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Google's 'Bard' chatbot completely botches first demo
As noted in the NASA link in the article itself, the first planet directly imaged by a telescope was in 2004, when the VLT telescope pictured one in a system 230 light years away. The mistake referenced in the article was not that they could see a planet using the telescope, but that they were nowhere near being the first to do so.waveparticle said:The nearest star is four light years away. There is no way any telescope will be able to see a planet of any star so far away.
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'Scary Fast' iMac with M3 is here with few external changes
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Battle of the sexes: Men and women like different iPhone models
My wife has a 12, and I have a 12 mini. For me, pocketability and weight was key. Anything I want to do on a larger screen I do on my iPad. She doesn’t use an iPad, and does a lot of work work on her phone out in the field, so she wanted the more portable larger screen.
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Altman beats OpenAI board and returns as CEO after stormy exit
Siri is AI. Older gen, and limited relative to some competitors by Apple’s attention to privacy, but AI nonetheless.CelticPaddy said:
They can’t even get Siri right, never mind AIpalomine said:What is Apple doing with AI these days?
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White House calls Apple and Google 'harmful' in bid to cut app store fees
Do you really expect us to see coverage in the media of European regulation of European companies? Just because you don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. The companies we’re talking about here are technically American companies, but they’re really fully international in their scope, size and influence. Not surprising they get attention from everywhere.Madbum said:
Well, do you see EU bash their own companies? No they know how to protect their own and tax base.spheric said:
😂😂😂Madbum said:This White House , which I regretfully voted For
is fast tracking our families to a Nuclear War vs Russia….
is helping European Union bashing America’s greatest companies while doing nothing against European companies
a complete shit show in more ways than one ….
I was waiting for someone to tie this into EU-bashing.
but current American government stands with Europeans more than Americans ….
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M3 Mac mini, 14-inch &16-inch MacBook Pro aren't coming in the fall
Always fun to see how “aren’t coming” in the headline becomes “may not” and “likely to” in the very first sentence… -
Apple appeals Apple Watch ban, citing 'irreparable harm' to its business
I certainly don’t know one way or the other, but is it outside the realm of possibility that Apple did NOT use Massimo’s technology? And if hypothetically that was the case, wouldn’t Apple be opening the door to endless unwarranted claims of infringement?NEO_STEPHENS said:Oh PULEEZE Apple, you're a $3 trillion company, there will be no irreparable harm done to you. And if there is, that should teach you to use other company's technology without permission - something you as a company is well known for going after other companies who you think is using your technology and even small mom and pop shops that have fruit in their company's name. So no sympathy for you if you lose a few sales for cheating.
Obviously if Apple DID, then all you say is true and I’d have no argument with you.You do, of course, imply that you do have solid knowledge that Apple did infringe in this case…I assume you wouldn’t mind sharing your source?
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It's impossible to compete with Apple, says third-party iPhone repair shops
Alternatively, given that, doesn’t it seem like it would benefit Apple to make it possible for independent repair shops to do better?Alrescha said:In 2019 via the BBC:In response to a question about how much the company earns from repair services, Apple said: "For each year since 2009, the costs of providing repair services has exceeded the revenue generated by repairs."Given that, it seems optimistic to think that independent repair shops could do better. They have every right to try, but Apple has no obligation to make their business model profitable.
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Altman beats OpenAI board and returns as CEO after stormy exit
Reportedly, Altman had NO equity stake.mpantone said:
Whose intention?planetary paul said:Obviously the intention was to kill off the company. Some serious litigation is in order methinks.
Certainly not Altman's. He had a large equity stake in the company. It was his baby.
Certainly not the board of directors. They represent the shareholders.
Certainly not Microsoft. They have 49% ownership. Destroying OpenAI would mean flushing most of their investment stake down the toilet. (That's what Elon Musk is singlehandedly in the process of doing with X/Twitter.)
My hunch (unsubstantiated) is that the BOD identified irregularities that pointed to fraudulent behavior by Altman, akin to Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos) and Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX). Liars don't commit just one lie. Lying permeates almost everything they do. Not just their business dealings, also their personal lives.
If the boards of Theranos and FTX had identified such issues early enough with Holmes and SBF, those companies might still exist today.
We won't learn what it is but some general information will probably come to light someday. Not today, not tomorrow, but the reasons won't stay hidden forever.
Remember that this is a privately held company that lost -$540 million on revenues of $28 million in 2022.
Silicon Valley is pretty small. My guess is that the biggest and best connected venture capitalists and IP law firms already have an idea of what went wrong.
The shareholders can revolt and elect a new BOD but Microsoft has 49% control. My guess is that some minority shareholder, probably some bigshot VC got suspicious from Altman's behavior, started poking around and found something rotten.
The people who would benefit from an OpenAI collapse are the competitors, companies like Alphabet, Meta, maybe Amazon, IBM, a bunch of startups, etc. Maybe a disgruntled former OpenAI employee, a jilted lover (we saw SBF's former girlfriend testify against him). But not someone with a sizable equity stake in OpenAI.
Silicon Valley has plenty of hubris and guys like Altman have an excess of it. Executives like Holmes and SBF have made people see red flags when people talk it up without showing real results (that is, profitability). My guess is that this will eventually end up with legal action against Altman and possibly other senior execs. The CFO would come under heavy scrutiny, there's always a money trail behind any sort of corporate shenanigans.
"Fake it until you make it" is not a real business strategy in the real world. That might be fine in a movie but it doesn't work in high tech especially when you're playing with someone else's money. The numbers eventually don't add up.
This is going to get more interesting.
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Zuckerberg thinks Apple is making aggressive moves now to control the metaverse
"I'm sure they believe at some level in the things that they're doing and think that they're good for their customers, but it can't just be a coincidence that it also aligns very well with their strategy."Why would any company NOT do something that was good for their customers and also aligned with their strategy? That just seems like good business. Is he seriously defending the approach of doing things that are bad for customers but align well with their strategy? (Although I guess he would need to try to defend that approach, wouldn’t he…)
