that money could wind up being really important |
after the robot down at the unemployment office denies you your benefit claim. |
Mm, go f**k yourself. |
Stay, poor asshole. |
Each of the following quick bits is fully OSHA compliant |
and has never resulted in the loss of a limb, |
but make sure to wear your special quick bits helmet, just in case. |
There could be eye pokies. |
Following a series of delays due to weather and technical issues, |
SpaceX successfully launched its Polaris Dawn mission, |
carrying pilot slash billionaire Jared Isaacman, |
as well as three other people who have far less money. |
The mission will last five days and attempt the world's first private spacewalk. |
Presumably, they mean private in the sense of privately financed |
and not in the sense that somebody is getting naked, so no peeking. |
other SpaceX projects, however, have been delayed, |
as the Federal Aviation Administration has been slow to issue launch licenses. |
SpaceX by itself apparently accounts for 80% of the overtime logged by FAA workers |
charged with safety and environmental reviews for space travel, |
similar to how Elon Musk accounts for 80% of TOS violations at Twitter. |
I'm above the law. |
Huawei has launched a folding phone with not one, |
but two hinges, |
and the world will not shut up about it. |
The Mate XT features a 6.4-inch OLED display when fully collapsed, |
but fully unfolded, it becomes a 10.2-inch tablet |
that's nearly the size of a standard iPad. |
There's also a 7.9-inch in-between single-fold configuration |
if you just want a little bit more screen. |
You're not showboating. |
Oh, and its price starts at about 20,000 won(yuan), |
or 2,800 US dollars. |
It's the perfect phone for people who miss unfolding maps when they get lost, |
but still wanna be able to fold them back up when they're done. |
People keep wanting to toss data centers in the ocean off the California coast without a permit, |
and regulators, they're sick of it. |
The most recent offenders are the founders of Y Combinator-backed startup Network Ocean, |
who wanna dunk servers in the San Francisco Bay |
as a way to save energy and slow ocean temperature rise, |
which I can already see a problem with. |
Sure, hot servers might not raise the whole ocean's temperature, |
but experts say localized hotspots could trigger toxic algae blooms. |
Microsoft actually tested submerged servers in California and Scotland |
before recently abandoning the project. |
You know what they awoke in the darkness of Bikini Bottom. |
Meta has admitted to using public photos and posts on its social media platforms |
from as far back as 2007, when I joined, |
to train its AI models. |
In a confession that's only really newsworthy |
because it was made in an Australian Senate inquiry |
by Meta's global privacy director |
immediately after she denied Meta had done that exact thing, |
users in the UK, you have the legally mandated ability to opt out, |
but users from anywhere else do not. |
And while the Meta exec made it clear |
that they only scraped accounts over the age of 18, |
if an adult posts pictures of kids on their account, |
those are fair game too. |
I'm sorry, you're not ready for the future |
where everybody owns everything. |
That's a you problem. |
And by everybody, I mean us. |
And a robot will begin removing melted radioactive fuel |
from the Fukushima nuclear plant. |
And it'll certainly take its sweet time. |
This test removal will grab merely three grams |
of the approximately 880 tons of waste, |
which will then be studied to both learn more about what happened |
and to determine how to best remove the rest. |
Grabbing this sample alone will take two weeks |
because the robot must be maneuvered very carefully by rotating teams |
that are averse to the idea of spending more than 50 minutes at a time |
in a highly radioactive environment. |
What? You don't want to grow a third arm? |
Or suffer a painful death? |
And I'll suffer painfully if you don't come back on Friday for more tech news. |
Not nearly as painfully as someone with radiation sickness, |
but it still hurts a little. |
Hi, welcome back to TechLinked. |
Don't ask. |
NVIDIA has announced that it plans to launch |
its new NVIDIA app out of beta before the end of this year. |
Now, users with some combination of the NVIDIA control panel, |
the GeForce Experience app, |
and the RTX Experience app already on their PC |
may be experiencing some apprehension, |
but the new app is actually intended |
to unify the features of all three apps |
and in the darkness bind them |
into a single streamlined experience. |
We've had three, yes. |
What about fourth app? |
NVIDIA has also added a handful of new features, |
such as a toggle for G-Sync, |
multi-monitor support for RTX HDR, |
Subsets and Splits
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