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  • Apple unveils 16-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro, M1 Max starting at $2499

    I saw this on another site and couldn't resist sharing...

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  • Reddit breaks down the math on how the new MacBook Pro saves them money

    lkrupp said:
    “shilling for Apple...” is the most common response here on AppleInsider when something positive about Apple is published.
    Bitching about people saying something negative, before they’ve even said it. The most common post by @lkrupp ;

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  • Abandoned $10 billion Apple Car project referred to as 'Titanic disaster' by employees

    I own a Tesla and have almost the latest ‘Full Self Driving’ firmware. (The latest has only been released to a few hundred people.)

    First I’ll say that I’m not here to defend or make excuses Elon and I’m no Tesla fanboy. My Model Y has been a great car for the 3 years I’ve had it but it’s also got it’s flaws.

    As far as self-driving goes, no one has solved it yet. Different companies are taking different approaches with varying degrees of success. Tesla is no exception. On the interstate, the basic autopilot that comes with all Teslas is nearly flawless. I use it to drive from Minneapolis to Grand Forks and the the only thing I need to do is tug the wheel once in a while to satisfy the nanny-nag. In terms of SAE autonomy levels it is technically level 2. Many people have guessed/speculated why Tesla hasn’t expanded it to Level 3 but my suspicion is it’s a combination of legal/regulatory/insurance issues and a desire to solve the full autonomy puzzle for all roads, not just interstates.

    I’ve been using the FSD beta software for the last 3 years. In that time it has made huge advances but still makes some baffling moves. I use it on the majority of my drives around town. I know how it behaves and at this point it’s fairly predictable in how it will misbehave. In the end, it probably does about 90-95% of my driving for me disengaging and taking over for the rest. It’s good, and for me it makes driving more relaxing but it’s not good enough to be more than a supervised assist at this point. Whether it will in the future remains to be seen but beta is a very accurate categorization in its current state.


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  • Apple & Google have unfair 'vice-like grip' on smartphone markets, says UK regulator

    iPhone and Android are a de facto duopoly, but I would argue that it's actually because of consumer choice. There have been other platforms - Nokia, Palm, Microsoft and Blackberry have all had competing platforms and they all died out because they lacked significant consumer adoption.

    The reviews I read of the Windows phone OS were generally positive but developers never really got on board, despite the fact that Microsoft paid them. After Apple opened up iOS to developers the App Store quickly became more important than the phone itself. Ultimately this was a big part of the demise of Windows Phone. Apple didn't cause this - consumers did.

    As much as people here like to rag on Android, having a strong, viable alternative is good for both platforms. As good as iOS is, there have been many good ideas that came from Android and I can confidently say that Android competition has spurred Apple to develop and improve iOS/iPadOS. 

    Ultimately, with things like smartphones, within reason I think a duopoly is better - there's still competition, but the limited number of platforms mean developers are not spread too thin trying to create and support apps for 10 different systems. If you look at the number of apps available on the App Store, it's hard to argue that there's no competition.
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  • New Apple Watch Series 6 has blood oxygen sensor & bright new colors

    Blood oxygen levels are also useful for those with worsening COVID19 cases. Not sure if Apple's works like finger pulse oximeters, but those can be used to tell you when to go in to a hospital for oxygen treatment (my brother and his wife had COVID bad and had to do this, the treatment saved their lives):

    https://www.houstonmethodist.org/blog/articles/2020/aug/can-an-oximeter-help-detect-covid-19-at-home/
    To m knowledge, all pulse oximeters use the same principle of differential wavelength absorption by oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin. There are some other nuances, but it’s all based on the same principle. 
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  • GM ditching CarPlay could go bad, complain car dealers

    mknelson said:
    Can’t believe they will hold to this decision. I predict that they will reverse it one way or another, perhaps by “splitting the baby.” 
    That, or somebody hacks it in to GM's Android Automotive Installation. In Teslas you can add Carplay via a website - not 100% sure how that works.
    From what I’ve read you use a raspberry pi that the phone thinks is the car. The pi then functions as a web server. Tesla’s built in browser then shows Apple CarPlay on a web page from the pi. 
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  • First Google Store takes an opposite approach from Apple retail

     This space is designed to be a physical expression of what Google stands for,”
     So as you come in, someone will rifle through your pockets, copying down all your personal information and any receipts. Then they’ll look through your phone. When you leave, someone will follow you out to your car and watch where you go afterwards, writing everything down on a notebook that other stores get to look through.
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  • Glucose monitoring app glitch exposes vulnerabilities in digital health tools

    For all the non-diabetics reading this:
    When treating diabetes, the key to avoiding long-term complications is tight glucose control. Initially, that was done with periodic spot checks using a fingerstick glucose monitor. For some time companies have made glucose monitors that have a long-term sensor applied to the skin. These allow for continuous glucose readings in they are also more discrete so you don’t have to take out a bunch of equipment, prick your finger, etc. Many diabetics also use insulin pumps that continually infuse insulin rather than giving intermittent boluses. These pumps were another advance that allow for better control. 

    Recently companies have started to make close loop systems in which the continuous glucose monitor communicates with the insulin pump to adjust the infusion rate based on the readings. If the sensor was giving erroneously high readings, it could well have instructed the pump to increase the insulin infusion rate leading to dangerous hypoglycemia. 

    Another phenomenon of insulin therapy is that many diabetics do not get symptomatic with hypoglycemia until the blood sugar is dangerously low, so it’s entirely possible for such a system to put a patient in a dangerous situation without warning, and in which they would be unable to correct the problem because of confusion caused by the hypoglycemia.

    @eightzero said “I can't imagine being in a position where a loss of the tech (monitor and app) threatens my life.” What does he think a fingerstick glucose monitor is? Prior to continuous monitors that was all people used and a single point of failure with a finger stick monitor could have equally dangerous consequences. The fact of the matter is people with type one diabetes are dependent on technology for both quality of life and to avoid complications like kidney failure, dialysis, blindness and limb amputations.

    Edit: gramar corrections
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  • Tenth-gen iPad's USB-C limited to Lightning speeds

    ...and yet people complain that the EU is limiting Apple by forcing the use of USB C. It appears Apple is the one doing the limiting.
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  • NSO Group CEO says law-abiding citizens have 'nothing to be afraid of'

    Just like Jamal Kashoggi had nothing to be afraid of? 

    Bullshit 
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