Скачать или смотреть Alex Z-R on the Chris Smith Show - 14 Feb 2024 - Cyber Wednesday!

1. Gartner Predicts Worldwide Shipments of AI PCs and GenAI Smartphones to Total 295 Million Units in 2024 - but is this really a big surprise, or just the natural order of things?

2. IBM turns 100 years old - but didn't it start in the 1800s, and didn't IBM celebrate its 100th birthday a decade ago?

3. The Interesting Engineering site has published an article about scientists - including those from Curtin University in Australia - having built a bendable solar cell that is thinner than an A4 sheet of paper, but why is this important, and what will it let us do that existing solar panels don't?

4. Google has pledged €25M million to boost AI skills in Europe, while OpenAI's Sam Altman wants to raise up to $7 TRILLION - with a T - dollars to bring AI chips to the world, something bold given only $567 billion ("only" half a trillion dollars) of chip sales took place last last.

5. Apple launches iOS 17.3.1 and fixes a very annoying problem that I certainly noticed, but that others say they've never seen, so what was the problem they solved?

6. US authorities are warning Tesla drivers to stop wearing their Apple Vision Pro headsets while driving, saying it is "reckless", reports the New York Times

7. Apple Watch warns man of atrial fibrillation, even though he felt no symptoms, and it saved his life - and a friend of mine in Sydney recently had the same experience.

8. The US Super Bowl 2024 was the most watched Super Bowl of ALL time with 123.4m viewers - and the second most watched TV program in history after Apollo 11 moon landing

9. Chinese women are turning to AI boyfriends, preferring them to the real thing - real men!

10. Telstra's latest 5G update makes 340mbps upload speeds possible, 100 times faster than 3G upload speeds, but in a world where we're consumed by downloading things, why is a fast upload speed important - and isn't this way, way faster than NBN fibre and fibre to the node connections?

11. Telstra has partnered with a satellite provider called OneWeb - one which has nothing to do with Elon Musk's Starlink - to create the "world's latest LEO (low earth orbiting) satellite backhaul, so that Telstar's most remote mobile customers get a seriously enhanced experience when making voice and video calls, and using data. Is the tyranny of distance finally dead?