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Scientists recorded a Pink Floyd song from patients’ brain waves. The tech could eventually allow for communication without words

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  • This tech will be used to "personalize" your ads. And by personalize, I mean convince you that it truly is a life-or-death situation that you buy whatever monthly subscription they're advertising.

    • Canada considering foreign student visa cap to address housing shortage

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  • But they have the money!

    • Microsoft to Force Web Links Shared in Teams to Open with Microsoft Edge

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  • Same. Streaming services reinvented cable. The open web is increasingly hidden behind paywalls. Instead of having the sum of all human knowledge at your fingertips, you have 5 billion tiny creators begging you to sign up for their goat-fat candle-making course on udacity. You can't look in any direction without advertisers stabbing you in the eyes and claiming that it's their god-given right to scream their snake-oil sales pitch directly into your brain; and if you install an ad blocker you're the one stealing food out of content creators mouths, not the ~5 people who control 50 % of the total wealth of humanity...

    • Tech's broken promises: Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable. Ubers cost as much as taxis. And the cloud is no longer cheap

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  • So now we can only what the streaming providers have licensed, and those things which we've "purchased" can and do disappear from our devices. And our answers are increasingly becoming hidden behind paywalls that require specific subscriptions & unskippable ads.

    "Today" is only better than yesterday due to a recent huge disruption called "the internet" and companies are absolutely scrambling to restore the "bad old days" status quo that you allude to.