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Apple smart glasses rumored to arrive as soon as Christmas 2026
If such a product does come to market, I hope provision will be made for prescription lenses.
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Apple Glass will get custom Apple Silicon tailored for low power & camera control
I suspect that's very optimistic.AppleInsider said:Optimistic renders of what Apple Glass could look like - Image Credit: AppleInsider
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Apple appeals $570 million antitrust fine, says EU blew off compliance collaboration
It's a shakedown, pure and simple. And since the EU is a government, it's all "legal", with little to no recourse for those being shaken down.
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DOJ seeks to break up Google ad business after illegal monopoly ruling
Alex_V said:I find it astonishing that regulators are not addressing the problem of surveillance of private citizens by companies. The one notable exception is the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It’s as if lawmakers and representatives around the world are utterly unaware of the appalling surveillance capitalism business model of companies like Google, Facebook, and others. I really think that is the problem: most people, including politicians, believe that Google and Facebook are giving out free lunches.
It's not so hard to understand when one finds out that the government buys that data from companies to make an end run around Constitutional restrictions on acquiring that data themselves, which requires judges and warrants.
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Senator Warren asks if Apple CEO Tim Cook's Trump playbook is blatant corruption
I'm 65 years old, and I've been paying attention to politics for about 50 of that. There has never been a time in my life when a significant number of federal politicians, many times including the president, were NOT corrupt in some way.So, the answer to Senator Warren's question is "yes". As it is for many other large corporations, including the ones who contribute to her and other representatives campaign funds. It might (or might not) be true that Trump is more blatant about it than most, but government-business collusion has been a major thing in this country since at at least the 19th century. It's gotten worse since the Great Depression, but it's been there for a long time.
