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Looks like he caved to pressure and attacks from Trump to grant clemency to Tina Peters, the election clerk convicted to copying Dominion Voting Systems hard drives by letting in a fake computer security expert access to the machines. Jury convicted her in 2024 and she was sentenced to 9 years...

Honda canceled EVs for the US earlier this year. They are writing off billions in losses from the one EV that they shipped here, the Prologue. Now they unveiled several hybrids in Tokyo but many intended for the US market, which is their largest. Yet they plan to produce EVs for China and Kei...

It would hit billionaires so not necessarily people who are just worth millions. Tom Steyer said if it made the ballot, he'd vote for it but he says it's a poor implementation because it's a one-time levy and the proceeds are locked for one program, not helping the state's general finances...

Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses just 6 months after rolling them out to thousands of internal developers. Instead, MS engineers will be expected to use the MS product. I think The Verge broke the story but I don't have a subscription so this article summarizes some of it...

Yeah I just meant there's a lot of hype. Analyst types have said AI will drive incremental sales or upgrades of the iPhone. Others, like how iPhone will be one of the most common gateways to AI use for millions of people so once Apple "gets" AI right, it would drive more sales and upgrades...

What was the ruling coalition before this current govt? Didn't they have center-left governments for a long time?

I'm not sure what it is about the iPhone 17 but it helped Apple gain marketshare in Q1: Read in 9to5Mac: https://apple.news/Af9A2UoK5SwSZVCcYflKh5g Since they didn't have an AI story, maybe it just hit when there were enough people in the iPhone installed base who had devices older than 2...

Yeah they have to make whatever features are enabled by the cameras compelling because the Ultras will cost more than the Pros.

Or it's feeding the data to the iPhone and getting the processed info back from the iPhone. Like the article says, it's to replace the user having to hold up his phone to something and asking Siri for an identification.

This sounds like more than capturing hand gestures: https://www.cultofmac.com/news/airpods-ultra-ai-device-rumors So if it's trying to be aware of the immediate surroundings, presumably to do the image processing, they have to have some decent image capture?

Actually the models I was thinking of are the A7R V and the A7R VI. So both over 60 Mp.

There's some speculation about the Series 12 Watch getting a processor bump. Cult of Mac article. https://apple.news/AnoX9SLymS8WWTEWQ5e2iRQ

The other thing is, health care was a higher priority in much of the 2010s but since 2020, it's petered out, even after the pandemic. I think in 2024, it was well below immigration and affordability. Republicans successfully raised immigration as the top or #2 issue. In 2018, they tried...

So just a couple of months after this announcement, they are saying the project isn't going ahead and the Trumps aren't too happy. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/13/trump-tower-australia-gold-coast-scrapped-ntwnfb?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

I agree with all that. But it wasn't that long ago that we got to vote on health care. It was big in the Democratic primary in 2020 and people were pointing at polls showing a large majority support for universal health care of some kind. Bernie unveiled a very generous plan, no deductibles...

Yes but it would also take away the leverage they have over employees as well. Corporations have analysts who can tell them they'd come out ahead. But they're now reporting record profits and the labor market is now a buyer's market with the tepid economy and the growing inflation,

I heard that they raised the price of the A7V, which came out a few months ago, by $600 already. So do the processors have a lot of RAM and do the cameras have more internal storage these days? Or maybe the price increases reflect tariffs.

There are rumors of a processor jump for the Series 12 Watch, to better support AI features. The AirPods Pro Ultras are expected to have cameras, mostly to feed Siri. There will be LED lights showing the cameras are on? May antagonize some people, though not as much as smart glasses where you...

Oh Mamdani is now FDR? After less than 6 months in office? If Democratic candidates in purple districts are branded as backing "socialist" policies like Mamdani, will it hurt them? Otherwise, those of us who live outside of NYC doesn't have anything at stake as to what's happening there. I...

You think only "bought and paid for" people would raise the implications of what Mamdani is doing? Such a knee jerk reaction when anyone dares question the political efficacy of their dear champion Mamdani.😄 You're all about refuting "centrist" and "democrats" to score for your team aren't...