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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In 1983, Steve Jobs typed this reply to a letter asking for his autograph:

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the creator of VLC media player. He refused tens of millions of dollars in order to keep VLC ads-free. Thanks, Jean!

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

JUST IN: Bitwise predicts Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana will all reach new all-time highs in 2025. Bitcoin: $200,000 Ethereum: $7,000 Solana: $750

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

BREAKING: Google makes quantum computing breakthrough with a new chip capable of solving computational problems in under 5 minutes. That would otherwise take the leading supercomputer: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the creator of VLC media player. He refused tens of millions of dollars in order to keep VLC ads-free. Thanks, Jean!

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

OpenAI's Sora v2 is almost here: * 1-minute video outputs * text-to-video * text+image-to-video * text+video-to-video OpenAI's Chad Nelson showed this at the C21Media Keynote in London. And he said we will see it very very soon.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

NEWS: OpenAI Sora will be available everywhere. Except in EU & UK.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Today 20 years ago, Pirate Bay response to legal threats from DreamWorks.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Apple’s first investor was Mike Markkula. He put in $250,000 for 1/3 of the business. Today, 1/3 of Apple is worth $930 billion.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

In 1983, Steve Jobs typed this reply to a letter asking for his autograph:

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

BMW's new technology that allows to change exterior color.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

On many Japanese toilets, the hand wash sink is attached so that you can wash your hands and reuse the water for the next flush. Japan saves millions of liters of water every year doing this.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

NEW: MicroStrategy now owns 2.01% of all the #Bitcoin that will ever exist.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This quote from Steve Jobs lives rent free in my head...

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Australian tax return shows where your money went.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Someone built a miniature audience out of ads I got in the mail

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

One of the best robots. 👾 It's from one of the best all-time movies. Interstellar! 🧑🏼‍🚀 Do you remember TARS?

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Things that didn’t exist 20 years ago: ChatGPT iPhone Facebook YouTube Instagram Twitter TikTok Android Bitcoin Tesla iPad Gmail Netflix streaming Amazon Prime Slack Reddit Etsy WhatsApp Messenger Google Maps Snapchat LinkedIn Pinterest Chrome Zoom Skype Spotify Airbnb Uber

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Electric scooter with swappable batteries in Taiwan

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

You will never look at money the same once you realize you are working hard for fake numbers on a screen that were created out of thin air.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Jet suit paramedics can fly to the top of Helvellyn in just 3.5 minutes instead of the usual 1 hour, 15 minutes.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This sweater developed by the University of Maryland utilizes “ adversarial patterns ” to become an invisibility cloak against AI.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🇺🇸📺 Who watches TV anymore? 50% Americans 18 to 34 don't watch ANY tv

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

NVIDIA released a new Eye Contact feature that uses AI to make you look into the camera.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This is wild. Here is how the TexasFootball TD looked watching from CosmDallas!

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

NEW: Ukraine's Zelensky says he is willing to concede territory to Russia to end the war - Telegraph

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Developed by two 19-year-old students, these gloves translate sign language into sound.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

NEW: Coinbase integrates ApplePay for #Bitcoin and crypto purchases

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This is insane. 2,400 CG artists were each given the same base animation and challenged to make something unique out of it. These are just some of the clips from the top 100 artists.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This is insane. Musculoskeletal robot using a bundle of thin McKibben muscles which enables a multifilament muscle that has characteristics similar to those of human muscles.

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 U.S. Treasury says Bitcoin's primary use case is "digital gold"

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Benny Johnson @heybennyjohnson.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

NEW: Bitcoin will replace gold as the leading store of value within ten years, according to Bernstein.

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