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  1. It's not too late for them to trademark Zika on EU Court Blocks Brazilian Company From Trademarking Sound Of a Ringing Phone (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Best to strike while the iron is hot.

  2. A failed phone business by any other name on Microsoft To Kill The Lumia Brand In Favor of a New Surface Phone, Says Report (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Still remains the same.

  3. Re:Dolphins are arseholes on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1
  4. Re:The iPhone 7/7+ still support CDMA on Intel Breaks Qualcomm's Hold On Apple's Baseband Chips (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I read that article as well. But by that time both Verizon and Sprint will have likely fully transitioned away from CDMA.

  5. Re:Dolphins are arseholes on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There actually might be a correlation between intelligence and arseholes - dolphins are one of the only species besides man that have been observed killing for fun instead of for predation or territory.

  6. Re:What's with the quotes? on Dolphins Recorded Having a Conversation For The First Time (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The quotes might be because the conclusion that the dolphins' sounds represent words and language is conjecture at this point.

  7. Sounds like Chinese Govt is having 2nd thoughts on China's Expensive Super Particle Collider Jeopardized By Criticism (scmp.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No way that article gets published without the imprimatur of the communist government, which must mean the government wants to back out of the plan. Having Dr Yang Chen-ning kill the project let's the government save face.

  8. I watched the presentation and that was not said. Phil Schiller said they have logic to decide when to use the high-power cores vs low-power but that doesn't imply orthogonality.

    Here's the link. Jump to 94:35 for the discussion of the A10.

    http://www.apple.com/apple-eve...

  9. The iPhone 7/7+ still support CDMA on Intel Breaks Qualcomm's Hold On Apple's Baseband Chips (wsj.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    They have to - Verizon and Spring still need to finish deploying more GSM/LTE spectrum before they can finally abandon CDMA. Until then Apple still has to buy chips from Qualcomm for phones sold into Verizon/Sprint customers. The difference for the 7/7+ is that Apple has a GSM/LTE-only SKU that uses the Intel chips, for AT&T and T-Mobile (and global) customers.

  10. If it follows ARM's big.LITTLE architecture then all four cores will run in tandem under high utilization workloads. The power savings comes during low-utilization workloads, where the lower-power cores can be used.

  11. Re:I don't need faster, I need cheaper on Apple iPhone 7 Plus Packs 3GB RAM, Early A10 Fusion Benchmarks Look Very Strong (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    iPhone SE 32GB is $450 and has the same fast A9 processor as the 6s/6s+.

  12. Not difficult - just run 2 benchmark threads at 100% utilization, then 4 threads at 100% utilization. Subtract the two results to see the performance of the lower-power/slower cores.

  13. Tim Cook has claimed big things for 5 years on Many Looking Past iPhone 7 to Next Year's iPhone 8 (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Every year of disappointment brings new claims from Apple's CEO about how they're working on amazing things for next year. I guess what Mr. Cook finds amazing is not so amazing to anyone else.

  14. Seems like just yesterday that the V10 came out on LG Introduces The V20, The First Android Nougat Smartphone (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Almost like we're caught in a phone loop.

  15. Alternate Title: Microsoft working on next failure on Microsoft Working On Skype Teams, Its Slack Competitor (mspoweruser.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is a black hole of corporate profits, where on one end it sucks in billions of dollars of profit from businesses established decades ago and on the other end where nothing comes out except darkness, silence, and failure.

  16. Correlation does not imply causation on Toxic Air Pollution Particles Found In Human Brains (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is particularly true for Alzheimer's, where research has had several false starts trying to correlate cellular-level brain observations to the disease.

  17. Best way to improve browser performance on Chrome For Windows To Get Battery Performance Boost (zdnet.com) · · Score: 0

    Install an ad blocker.

  18. Most apps are obvious end runs around ad blockers on Apps Are Devouring the Open Web (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nearly every large website have apps that are only thin web shell wrappers around their sites. And when you visit their sites you're constantly reminded about downloading their awesome apps. The reason for this is obvious - to avoid ad blocking. This is especially true on platforms where ad blockers are only available within the browser, which means all of iOS and also most Android devices that aren't rooted.

  19. Sounds like a negotation tactic on Apple May Bring Back Billions In Profits To The U.S. (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Timmy has no intention of suddenly paying a much higher corporate tax rate by repatriating funds. He's only looking for leverage against his European bureaucrat opponents by recruiting eager EU members like Ireland to fight for him to preserve what little he contributes to their economies.

  20. Maybe due to Increasing frequency Li-ion sales on Not Just Samsung? The Increasing Frequency Of Battery Fires (sltrib.com) · · Score: 1

    Unit growth in Li-ion sales has been 18%+ for quite a while and is projected to continue at around 18% for years to come.

  21. They win the gold in air and watter pollution too on US Would Be 28th In 'Hacking Olympics', China Would Take The Gold (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In addition to the gold in government corruption, oppression of civil rights, and lack of a free press.

  22. Fault-tolerant privacy invading data centers on Facebook Engineers Crash Data Centers In Real-World Stress Test (ieee.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just when you thought your privacy could be restored by the massive failure of a data center, a new center rises up from the ashes of the other to take the helm of stealing every personal detail about your life and the life of people you love.

  23. Re:This is why I buy LG. on Android Companies Keep Pretending That Android Doesn't Exist (theverge.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    LG's have one more advantage - an automatic, involuntary continuous reboot feature.

  24. Americans are 25% less humble than rest of world on Android Users More Honest and Humble Than iPhone Users, Study Says (www.bgr.in) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The market share for Android world-wide is 80%. Its share in the USA is 60%.

    Source: https://techcrunch.com/2016/05...

  25. What does PC industry and Trump have in common? on New Intel and AMD Chips Will Only Support Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    They're both doing everything in their power to intentionally lose.