YouTuber’s pet fish commit credit card fraud on stream-
Watch your aquariums: the fish know how to make digital purchases now.
YouTuber Mutekimaru runs a 24/7 livestream of their pet fish playing Pokémon games. Think Twitch Plays Pokémon, except the fish are playing Pokémon via a camera and motion tracking software. They swim over a grid of Nintendo Switch inputs which are then sent to the console. In 2020, the fish managed to finish Pokémon Sapphire in about 3,195 hours. Unimpressive, frankly: I could do it in 30.
Last month, about five hours into the stream, Pokémon Violet crashed while Mutekimaru was away and the fish were left sitting on the Switch’s main menu. With a whole world of possibilities in front of them, the fish navigated their way to the Nintendo eShop and used the saved credit c…
Your next router could be a lightbulb- Ultra-fast ‘Li-Fi’ tech just took a major step toward mass-market availability-
TechPowerUp reports that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has certified 802.11bb as a standard for “light-based wireless communications,” known as “Li-Fi.” This certification “provides a globally recognised framework for deployment of LiFi technology,” say Li-Fi tech companies pureLiFi and Fraunhofer HHI.
Li-Fi, which was introduced in 2011, is short for “Light Fidelity.” It literally uses visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light instead of radio frequencies for high-speed data transmission. Li-Fi uses special LED light bulbs installed in houses and offices as routers.
Since light travels much faster than Wi-Fi radio waves, data speeds are significantly faster. How much faster? Speeds up to a ridiculous 224GB/s are promised by Li-Fi companies or “the equ…