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to a hospital, to a church, |
or even to an emergency shelter. |
Geez. |
Allegedly, Cochava doesn't just collect information about what apps an individual uses, |
but also what they do while inside them and how much money they spend. |
You know, an easy rule of thumb of whether a product is dangerously invasive is asking yourself, |
could a domestic abuser use this to find their estranged spouse simply by typing |
pregnant female, Caucasian, Houston, candy crush, |
green party into a search bar? |
Maybe? |
MyQ, best known for their smart garage door openers, |
has apparently spent the last several months |
repeatedly blocking unauthorized third-party smart home apps from access to their devices. |
That might make sense, |
but MyQ currently has very few authorized software partners |
because they require partners to pay them for the right to interact with their devices. |
Home Assistant recently announced that they will be deactivating their MyQ integration |
since it isn't working anymore and because, |
as an open-source project, |
paying MyQ's fee simply isn't sustainable. |
You know, like when you don't have money and everyone wants to go to McDonald's? |
This has left MyQ customers in a situation |
where the apps they use to manage all their other smart devices |
simply can't interact with their garage doors. |
You might wonder why a garage door opener company |
would be trying to interfere with its customers' ability to open their garages. |
But MyQ is probably trying to force customers to use its official app, |
probably called Reddit, |
which since October has been serving obnoxious ads that interfere with the functioning of the app. |
Oh, it is Reddit. |
Sometimes even pushing the open garage button off the screen. |
While the iOS version of the app is still at 4.8 stars, |
its Android counterpart recently dropped to 3.9 |
due to all of those selfish customers |
who think they shouldn't get ads on an app for a product they already paid for. |
Like, what's your problem? |
What, do you think that when you go to the restaurant, |
you should just get food when you pay for it? |
Like, bringing it back to McDonald's. |
Quick Bits move at near relativistic speeds and thus experience significant time distortion. |
With every Quick Bit, |
I grow a fraction of a second further out of sync with the universe as you perceive it. |
Did y'all know Kim and Kanye got divorced? |
To the surprise of several Apple users, |
when they received their brand new 14-inch M3 MacBook Pros, |
the devices came installed not with a standard up-to-date operating system, |
but with an unreleased build of macOS Ventura 13.5 |
from back in July that couldn't be updated. |
Apple has already released an update addressing the issue, |
but this would seem to indicate that Apple's been stockpiling devices with M3 chips for the last four months. |
Apple usually creates these separate incompatible versions of its OS |
in order to keep potential leaks out of public betas, |
but it's not clear how it wound up getting sent to consumers. |
My theory? |
Snake, you've created a time paradox! |
Who's Pete Davidson? |
You mean Skeet Davidson? |
I heard he's dating Kim! |
According to reliable leaker and my best friend, |
Copite7Kimmy, please don't say that's not true, |
expensive GPU lovers should expect Nvidia |
to launch the RTX 40 Super Series |
during the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show in January. |
That would make sense considering that Nvidia reportedly |
won't be releasing the RTX 50 Series until at least 2025, |
and they tend to pair their gaming launches alongside big industry events. |
Fellow leaker, MegasizeGPU, has also revealed images |
of Nvidia's retail branding inserts for the series, |
and apparently Nvidia has changed the stylized typeface |
of the old Super logo with the same boring sans-serif font it uses for literally everything else. |
Why can't at least the word Super be Super? |
Only the prices, I guess. |
The driving app Waze has launched a new safety feature |
called Crash History Alerts. |
Basically, using AI and reports from the app's community, |
Waze will alert drivers if the road they're about to turn onto is prone to accidents. |
However, the notifications are light on detail |
so as not to distract drivers. |
They won't tell you if the crashes are major versus minor, |
or if they involved cars, pedestrians, and or cyclists. |
Hypothetically, |
you won't know if there's been a daily crash at an intersection for the last year, |
or if a single car knocked over an entire bike race. |
I said I'm sorry, okay? |
I can still hear the squeals of all those men's Lycra rubbing together. |
A team of researchers from the Universities of California and Sydney |
have developed an artificial brain from a network of randomly arranged silver nanowires. |
Dr. Frankenstein et al. |
It's alive and strangely antibacterial. |
Its structure pattern changes predictably with electrical stimulus |
and can maintain that pattern when the stimulus is removed, |
meaning the network can learn dynamically and more efficiently than traditional AI training |
all in real time. |
In the near future, these silver networks could become more popular than GPUs, |
and maybe even grills. |
What, you've got silver on your teeth? |
I've got it in my brain, bro. |
And a software engineer used an AI-powered service to apply for 5,000 jobs, |
leading your mother to ask, |
what's your excuse? |