Nilay Patel
Diplo and Chris Rock bailed out of Burning Man in the back of a pickup.
Wild times on the playa.
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Here’s the world record speedrun for, uh, “Crank That” by Soulja Boy in FL Studio.
“That felt good coming off the fingertips, I’ll tell you that.”
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I don’t see “a backflip” on this list.
I asked Bing the same question and it told me to buy a USB lighter. This is a true story.
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Here I am on Marketplace Tech talking about YouTube, AI, and copyright law.
My three loves, all in one place. More from me about all of it in this piece!
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Sign of the times: Phil Schiller posting about an Apple event on Threads.
Apple’s Phil Schiller deleted his Twitter account a while ago and then quietly joined Threads when it launched. He’s now posted about the just-announced September event on Meta’s platform, which you are free to interpret any way you wish.
How do you define what it means to be you in the all-digital 21st century — and how should systems protect that?
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Here’s the Cybertruck wiper... wiping.
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!
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T-Mobile can now “slice” its public 5G network into private 5G networks with dedicated bandwith.
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.
It's Time to Unleash Network Slicing - T-Mobile Newsroom
[T-Mobile Newsroom]