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  1. Pjotr

    AIs can generate near-verbatim copies of novels from training data

    20 years!? Patents expire after 20 years. Copyright expire 90 years after the death of the creator! (I believe in the US, in EU it's 75)
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    Google is reviving wearable gesture controls, but only for the Pixel Watch 4

    A twist of the arm to display notifications without using the second arm, and scroll through them. Worked like a charm on Wear OS. Why remove such a simple feature when it hasn't even been replaced by another function!?
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    CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it’s doing, delays big vote

    Articles like this is why I pay for Ars Technica. 👏🏼
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    OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months

    Google won't lose, they are highly profitable. They can burn a lot of money on AI, with better returns than the money put into Metaverse and the Apple Car.
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    Tesla profits fall 37% in Q3 despite healthy sales

    Space X and xAI bought a lot of cars. https://www.notebookcheck.net/As-Cybertruck-sales-stall-Elon-Musk-buys-up-inventory-himself.1138238.0.html
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    Bill Atkinson, architect of the Mac’s graphical soul, dies at 74

    I remember most of these things he did! Amazing stuff. I taught citizens in my home town of Umeå to use Macs and other personal computers in the mid 80s. The town had setup a house people could visit for free at evenings to learn to use computers, I had that as an evening job while in high...
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    Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse

    I used Boost, they shutdown. Now I use RedReader. If free 3rd party clients die, I drop Reddit.
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    Samsung expands repair program to more devices, now in 43 countries

    "...30 additional companies"!? I thought Switzerland was a country, not a company.
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    RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days

    This clearly falls under warranty. You have used it in a normal way, the product should work for three years under normal expected wear. But perhaps your consumer laws are lacking this protection for you... US?
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    Google’s Pixel Tablet looks just like a smart display, so why isn’t it one?

    This device is $499 in the US? Same price as the new Pixel 7a? In Sweden, this device is SEK 7799, while Pixel 7a is SEK 5690! And you even get Pixel Buds A with the Pixel 7a!! Whoa...
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    Amid China’s massive COVID wave, 42% of people on one flight tested positive

    In December I heard a number of 60-70% vaccinated, but they have not prioritized elderly. So they have a lot of unvaccinated elderly. They have not wanted any Western vaccines. So they do not have access to any RNA (?) vaccines. From what I have read, their own vaccine is not as efficient as...
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    Google TV launches on iOS as a replacement for Google Play Movies & TV

    OMG, they've gone full circle back to hangouts soon! Hangouts was everything in one app. NOT confusing. Google has been confusing us for a decade and they still don't know it themselves!?
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    All-new touch-friendly taskbar comes to latest Windows 11 preview

    Yes, I mean to the side of the monitor, so I maximize the vertical space for applications. I don't want a taskbar at the bottom of the monitor.
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    All-new touch-friendly taskbar comes to latest Windows 11 preview

    And ability to move taskbar to the side! This is a show stopper for me, I'm staying on Windows 10 on all Windows machines I use until then.
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    Microsoft will tweak Windows 11’s UI and features pretty much whenever it wants

    I'm not upgrading anything to Windows 11 until I can do this!
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    So nice they killed it twice: Google+’s business pivot is dead

    Google should hire at least *one* strategist!
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    Facebook “is tearing our societies apart,” whistleblower says in interview

    Simple: Social media should, like all mass media, have an Editor. The Editor is legally responsible for anything that is published in that media. We already have the laws for it, all other media already live with this.
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    Google Pay’s disastrous year continues, promised bank account feature is dead

    Sounds like most of Google divisions.
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    iOS and iPadOS 15 will feature major changes to notifications, home screen

    Meanwhile, in 2021, you can't delete or edit messages in Googles Hangouts. And they're still working on the new Meet app instead, which isn't usable yet. And Messages relying on RCS isn't taking off... Strategy!?