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🎮 Twitch and YouTube are booming: Gamers spend more hours per week watching other people play video games than playing themselves. This year’s League of Legends World Championship esports event peaked at nearly 7 million viewers. Hey, parents — your kids can turn playing video games into a real job after all.
Tags: gaming, social media, Twitch, video, video games, YouTube
If it’s one thing you can bet on, there’s always newer, better and faster tech begging you to open your wallet. With that said, you probably haven’t heard about BlueBird yet from AST SmartMobile out of Texas. They’re working with AT&T to launch the world’s first space-based cellular broadband network.
InWin’s Infinite clocks in at 100 pounds. It has 180-degree curved glass, diamond-cut edges and a mechanical hinge that opens with the press of a button. Each glass panel takes about 12 hours to mold. Uh, don’t drop it.
On Xiaohongshu (China’s Instagram) for Maye Musk. Elon’s gorgeous mom has been a model for many years and is a superstar in China. At 75, she’s a top silver-haired influencer. Maye we all be this fabulous.
Estimated hourly operating costs for Amazon’s robot workers in 2025. Right now, bots that walk on two legs are being used alongside humans and cost $10 to $12 an hour to run. Amazon says its plan is for bots and humans to always work together. Sure.
How much a new gold-based drug slowed cancer tumor growth in animals. It even outperformed traditional chemotherapy, selectively targeting cancer cells with fewer toxic side effects. I hate cancer.
Per week, taken by auto taxi service Waymo One in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix. It’s no surprise Uber and Lyft drivers say it’s hurting their earnings (paywall link). Waymo is also expanding to Atlanta and Austin early next year. I still won’t get in one.
Russia began transitioning from Microsoft Windows to a custom Linux operating system. They now use Astra Linux for their educational system, financial sector, and state and military operations. Nerd joke: Who has the highest rank in the Linux military? The kernel. (Oh, that was a good one!)
To build the Colossus data center in Memphis. That’s fast! It’s the powerhouse behind Elon Musk’s startup xAI, packed with 100,000 Nvidia GPUs for processing. Musk plans to launch his own AI app next month to compete with OpenAI, Google and Meta.
How far a Chinese ship dragged its anchor, cutting two Baltic Sea internet cables. Investigators suspect they cut the critical data cables on purpose, in part because it’d be nearly impossible not to notice dragging an anchor that far. The carrier left a Russian port a couple of weeks ago, packed with fertilizer. Both countries say, “Nope, not us.”
Age of a bronze cannon discovered in Arizona. It might be the oldest firearm ever found in the U.S. Researchers think it belonged to Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado but was never fired. The cannon is just 40 pounds and 42 inches long. Wonder if Francisco had a complex about that …
