I'm not sure why this is super surprising. If you're paid to use X product and you get caught using a competitor's product then of course you're going to get sued. It's so simple almost anyone can understand it. Don't like it? Then don't agree with the contract, don't take the money.
I seem to recall this isn't a new problem. The issue is that as the battery ages, some batteries aren't able to supply as much power under peak load. If you don't slow down the processor it with literally overwhelm the battery and the phone will crash or lock up!
This would be a impotent step in solving our climate change issues from excess CO2. If we were able to convert the excess CO2 in our air to sugar it would help to remove it and provide a fuel that our civilization could use.
There's potential for this to be an inexpensive communications repeater or used for satellite photography (google maps would probably love something like this to keep up to date land imagery). I don't see it being too useful for military because it's too light to have any real defence and it would probably be highly vulnerable to solar flare disruption events. (Probably fry and crash it).
I hate to say this but the product seems a little too expensive compared to what people are willing to pay for. Occulus Rift and HTC Vive which are both working VR solutions are at least half this amount (not including needing a really powerful PC) are struggling to survive. I don't see how this is going to work. Also people joked about Google Glasses looking goofy considering it was a version of AR overlay. So good luck, but it seems destined to fail.
The problem with climate change isn't so much as our planet breaking but everything we depend on breaking. Somewhat wacky that nuclear reactors aren't designed to handle this heat but then again I would have never imagined the crazy kind of temperatures Europe has skyrocketed up to. So one has to wonder, what other stuff is going to break?
I think the whole idea of using face recognition is to cut the amount of work required by a detective to search through thousands of pictures. I'm sure the final step would be for a real person to verify the matches to see if there's false positives. The AI in this case would likely be setup to tend to produce false positives rather than outright missing matches because not being able to find anything is worrysome compared to finding a few false positives. You would hope the cops arn't crazy enough to start arresting people based entirely on the matching system and at least look at the profiles to confirm.
It sounds like SpaceX's rocket successfully launched and they managed to recover the first stage. The Fairing is suppose to be a bonus recovery but it sounds like it was too windy to do successfully. Keep in mind the first stage actually has rocket power so it has some sort of control over where it is suppose to end up. The Fairing sounds like a huge piece of metal with a parachute. Good Luck catching that in random winds.
I have to wonder with anti-everyone almost Trump policies in the US if Tech companies aren't just relocating to Canada because you don't end up in silly situations such as your lead tech speaker being denied at the border due to race issues or something else going wrong in the US such as the Tariff wars that are going on now. Canada has the accessibility from Toronto to International Markets and isn't busy trying to Tariff everything.
The US have heavily tested laser weapons already and for the most part they aren't practical compared to conventional weapons in most cases. This is one of those cool Sci-Fi ideas that doesn't pan out. The problem is most lasers aren't very efficient and the ones that are (chemical lasers) use stuff so nasty they'd be deadly to the soldier carrying it if it burst or broke. Not to mention rain or dust or hazy day would reduce its effectiveness. It's probably a concept weapon that can give you a burn or blind but compare that to oh getting hit by a 50 cal round which would blow parts off you. It's likely a test concept weapon for experimenting but I highly doubt it'll ever come into widespread use.
I have a solar powered Casio watch that does atomic clock synchronization every day. It's pretty cool in that it keeps very accurate time and has been running for years and years. All it needs is some ambient office lighting to keep it charged everyday. I've heard the rechargable lithium battery will eventually wear out however.
I'm sure it isn't that difficult to copy a chip once you have the mask of it but the question is do they understand how that chip supposedly works? A lot of actual chip design is computer based and learning how that works can take years? It means they can make copies but not necessarily advance the design.
Well I imagine Google might have to Fork android in EU then. That's probably the best solution as I don't think anyone else in the world wants to use an Android phone without the Android store.
With how dramatically wrong Tesla's super-cruise features have gone on their vehicles, I fully expect that car to end up... "I'm sorry Dave, I missed the garage door but on the bright side your garage now has a new enterance!":)
I've used both Nvidia's and AMD's (Formerly ATI) graphics cards but have never been a huge fan of Nvidia's almost monopolistic practices so I tend to get AMD cards whenever I can. Still I would say Nvidia has a lot to worry about on it's hands. Although AMD and Intel are competitors, they do have times that they work together closely and Intel's next gen GPU are signs that they will. Unlike Nvidia, Intel is likely to be working on open standards with AMD and their recent joint CPU / GPU project looks like they'll be able to do so.
Nature on average is very slow giving time for living things to adapt and change. Climate change is suppose to occur on the scale of thousands of years but we're seeing effects on the scale of decades which is hundreds of times faster than normal. No surprise since we're adding carbon into the air that's been locked in the ground for millions of years. We're already causing such a huge animal extinction event that it's big enough event to match the extinction of dinosaurs. There's so much plastic in our environment that it's guaranteed to be locked into our fossil records now. The other issue is that I'm not sure if people can honestly sacrifice their standard of living even slightly to accomplish a reversal until it practically blows in their front door.
I haven't seen the new Solo movie yet but I have to admit I wasn't full of enthusiasm for it because Han Solo was played by an actor who really didn't seem to fit the role well. I think the portrayal in the Trailers hurt the movie the most. And it's not impossible to find good match-ups, I remember watching the Chronicles of Young Indiana Jones when I was younger and that actor was a good match up compared to older Indiana Jones.
I'm with Google's approach to self-driving cars. Until they're good enough that I can safely take a nap in the back seat without my attention and Google will claim full responsibility in the event of an accident, I'm not trusting a half-implemented system. Humans aren't good at long stretches of nothingness followed by emergency split second reaction. It's not how we're built to react to things and to try to do so is asking for trouble.
I technically have a plug-in hybrid which behaves like a EV in the summertime. When it runs out of battery power, it switches seamlessly over to gas. It's a little small on the interior but let's you enjoy having an EV without and of the range limitations. It's a bit less efficient than a pure EV and the gas engine takes a little care but it's more than a reasonable trade-off. No regrets here despite it being 2x the cost of my first car which was a 05 Corolla.
Not necessarily true. It's like saying your car will go faster if you put more gas into it. It doesn't work that way. We for example need oxygen to survive but pure oxygen is actually pretty deadly to us. A lot of plants are limited by Nitrogen which we add into soil (fertilizer) to get plants to grow faster. Even if plants can use the extra CO2, it'll probably take many generations and thousands of years for plants to evolve to use that extra CO2 which we're cranking into the atmosphere at a rate that's measurable in decades.
Frankly I'm not too concerned if Google staged the call, the point is they're getting very close to the real thing. Google isn't the kind of company that's desperate for investment cash either since unlike Tesla they seem to be doing well. Working as a call center agent for many years however, I have to admit the Google Assistant sounds a little off, the pacing or inflections in the voice sound a bit too "mechanical". Being a good call center agent is partly reading how your customer feels or behaves based on the fine details in their voice. They've proven in many cases people can't lie without sounding a bit off in their voice. The Google Assistant sounds weird to me.
It's interesting that this is actually standard practice when it comes to intelligence or military applications. You're told when you sign up for any intelligence position is that if you have a moral issue, you first take it up with your superior, if that isn't satisfactory then you resign. It's also a difficult call too, imagine how many scientists felt during the development of the nuclear bomb.
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I'm not sure why this is super surprising. If you're paid to use X product and you get caught using a competitor's product then of course you're going to get sued. It's so simple almost anyone can understand it. Don't like it? Then don't agree with the contract, don't take the money.
I seem to recall this isn't a new problem. The issue is that as the battery ages, some batteries aren't able to supply as much power under peak load. If you don't slow down the processor it with literally overwhelm the battery and the phone will crash or lock up!
Note to Self, use products that actually work the way they're suppose to win. Force yourself to take the corporate cool-aid, lose....
This would be a impotent step in solving our climate change issues from excess CO2. If we were able to convert the excess CO2 in our air to sugar it would help to remove it and provide a fuel that our civilization could use.
I suppose the only real solution is to put radio telescopes in places that no one wants to visit or is super difficult to visit.
There's potential for this to be an inexpensive communications repeater or used for satellite photography (google maps would probably love something like this to keep up to date land imagery). I don't see it being too useful for military because it's too light to have any real defence and it would probably be highly vulnerable to solar flare disruption events. (Probably fry and crash it).
I hate to say this but the product seems a little too expensive compared to what people are willing to pay for. Occulus Rift and HTC Vive which are both working VR solutions are at least half this amount (not including needing a really powerful PC) are struggling to survive. I don't see how this is going to work. Also people joked about Google Glasses looking goofy considering it was a version of AR overlay. So good luck, but it seems destined to fail.
The problem with climate change isn't so much as our planet breaking but everything we depend on breaking. Somewhat wacky that nuclear reactors aren't designed to handle this heat but then again I would have never imagined the crazy kind of temperatures Europe has skyrocketed up to. So one has to wonder, what other stuff is going to break?
I think the whole idea of using face recognition is to cut the amount of work required by a detective to search through thousands of pictures. I'm sure the final step would be for a real person to verify the matches to see if there's false positives. The AI in this case would likely be setup to tend to produce false positives rather than outright missing matches because not being able to find anything is worrysome compared to finding a few false positives. You would hope the cops arn't crazy enough to start arresting people based entirely on the matching system and at least look at the profiles to confirm.
It sounds like SpaceX's rocket successfully launched and they managed to recover the first stage. The Fairing is suppose to be a bonus recovery but it sounds like it was too windy to do successfully. Keep in mind the first stage actually has rocket power so it has some sort of control over where it is suppose to end up. The Fairing sounds like a huge piece of metal with a parachute. Good Luck catching that in random winds.
I have to wonder with anti-everyone almost Trump policies in the US if Tech companies aren't just relocating to Canada because you don't end up in silly situations such as your lead tech speaker being denied at the border due to race issues or something else going wrong in the US such as the Tariff wars that are going on now. Canada has the accessibility from Toronto to International Markets and isn't busy trying to Tariff everything.
The US have heavily tested laser weapons already and for the most part they aren't practical compared to conventional weapons in most cases. This is one of those cool Sci-Fi ideas that doesn't pan out. The problem is most lasers aren't very efficient and the ones that are (chemical lasers) use stuff so nasty they'd be deadly to the soldier carrying it if it burst or broke. Not to mention rain or dust or hazy day would reduce its effectiveness. It's probably a concept weapon that can give you a burn or blind but compare that to oh getting hit by a 50 cal round which would blow parts off you. It's likely a test concept weapon for experimenting but I highly doubt it'll ever come into widespread use.
I have a solar powered Casio watch that does atomic clock synchronization every day. It's pretty cool in that it keeps very accurate time and has been running for years and years. All it needs is some ambient office lighting to keep it charged everyday. I've heard the rechargable lithium battery will eventually wear out however.
I'm sure it isn't that difficult to copy a chip once you have the mask of it but the question is do they understand how that chip supposedly works? A lot of actual chip design is computer based and learning how that works can take years? It means they can make copies but not necessarily advance the design.
Well I imagine Google might have to Fork android in EU then. That's probably the best solution as I don't think anyone else in the world wants to use an Android phone without the Android store.
With how dramatically wrong Tesla's super-cruise features have gone on their vehicles, I fully expect that car to end up... "I'm sorry Dave, I missed the garage door but on the bright side your garage now has a new enterance!" :)
I've used both Nvidia's and AMD's (Formerly ATI) graphics cards but have never been a huge fan of Nvidia's almost monopolistic practices so I tend to get AMD cards whenever I can. Still I would say Nvidia has a lot to worry about on it's hands. Although AMD and Intel are competitors, they do have times that they work together closely and Intel's next gen GPU are signs that they will. Unlike Nvidia, Intel is likely to be working on open standards with AMD and their recent joint CPU / GPU project looks like they'll be able to do so.
There's Alcohol addition, gambling addiction so gaming addiction isn't exactly a huge surprise. For some folks it can be a real problem.
Nature on average is very slow giving time for living things to adapt and change. Climate change is suppose to occur on the scale of thousands of years but we're seeing effects on the scale of decades which is hundreds of times faster than normal. No surprise since we're adding carbon into the air that's been locked in the ground for millions of years. We're already causing such a huge animal extinction event that it's big enough event to match the extinction of dinosaurs. There's so much plastic in our environment that it's guaranteed to be locked into our fossil records now. The other issue is that I'm not sure if people can honestly sacrifice their standard of living even slightly to accomplish a reversal until it practically blows in their front door.
I haven't seen the new Solo movie yet but I have to admit I wasn't full of enthusiasm for it because Han Solo was played by an actor who really didn't seem to fit the role well. I think the portrayal in the Trailers hurt the movie the most. And it's not impossible to find good match-ups, I remember watching the Chronicles of Young Indiana Jones when I was younger and that actor was a good match up compared to older Indiana Jones.
I'm with Google's approach to self-driving cars. Until they're good enough that I can safely take a nap in the back seat without my attention and Google will claim full responsibility in the event of an accident, I'm not trusting a half-implemented system. Humans aren't good at long stretches of nothingness followed by emergency split second reaction. It's not how we're built to react to things and to try to do so is asking for trouble.
I technically have a plug-in hybrid which behaves like a EV in the summertime. When it runs out of battery power, it switches seamlessly over to gas. It's a little small on the interior but let's you enjoy having an EV without and of the range limitations. It's a bit less efficient than a pure EV and the gas engine takes a little care but it's more than a reasonable trade-off. No regrets here despite it being 2x the cost of my first car which was a 05 Corolla.
Not necessarily true. It's like saying your car will go faster if you put more gas into it. It doesn't work that way. We for example need oxygen to survive but pure oxygen is actually pretty deadly to us. A lot of plants are limited by Nitrogen which we add into soil (fertilizer) to get plants to grow faster. Even if plants can use the extra CO2, it'll probably take many generations and thousands of years for plants to evolve to use that extra CO2 which we're cranking into the atmosphere at a rate that's measurable in decades.
Frankly I'm not too concerned if Google staged the call, the point is they're getting very close to the real thing. Google isn't the kind of company that's desperate for investment cash either since unlike Tesla they seem to be doing well. Working as a call center agent for many years however, I have to admit the Google Assistant sounds a little off, the pacing or inflections in the voice sound a bit too "mechanical". Being a good call center agent is partly reading how your customer feels or behaves based on the fine details in their voice. They've proven in many cases people can't lie without sounding a bit off in their voice. The Google Assistant sounds weird to me.
It's interesting that this is actually standard practice when it comes to intelligence or military applications. You're told when you sign up for any intelligence position is that if you have a moral issue, you first take it up with your superior, if that isn't satisfactory then you resign. It's also a difficult call too, imagine how many scientists felt during the development of the nuclear bomb.