Blocking it browser wide worked, but it is a bit inconvenient; the site was prompting everytime i was just browsing it even though i clicked remember the decision.

Yes

Didn’t Tencent invest in them or something?

RDP with low latency over thunderbolt? from the video it looks its new software intel has developed for windows, so its most likely proprietary. I was mostly thinking along the lines of using the technology to simulate S.L.I where half the frames are drawn by one pc and the other half by another

Also in the Article the data transfer speeds are in Mbps whereas in the video it is touted in Gbps

If you are on firefox i suggest turning on DNSoverHTTPS, it works after a few reloads{newgrounds will still not work though :( }