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1.45Gbps LTE requires 6-carrier aggregation. Qualcomm's 5G x50 modem has a theoretical peak of 5Gbps with 8 carriers, so the current 1Gpbs real-world performance is probably only dual-carrier. Plenty more headroom to exploit down the road.

It's pretty impossible that complex reasoning, creativity, social and emotional intelligence, and sensory perception will ever be done by a machine.

I mean, all that machines can do for creativity now is create art in multiple styles including abstract weirdness like Dali, create photorealistic art based on crude drawings supplied as source material, write shitty stories, and create pop songs. There's no way that they will ever do more than that in the future, right?

I'm sure that they will never be able to sense emotions in people, nor will they replace a therapist. We certainly won't try to get AI to determine if people are likely to be criminals or re-offend if they have been convicted before.

Computers definitely will never be able to see and sort things, smell, recognize songs, or have a sense of touch or feel pain.

It's one thing to lay out soft skills that a lot of people don't have and say that's where jobs lie in the future. It's a whole different ballgame to ignore the fact that computers are already making inroads there, and already are better than some percent of the population at those things. Unless the authors are expecting technology to suddenly go in reverse, they're packing bags for a ship that's already sailed.

Big Brother might have been concerned by Social Media's claims that it's future is messaging, encryption, and privacy.

But if people instead switch to old-fashioned unencrypted email, the TLAs who were relying on social media access don't lose their personal info data-pipe.

Real-time ray tracing on mobile can supposedly be done via patented method - ref: Venturebeat article

Within two paragraphs the summary makes contradictory claims.

The claims are not contradictory.

1. India is the world's second biggest internet market (China is #1).

2. They aren't doing it with American tech.

Chinese smartphones are winning in India

People aren't even reading this.

ahem...

Yes this is an announcement that they aren't going to fill manufacturing jobs. Now they are talking about R&D jobs. $230k/employee means it makes more sense to bring in employees that let them take advantage of the $230k/employee.

This is one of the strangest differential analysis apologetics I've ever seen. I haven't seen anything that would suggest what you do.

Is this going to help the blue collar workers of Wisconsin? Indirectly since there will be support and infrastructure jobs around this. But if they actually follow through it will help create (or drastically expand) a new class of educated worker and industry in Wisconsin.

Oh geesh, maybe it can even get the Wisconsonites to stop interbreeding and eating their own feces? (maximum sarcasm) Your concept of the good people of Wisconsin is insultingly far off the mark.

Here's a differential analysis for ya:

A political party is pressed to create some jobs. A lot of its ideology hasn't worked so far - things like Trickle down economics and tax breaks for the job creators.

So one of the true believers decides to take a new tack - direct payment of taxpayer dollars to a company to locate in the heartland. This will be the shining star - the touchstone as it were - that validates their ideology. Even if it more resembles ideology of government run business.

Unfortunately for them, it was found out that each employee was going to cost the taxpayers 230 thousand dollars. Unfortunately for them, the main promoter of this effort was defeated at the polls. Unfortunately for them the company, who is kinda a predator to begin with, started threatening to pull out of the deal because 230 thousand per employee isn't enough money for them https://venturebeat.com/2019/0... .

I mean, those suicide nets around FoxConn factories don't come cheap you know. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/w...

That's not the point. The normalization of walled gardens makes them more acceptable to use in future technology, even if it's just updated versions of the existing technology (i.e. Windows 10 in S Mode, see related). Additionally, if there is software that you must use but that is not available on different platforms, you DON'T have a hardware choice. QuickBooks and the entire Adobe professional software suite are major pieces of software in extremely common use that are not available on Linux, not even through Wine. You're also completely ignoring the difference between a computer's administrator choosing to lock the system down vs. the manufacturer locking both users and administrators down. There are zero situations where a walled garden is a good thing. It's called vendor lock-in and you need to do more research on the subject before continuing to advocate for it; it's simply a universally evil action.

They cite labor costs. https://venturebeat.com/2019/0... If you subsidize a company to the tune of $230,000 per employee, but the employee costs are too high, well golly gosh.

You can make up your own mind who is responsible.

Two things I learned today:

JavaScript is the #1 most known language on the planet. https://venturebeat.com/2019/0...
"Black Panther" is the best movie of all time according to Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com...

It is amazing what you can learn on the Internet.

You're right, it's an obscure phrase that people only used briefly on obscure websites years ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...
https://mashable.com/article/f...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/sc...
https://gizmodo.com/dark-patte...
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-...
https://www.extremetech.com/in...
https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
https://sdtimes.com/addiction/...
https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/15...

Yeah, it is, like, an outfit that is totally independent from government influence, and they are totally not twisting anything on government behalf.

https://venturebeat.com/2009/1...

For China, 30 million is just a fringe user base.

That depends entirely on how poor your math skills are: are you comparing that figure to the number of PC gamers in China or the number of people??

According to this article, there are around 300 million PC gamers in China. So, the 30 million is still a small portion of gamers. However, many Chinese gamers play in internet cafes, and those are the gamers that Steam wants to access.

Microsoft has been brilliant in diversifying their income streams. Azure and business cloud services, Office and business software, and personal computing such as the Surface and XBox each got about a third of revenue. Windows OEM sales were actually up! So even if Windows stumbles, well, what, are you going to see Linux finally reach the desktop in 2019? I wouldn't bet on it, buddy.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...

So far it looks like we are getting the better flavor of 5G this time https://venturebeat.com/2018/1...

The UK seems to be getting something that's targeting 100Mbps while the early installs here in the USA are already doing near gigabit with a 300Mbps standard target.

I was going to joke about how Candy Crush is so 2012, and then I saw they're still pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars per year with around 300 million active users a month (at least at the end of 2017). So uh... I guess for a large part of the population, it's still a key application that should be standard...?

"You void your warantee if you root/fix your phone/fail to say three 'Hail Apples' every night" is one of the most enduring myths I've seen. Apple cannot "void your warantee" for anything they want, believe it or not, we even have laws that prevent it right here in the Banana Republic States of America. Alright, they're hardly ever enforced, so you can be forgiven for not knowing that they exist, but for what it's worth, Apple is violating the law by doing this, and the FTC is at least starting to pretend like they are going to do something about it. https://www.theregister.co.uk/... https://motherboard.vice.com/e... https://www.cultofmac.com/5407... https://venturebeat.com/2018/0... "But. but, it's a free market! Apple should be able to stick a three-foot long kilbasa in your rectum as punishment for not bricking your phone within 3 days of their releasing an update! What, you think you're special? If you don't update, you might get infected, and then infect others, so it's your obligation to brick your phone like everyone else because a working phone can be compromised! You owe it to them! It's right there on page 27 of the fine print! You agreed to it so you have to do it! You agreed to it! You agreed to it of your own free will! In a free market no less! A free market!" The "free market" hasn't devlolved quite that much yet, but give it another couple of years and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

The U.S. still does a lot of chip design and fabrication. It's just that the chips get shipped overseas for packaging and final product assembly.

Also, U.S. manufacturing output has been increasing year over year even though we were moving large chunks of it overseas. I think now would be a good time to start reinvesting in local manufacturing, but that would be done with machines. A lot of the jobs aren't coming back, but that's okay because it means that labor is free to do something that's more productive instead.

Ya know, for all the Apple-bashing around here, they have actually been doing manufacturing/final-assembly of at least one of their products here since 2013: The (often-maligned) Mac Pro.

Granted, it's not the highest-volume product Apple sells; but even if it represents just 1% of Apple's nearly 20 million Mac units sold in 2017, that still represents a quantity of nearly 2 million units of $2k-5k Mac Pros per year (for an average yearly income of $5 BEELION in gross sales), which is a production rate and income that many a company would die-for. Not so bad for a "failed" product!

And they are ALL at least Assembled in U.S.A

https://www.macrumors.com/2014... ...and Apple is at least TRYING to make even more products in the U.S.A.:

https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...

Right.

Nope, Let's have some facts instead of your imagination.

For example, in the UK, automation eliminated 800,000 jobs, but created 3.5 million new ones.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/0...

The numbers are even huger for the USA.

There is no problem. The work will never end.

Mozilla cannot copy Google and be better than Google.

Firefox is better than Chrome. Compare Firefox versus Chrome (ignore Edge) in each one of these 9 browser benchmarks. Firefox beats Chrome in 5 of the 9 benchmarks. Note also that Firefox is never last in any benchmark.

So there you have it. Mozilla is better than Google.

Bad memories die hard, and your solutions trainwrecked Oregon's healthcare website when other states were able to accomplish more for far less and in a far more timely manner.

Good thing I'm not in congress, I'd find any way I could to prevent you from bidding on a contract that was critical for our national defense.

Just get lost already, and let the companies that know what they're doing get the job done.

Searching for "imac pro repair" gives 14.1 million results and the first few have these titles:
Popular YouTuber Says Apple Won't Fix His iMac Pro Damaged While Disassembled (he's not saying they won't repair it for free, he's saying they won't repair it even if he's paying for the repair).
Is Apple's behavior ILLEGAL?? - iMac Pro Repair Pt. 2
Apple refuses to fix iMac Pro damaged in YouTube teardown
Canadian YouTuber Denied iMac Pro Repair By Apple Over ‘Policy’ Issues [VIDEO]
The Apple Store Genius Bar Broke My $5,000 iMac Pro

Aren't those all echoing the same blogger?

Searching for "imac pro repair" gives 14.1 million results and the first few have these titles:
Popular YouTuber Says Apple Won't Fix His iMac Pro Damaged While Disassembled (he's not saying they won't repair it for free, he's saying they won't repair it even if he's paying for the repair).
Is Apple's behavior ILLEGAL?? - iMac Pro Repair Pt. 2
Apple refuses to fix iMac Pro damaged in YouTube teardown
Canadian YouTuber Denied iMac Pro Repair By Apple Over ‘Policy’ Issues [VIDEO]
The Apple Store Genius Bar Broke My $5,000 iMac Pro

This guy modeling the t-shirt with the new proposed Firefox logo is the most uncool and stupid thing I've seen today. First of all, wearing aviator type shades usually will increase your coolness factor by 1 or more. However, the coolness of the shades are completely overpowered by lameness of the shirt and the obvious nerdiness of the nerd. The t-shirt appears to have a larger version of logo at the bottom of the shirt, which, because of its bright colors at the bottom of the shirt with a dark color on top, creates an imbalanced top-heavy look. Not aesthetically pleasing. Plus, the logo at the bottom is only half above the jean waist, which presumably means the mouth and nose of fox is down around the crotch, feeding on fresh-kill meat, I guess. Just a terrible effort.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...

The "bounce back" was for useless stuff that provides little to no value, much like Chrome's addons. No SQLite manager, no FTP, no SSH, no TableTools, no "advanced" right click, etc. It was just the gimmicky garbage that was left behind in the aftermath because addon developers no longer have the access they need to create useful tools. WebExtensions are woefully inadequate compared to XUL.

Firefox is slower than Chrome https://venturebeat.com/2018/0... only coming ahead in Kraken/WebXPRT.

And that "privacy" you so love - is non-existent. They just backdoor it through "experiments" which are exempt from their privacy policy and supposedly have privacy polices of their own, but in reality it's whatever data they want to harvest, they can, and will - with no oversight.

Apple does a lot to prevent genuine parts being available to anyone other than the authorized techs who pay them.

Apple apparently doesn't even have parts for their authorized techs, either.

Valve has recently announced they have partnered with a Chinese company to formally bring Steam to China so it's likely Valve is preparing to make sure they're fully compliant in China soon. Source

FYI, the center pic in your link should be of an LG Prada, not an iPhone. The Prada was the first smartphone to go without a keyboard or keypad, not the iPhone. As I keep telling people, just because the first time you saw a feature was on an Apple product, does not mean Apple invented it.

The pics on the left and right are also cherry-picked to make it look like the iPhone was the progenitor of the modern smartphone design. Here's what the pic looks like if you cherry-pick phones to make the comparison favorable to Samsung.

Samsung already had phones in their internal design pipeline prior to the iPhone's release which looked very iPhone-like. They just weren't allowed to present them in court because they missed a filing deadline. The judge in the case opted to prioritize a legal deadline over the truth, which makes sense if a lawyer is exhibiting a pattern of missing deadlines, but not when potentially a billion dollars is at stake. The truth is the industry was already transitioning towards touch and away from physical keyboards by the time the iPhone rolled out. The iPhone did not create this new paradigm, it just happened to make the biggest splash with it.

Samsung missed no deadlines in the similar case over the iPad's design. So they were able to successfully argue that the concept of a tablet existed long before the iPad, and that the Samsung Galaxy Tab's design actually borrowed from their digital picture frame which pre-dates the iPad (and the iPhone for that matter). And the jury ruled for Samsung in the tablet design patent case. They weren't jerks about it either - they didn't sue Apple for stealing their picture frame design for the iPad.

Intel: https://newsroom.intel.com/edi...
"the first Intel processor with a 5.0 GHz turbo frequency"

Intel actually qualifies their statement and all the reporters parroted it without the qualification. So basically, just another news day.

Venturebeat: https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
"the first-ever CPU with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency, said Intel’s Gregory Bryant"

CNET: https://www.cnet.com/news/inte...
"the first-ever CPU with a 5.0GHz turbo frequency." ...

I quoted it from the article.

but apple does not work that way.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...

https://forums.macrumors.com/t...

> Its not as bad as you would think and it's designed for those devices and the graphics are way better than you think.

Yes it is. It's far worse. Whales are < 2% of the customers, but make > 95% of the money for game developers.

https://venturebeat.com/2013/0...

5th Planet chief executive Robert Winkler revealed at the Game Developers Conference Online in 2012 that with its game Clash of the Dragons, 40 percent of revenue came from 2 percent of players who spent $1,000 or more. Ninety percent came from those who spent $100 or more, and the top whale had spent $6,700.

As an ex-professional game developer 95+% of mobile games are crap

* Hurry-up-and-wait gaming that constantly nag you
* Exploitative predatory tactics such as gambling (loot boxes), in-app-purchases, and ads.
* Mobile games tend not to respect your time, money, or space.

There ARE games that don't exploit the players:

* Hidden Folks
* Limbo
* Minecraft
* Terreria
* The Room (and all its sequels)
* The Witness
*etc.

You have to look, but they are there.

> No one wants to lug around a PC computer to play a multiplayer game.

Uh, that's what mobile gaming is -- by definition.

This is ignoring the fact that some games just DON'T work (well) on a mobile. i.e. Let me know when I can play:

* Starcraft 2
* World of Warcraft

on a phone.

Mouse + Keyboard is vastly superior for some games.

Mobile gaming is here to stay. That's NOT the problem. The problem is the exploitative behavior.

It is bullshit like this is driving the mobile games straight into the ground.

... I guess I only play games in the 5% then, like any other platform (THANKS Steam Greenlight).
Warhammer Quest, Neuroshima Hex, Settlers of Catan, Smash Up, Exploding Kittens, my favorites.

Whales, we care because? Some people buy tons of Steam games on sale and never play them. On $3000 computers, bitching about frame rates until rounds of performance patches and driver updates come out.

Who said phones need to run Starcraft or WoW, you just came out of nowhere with that.

So keep your keyboard and mouse??

This whole post is strangely combative.

Oh and I'm a Linux administrator, so that makes me an expert on stuff.

> Its not as bad as you would think and it's designed for those devices and the graphics are way better than you think.

Yes it is. It's far worse. Whales are < 2% of the customers, but make > 95% of the money for game developers.

https://venturebeat.com/2013/0...

5th Planet chief executive Robert Winkler revealed at the Game Developers Conference Online in 2012 that with its game Clash of the Dragons, 40 percent of revenue came from 2 percent of players who spent $1,000 or more. Ninety percent came from those who spent $100 or more, and the top whale had spent $6,700.

As an ex-professional game developer 95+% of mobile games are crap

* Hurry-up-and-wait gaming that constantly nag you
* Exploitative predatory tactics such as gambling (loot boxes), in-app-purchases, and ads.
* Mobile games tend not to respect your time, money, or space.

There ARE games that don't exploit the players:

* Hidden Folks
* Limbo
* Minecraft
* Terreria
* The Room (and all its sequels)
* The Witness
*etc.

You have to look, but they are there.

> No one wants to lug around a PC computer to play a multiplayer game.

Uh, that's what mobile gaming is -- by definition.

This is ignoring the fact that some games just DON'T work (well) on a mobile. i.e. Let me know when I can play:

* Starcraft 2
* World of Warcraft

on a phone.

Mouse + Keyboard is vastly superior for some games.

Mobile gaming is here to stay. That's NOT the problem. The problem is the exploitative behavior.

It is bullshit like this is driving the mobile games straight into the ground.

Absolutely. There are games designed to trap "whales" who will drop thousands of dollars on a single game. They'll design features tailored to their wants just so they'll keep dropping cash.

https://venturebeat.com/2013/0...

Except for Apple already doing assembly on some models in Texas for a few years now on some systems, and announcing plans a couple months ago to spend billions moving more manufacturing and assembly back on-shore.

Sure, the number of Mac Pro systems is probably pathetically small for a company like Apple (especially since it's ass-old and stupidly priced), but System76 is hardly a major OEM cranking out millions of units either.

So what is unique in what was announced here today, and how it's "way more" than other major brands?

They do work in the same way? Then why can't it recognize sheep?

It is recognizing sheep. The problem is that it's recognizing sheep when it shouldn't.

This is a problem that is very familiar to humans. You see it every time numerologists find "codes" in their holy book that supposedly prophesy real events. Every time somebody finds a shape in a cloud or Jesus in burnt toast.

The neural network went, "I expect to see sheep flocks in pastures, this is a pasture, and there are whitish things here. I see a pattern, so I'm now classifying the whiteish things as sheep."

Then why can't it recognize sheep? A two year old can.

We come with a very specialized hardware to recognize certain shapes. We are AMAZING at recognizing human facial expressions, and a large part of our brain is dedicated just to that. This extends in part to animals, especially other mammals. Here are some things artificial neural networks will kick your ass in.

The âtook five months..." link actually links to https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...

Android Oreo took five months to pass the 1 percent adoption mark.

Yup, indeed, wrong link (about Telegram being pulled out of the appstore due to Child pornography).

Speaking of which :

  - How did Apple check the existence of Child pornography ? Wasn't Telegram supposed to be exclusively using end-to-end encryption ? Or did they ask investigating police officers to start chat with CP-distributors ?... (read the Wikipedia article...) Ah okay. end-to-end encryption isn't default and users need to initiate "secret chat" to enable it.

- Telegram is only a communication service enabling end user to exchange message. It shouldn't be liable for what the end-users are exchanging. (Just as the ISP isn't responsible for the internet use of their client).

- Also given that the suspected criminals are stupid enough to NOT use the end-to-end encryption and be easily checked by Apple, it should be easy to prosecute *them* directly.

According to Google's Platform Versions page, Android 8.0 Oreo mobile operating system finally has 1.1 percent adoption. Like Android Nougat before it, Android Oreo took five months to pass the 1 percent adoption mark.

Linked as it appears in TFS.

As opposed to iOS, where iOS 11 adoption is ALREADY at 65 percent:

https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/19...

And no, Apple does NOT FORCE UPGRADES. My iPhone 6 Plus is still running 10.3.3. Apple doesn't even nag me anymore about it.

According to Google's Platform Versions page, Android 8.0 Oreo mobile operating system finally has 1.1 percent adoption. Like Android Nougat before it, Android Oreo took five months to pass the 1 percent adoption mark.

Linked as it appears in TFS.

Yeap, totally didn't happen. ISPs never blocked or throttled anything.

Exactly. Both Russia and China have demanded -- and gotten -- source code reviews of code from Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, and SAP. This is, and has been, standard practice for over a decade.

This isn't news, it is sensationalist headline clickbait.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/06/23/tech-firms-including-cisco-ibm-and-sap-allow-russian-authorities-to-review-product-source-code/ (2017)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-opens-source-code-to-russian-secret-service/ (2010)

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2581562/security0/china-next-to-get-access-to-microsoft-source-code.html (2003)

Doesn't Russia have its own social media and search sites?

I can't vouch for this source, but Facebook only barely makes the top 10 websites in Russia:

Russia’s top 10 websites include Facebook, Google, Instagram, and YouTube

The other sites are Russian and rank higher.

How good a source can that be? They talk about the top 10 but only list 9!

[...] a giant neon sign that reads "ATARI".

It's called a product placement. Warner Brothers owned Atari and distributed Blade Runner at the time. Even though Warner Brothers no longer owns Atari, the Atari logo does appear in the new movie.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/05/08/blade-runner-2049-official-film-trailer-features-the-atari-logo/

Use the latest internal parts.*
Revert to including headphone jack.
Go crazy on edge-to-edge screen.
Make an "SE" version.
For the love of storage include a MicroSD slot.
Please revise / update iTunes, it's horrible.

Apple's success will depend on how much of this fantasy they can bring to reality. I've used both iOS and Android for some time now; they each have their foibles. The above phone would get me to buy an iPhone in spite of Apple's OS path diverging from my personal preference (i.e. Trust everything in our cloud! No 3rd party cloud allowed!)
*I don't personally care about touch ID sensor.

No 3rd party cloud allowed?

You mean like this?

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ho... ...or this?

https://venturebeat.com/2015/0...

In fact, it looks like most, if not all, of the major "Cloud Storage" providers work with iOS:

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/on...

And when iOS 11 drops in a few weeks, the built-in "Files" App will make 3rd party Cloud storage quite simple:

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2...

So, you MIGHT want to revise your meme to comport with REALITY...

1) Apple makes their own hardware. They do not force other manufacturers into agreements.

2) Apple's market share is falling.

3) Apple and Microsoft are likely behind all of this anti-trust business.

Neither GOOG nor NSA discloses the size of their supercomputing clusters.

We can get some idea of how big the former is by China's application to expand their "fastest" supercomputer. They were thwarted when usgov denied Intel an export license. If the threshold of feeling threatened enough to deny license is crossed only when doubling the size of the "fastest", then US military computing must be somewhat faster than the "fastest".

For Google, you can get some idea from watts. Tianhe-2 20MW (seems to have lower cooling efficiency than designs published by Facebook), GOOG ~1500MW (globally, not in one datacenter, but single-location figures are still higher than Tianhe-2).

All completely true.

Trouble is, the Surface sells at a loss. Microsoft loses money on each one sold. It's basically a very expensive windows brand promotion.

Not true. Surface made billions for Microsoft and was a hot seller.

Kids today don't want a skill based game. It's not fair that the better player should win most of the time... Of course bringing your own team of 5 is being a social little snowflake and that will be rewarded with plenty of wins.

This argument falls apart at "kids today..." because the average age of gamers is 31. http://venturebeat.com/2014/04... The 25-35 age demographic also has more disposable income to spend on games than kids, so games are going to reflect their preferences. Gamers also tend to enjoy playing games with their friends and social groups, so it makes sense that team-based games would have appeal. The 25-35 year olds also usually have other responsibilities and interests in their life than games and don't have the spare time to practice the elite DM skills as when they were younger, but they still want to enjoy the time they spend gaming. I am 30-something gamer who has played a ton of Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, Rise of the Triad, Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament, etc. so I get the point to some degree, but blame your peers not "kids these days."