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Per Apple's Product Environmental Report for the new mini, while "sleeping", it uses 0.5W. During "idle with display on", the mini uses 4W. 

Granted, that's not zero power used, but it's darned low. The only way to get the mini to use zero electricity is to  unplug it, because it consumes a monstrously large 0.1W powered off and plugged in.  

ravnorodom said:

No wireless charging? This is going backward! No thanks. I am sticking with my 2nd gen.

Yes, going "backward" for $50 less than the 2nd generation, that is still available. 

A symbol is *not* the thing being symbolized. Why are people scared of a drawing of a pistol?

Txitter may be "an irrelevance" to Xbit and others, but it is still used by millions. 

In more than 20 years of scouring the web and reading articles about the tech world, I've never seen anything like the following from Patrick Berlinquette. He is the only person I've read who fleshes out the euphemism Go-ogle hides behind, "monetizing users' data".

The rest of the media goes out of its way to keep the public from knowing Go-ogle makes 90% of its revenue from advertising through surveillance capitalism, otherwise, Mr. Berlinquette wouldn't have to go out of his way to explain it. Think about it, when have you ever heard anyone on TV tell you anything even remotely like what Patrick does in his 3-part (supposed to have a 4th part added later) series (see links below)? The answer's NEVER!

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When lazy journalists are pessimistic about Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home, they say stuff like: “Even Orwell couldn’t have predicted that we’d willingly bring Big Brother into our own homes."

What they fail to mention is our willingness to exchange privacy for convenience didn’t start with the advent of virtual assistants. It started in the early 2000s, when people—in return for having access to Google products and seeing more relevant ads—allowed Google to have all their data.

Today, Google provides marketers like me with so much of your personal data that we can infer more about you from it than from any camera or microphone.

     ~ Patrick Berlinquette from How Google Tracks Your Personal Information

Part 1: How Google Tracks Your Personal Information: 

     https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d

Part 2: How Google Marketers Exploit Your Discomfort:

     https://medium.com/s/story/make-orwell-fiction-again-part-2-micro-moments-9ba6e042a0c4

Part 3: How Marketers Use Redirect Ads to Deceive You:

     https://medium.com/s/story/make-orwell-fiction-again-part-3-masters-of-our-fates-620a84792482

mac_128 said:

macxpress said:

Never a fan of what Steve would have though articles or comments....oh well. Nobody truly knows what Steve would have though. I guess it was kind of a Steve Job jobs type Keynote, especially the movies portion at the end. I will say that was very well done. Hopefully it turns out as good as the Keynote did in the end. 

Frankly I can’t believe any legitimate article, opinion or not, would trade on the concept of “Steve Jobs would have ....”. And I’m absolutely stunned AI would do it. Such articles completely undermine the credibility of not just the person presenting the article, but the website itself.

Check out Daniel’s title for the article on his own roughlydraftedbeta.com: https://roughlydraftedbeta.com/home/2019/3/30/why-did-apple-throw-a-tim-cook-event-at-its-steve-jobs-theater, which, by the way, was published before it showed up here at AI.

Apple makes products they sell to their customers.

_ oo _ le sells users' personal data to make ads, and aren't ads what make life worth living?!

Apple rounds the actual display size of the new iMacs to 24", but it is actually 23.5", so 2" inches larger than the 21.5" iMac. 

If Apple's going to round up to 24", then it should do the same for the "21.5" one, i.e., 22". Be consistent Apple.

USB-C should be made the standard for charging EV's around the world. 

Voilà !

I'm glad to see Apple addressing the noise problem in its stores. My nearest Apple Store, La Cantera in San Antonio, open since 2005, was built with a flat, reflective ceiling. That along with reflective flooring, tables, and walls make having a conversation difficult. 

I've always loved this particular store and have been connected with many employees, but the noise really gets in the way. 

I saw an article somewhere a couple of years ago about one of the stores in the Seattle area, and it showed the wooden ceiling with thousands of tiny dimples in it, which I assumed were there to improve acoustics. Tried to find someone who'd written about it but no luck. 

It's good to see Apple is working to control the noise. 

More pertinent questions:

How was it determined these employees tested positive for CV? What tests were used? What is the accuracy, reliability, and rate of false positives for the test?

How many of the "positive" employees, if any, have symptoms of illness?