Daily Tech News 6 May 2025

• Microsoft has shut down Skype for good. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  I wish. It's still bloody working. I got a call from work fifteen minutes ago.

• Dimension 126 isn't a place. (Quanta)
  
  Strangely worded headline. Strangely worded article.
  
  126-dimensional spaces allow for certain strangely twisted shapes, that are possible only in spaces with dimensionality of the form 2n-2 - so 2, 6, 14, 30, 62 - but disproven in 2009 for spaces with 254 or more dimensions.
  
  That left only 126 dimensional space to have this property confirmed or denied, and now it has been proven true.
  
  
  
• Databricks is looking to acquire serverless Postgres company Neon in a deal valued at about $1 billion. (Upstarts Media)
  
  Neon advertises its blazing speed with queries taking as little as ten milliseconds, which is miserably slow compared to running your own database and completely impossible if you are more than ten milliseconds away from one of their servers.
  
  
  
• Touchscreens are everywhere, but proper tactile interfaces have significant benefits. But what if your touchscreen could form its own tactile buttons on demand? (The Verge)
  
  LG is planning to show off exactly that next week, with a new automotive control interface featuring a touchscreen that changes shape instantly to create buttons and dials for physical controls.
  
  The demo is intriguing, though the unit displayed is rather bulky and it's not clear how much of that bulk is necessary.
  
  
  

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