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2025-07-25 Science & Technology
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Get your 80,000 Hours career guide for free here (sponsored): https://80000hours.org/tfc ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►►► This video ◄◄◄ This week Qi2 25W was made official and they said hundreds of devices, including many big phone brands will support it, potentially staring with the Pixel 10 series, Counterpoint released intersting data about Chinese battery dominance and Trump laid out his AI Action plan. Episode 261 This video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-great-news-for-wireless-charging Shadowman39 8-bit computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtIJUwkOAwM ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►►► Release monitor ◄◄◄ If a line starts with "*" it's an affilate link. I earn a commission if you buy through it. *CMF Watch 3 Pro: https://geni.us/B6qUAQ Surface Laptop 5G for business: https://blogs.windows.com/devices/?p=263729https://blogs.windows.com/devices/?p=263729 OPPO K13 Turbo Pro: https://www.oppo.com/cn/smartphones/series-k/k13-turbo-pro/ *Lego GameBoy: https://geni.us/i7GGQGg iPhone USB C case: https://obsoless.com/products/iph0n3-usb-c-protection-case ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►►► TechAltar links ◄◄◄ https://patreon.com/techaltar Social media: https://mas.to/@techaltar https://threads.net/@techaltar https://bsky.app/profile/techaltar.bsky.social https://instagram.com/TechAltar https://discord.gg/npKQebe ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ►►► Attributions & Time stamps◄◄◄ Writing & Research: Tristan Rayner Music by Edemski: https://soundcloud.com/edemski Stock assets: Getty Images 0:00 Intro 0:17 Qi2 25W 1:33 China battery dominance 2:11 AI Act 3:28 Release Monitor 4:37 The Brief

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@dextrodus 2025-07-25

They should've just called it Qi 2.5

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@Wilker_uwu 2025-07-25

2:54 when the Internet Archive and emulation projects uses copyrighted work for preservation, it's piracy, and when AI companies uses works authored by people for appropriation, somehow it's fine

301 18 replies
@amad-os8rp 2025-07-25

AWS is building a sovereign cloud for the EU starting with Germany. It's called AWS European Sovereign Cloud, it will be owned by a German company with its own regulations for the EU.

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@earllemongrab7960 2025-07-26

Deregulating "AI" (as we know it today) is like getting rid of seatbelts thinking the car will drive faster that way. People think that deregulating AI brings us closer to GAI. But all you do is open the door for scammers and fraudsters using your existing off the shelf AI frameworks. These AI tools we have now have very little to nothing to do with GAI. Those are completely different algorithms.

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@Noel_p 2025-07-25

if only the people coming up with the naming scheme for qi would help out their friends at USB-IF, because names like usb 3.2 gen2x2 should be criminal

38 1 replies
@meridiasbeacon7669 2025-07-28

Istg I'm moving to China 😂 news in China are like "new eco friendly battery available for everyone for cheap, 3 new high speed rail lines open, healthcare plans improve further as more hospitals are built and opened" while in the US its stuff like "new bill cuts healthcare, trump instructs AI companies to construct the Terror Nexus and deconstructs legal foundation"

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@kashmir883 2025-07-26

Qi 2.5 25W Qi 3.0 30W Qi 10.0 100W

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@TheFridayCheckout 2025-07-25

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@bottomtext5872 2025-07-25

I hope the Qi standard won't go the way of the USB naming scheme.

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@MrEssmarbu 2025-07-26

AI deregulation = super scary and unwise

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