There is never a dull moment with Elon Musk. At a recent Clubhouse interaction, the world's richest man revealed that his Neuralink start-up has monkeys with brain implants that allow them to play video games with one another. <\/p>\n
Subsequently, his tweet revealed the long-term plans of the start-up: Human-AI symbiosis that is touted as species-level important. <\/p>\n
Read on for more craziness that transpired today.<\/p>\n
If there was ever a case against brain implants, WhatsApp's latest attempt to brainwash its users into conceding to its privacy policy trap makes a good one. <\/p>\n
The messaging service has been sending story-like in-app messages reminding users that Facebook isn't an evil corporation that harvests and sells their private data to achieve everything ranging from manipulating your mood to manipulating elections.<\/p>\n
Even as Big Tech has managed to de-platform who was once the most powerful person in the world and kill off competitors with zero consequences, the upside-down land of Australia isn't having any of it. <\/p>\n
Australian premier Scott Morrison called out Google's bluff to pull its search engine from the country. Now, Microsoft has offered to fill the void with its Bing search engine.<\/p>\n
Australia isn't the only one sticking it to the powers that be. <\/p>\n
Reddit's WallStreetBets saga is an unprecedented case of how the internet facilitated people's burning desire to wrest the levers of economic power away from the clutches of a few chosen elites. <\/p>\n
This silent revolution didn't involve peasants with pitchforks, but the working class weaponizing their stimulus checks to break Wall Street's back.<\/p>\n
Now back to more boring stuff. <\/p>\n
If you have bought the new M1-powered MacBooks this Christmas, you are in for a treat with NVIDIA bringing native M1 support to its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service. <\/p>\n
What's more, Apple's next M1 chips are rumored to include a 128-core GPU. It looks like proper gaming on the Mac might be an actual possibility in the future.<\/p>\n
Don't you hate it when tech companies take a break from subverting democracy and sowing seeds of civil war to come up with products squarely targeted at the sort of people who answer Nigerian email scams? <\/p>\n
Well, Xiaomi's latest patent seems to be an attempt to top yesterday's snake oil campaign featuring an improbable wireless charging system that was thoroughly debunked by EEVBlog.<\/p>\n
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