The Perils of Teardown: A Tim Cook Cautionary Tale

The world of technology can be a treacherous place, especially when it comes to repairing and disassembling devices. Recently, I had the misfortune of watching a teardown video that left me shaken to my core. The poor man in question was none other than Apple's CEO, Tim Cook. It appears that he may have been forced to endure an excruciating experience at the hands of tech enthusiasts who decided to get creative with his iPhone.

The video in question took us on a journey through the intricate workings of the iPhone's exterior casing, revealing the complex mechanism behind its futuristic design. However, as we delved deeper into the teardown, things took a dark turn. It seems that removing certain components can lead to a rather...unsettling outcome. The poor fellow was seen squinting in agony as his eyes were somehow "squished together" by the removal of a key component. I shudder to think what it must have been like for him.

But fear not, dear readers, for this tale is not all doom and gloom. As we explored the depths of the iPhone's design, we discovered that its "weird eyesight feature" on the outside of the headset was actually a clever feat of engineering. The tech behind it may be a repair nightmare, but it's also a testament to human ingenuity. Who knows? Maybe one day we'll see more innovative AR apps that will revolutionize our perception of reality.

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In other tech news, Samsung's head of customer experience, Patrick Chome, has claimed that there's no such thing as a "real picture" when it comes to the company's generative edit feature. According to him, since we're reproducing what we see with sensors, quote "it does not mean anything." He also compared the feature to adding filters to photos on Instagram. It's a bold statement, but one that raises questions about the nature of reality in our digital age.

But be warned: scammers are getting cleverer by the day. A recent incident involving a first-of-its-kind AI heist cost a multinational company $25 million using sophisticated deep fake technology. The scammers were able to convince an employee to hand over funds by jumping on a video conference call featuring the company's Chief Financial Officer and other employees – except for one, who was not quite as convincing.

On a more reassuring note, bamboo lab has removed their A1 3D printer from sale and issued a recall due to issues with the heatbed cables. While less than 0.1% of printers sold have been affected, it's still a cautionary tale about the importance of testing and quality control.

In a surprising move, Japan's slim moonlander has become...well, slightly less alive. The spacecraft's solar panels caught some rays during the tail end of its lunar day, but now it must survive a full lunar night – which lasts for 14 Earth days – and temperatures as low as negative 208° F (130° C). It may not be long-term survival that's in question, however.

Last but certainly not least, a talented YouTuber has managed to build a functioning 16-bit CPU inside Microsoft Excel. Yes, you read that right – the world's most unlikely place for a computer processor is now home to a blazing fast clock speed of 3 Hz, 128 kilobytes of RAM, and a custom Assembly Language computer. It's a feat of engineering that will leave even seasoned tech enthusiasts in awe.

And that's all for today, folks! Join us next time when we'll be exploring more stories from the world of technology. Who knows what wonders or woes await us?

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controversies that plagued Microsoft's Tech Giant Brethren Cambridge analytica I've never heard of her Microsoft has obviously invested heavily in AI while Apple has taken things a lot slower but could Apple catch up later this year when they've said they'll reveal some big AI news I don't know Microsoft has a pretty big lead and they continue to push into the AI sphere just today today they announced an AI infused partnership with semaphore a News website founded by Veterans of BuzzFeed news the New York Times and Bloomberg Media Group in 2022 which kind of makes sense because I've never heard of it the partnership will see semaphor journalists using AI tools to search news sources across multiple languages but still write the Articles themselves which sounds like a much better use of Microsoft AI than a poll in the sidebar asking readers to vote on the woman in the story's cause of death see Sach wasn't involved with that at all the demand for RTX 490 gpus in China is driving up 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about controlling the export their export just last week the United States blocked a shipment of 24 A1 100s to the Australian subsidiary of a Chinese company out of fear the cards would end up in China now the Aussies have to Jerry r their own AI using chicken Salt fairy bread and huntsman spiders ah it's the same as my Grandma's old recipe for viite the Vision Pro has now been thoroughly analyzed by the revered knowledge keepers of our time redditors in a post one redditor was disappointed by the small field of view and Reflections in the lenses which are both apparently normal according to Apple a true being of culture decided to comment M on that same post lamenting the lack of support for the thinking man stimulation 3D porn now for some reason that comment was deleted but not before we learned in the replies that you can disable one of your hands in the vision proos accessibility settings let me know in the comments if that makes sense to you cuz I I don't get it at least for the field of view issue there may be a solution using the headset without its light seal According to some users this increases the fov by 15° at the expense of making Tim Cook cry that is not right no that's especially cruel when the poor man is still dealing with part one of I fixit's Vision Pro tear down where they detail the tech that makes the weird eyesight feature on the outside of the headset work not only is it apparently a repair nightmare but removing a certain component will squish together the eyes on the external display and after seeing that I may never sleep again but it's not all bad news for the video Vision Pro the platform May Inspire devs to make more interesting AR apps that could even benefit meta's Quest headsets imagine watching Formula 1 races from every angle or even motivating yourself to finally vacuum your disgusting floor just to get all the imaginary gold coins down there you won't ever see it cuz you'll live inside the headset but at least you know then that it's okay now it's time for quick bits brought to you by vessie It's Raining It's Pouring but your day doesn't have to be boring thanks to vessie Footwear they claim their shoes are 100% waterproof thanks to their diatex technology even the most torrential downpours don't stand a chance your shoes will stop it from raining don't quote me on that the Chelsea and stormburst shoes are fantastic companions for the winter weather with the comfort of a sneaker and the warmth and higher top of a boot and when the skies clear up their weekend and everyday classic sneakers are great for just wearing about and if it does start raining you'll be protected head over to bessie. comom / TechLink and get 15% off your first purchase with code TechLink quick bits are notoriously hard to quantify but thankfully we've come up with a formula unfortunately I can't tell you what it is Samsung's head of customer experience Patrick chome has claimed there's no such thing as a real picture to defend the Samsung Galaxy's generative edit feature in an interview with tech radar CH states that since you're reproducing what you're seeing with sensors quote it does doesn't mean anything end quote and if you used AI to even optimize the zoom quote there is no real picture full stop sh also compared the generative edit feature to adding filters to photos on Instagram if I'm following here that means my mom may be an AI but we're still working through what he said honestly wouldn't be that surprising a first ofit kind AI Heist cost a multinational company $25 million using sophisticated deep fake technology yeah it's pretty wild after sending a fishing message to the company's Hong Kong Branch scammers were able to convince a worker to give up the funds by jumping on a video conference call featuring the company's Chief Financial Officer and other employees except the only real person in that call was the victim who then transferred large sums of money to five different local bank accounts the scam was uncovered a week later likely when the CFO never showed up to the the employees's house after promising a rousing game of catch bamboo lab has removed their A1 3D printer from sale and issued a recall due to issues with the heatbed cables apparently less than 0.1% of printers sold have the problem but the company doesn't know why the problem exists which isn't a great situation to be in bamboo lab is recommending people stop using their printers until they can figure out the cause they tried to consult an expert detective but unfortunately Mr Monk as played by Tony shaloo has solved his last case in the TV movie Mr Monk's last case and he's tired of telling people he's retired Japan's slim moonlander is still technically alive but might not be for much longer the spacecraft solar panels caught some rays during the tail end of the lunar day but it must now survive a full lunar night which lasts for 14 Earth days and features temperatures as low as negative 208° F or 130° C but even if slim can't survive it may live on in spirit its Precision Landing technology will be used in future lunar missions hopefully that will be some comfort to slim as it spends 2 weeks rattling its little jimmies in the moon cold and a YouTuber has managed to build a functioning 16-bit CPU inside Microsoft Excel complete with its own memory output and a custom Assembly Language computer Enthusiast inkbox posted a video detailing how they made this Excel processor with a blazing fast clock speed of 3 Hertz 128 kiloby of RAM and a 16 color output display it's a gamer's dream inkbox of CPU also doesn't use any Visual Basic scripts or plugins it is pure XL the way nature intended now inkbox can get any desk job he wants and you should want to come back on Wednesday for more Tech news we don't know what we'll report on yet but oh boy it's going to be goodTech news H you better believe we got some of that we've got all of it in fact please take some on your way out we're running out of space Apple has been the most valuable publicly traded company since 2011 when it usurped the oil giant Exxon Mobile but copertino might be in for some usurping themselves by their longtime rival and overall nerdier company Microsoft after Chasing Apple's lead for over a decade the tech Giants Market cap crossed the $3 trillion Mark twice this month and right now it's sitting at 3.01 trillion compared to Apple's poultry 2.9 trillion the week that SAA nadela celebrates his 10year anniversary as CEO of Microsoft and that's apparently for a good reason the Milestone is being treated by the tech media as an opportunity to ask how nadela was able to stay winning a big part of the answer is continual investment into Cloud infrastructure as that Tech was taking off and having quick enough feet to sidestep the type of scandals and controversies that plagued Microsoft's Tech Giant Brethren Cambridge analytica I've never heard of her Microsoft has obviously invested heavily in AI while Apple has taken things a lot slower but could Apple catch up later this year when they've said they'll reveal some big AI news I don't know Microsoft has a pretty big lead and they continue to push into the AI sphere just today today they announced an AI infused partnership with semaphore a News website founded by Veterans of BuzzFeed news the New York Times and Bloomberg Media Group in 2022 which kind of makes sense because I've never heard of it the partnership will see semaphor journalists using AI tools to search news sources across multiple languages but still write the Articles themselves which sounds like a much better use of Microsoft AI than a poll in the sidebar asking readers to vote on the woman in the story's cause of death see Sach wasn't involved with that at all the demand for RTX 490 gpus in China is driving up prices in other Asian countries despite Nvidia releasing the Chinese exclusive 490d variant to comply with us export regulations a Black Market has grown for the original full fat nond D it probably tastes like the delicious milk I love it's gotten so bad that retailers in places like Taiwan Singapore South Korea and Vietnam have stopped selling the graphics cards individually and are putting them inside of pre-built systems in an attempt to stop scalpers but someone in Taipei allegedly still made a profit spending $91,000 on 20 prebuilds and selling their gpus to China's AI segment where the 490s are being used as alternatives to nvidia's more expensive and also more heavily regulated a100 and h100 cards allegedly the 490 Black Market is so efficient Chinese AI startups can reportedly receive product in just 3 to 4 days and that makes sense a consumer card like the 490 is much easier to get a hold of than one of nvidia's Enterprise AI cards especially with how serious the US has been about controlling the export their export just last week the United States blocked a shipment of 24 A1 100s to the Australian subsidiary of a Chinese company out of fear the cards would end up in China now the Aussies have to Jerry r their own AI using chicken Salt fairy bread and huntsman spiders ah it's the same as my Grandma's old recipe for viite the Vision Pro has now been thoroughly analyzed by the revered knowledge keepers of our time redditors in a post one redditor was disappointed by the small field of view and Reflections in the lenses which are both apparently normal according to Apple a true being of culture decided to comment M on that same post lamenting the lack of support for the thinking man stimulation 3D porn now for some reason that comment was deleted but not before we learned in the replies that you can disable one of your hands in the vision proos accessibility settings let me know in the comments if that makes sense to you cuz I I don't get it at least for the field of view issue there may be a solution using the headset without its light seal According to some users this increases the fov by 15° at the expense of making Tim Cook cry that is not right no that's especially cruel when the poor man is still dealing with part one of I fixit's Vision Pro tear down where they detail the tech that makes the weird eyesight feature on the outside of the headset work not only is it apparently a repair nightmare but removing a certain component will squish together the eyes on the external display and after seeing that I may never sleep again but it's not all bad news for the video Vision Pro the platform May Inspire devs to make more interesting AR apps that could even benefit meta's Quest headsets imagine watching Formula 1 races from every angle or even motivating yourself to finally vacuum your disgusting floor just to get all the imaginary gold coins down there you won't ever see it cuz you'll live inside the headset but at least you know then that it's okay now it's time for quick bits brought to you by vessie It's Raining It's Pouring but your day doesn't have to be boring thanks to vessie Footwear they claim their shoes are 100% waterproof thanks to their diatex technology even the most torrential downpours don't stand a chance your shoes will stop it from raining don't quote me on that the Chelsea and stormburst shoes are fantastic companions for the winter weather with the comfort of a sneaker and the warmth and higher top of a boot and when the skies clear up their weekend and everyday classic sneakers are great for just wearing about and if it does start raining you'll be protected head over to bessie. comom / TechLink and get 15% off your first purchase with code TechLink quick bits are notoriously hard to quantify but thankfully we've come up with a formula unfortunately I can't tell you what it is Samsung's head of customer experience Patrick chome has claimed there's no such thing as a real picture to defend the Samsung Galaxy's generative edit feature in an interview with tech radar CH states that since you're reproducing what you're seeing with sensors quote it does doesn't mean anything end quote and if you used AI to even optimize the zoom quote there is no real picture full stop sh also compared the generative edit feature to adding filters to photos on Instagram if I'm following here that means my mom may be an AI but we're still working through what he said honestly wouldn't be that surprising a first ofit kind AI Heist cost a multinational company $25 million using sophisticated deep fake technology yeah it's pretty wild after sending a fishing message to the company's Hong Kong Branch scammers were able to convince a worker to give up the funds by jumping on a video conference call featuring the company's Chief Financial Officer and other employees except the only real person in that call was the victim who then transferred large sums of money to five different local bank accounts the scam was uncovered a week later likely when the CFO never showed up to the the employees's house after promising a rousing game of catch bamboo lab has removed their A1 3D printer from sale and issued a recall due to issues with the heatbed cables apparently less than 0.1% of printers sold have the problem but the company doesn't know why the problem exists which isn't a great situation to be in bamboo lab is recommending people stop using their printers until they can figure out the cause they tried to consult an expert detective but unfortunately Mr Monk as played by Tony shaloo has solved his last case in the TV movie Mr Monk's last case and he's tired of telling people he's retired Japan's slim moonlander is still technically alive but might not be for much longer the spacecraft solar panels caught some rays during the tail end of the lunar day but it must now survive a full lunar night which lasts for 14 Earth days and features temperatures as low as negative 208° F or 130° C but even if slim can't survive it may live on in spirit its Precision Landing technology will be used in future lunar missions hopefully that will be some comfort to slim as it spends 2 weeks rattling its little jimmies in the moon cold and a YouTuber has managed to build a functioning 16-bit CPU inside Microsoft Excel complete with its own memory output and a custom Assembly Language computer Enthusiast inkbox posted a video detailing how they made this Excel processor with a blazing fast clock speed of 3 Hertz 128 kiloby of RAM and a 16 color output display it's a gamer's dream inkbox of CPU also doesn't use any Visual Basic scripts or plugins it is pure XL the way nature intended now inkbox can get any desk job he wants and you should want to come back on Wednesday for more Tech news we don't know what we'll report on yet but oh boy it's going to be good\n"