Author: Zach_Wilson
Infrared may no longer be a punchline, as IEEE approves 9.6Gbps wireless light
We’ve known for over a decade that blinking light bulbs can transfer substantial quantities of wireless data, not just dumb infrared commands to your TV. Now, the IEEE standards body behind Wi-Fi has decided to formally invite “Li-Fi” to the same table — with speeds of between 10 megabits per…
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Google’s new AI tool can help organize your messy Google Docs files
Google is launching yet another large language model (LLM) with the purpose of helping people organize their messy Google Docs accounts. Say you’re a college student who typed in a series of notes into a Google Docs file for class, but you didn’t put a lot of thought into the…
Read MoreAppeals court rejects the FTC’s last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft from buying Activision
The Federal Trade Commission has been unsuccessful in its last-ditch effort to pump the brakes on Microsoft's $68.7 billion purchase of Activision Blizzard. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals declined to grant the agency an emergency stay of a ruling that allows the deal to proceed in the US, leaving…
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Court denies FTC’s last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has lost what may be its final attempt to block Microsoft from buying Activision Blizzard. It’s the second loss for the FTC after a US federal judge denied its request for a preliminary injunction earlier this week to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision Blizzard until…
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The Biden administration can talk to social media sites again — for now
Originally, Judge Terry Doughty suggested that the Biden administration may be suppressing “millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens,” writing that the government had already “used its power to silence the opposition” by suppressing speech opposed to covid-19 vaccines and the validity of the 2020 election, among other…
Read MoreQuordle today – hints and answers for Saturday, July 15 (game #537)
It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off. Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around 18 months after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with…
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