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YouTube is following Netflix by reducing streaming quality due to coronavirus:
YouTube is following Netflix's lead in cutting the quality of its video streaming from high definition to standard in the European Union, it confirmed to CNET, as the bloc's leaders try to reduce strain on the internet during the coronavirus outbreak. Since more people are working from home and children are staying out of school, internet usage has spiked.
"We are in ongoing conversations with the regulators, governments and network operators all over Europe, and are making a commitment to temporarily default all traffic in the UK and the EU to standard definition," the Google-owned video streaming service said in a statement.
The service said it had seen "only a few usage peaks," but is reducing the default quality in the EU for 30 days. Video quality can still be manually adjusted.
European Commissioner Thierry Breton called on streaming services to switch to standard definition "when HD is not necessary" on Thursday. YouTube decided to reduce its default streaming quality after Breton spoke to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube boss Susan Wojcicki, as previously reported by Reuters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 21 2020, @09:33PM (1 child)
Literally a few episodes before they are hanging out with Riker and Deanna where Deanna says she can sense nothing emotionally from Soji, implying that their artificial bodies, regardless of if you consider the 'soul' aspect, do not operate on the same biological principles as telepathy capable races. If that is true, then the events a few episodes later involving a vulcan mind meld either imply telepathy is possible (since Vulcan mind melds were an extension of their limited telepathic abilities), meaning betazoid empathy should have been possible, or that they can't keep consistency over 5 episodes, not unlike the canonicty issues between Relics and Generations, or Enterprise and the previous Trek series. Or Voyager and its Time Travel finale.
A more interesting Parallel, for anyone who has read the novel 'Blade Runner' is based off (PKD's Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep?), the parallel of human acting androids becoming independent, but also incapable of empathizing with humans, leading to the potential destruction of the human race really makes Picard Decker, and that romulan guy the origami swan folding detective. The rest of the characters, while somewhat itneresting are entirely secondary to the plot.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Sunday March 22 2020, @04:30AM
I haven't seen it. I don't know who mind-melded with whom.
But I can imagine androids doing a mind-meld as basically induction networking. Which might require an updated driver.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.