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    Report: Sam Altman seeking trillions for AI chip fabrication from UAE, others

    and in return we'll be hostage to one of the most regressive regimes on earth for all eternity, you know because AI. Also special provisions to convert everyone to 'preferred religion'.
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    T-Mobile switches users to pricier plans and tells them it’s not a price hike

    this is 'Negative Option' which is already made illegal by congress many years ago. this has huge implications for contract law if it stands as it is. hope they get a class action suit for this.
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    Forget smart glasses, this smart contact lens prototype has a new vision for AR 

    just put the damn thing in your glasses with halfway decent battery life and its easily a multi-tens of billions of dollars business.
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    SpaceX fired employees who wrote letter slamming Musk’s “embarrassing” behavior

    and this is the guy who's going to own one of the biggest public townhalls of modern times.. twitter?
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    Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction

    funny I have always thought as a species our great filter would turn out to be 'tragedy of the commons', basically the same things that led to so much progress (individualism and self interest) would become a huge issue at the ecosystem scales. Even now I believe in time we will find a solution...
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    Google says “tablets are the future,” wants to hire Android tablet leadership

    Realistically I think (as many others) this would be killed off in a couple of years when the exec pusing for it gets his promotion or whatever. But, conspiracy theorist in me says reviving tablet may be the right thing to do is they knew AR is on its way. what is AR if not a tablet overlaid...
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    Telsa increases the price of “full self driving” yet again

    Yes you could but you'd need lateral movement for that. there would be enough (maybe too much) for side cams but for front and rear there is not enough of perspective shift & you really need it for the front at least. also it would be speed dependent when available so not so good & then you...
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    Telsa increases the price of “full self driving” yet again

    I wonder if somebody has looked at the fineprint for this FSD feature. I am willing to bet this would be loaded with invalidating clauses.
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    After tagging people for 10 years, Facebook to stop most uses of facial recognition

    oh just let us police ourselves. See this time we promise to delete the data & behave.
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    Trumpist county clerk barred after leak of voting-system passwords to QAnon

    American justice system is based on the idea of deterrence based on harsh punishments. every-time I see these crazy trumpist stories and I feel likely they will get away with a slap on the wrist because there are so many q-crazy in the system that have not been outed yet. this emboldens them to...
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    Please stop adding more lanes to busy highways—it doesn’t help

    so whats the solution? either do public transit or high density housing otherwise you are essentially saying I got mine and FU. now looking at the nimbys in most places, hogh density housing is not gonna happen so all you are left with is public transit. public transits are mostly fraught with...
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    Webb telescope launch date slips again

    Maybe XKCD should do a double graph charting JWST delays and fusion net positive timeline. If china surprises us its quite possible we may have fusion before JWST launches.
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    GamersNexus’ Steve Burke overclocks his YouTube channel’s best comments

    I am tired of seeing this guys face on ars frontpage.
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    Bruce Willis returns to space to kick some alien derriere in Breach trailer

    Bruce Wills will make a good Saul Tigh if he's casted for the BSG reboot.
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    Quantum observers with knowledge of quantum mechanics break reality

    What meaning the word probability has when things happen only once?
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    Cambridge Analytica breach results in lawsuits filed by angry Facebook users

    I am ready to jump ship to some alternate like ello. anyways i havnt interacted with most people in my friendlist in years.
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    Cambridge Analytica breach results in lawsuits filed by angry Facebook users

    I am just tired of this cr*p coming out every six or so months. these stories make news for a few days and I get pissed off but eventually nothing really changes. I am ready to packup & just join an alternate social media like ello. we dont have to put up with this nonsense. anyways its a good...
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    Off-the-charts pollution in Delhi creates “gas chamber“ and ”health emergency“

    so if this persists, how long before the rich will have a air cleaning device for themselves and again start singing the tune of 'market based solutions'. relying on goodness at the heart of rich folks is a losing strategy to begin with!