Daily Tech News 29 May 2022

• If you thought NFTs were bad: This $70 water bottle has LED indicators, Bluetooth pairing, and an iOS app with microtransactions. (9to5Mac)
  
  And it can't be used with hot liquids or submerged in water for washing.
  
  On the plus side, it doesn't need to be recharged all that often.
  
  
  

• Have you tried turning your crabs off and on again? (Northwestern Now)
  
  Speaking of headlines from the 21st century.
  
  
  
• 90% of remote learning apps used during school lockdowns - in the US and elsewhere - collected data on children and transferred it to ad companies. (Washington Post / MSN)
  
  Almost 200 ad companies.
  
  
  
• Diesel prices are up sharply. The way to solve the inflationary effects of this is clearly to spend untold trillions over an unknown period replacing all diesel fuel use with electricity. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not just any electricity, but electricity from renewable sources.
  
  And presumably not nuclear either, but I can't confirm that because the rest of the article is behind a paywall and no way in hell am I contributing to the maintenance of their insanity.
  
  
  
• If your entire class is cheating on the exam don't use a public forum that the lecturer knows about. (CrumpLab)

  I didn't tell them I was in the chat. If you are a student reading this who happened to be on that chat, I was the account with the cactus emoji, named after our cat Detective Inspector Mr. Ernie Cactus Pants.

  And try to be a little bit subtle about it. These college students cheat like third-graders.

  What did the student have to say? There were many full sentences and as I read them I got that feeling again. So, I copied and pasted some sentences into Google, and yup, the student was plagiarizing the academic integrity assignment. Whole swaths of text verbatim copied.

  The story does, eventually, have a happy ending.
  
  
  
• More notes about AMD's new Ryzen 7000 / Socket AM5 platform. (Tech Powerup)
  
  Main point is that Ryzen 7000 has 28 PCIe 5 lanes from the CPU, compared to 24 PCIe 4 lanes on Ryzen 5000 - more than double the bandwidth. That's nearly as much bandwidth as the early Epyc server CPUs, with their 128 lanes of PCIe 3. These will make good desktop chips, but they'll also be great small server CPUs.
  
  And not that small either - the current Ryzen 5950X is already faster than any first-generation Epyc server CPU.

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