A guy bought a $1,500 Samsung TV 3 years ago.
He watched Netflix. He watched YouTube. He thought the picture looked fine. He assumed that's just what a TV looks like.
His friend, a home theater installer who calibrates TVs for a living, walked into his apartment and looked at the screen for 5 seconds.
"You're watching everything in demo mode. The motion smoothing is on. The eco dimmer is cutting your brightness by 40%. Your TV is taking a screenshot of your screen every 30 seconds and selling your viewing data to advertisers. And you're watching a $1,500 panel in the same picture mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent lights to make TVs pop on a showroom wall."
He changed 9 settings in 12 minutes.
The picture looked like a different television. The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. The TV stopped spying on him.
Here's every setting he changed 🧵
Scientists are turning the herpes virus into a cure for multiple cancers.
The herpes simplex virus (HSV-1) infects nearly two-thirds of people worldwide, usually causing nothing more serious than cold sores. But when genetically reprogrammed, it becomes something extraordinary: an oncolytic virus – a therapy that targets, infects, and destroys cancer cells while activating the immune system to finish the job.
The therapy works in two ways. First, the virus replicates inside tumor cells until they burst, killing them directly. Second, the immune system recognizes the viral invasion and begins attacking cancer cells throughout the body, including those not injected with the virus.
Early clinical trials are showing remarkable promise. In studies with modified herpes viruses such as RP1 and RP2, about a quarter of patients with advanced cancers have responded, and in melanoma trials, one-third of patients saw tumors shrink – with nearly one in six experiencing complete disappearance of their cancer.
Vor einiger Zeit durfte ich mit Kayvan Soufi-Siavash (Ken Jebsen) zusammenarbeiten – einer der klugen Köpfe unserer Zeit. Sollte man sich mal anschauen, wer ihn noch nicht kennt. VideoQuelle: Fairtalk. tv