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  • Zuckerberg wants to 'inflict pain' on Apple for privacy changes

    heli0s said:
    I’ve had a Facebook account since 2007 but I left every one of their platforms last year and never looked back. Sure, connecting with family and friends is marginally more difficult but my mental health is much better and I’m not feeding their “outrage-for-profit” model with my data. 
    I’m about a year behind you, having closed Facebook and Instagram last month. Quality of life is already improving.
    radarthekatGG1argonautwatto_cobra
  • Facebook developing smartwatch with health, messaging features

    By all means, let this be true. I’d love for them to present this as a loss leader, thinking it will go somewhere, while they hemorrhage funds and their monetization of their user base becomes even more obvious, not to be confused with their customer base.
    watto_cobra
  • SuperMicro server spy chip story returns, with no more proof than before

    I'm rather befuddled that Bloomberg hasn't been served an enormous libel suit by now.
    chasmviclauyycwatto_cobra
  • Apple could be Tesla's biggest threat, analyst says

    tmay said:
    longpath said:
    My running hypothesis is that Apple’s vehicle needs a mature version of the AR and VR work they’ve been working on and driverless functions needs to be operationally optional, not mandatory, as present rumors suggest. Anything less than that and all the high end chassis work being done by ex-Porsche people makes no sense. Why go to the trouble of designing a driver’s chassis if there’s no human driver to enjoy it? If the first generation being fully driverless is true, and not intentional misdirection, then it’s still a glorified robotaxi, and zero threat to the majority of BEV players in the market, especially Tesla, whose battery and motor tech is a solid 5 years ahead of their competitors. Conversely, those competitors are decades ahead of Tesla in figuring out how to mass produce their designs. Every design that Tesla has come out with has been a struggle to ramp up production, and as a recent conversation between Elon Musk and Sandy Munro confirmed, quality has suffered during each of those volume ramp ups.
    I have to laugh at your statement about Tesla "whose battery and motor tech is a solid 5 years ahead of their competition". 

    That's decidedly uninformed bullshit. If anything, those auto manufacturers that have waited to enter the market, such as Toyota, will have better motor tech and Solid State Batteries in volume production before Tesla does, and if you actually think about it, Tesla is now hobbled with older designs, and those only in a few niches, and worse, still hasn't been able to generate a profit on vehicle sales.

    Toyota's profit for 2020; over $18 B, and close to 10 million vehicle sales, while Tesla struggles to 500K, and given that Toyota has shipped over 15 million HEV's since the first Prius, I'm guessing that they aren't really behind on motor technology, but have waited to enter the BEV market when they believe that they can generate a profit. Toyota is also a leader in hydrogen vehicles, which will see growth especially in long haul trucking. 

    Elon Musk's statement on hydrogen vehicles;

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/21/musk-calls-hydrogen-fuel-cells-stupid-but-tech-may-threaten-tesla.html
    So far, those auto manufacturers that have waited to enter the market or enter it with any seriousness, such as Toyota, General Motors, and Hyundai, are either producing pouch type cells or making vaporware claims of solid state cells with zero corroboration of said claims, so I have to wonder where you got the ideas you're spouting. Show me some corroboration on any claims of solid state batteries (CNBC's corroboration-less rumor-mongering is not corroboration). Show me a factory that's starting to build up inventory of said cells to go into a vehicle. 

    Everyone using pouch type cells is either suffering with substandard battery pack peak output and charge times, or is resorting to 800V connections to reduce the amperage and resulting ohmic losses, which is to say they are working around the inherent limitations of their outdated battery tech.

    As far as hydrogen goes, unless Toyota is going to invest massively in refueling infrastructure, I genuinely see that as a pipe-dream. One of the smartest plays on Tesla's part was investing in recharging infrastructure, which remains a significant competitive advantage. Has Toyota made any such announcements or disclosures of such investments in their shareholders' reports, or is all that infrastructure supposed to just be a gift of the legacy oil companies?
    patchythepirate
  • Apple developing new terahertz radiation sensor tech for non-invasive glucose monitoring

    avon b7 said:
    This doesn't have to be watch limited.

    They could produce a larger dedicated device and it would still find a market. Especially for people who have problems while sleeping and older less mobile people where 'fashion' is not an issue. 

    Once calibrated, all the software/user would have to do is to detect an abnormal trend. Then the user could do a true glucose test to check on their state.

    Baby steps at this point but baby steps are necessary.

    At home we get through a ton of reactive strips a month. Non-invasive continuous glucose monitoring devices are being eagerly awaited by everyone with a medical need to control blood glucose levels. 
    This would have been a godsend during both of my wife’s pregnancies.
    gregoriusmargonautkurai_kage