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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.
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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,