It's amusing watching people contort their wrists attempting to touch their Apple Watch to a PIN-pad to use Apple Pay. It looks painful enough I can't see how that'd be 'more convenient'. The screen is so tiny that trying to use its touch interface is a drag. It's useful if you get regular notifications you don't often need to respond to (say, if you're a day-trader), otherwise you might as well just pull out the phone (perhaps setting personalized ringtones).
The only reason 'happy holidays' exists is because of people who are triggered by hearing 'merry christmas'. Unless the poll records how many people HATE 'merry christmas', then it won't reveal why 'happy holidays' exists.
You're kidding, right? Read any 'how to win at blackjack/poker/gambling' book and, right after the rules, it will give all of the precise odds for all of the means of winning. Amateur gamblers are expected to memorize ALL of these odds, this is Gambling 101. IIRC, it's allowed to bring a 'cheat sheet' of all of these odds into a casino, as well. In this case, humans know a bunch of statistical information regarding the game. That said, this AI did improve its strategy over time, which could be called 'intelligence'. It doesn't have to precisely mimic human learning in order to be 'intelligent', they weren't calling it 'Artificial Human Intelligence' AFAIK.
Anyone who plays high-stakes online poker can afford to physically go somewhere and do it in person. Of course, then people will have a bone-conduction speaker hidden somewhere on their person, receiving instructions from an AI. Until the hosts start doing bug sweeps.
Plant-based meat? Ok. Synthetic meat? Why not. But I am never, ever, touching patties made from insect meat, no matter how many "grasshoppers are the next big superfood!" articles are written. Never gonna forget that scene from Snowpiercer. No. Thanks.
LG, Sharp, Kopin, and Japan Display also make OLED displays, off the top of my head. No idea if any make displays suitable for a smartphone, though if $22 billion was on the line I imagine they could make it happen.
If the order amount is tripled, then either demand for a $1,000 iPhone is far higher than anticipated, or they're planning on rolling out OLED displays to other models e.g. the iPhone 9 Plus. I imagine once consumers realize how much better HDR screens are, they'll start thinking "normal iPhone screens look crappy." It's kind of ironic given that Jobs badmouthed OLED, but makes me wonder why they didn't go with quantum dot displays (supply issues I'd imagine).
Might it not be easier to reengineer the human body to no longer require regular intake of water, than to squeeze it from stones in other environments like Mars?
I can see this being useful for off-duty police officers, as there have been cases of them being accosted. However, ordinary people don't need to know every time a police officer gets hurt in a traffic collision (statistically, by far, the leading cause of unnatural serious injury or death to on-duty police.) I could maybe see this as some kind of active shooter alert system... but it's so overbroad it's almost never going to be such a scenario, and people will turn it off/tune it out and never get the message. Furthermore, if I'm hiding from a shooter and my phone starts a siren that can be heard a block away, I'm not gonna be hidden any longer.
My old slider phone had mapping software built-in... that would only work if you paid a (presumably one-time) fee to activate it. Presumably the money went to the app developer rather than the carrier.
San Francisco recently voted to cut down on the number of robots that roam the streets of the city, which has seen an influx of small delivery robots in recent years. The city said it would issue the SPCA a fine of $1,000 per day for illegally operating on a public right-of-way if it continued to use the security robot outside its premises
Maybe the city should hire the homeless people to shoo away the robots, and issue tickets.
Perhaps the issue was that film cameras were low-resolution, blurry, and more prone to smudging. So lots of ghost/UFO videos and photos abounded, showing something small and blurry. Digital cameras gave a clearer outline.
Either that or the film exposure chemicals were extracted from the bodies of dead aliens.
Once you exclude the UFOs that can be confirmed as something mundane, then what else a UFO could be is effectively unfalsifiable. Either it's classified, or a one-off unrecorded meteorological/optical phenomenon laymen are ignorant of, or something 'new to science'. Completely new macroscopic phenomena are very rare nowadays, because anything that conspicuous was likely to have been noticed thousands of years ago, and thoroughly explained hundreds of years ago. Every now and then a legend is confirmed real, but sometimes is debunked (Loch Ness monster.)
More relevantly, aliens are passe in American culture now. They've lost credibility as a trope in media, having been replaced by Zombies and Vampires, who more closely resemble our current cultural anxieties. Xenophobia led to broad fear of space aliens, and the cold war Red Scare led to general fear of invasion. The fall of the USSR was accompanied by a shift in anxieties to fear of the internal moral collapse of one's society. Vampires represent the hidden minority slowly corrupting society, whereas Zombies represent a foolish majority clamoring for society's downfall. In a society that promotes coexisting with other ethnicities, or even pluralism, it's difficult to take "nuke the little green men because they're all evil!" seriously.
News flash: front-end automation can lead to more orders being sent to the back-end. The next step is back-end automation "to keep up with increased volume", and then the employee count will be fully reduced. Fast food is intended to be cooked precisely according to an algorithm already, so I expect cook-bots will be ordered shortly afterward.
None of their efforts may 'save America' directly, but they're serving as an example of what should be done on a broader scale. It also reminds me of 'protest theater', where a protest is turned into a marvel designed to garner attention. Good on em.
Uh huh. If there are no delays, the SLS will be sent on its first Mars mission TEN YEARS after SpaceX is planning on sending humans to Mars. Not like SpaceX has never seen delays... but the question really becomes, who is better known for worse delays: Boeing, or SpaceX? OTOH if a private enterprise beats ALL governments to landing a human on Mars, that'd be a pretty big black eye for those other space programs with ostensibly larger budgets, authority and reach.
North Korea has crazy anti-air defenses. All their missiles would be in the air long before the B-52s made it near the launch facilities. A first strike would involve stealth bombers. Now, if these cruise missiles were launched from the ground near the DMZ after their radar installations were taken out, that might make some sense... except the launch facilities are going to be a top-priority target, above radar installations. Also, it's a bit of an assumption that their ballistic missiles are aimed electronically rather than by turning mechanical wheels like old artillery. With Trump at least, he'd authorize the use of EMP and neutron bomb weapons in a first strike scenario, which would have a broader effect than this weapon. This PR is just meant to spook NK, but what'd REALLY spook em is to say we reverse-engineered the Cuba embassy attack weapon, and figured out how to use it undetected, from space, on Dear Leader's most trusted Generals/Advisers and make them go insane.
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However, the watch's NFC antenna still has to be held physically close to the PIN-pad.
It's amusing watching people contort their wrists attempting to touch their Apple Watch to a PIN-pad to use Apple Pay. It looks painful enough I can't see how that'd be 'more convenient'.
The screen is so tiny that trying to use its touch interface is a drag. It's useful if you get regular notifications you don't often need to respond to (say, if you're a day-trader), otherwise you might as well just pull out the phone (perhaps setting personalized ringtones).
The only reason 'happy holidays' exists is because of people who are triggered by hearing 'merry christmas'. Unless the poll records how many people HATE 'merry christmas', then it won't reveal why 'happy holidays' exists.
You're kidding, right? Read any 'how to win at blackjack/poker/gambling' book and, right after the rules, it will give all of the precise odds for all of the means of winning. Amateur gamblers are expected to memorize ALL of these odds, this is Gambling 101. IIRC, it's allowed to bring a 'cheat sheet' of all of these odds into a casino, as well. In this case, humans know a bunch of statistical information regarding the game. That said, this AI did improve its strategy over time, which could be called 'intelligence'. It doesn't have to precisely mimic human learning in order to be 'intelligent', they weren't calling it 'Artificial Human Intelligence' AFAIK.
Anyone who plays high-stakes online poker can afford to physically go somewhere and do it in person. Of course, then people will have a bone-conduction speaker hidden somewhere on their person, receiving instructions from an AI. Until the hosts start doing bug sweeps.
Plant-based meat? Ok. Synthetic meat? Why not.
But I am never, ever, touching patties made from insect meat, no matter how many "grasshoppers are the next big superfood!" articles are written.
Never gonna forget that scene from Snowpiercer. No. Thanks.
Sexbots have more stamina than any human, and don't get headaches.
Maybe vegan 'nog' will stop tasting like crap, once they put imitation egg in it.
LG, Sharp, Kopin, and Japan Display also make OLED displays, off the top of my head. No idea if any make displays suitable for a smartphone, though if $22 billion was on the line I imagine they could make it happen.
If the order amount is tripled, then either demand for a $1,000 iPhone is far higher than anticipated, or they're planning on rolling out OLED displays to other models e.g. the iPhone 9 Plus. I imagine once consumers realize how much better HDR screens are, they'll start thinking "normal iPhone screens look crappy." It's kind of ironic given that Jobs badmouthed OLED, but makes me wonder why they didn't go with quantum dot displays (supply issues I'd imagine).
Might it not be easier to reengineer the human body to no longer require regular intake of water, than to squeeze it from stones in other environments like Mars?
What it really reminded me of is Falcon's headgear from the last Avengers film.
So you're saying we need Mr. Fusion?
In other news, gas produced by political windbags set to hold steady indefinitely.
I can see this being useful for off-duty police officers, as there have been cases of them being accosted. However, ordinary people don't need to know every time a police officer gets hurt in a traffic collision (statistically, by far, the leading cause of unnatural serious injury or death to on-duty police.) I could maybe see this as some kind of active shooter alert system... but it's so overbroad it's almost never going to be such a scenario, and people will turn it off/tune it out and never get the message. Furthermore, if I'm hiding from a shooter and my phone starts a siren that can be heard a block away, I'm not gonna be hidden any longer.
Using Hill-Climbing to escape the Uncanny Valley... it's such a bad play on words I can't look at it as ingenious.
My old slider phone had mapping software built-in... that would only work if you paid a (presumably one-time) fee to activate it. Presumably the money went to the app developer rather than the carrier.
San Francisco recently voted to cut down on the number of robots that roam the streets of the city, which has seen an influx of small delivery robots in recent years. The city said it would issue the SPCA a fine of $1,000 per day for illegally operating on a public right-of-way if it continued to use the security robot outside its premises
Maybe the city should hire the homeless people to shoo away the robots, and issue tickets.
I was referring to VHS camcorders which are more like 320x200.
Perhaps the issue was that film cameras were low-resolution, blurry, and more prone to smudging. So lots of ghost/UFO videos and photos abounded, showing something small and blurry. Digital cameras gave a clearer outline.
Either that or the film exposure chemicals were extracted from the bodies of dead aliens.
Once you exclude the UFOs that can be confirmed as something mundane, then what else a UFO could be is effectively unfalsifiable. Either it's classified, or a one-off unrecorded meteorological/optical phenomenon laymen are ignorant of, or something 'new to science'. Completely new macroscopic phenomena are very rare nowadays, because anything that conspicuous was likely to have been noticed thousands of years ago, and thoroughly explained hundreds of years ago. Every now and then a legend is confirmed real, but sometimes is debunked (Loch Ness monster.)
More relevantly, aliens are passe in American culture now. They've lost credibility as a trope in media, having been replaced by Zombies and Vampires, who more closely resemble our current cultural anxieties. Xenophobia led to broad fear of space aliens, and the cold war Red Scare led to general fear of invasion. The fall of the USSR was accompanied by a shift in anxieties to fear of the internal moral collapse of one's society. Vampires represent the hidden minority slowly corrupting society, whereas Zombies represent a foolish majority clamoring for society's downfall.
In a society that promotes coexisting with other ethnicities, or even pluralism, it's difficult to take "nuke the little green men because they're all evil!" seriously.
News flash: front-end automation can lead to more orders being sent to the back-end. The next step is back-end automation "to keep up with increased volume", and then the employee count will be fully reduced. Fast food is intended to be cooked precisely according to an algorithm already, so I expect cook-bots will be ordered shortly afterward.
None of their efforts may 'save America' directly, but they're serving as an example of what should be done on a broader scale. It also reminds me of 'protest theater', where a protest is turned into a marvel designed to garner attention. Good on em.
Uh huh. If there are no delays, the SLS will be sent on its first Mars mission TEN YEARS after SpaceX is planning on sending humans to Mars. Not like SpaceX has never seen delays... but the question really becomes, who is better known for worse delays: Boeing, or SpaceX? OTOH if a private enterprise beats ALL governments to landing a human on Mars, that'd be a pretty big black eye for those other space programs with ostensibly larger budgets, authority and reach.
B-52 is poor choice in nk*
North Korea has crazy anti-air defenses. All their missiles would be in the air long before the B-52s made it near the launch facilities. A first strike would involve stealth bombers. Now, if these cruise missiles were launched from the ground near the DMZ after their radar installations were taken out, that might make some sense... except the launch facilities are going to be a top-priority target, above radar installations.
Also, it's a bit of an assumption that their ballistic missiles are aimed electronically rather than by turning mechanical wheels like old artillery. With Trump at least, he'd authorize the use of EMP and neutron bomb weapons in a first strike scenario, which would have a broader effect than this weapon.
This PR is just meant to spook NK, but what'd REALLY spook em is to say we reverse-engineered the Cuba embassy attack weapon, and figured out how to use it undetected, from space, on Dear Leader's most trusted Generals/Advisers and make them go insane.