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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, announced that the company already knows how to create general artificial intelligence and is aiming for the development of superintelligence. According to his prediction, it could become a reality in just a few years. Although current AI systems still have significant shortcomings, Altman believes in their rapid overcoming.

Minecraft: Education Edition connects the popular gaming world with education. Kids can explore programming, collaborate on problem-solving, and learn new skills in a familiar, creative setting. How does it work and is it suitable for younger children?

On this site you can test your internet connection for free.

We recommend you to lower or stop all other internet activities during the test. In other cases the test results are less precise.

Outputs of this test:

  • download broadband speed test - what speed are data from the testing server downloaded by
  • upload speed - what speed are data to the testing server uploaded by
  • web ping - the time needed to send and receive a small amount of data, quite similar to regular ping, but tested by a TCP packet through the HTTP service

How do Internet speed measurements work?

From the user’s perspective, everything is simple. In the web browser, click on the measurement button and wait. Before starting the speed test, it is important to deactivate all tasks, applications and devices that could use the capacity to connect to the Internet. The results would be affected by that and you would not find out anything, or the conclusions would not have the required notification value.

The technical solution and the background of the speed test itself are complex, but to explain it in a few words and very simplistically, the test simulates a situation in which you download or upload data. The measured values ​​are calculated depending on the speed of these transmission. You can test the speed of up to 30 test servers located in geographically different locations.

Last 10 tests

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Average for United Kingdom

Downloading

102,7 Mbit/s
MP3 for 0,3 sec
CD for 54,5 sec
DVD for 6,1 min

Uploading

46,6 Mbit/s
MP3 for 0,7 sec
CD for 2,0 min
DVD for 13,4 min
 

The American government has launched an investigation into the Chinese company TP-Link, which controls 65% of the router market. The reason is national security concerns following the use of their devices in ransomware attacks.

OpenAI concluded its Christmas event "12 Days of OpenAI" by announcing the revolutionary model o3 and its smaller version o3-mini. The new model promises significant improvements in reasoning and solving complex tasks. For now, it will only be available to safety researchers.

SpaceX, in collaboration with New Zealand operator One NZ, has launched the first nationwide satellite network for sending SMS messages. This groundbreaking service allows communication even in areas without traditional mobile signal. Currently, it supports only four phone models and message delivery time can take up to 10 minutes.

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