- Oh, yeah.
You know what time it is?
- What time is it? - You are,
You're so good at keeping track of time.
That's why we call you "The Watcher."
- [Man] The what? (chuckles)
- Truly blistering internet speeds
just got one step closer, thanks to researchers
in Japan who just managed to transfer data
at a rate of one petabit, paid a bit? Per second
across standard multi-core fiber.
No, a petabit,
doesn't have anything to do with animal rights.
It's the equivalent of 1 million gigabits or 125 terabytes.
We're talking about emailing a server's worth
of information in one second.
Now I know what you're thinking,
but Riley, researchers at the same institute demonstrated
petabit data transmission way back in December 2020.
And yes, that's true,
which is another reason we really appreciate you.
But that test was conducted
using non-standard optical fiber cables
that required the signal to be unscrambled at the other end.
This test used standard multi-core fiber
and actually transmitted more than a petabit per second,
1.02 to be exact
over a distance of 31 miles,
meaning this kind of speed is a lot closer
to commercial reality than before.
I feel like we do this a lot on this show,
but nice job Japan.
Very cool.
It's not a Kaiju Fighting Mech,
which I would like more,
but it's cool.
- [Man] Close enough.
- Tim Hortons, that bastion of Canadian culture
named after its founder and professional hockey player,
Tim Horton has betrayed us all.
An investigation by our great nation's privacy commissioner
has found that the franchise's mobile app
collected user location data
as often as every few minutes,
even when the app wasn't in use.
The finding strengthened the case being made
by four proposed class action lawsuits attacking the company
for being unclear about the scope of information
being collected by Tim Hortons.
But wait, there's hope.
A co-defendant named in two of those lawsuits
is American company, Radar Labs
which helped Tim Hortons develop the app.
I knew it, Timmy's wouldn't do this to us
unless it was under the influence of the yanks.
We should have never shared our Timbits with you.
A New York State Senate
has just passed two rather interesting bills
with big implications for the tech industry.
The first one is a moratorium
on new permits for cryptocurrency mining operations
which had flock to the state's many retired hydroelectric
and fossil fuel plants,
after China imposed heavy restrictions on crypto last year.
Existing miners won't be affected,
but for how long?
Fossils don't just grow in trees.
The second bill passed this morning
is a massive win for the right to repair movement
called the Digital Fair Repair Act.
It requires electronics manufacturers
to make device documentation, parts and tools available
to basically anyone that wants it, even babies.
That's not in the, that's not in there.
I just...
Both bills still need to be signed
by the state's governor to become law.
But at this point you're allowed to feel
the kind of excitement you do
when your team is up by two points with a minute left.
Is that, was that accurate for sports? Is that?
- Go sport. - Go sports.
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but trust me, they do not like that.
- [Man] Do not.
- Amazon has launched an invite system
for buying high demand, low supply products
like gaming consoles,
which the company says may prevent inventory shortages
and price gouging.
Any potential buyer will be able to request
an invitation to buy an item.
No $200 membership needed, (coughs) Best Buy!
So hopefully this keeps the bots out
and we can get back to the point
where we have way more stuff
than anyone will possibly ever need,
the way it should be.
- [Man] But we have no money.
- But there's stuff.
Classified military information is leaked
on the forums for vehicular combat simulator, War Thunder,
for the third time.
After a Chinese player posted a photo
of ammunition schematics for a Chinese tank
with one of the actual rounds sitting on top of the paper.
The games developer Gaijin Entertainment
has since removed the post
and banned the player
who is trying to get them to make the tanks
in-game assets more realistic.
I mean, what is this?
Advanced wars?
Battle tanks for the N64?
This is the tank game for historical scholars, like Jano.
Ford's CEO, Jim Farley has publicly said
he wants his company to move towards online-only sales
for electric vehicles.
A model prominently used
by newer electric vehicle companies like Tesla.
And Volkswagen has indicated they wanna do something similar
for their Scout EV line.
The problem is, in many jurisdictions
it's actually illegal for traditional manufacturers
like Ford to sell directly to consumers
instead of through a massive complicated network
of dealerships which add their own markups
because the economy, duh?
That Pixel Seven that showed up on eBay
and Facebook Marketplace,
apparently wasn't a one off.
After reading articles about it,
one Reddit user discovered that the Pixel Six Pro,
he thought he had purchased a few weeks ago,
was actually a Pixel Seven Pro,
and it was remotely reset by Google presumably,
the day after the sketchy Pixel Seven listings
appeared in articles.
So let this be a lesson to you,
only by new phones from certified phone dealerships
where this stuff does not happen.
And as promised Sony held a State of Play event yesterday
to announce some cool things, like the fact,
that the remastered version
of 2018's excellent PS5 exclusive Spider-Man game
is coming to PC in August.
Yes!
I've been waiting so long.
Is it good?
- It's awesome. - It's pretty good.
(crosstalk)
It was it wasn't?
- It was PS4s. - PS4 game.
I don't touch consoles, so I didn't know that.
We also got trailers for the upcoming open world,
Street Fighter Six, what?
A skating shooter hybrid game, Rollerdrome.
That actually looks cool.
A very Dead Space style game
made by the people who made Dead Space
called Callisto Protocol
and Eternights, an action dating game.
I don't know exactly the meaning of what I just said,
but that's just how my life normally goes.
But I do know when you can come back for more tech news,
Monday.
Why do I know that?
It's just my gut.