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Had Intel not dropped the ball on 5G as was reported two weeks ago I think Apple would have taken this the whole way.
Huawei was mentioned (on /.) as a possible chip supplier but given the US stance on Huawei 5G tech the preferred outcome had to be Intel or Qualcomm.
The really interesting detail is "The companies also have reached a six-year license agreement, effective as of April 1, 2019" because it suggests that Apple's own silicon workshop isn't anywhere near ready to deliver their own mobile radio silicon.
I doubt much money will go from Apple to Qualcomm as Apple says the settlement includes a payment from Apple to Qualcomm will need to be offset by the $1 Billion payout recently award in court to Apple.
What hasn't come out in any detail yet is if Qualcomm will change the business model that Apple claimed to be unfair.
Will Apple continue to pay a percentage of the device value which they got upset about or will they pay a fixed licensing fee for themselves and their suppliers?
That's the bit that will tell who really won here.
Also don't forget the FTC antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm was actually the catalyst for Apple's own lawsuit against the company just a few weeks later.
How does today's new affect that? I suspect both companies were in a pickle and needed each other in the end.

For those of us who don't want this feature, remember Google's life expectancy for their products.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90...

I actually lost the original article I was going to post, but found a completely different AI for lie detection. Both were from 2018.

https://futurism.com/new-ai-detects-deception-bring-end-lying-know-it/
This was developed for determining if someone is lying in a court.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40575672/goodbye-polygraphs-new-tech-uses-ai-to-tell-if-youre-lying/

This one seems to be being developed for homeland security.

Yes. But not by accurately representing details from the unblurred original. Rather by creating fictitious but believable un-blurred details that may or may not have been there. https://www.fastcompany.com/90... https://www.wired.co.uk/articl...

T Boone Pickins figured this out more than two decades ago and gave up on the idea about one decade ago.

How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name by Tog and Don Norman

When did being a millennial get equated to materialism per se?

If I recall, it began with car manufacturers complaining that millennials don't buy cars. Then realtors complained about the same thing. Millennials don't buy homes.

Turns out they were just poor. Now that the economy has picked up, the trends have returned to normal.

Clothing is almost entirely made by machines.

You appear to be misinformed on this, or your claim was unclear. If you're speaking of manufacturing textile cloth, i'm pretty sure that is extensively automated. But (nearly?) all clothes that we buy today are still sewn by human hands.

Here are a couple of sources (from last year, couldn't find anything newer on a quick search):
https://www.economist.com/scie...
https://www.fastcompany.com/30...

A 3 minute google search and I was able to find many, many articles outlining uses for desert sand. Among those uses... building materials.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90...

IBM should stop teaching an AI to play Pac Man without eating the ghosts and teach it how to play chess without jumping the queen.

Or the guy that sold shares of himself.

People say "why do you care?" but the answer is for lane-level navigation with google maps.

Google Maps doesn't even really use GPS to figure out what road you're on (Interstate vs. frontage road). They still use some of the same clever tricks as this ancient navigation system that didn't even have GPS. Compass and momentum sensors are matched to the shape of the road. Turns are mostly detected the same way. Location is calibrated by GPS only occasionally, because it's a huge battery hog.

najajomo trolled:

Going from the image, they could also provide a water transportation system, that way the women wouldn't have to walk ten miles a day with a water bucket on their head. But I guess the men have better things to spend their money on, like $3,000 on a pair of shoes.

Nice little conflation you have there, pal. It'd be a shame if something happened to it.

Like someone pointing out that you're conflating rural women in Zimbabwe carrying water back to their villages with men in the Republic of the Congo (more specifically, in Brazzaville, its capitol, which is a distinctly urban environment with a functioning municipal water system) who identify with a fashion-centered lifestyle called "La Sape". The two images have nothing whatsoever to do with one another. In fact, they were taken on opposite sides of the continent.

As for your suggestion that the Skysource/Skywater Alliance "could also provide a water transportation system" so the women in the image from Zimbabwe could be spared a 10-mile daily walk? It's also blatant trolling.

Your "water transportation system" would be hideously expensive to construct, even if it had to serve just one village located five miles from the water collection site, because everything needed to build it would have to be choppered in. Rural Zimbabwe has essentially zero infrastructure. There's no paved roads, no housing for construction workers, no local sources of water-grade pipe, and no source of skilled labor. Hell, I doubt there's so much as a screwdriver within 5 miles of the installation, much less a pipe wrench.

To distribute water from it to every village within that radius would be way, WAY more expensive. Where, exactly, is that money supposed to come from? The X-Prize payout wouldn't even cover the expense of piping water to a single village, much less dozens of them. The Zimbabwean government is one of the most institutionally-corrupt bureaucracies on the planet, and it rules over one of the poorest countries in the world. As a result, the Zimbabwean dollar has been experiencing Weimar Republic-level hyperinflation for decades now (for which you can thank Robert Mugabe, who was recently deposed from his position as president-for-life), so that rules out the national government as a source. (True fact: somewhere around here I have a Zimbabwean $1 billion coin that was issued back in the 20th century. Its current value is well south of one penny in U.S. money. The Zimbabwean government stopped issuing them after the value of their dollar fell so far that those coins became more valuable as metal than their face value.)

Here's a thought: why don't you get the fuck out of your mother's basement, go to Zimbabwe, and build that "water transportation system" yourself ... ?

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Going from the image, they could also provide a water transportation system, that way the women wouldn't have to walk ten miles a day with a water bucket on their head. But I guess the men have better things to spend their money on, like $3,000 on a pair of shoes.

I think that this was meant to be the actual link. Or, better still, you could just go to the announcement.

Most of Apple's other product designs were stolen, some from Braun products from the 60s.

https://www.cultofmac.com/188753/the-braun-products-that-inspired-apples-iconic-designs-gallery/

Funny how the Braun designer sides with Apple, ehh? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/te... -- https://www.fastcompany.com/30...

Especially against Samsung http://www.idownloadblog.com/2...

Not to mention banning straws is actively fucking over people without the motor-skills necessary to drink from a glass.

Nobody is banning straws. .

Correction: http://www.foxnews.com/politic... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0... https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

Yes, there is a lot ov virtue signaling going on, while the countries that are doing the actual plastic pollution continue unabated.

For me, it is a matter of whether we want to pat ourselves on the back, perhaps give out friend of the earth trophies, or actually fix the problem.

Banning plastic straws in the US is simply not going to accomplish anything.

all of my Apple devices just keep working.

Yeah, almost unbearably slow, but working. There's nothing quite like Apple's planed obsolescence. Good brand choice indeed.

Hey, COWARD:

I am SURE you didn't watch this year's WWDC Keynote; but one of the first topics (if not THE first) was how they had SPECIFICALLY focused on PERFORMANCE of iOS 12 ON OLDER DEVICES.

In fact, they used an iPhone 6 (which I happen to have), and the performance gains were QUITE impressive.

And I guess that real-world tests with the Beta releases of iOS 12 seem to bear out these claims:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/05...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

Speaking of which, I just recently Upgraded my iPhone 6 (actually a 6 Plus) from iOS 10.3.3 to iOS 11.4.1. I'm here to tell you that it is NOTICABLY FASTER.

So, kindly Stick It In Your Ass, COWARD!

Since I tend to keep cars for a long time, I want to know the manufacturer will be around in the future. Sure, Teslas have a lot of showroom appeal, but I would be hesitant to spend mid to high 5 figures, let alone 6 on one and not know if Tesla will be around in 4 or 5 years to provide parts and service. I'm confident Mercedes, Jaguar, GM, BMW and Porsche will be, for example.

That said, even if Tesla does go BK there is an emerging aftermarket for the cars which reduces the risk to some extent.

found the old article:

https://www.fastcompany.com/28...

And in the EU just travel in some cases is work time all ready
https://www.fastcompany.com/30...

They're also being manufactured again, along with the film. See https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

It is at least 800 this year

A few things.

1) US Steel planning to add. Planning. Believe it when you see it. This isn't your grandad's blast furnace, today the steel industry is highly automated. And how many times must you endure this Trump promise charade before you recognize the pattern?

2) What is the chance that somebody from Trump's administration did not "make a deal" to elicit that US Steel press release? (I'll help you here: exactly zero.)

3) The Tax Foundation estimates that the Trump tariffs will immediately result in the loss of 48,585 jobs and that job losses could number as high as 250,000 Subtract from your 800 (I'll be charitable) then multiply by your precious 3.6 additional jobs. Reality.

4) Everybody knows these things except Trump's "Q pack".

5) Here's another one for you. It's a wave all right, these are not promises, these are things that actually happened.

6) The value of iron and steel produced in 2014 was $113 billion.

7) Software Industry Growth Far Outpaces US Economy, Hits $1.14 Trillion.

8) Go to lake Erie, get some lungfuls of that rust belt air. Yum yum, really miss that rust belt.

It is at least 800 this year

A few things.

1) US Steel planning to add. Planning. Believe it when you see it. This isn't your grandad's blast furnace, today the steel industry is highly automated. And how many times must you endure this Trump promise charade before you recognize the pattern?

2) What is the chance that somebody from Trump's administration did not "make a deal" to elicit that US Steel press release? (I'll help you here: exactly zero.)

3) The Tax Foundation estimates that the Trump tariffs will immediately result in the loss of 48,585 jobs and that job losses could number as high as 250,000 Subtract from your 800 (I'll be charitable) then multiply by your precious 3.6 additional jobs. Reality.

4) Everybody knows these things except Trump's "Q pack".

5) Here's another one for you. It's a wave all right, these are not promises, these are things that actually happened.

6) The value of iron and steel produced in 2014 was $113 billion.

7) Software Industry Growth Far Outpaces US Economy, Hits $1.14 Trillion.

8) Go to lake Erie, get some lungfuls of that rust belt air. Yum yum, really miss that rust belt.

It was hard; the market for premium consumer mail apps is not big enough, and it faces stiff competition from high-quality free apps from Google, Microsoft, and Apple

Silly, silly laissez faire businessman... The way to solve this — in an increasingly Fascist country — is to lobby the government. Tell them, the competitors aren't sufficiently guarding the customers' privacy and aren't sufficiently cooperative with law enforcement. Also, that their computers are damaging the environment and they aren't buying enough credits to offset that.

Ask them to pass some laws to a) regulate the industry; b) fine the noncompliant for the noncompliance; and c) subsidize the compliant with taxpayers' funds. Voila — Profit!!

British plugs are large because of their safety features. They're the safest in the world
https://www.fastcompany.com/30...

They have a lot of the same brand products as everywhere else.

They have the same brand name, but not the same brand products. Wal-mart explicitly encourages brands to make lower-quality versions to sell at their stores for a lower price, capitalizing on the brand name recognition:

The Wal-Mart vice president responded with strategy and argument. Snapper is the sort of high-quality nameplate, like Levi Strauss, that Wal-Mart hopes can ultimately make it more Target-like. He suggested that Snapper find a lower-cost contract manufacturer. He suggested producing a separate, lesser-quality line with the Snapper nameplate just for Wal-Mart. Just like Levi did.

Let's say Wal-mart offers a $500 Sony 55" 4K HDR LCD Display[1] and Target has a Sony model with the exact same features, even the same model number range (but a 5002 instead of Wal-mart's 5001) for $550. If Sony made that 5001 as an inferior version for Wal-mart, depending on the corners cut it might last half as long as the 5002 (usage and environment being the same.) So with Target you spend $550 over 2y years, but with Wal-mart you spend $500+replacement cost over that same 2y period.

Now, that article is over a decade old, so it's possible that Wal-mart has changed their ways since then. But I'm going to need a good [citation required] to believe that.

Some of the other stuff you mention, like school supplies and other consumables, can be had at the dollar store for the same quality and unit price (or even less than Wal-mart).

[1] Likely not a real product; name, size, attributes chosen at random

"And still miniscule." - are you expecting an infrastructure change to happen in a week? get some perspective, it taken decades for fossil power to reach nearly every home and still hasn't managed to get to 100% yet

"So what major power grid relies solely on renewables, doesn't use nuclear, coal, natgas, or other "bad" fuel sources for base load?" - same answer to previous

there are at least 40 cities claiming 100% renewable power which is not bad in such a short time and considering the knock backs renewables get form luddite and ignorant politicians - https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

There seems to be no shortage of tech CEOs who have the emotional maturity level of 12-year-old boys.

But we already knew that about Elon - it's been evident for a couple years. He may be brilliant, but he's also a self-entitled whiny crybaby.

Meanwhile a poor village in India or Africa gets a solar panel...

And the receiving country never has the ability to build or sustain its own market in that industry, suppressing the ability for economic growth in that country..

"Their industry will just do something else" might be a considered a counterargument. There will be nothing else.

Interesting that your first, primary example is one most easily directly refuted.

So have I got this right.
Obama scrapes Facebook data for two elections = okidoki
Trump may have used Facebook data = SJW fainting scandal.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

It's not orders of magnitude but it is better than humans.

This is based on january, 2016. So much more primitive cars than we have over 2 years later in 2018.

https://www.fastcompany.com/30...
"The researchers concluded that the national crash rate of 4.2 accidents per million miles is higher than the crash rate for self-driving cars, which is 3.2 crashes per million miles."

Also, the police chief has just said that the uber car is not likely to be at fault.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

"
âoeI suspect preliminarily it appears that the Uber would likely not be at fault in this accident," said chief Sylvia Moir.

Herzberg was "pushing a bicycle laden with plastic shopping bags," according to the Chronicle's Carolyn Said, when she "abruptly walked from a center median into a lane of traffic."

After viewing video captured by the Uber vehicle, Moir concluded that âoeitâ(TM)s very clear it would have been difficult to avoid this collision in any kind of mode (autonomous or human-driven) based on how she came from the shadows right into the roadway."

Moir added that "it is dangerous to cross roadways in the evening hour when well-illuminated, managed crosswalks are available."

The police said that the vehicle was traveling 38 miles per hour in a 35 mile-per-hour zone, according to the Chronicleâ"though a Google Street View shot of the roadway taken last July shows a speed limit of 45 miles per hour along that stretch of road.
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nope, your clothing and shoes are made by hand.

Only because the materials used in clothing are flexible enough to make fully automated manufacturing challenging, and even that is likely to change in the very, very near future. Oh, and for shoes, it already has changed to a large extent.

And even in factories with low levels of automation, large parts of the work are still done by machine. Humans guide the material through the machines, but the sewing is still done by machine, not by hand stitching, which means orders of magnitude fewer people are involved than historically were. So when I say that manufacturing is mostly automated, that includes garments and shoes.

how is the work on your cars and trucks done? oh yeah, by mechanics.

The mechanics plug in a diagnostic machine, it figures out what part to replace, and a person replaces it. It's only a matter of time before that final step is automated. Once you train one robot to do the work, you can have a million robots doing that same task for the cost of building the hardware. The leap from robot manufacturing to robot repair is a lot smaller than you seem to believe. The minute one car company does it, they'll all rush to do it, because the labor cost on car repairs is downright insane. Frankly, if any industry is ripe for automation, that's it.

how is building inspection done? oh, by people.

Only because buildings are still built by people. When robot house builders take over that industry, the verification will be done by someone signing off on the wiring diagram, and inspections will be as unnecessary as the builders.

engineers design things, scientists study things, tradesmen build things, repairmen repair things......

If you look at electronics, engineers design things, machines build things, machines package things up for delivery, and soon machines will handle the delivery, too. If you honestly believe that any other manufacturing industry is significantly different in some way that will make it impractical to automated, I have a bridge to sell you.

And although you are correct that there will still be people doing repairs for a long time to come, that is true only for the sorts of repairs that involve going to the customer site, such as plumbing, refrigerator repair, etc. Car repairs and electronic repairs are on the short list for automation. Apple is already doing cell phone screen repairs by automated machine. By 2030, the only people doing electronic repairs by hand will be the independent repair shops, assuming the manufacturers' zero-labor repairs don't undercut them and run them out of business.

this won't change anytime soon, because AI is mostly a farce with nothing fundamental new in decades.

This has already changed, and if you haven't noticed, it's no surprise that you still think AI is a farce with nothing fundamentally new in decades.

It seems that a lot of people overestimate AI. There are just so many things that are insanely easy for humans that are really hard for machines.

People believe some sort of unsupervised deep learning method will come along and solve all these problems. But it might never come. Maybe deep learning will only work well with supervised data.

We might have to wait for the next breakthrough on unsupervised learning to achieve it and who knows when that will come.

nope, your clothing and shoes are made by hand.

Only because the materials used in clothing are flexible enough to make fully automated manufacturing challenging, and even that is likely to change in the very, very near future. Oh, and for shoes, it already has changed to a large extent.

And even in factories with low levels of automation, large parts of the work are still done by machine. Humans guide the material through the machines, but the sewing is still done by machine, not by hand stitching, which means orders of magnitude fewer people are involved than historically were. So when I say that manufacturing is mostly automated, that includes garments and shoes.

how is the work on your cars and trucks done? oh yeah, by mechanics.

The mechanics plug in a diagnostic machine, it figures out what part to replace, and a person replaces it. It's only a matter of time before that final step is automated. Once you train one robot to do the work, you can have a million robots doing that same task for the cost of building the hardware. The leap from robot manufacturing to robot repair is a lot smaller than you seem to believe. The minute one car company does it, they'll all rush to do it, because the labor cost on car repairs is downright insane. Frankly, if any industry is ripe for automation, that's it.

how is building inspection done? oh, by people.

Only because buildings are still built by people. When robot house builders take over that industry, the verification will be done by someone signing off on the wiring diagram, and inspections will be as unnecessary as the builders.

engineers design things, scientists study things, tradesmen build things, repairmen repair things......

If you look at electronics, engineers design things, machines build things, machines package things up for delivery, and soon machines will handle the delivery, too. If you honestly believe that any other manufacturing industry is significantly different in some way that will make it impractical to automated, I have a bridge to sell you.

And although you are correct that there will still be people doing repairs for a long time to come, that is true only for the sorts of repairs that involve going to the customer site, such as plumbing, refrigerator repair, etc. Car repairs and electronic repairs are on the short list for automation. Apple is already doing cell phone screen repairs by automated machine. By 2030, the only people doing electronic repairs by hand will be the independent repair shops, assuming the manufacturers' zero-labor repairs don't undercut them and run them out of business.

this won't change anytime soon, because AI is mostly a farce with nothing fundamental new in decades.

This has already changed, and if you haven't noticed, it's no surprise that you still think AI is a farce with nothing fundamentally new in decades.

There were only a few people, if that, who wrote the software on the AGC that landed the LEM on the moon. The space shuttle had around 250 people.

"Rhode Island just joined the list of the states with net neutrality legislation"

https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

Ah, so those are the same people who now want the government to "filter" and "restrict" the Internet unless you pay more for certain parts of it. Doesn't sound very neutral. Doesn't sound like freedom. Doesn't sound like keeping ISP's from interfering with accessing of information.

That is completely independent of the total impossibility of an ISP being able to figure out how and which sites serve "porn" and exactly what constitutes "porn" and what happens when things are misfiltered.

Rhode Island- you must really like just PARTS of the Bill of Rights. But which parts? We know you dislike the 2nd Amendment, but I guess the 1st Amendment is now not to your liking, either? Which of the remaining 10 is next? Maybe the 4th?

I am considering backing the Mycroft 2. I am not about to pipe all my audio to Google, Apple, Amazon, et al., but this seems like a fun toy. I passed on the v1 because it used Google's STT, but this one apparently has 8 different STT options, one of which is Mozilla-developed and can run on local hardware.

According to Fast Company, their business model is framed around selling voice services to major companies who are similarly wary about sending client data to Big Tech firms. (The for-example is Land Rover-Jaguar.) This seems reasonable, and it provides incentive for Mycroft (which is open source; in part? in full? I can't quite tell) to continue to play honest or risk the cash from the privacy-conscious corporate partners that they hoped to attract.

I'm not totally sold, yet. I'd be interested in /. views one way or the other, or anecdotes from anyone who has a v1.

This was my question too, so I looked it up and holy cow, there was indeed pre-gps dead reckoning based car navigation. https://www.fastcompany.com/30...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

Intel’s New Chip Aims For Quantum Supremacy

. . . those 49 qbits can already do something that almost no traditional computer, even a supercomputer, can: solve a sorting problem that has up to 5.63 trillion possible outcomes. This is right around a milestone called “quantum supremacy”–the point at which a standard computer can’t even simulate a quantum machine.

The promise of a quantum computer comes from one of those spooky aspects of quantum physics, whereby each qbit can hold two (or more) values simultaneously. Each time you add a qbit, you raise two to a higher exponent value. In this case, two raised to the 49th power yields 562,949,950,000,000 variations that can be compared at once. This technique is ideal for certain types of calculations, like speculative chemistry research that simulates the interactions of dozens of electrons, around multiple atoms, at once. It’s also useful for cracking digital encryption.

And yet,
It is amazing.
What is happening around the world with this.
In fact, it is happening in America,but slowly.

Yea, man caused this mess, but not the way you think.

Building homes to increase our wealth(though on the cheap, because well...), ignoring the natural state of the land, and trying to force the world to bend to our preferences?

That's exactly how I think. Of course, you leave out how many of the former forests of California were cut down, with the ancient trees going elsewhere in the world to make fine furniture and other materials.

Of course, we can at least recognize that we're not practicing slash-and-burn agriculture in America. Elsewhere in the world, well, that's another story.

It probably won't make your local news though.

I wonder which of his relatives is flush flush flush with Verizon and Comcast stock, ready to take off once they finally have the right to get a piece of every successful internet business' action.

That would be Mr. Ajit Pai himself.

Be sure to thank his Republican masters in the next midterm election.

But the guy they quoted in the article already had a public sector job.

Here is the article cited: https://www.fastcompany.com/40498626/instacart-workers-are-striking-over-wages-reportedly-as-low-as-1-an-hour. There is only one "guy quoted," and the quote is "some shoppers are being paid less than the federal minimum wage, like a Jackson, Miss., worker who put in a 19-hour week in Jackson, Mississippi, that paid out $37.75 (roughly $2/hour)." No mention of a job in the public sector.

Here is the second article cited http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Instacart-workers-plan-Sunday-Monday-strike-12366805.php. Two Instacart workers are quoted. Neither mentions a job in the public sector.

Here is the third article cited, the ars technical article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/some-instacart-workers-to-strike-over-pay-that-can-be-as-low-as-1-per-hour/. Ah-- at last-- Six people were quoted, and three more people's wages were listed (but they weren't quoted directly). ONE of the many people quoted was the guy who said he had a civil service job.

So it's a little disingenuous to say "the" guy they quoted in "the" article.

So. What you meant to say was ONE of the large number of people quoted in the three articles cited also had a full-time job.

"it's a 20 year old strategy."

So, you're a millennial? Cause, grocery has always been low margin with price leaders.

And, Walmart.

Hard to trust anything now. Gotta just trust your gut.
That's a pun, but it's often true.

It's not just a pun, your guts actually make decisions. And what's more, they seem to be pretty good at it.

The problem with this solution is that it will have large scale unintended consequences and it doesn't even solve the ocean acidity problem. A far batter solution is to built a fuckload of atmospheric carbon dioxide scrubbing plants. We have the technology, we just lack the political representatives to act to make this happen. This "Re-Engineering Earth" idea is something that you try when you have completely run out of options and we aren't there yet.

I guess if someone could convince me that it is possible to write 100% bug-free code, I would feel better about this.

The "on-board shuttle group" at NASA has a pretty good track record for writing bug free code. While not 100% it's pretty damn close. Embracing the coding standards of NASA would be a good start. https://www.fastcompany.com/28...

Burying the carbon is another good option, but way more expensive. I'm not aware of any real large-scale proposals for this, let alone implementations.

The biggest issue is actually capturing the CO2 itself. We've managed to figure that out just fine: https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

No, these are 1000x more effective than trees at absorbing CO2 and unlike trees, they don't release it back into the atmosphere.