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  1. Anti-shake on New AI Model Fills in Blank Spots in Photos (nikkei.com) · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this can be applied to anti-shake filters where existing solutions do a really poor job of inventing blurry missing data.

  2. $120/yr app to enable background payback on YouTube Red is Having an Identity Crisis (digiday.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The YouTube app userbase has asked for years for background playback, and there were even Xposed modules to enable that, but then Google decided that they could get $120/yr for this feature by bundling it with other stuff nobody seemed to want. It might just be the most expensive 'pro' upgrade in the App Store.

    Imagine the total worldwide energy savings from everybody who doesn't have it not leaving their screens on just to listen to YouTube. Google may say they're green with solar panels and carbon credit swapping, but where the rubber meets the road they don't put their money where their PR is.

  3. Re:Correlation != Causality on Ultra-Processed Foods May Be Linked To Cancer, Says Study (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why it's important that there weren't upticks in all kinds of cancers. Diet, exercise, clean air, and stress management generally decrease all cancers. Something is probably going on; too soon to tell what though.

  4. Re:Not really that relevant anymore. on MPEG-2 Patents Have Expired (mpegla.com) · · Score: 1

    Is all of DVD off patent (including CSS) now?

  5. Re:So you don't want money? on Nvidia Will Focus on Gaming Because Cryptocurrencies Are 'Volatile' (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    AMD is hitting crypto hard (CPU, GPU, and drivers-wise) and by all indications AMD gear will be the dominant gear in the near future. nVidia is saving face here, while placating their traditional customers.

    "We model crypto approximately flat,"

    So, they're saying they know better the economic forecast in this space than mos of the markets.

  6. However any sufficiently popular cryptocurrency moves towards ASICS, rendering GPUs useless for mining.

    That's not the case. Both Blockstream Core (the fork that goes against the Satoshi model) and the Cash chain still use the same old hashing algorithm and there's not a movement to move those to an ASIC-hard algorithm. Same with Ethereum which loves to eat 8GB GPU cards.

    Those represent the top three mined cryptocurrencies of the past six months, so they're "suffciently popular".

    By all means, more CryptoNote PoW, please, but that's a separate issue.

  7. Android Leak Bigger on Key iPhone Source Code Gets Posted On GitHub (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Seriously, somebody posted the entire source code to Android a while back.

  8. Re:Setting a bad precedent on Reddit Bans 'Deepfakes' AI Porn Communities (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Having to make characters that don't look like any one of the billions of people on this planet would really kill the value of these systems.

    There's a huge business -- find the celebrities' doppelgangers, pay them a small but reasonable fee to use their likeness in fake porn, and get back on Reddit (who's kidding whom, that's small potatoes compared to the total market).

  9. Re:And yet you can still buy and grow opium poppy. on FDA Declares Popular Alt-Medicine Kratom an Opioid (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The exact same plant our military is attempting to eradicate in Afghanistan.

    Actually they're guarding the fields and helping the warlords traffic it. "Economic stability".

    But, yeah, they should ban poppy seeds if they're thinking about banning kratom.

  10. Dunno about IBM but Microvision has been making this tech for a couple decades. The physics are well understood.

  11. All self-driving cars in cities should be required to have an expensive medallion on them, and only a limited amount should be given out to qualified companies. To protect the consumer.

  12. Re:Do they ban other things? on Five Major Credit Cards Are Now Blocking Cryptocurrency Purchases (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure they still allow cash advances in Vegas.

  13. Re:It'll be Awful on Google Chrome To Feature Built-In Image Lazy Loading (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're reading down normally, why does the browser need to preload more than two pages worth of images? If you do read down normally you'd never notice if it's loading a page ahead. It sounds like Gab is too aggressive for its use case. If you rocketed down to the bottom it would be like a normal page load time, no?

    I can see why phone browsing might want to save data, but why inflict this on desktop PCs?

    You know lots of people around the world live on metered home Internet connections, right?

  14. Re:Here's what ISPs in Montana should all do now.. on Montana Becomes First State To Implement Net Neutrality After FCC Repeal (thehill.com) · · Score: 1

    ...ALL of them should put in clauses allowing them to throttle. That way the govt can no longer get any internet connections. See how long it takes them to reverse the order.

    EVERY ISP that's bigger than half a man in a garage implements various QoS and caching schemes (a.k.a. "throttling").

    That way the govt can no longer get any internet connections.

    Already there, man.

  15. Re:alt take: maybe democracy isn't good for societ on Facebook Says It Can't Guarantee Social Media is Good For Democracy (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    In that case, Long Live Facebook. And peaceful societies.

  16. Re:Lies on 'No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Goodwill, Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul, Amvets, all of these organizations have pretty efficient operations for re-purposing or selling clothes, at least in the USA.

    I get my kids second-hand clothes because they simply outgrow them too quickly to make buying new clothes a good option. I pick up work jeans and such when I'm at the store.

    But what I think the article might be getting at is that with all the tariffs, taxes, and cost-of-business in the US, the cost of goods here might be driving our secondary market.

    I can buy a "$30" pair of jeans for $6 at the thrift store, but that same pair of jeans, new, might be $3 in a country without massive amounts of embedded taxes and regulations baked into the cost of goods.

    So, yeah, US citizens more impoverished than so-called "third-world"-countries, on a few different measures at this point.

  17. Re:States rights is racist? on Lawsuit Filed By 22 State Attorneys General Seeks To Block Net Neutrality Repeal (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "Everything I don't like is racist."

  18. Re:So? on Bitcoin Plunges Below $12,000 To Six-Week Low Over Crackdown Fears (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I were a gambling man, I'd be tempted to invest now. Seems a big overreaction to cause this to make it drop 50% of value.

    The whales are driving the price down because the first of the futures contracts come due tomorrow. They'll drive it back up when they want to take profits.

    Remember, 2.5% of all addresses hold 97% of all BTC/Blockstream Core bitcoins. Go add up the numbers yourself from a Bitcoin Rich List.

  19. Re:This is getting ridiculous on macOS High Sierra's App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    MacOS is being kept on life support only until an iPhone can reasonably replace one with a wireless KVM. "Mac Mode" has been Steve's dream for more than a decade.

  20. Clear Signal on Apple To Transfer Chinese iCloud Operations To Chinese Firm (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "We're not going to implement the Chicomms' demands".

    But they'll work with a partner who will. Probably keeps their nose clean while complying with regs, and side-stepping the issue for shareholders.

  21. Re:The CEO who thinks differently is a fool on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 1

    it's YOU paying for their food stamps

    Which is why they can afford to not demand higher wages. Without food stamps they wouldn't take any jobs that allowed for survival in conjunction with food stamps.

    Labor is subject to the laws of supply and demand, just like everything else.

  22. Re:What goes around comes around... on Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?

    Plot twist: the robots are the cars.

  23. Re:2018 on Western Digital 'My Cloud' Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They probably didn't construct it - a low-bidder did.

    "Brian" Y.G. reused the same code he did for the D-Link job, if one had to venture a guess.

    That tells you something about WD's quality.

    That they found out about this six months ago tells you something about their responsibility. It's actions like these that make class action attorneys drool while they mumble "willful negligence". It's cheaper to fix the code, IMO.

  24. Re:AMD's strategy on Intel Launches 8th Gen Core Series CPUs With Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics (hothardware.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    But partnering with Intel to create an Intel APU defeats the purpose of buying an AMD APU.

    Not really.

    The AMD parts will be cheaper.

    They'll be easier to overclock.

    The AMD parts may have some advantages on bus interconnects, being from the same vendor (benchmarks will tell...).

    There's a real chance that Global gets to 7nm first.

    Yet ... somebody who really wants an Intel anyway and won't consider an AMD CPU -
      - well, they're getting AMD graphics. That helps in the AMD/nVidia marketshare battle and it looks like Intel may be existing that market as well.

  25. Re:Interesting project on Can You Install Linux On a 1993 PC? (yeokhengmeng.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, there's no irony there at all - not even in the manner "irony" gets misused sometimes.

    Of course there is - in that aspect the 486 is more secure than the new chips that are billed as having all sorts of security-promoting features.

    There's no NX bit on the 486, though, so overall it's not more secure, even with the recent vulnerabilities.