How do you define what it means to be you in the all-digital 21st century — and how should systems protect that?
The tip of that wiper arm has to be absolutely flying when it’s turned to the highest speed, right? By the way, we got an interesting tip about the configuration of actual wiper blades that we’re trying to confirm — if you know more about it, email us!
We’ve been talking about whether 5G was worth the hype for a few weeks now (sometimes, sort of, mostly it hasn’t returned the investment) and the best idea anyone really has is “private networks” where commercial customers can set up their own high-bandwith low-latency 5G networks to do... stuff. And now T-Mobile can do that by “slicing” its public 5G network, which it says it did successfully in June at a Red Bull event, creating a slice for a broadcast drone to achieve 276Mbps uplink speeds.
Meanwhile, nearly 20,000 visitors were in attendance, using their devices as they normally would – uploading pictures and videos of the event. Because of network slicing and traffic management, their traffic did not impact the Red Bull production – and vice versa.
Neat! But let’s not forget T-Mo can do this because it was allowed to buy Sprint and reduce wireless competition, which in turn has allowed it to raise prices and act way more like a traditional carrier.
[T-Mobile Newsroom]
There have been traditional camo wraps, F-150 wraps, and now this Tundra wrap. I applaud the effort but it’s a gigantic triangle on wheels with a single massive wiper. We… we know what it is.
Gaze upon the Zenvo Aurora, which has a hybrid V12 engine and a €3 million pricetag.
I wrote about Google’s essential hypocrisy when it comes to the value of AI training data this week, and now Kieran McCarthy has a good blog post outlining how incoherent and inconsistent the law around web scraping really is — in large part because the same big tech companies that scrape the entire web are quick to file lawsuits when you attempt to scrape their sites.
There are few, if any, legal domains where hypocrisy is as baked into the ecosystem as it is with web scraping.
Some of the biggest companies on earth—including Meta and Microsoft—take aggressive, litigious approaches to prohibiting web scraping on their own properties, while taking liberal approaches to scraping data on other companies’ properties.
[Technology & Marketing Law Blog]
So Switched on Pop co-host (and Verge pal) Charlie Harding and I were chatting about the recent report from Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman (herself a notable Verge expat!) detailing Spotify’s panic over white noise podcasts taking away lucrative, um, white noise revenue. And well, he had ChatGPT create an entire white noise podcast series. It is called “Sonic Spectrum: Colors of Serenity” and it is just the funniest shit.
Please enjoy the sounds of “Indigo Insights: The Deep Dive with Purple Noise” and “Solar Symphony: Yellow Noise and Radiance.” Bask in AI-generated blurbs that read like this:
Crimson Currents: The Power of Red Noise: Dive deep into the lush waves of red noise, known to inspire feelings of passion, vitality, and grounding. Allow this frequency to energize and align your root energies, reconnecting you with Earth’s primal vibrations.
Please send it to your most... crystalline friends. If anyone can get Aaron Rodgers to buy into this I’ll send you a very funny bottle of vodka.
Notable Verge traitor Joanna Stern has been in the market for an EV for the past few months. (I know because she keeps texting me about it.) Like any true reviewer, she solved her problem by taking the the Hyundai Ioniq 5, the Ford Mustang Mach-E, and the Tesla Model Y head-to-head on a road trip — and called up Marques Brownlee for a little advice along the way.
