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  • Berkshire Hathaway may have continued its streak of selling off Apple stock

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    ddawson100 said:
    Pema said:
    The Oracle of Omaha is becoming the Laughing Stock of Omaha.  :D :D
    Said not a single person except for Pema. Compounding annually at a level well beyond the S&P 500 for 60 years. Even his detractors respect his approach. He hasn't indicated why he's selling so everything is just reading the tea leaves and quick judgement.
    Sell when other people are buying, buy when other people are selling. is a big part of his method.

    He's held the stock for a long time - might just be a good time to sell some, take the profit, and invest in something with more immediate growth potential, or bonds depending on how they expect interest rates to move.
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  • Rivian adds Apple Music, but won't consider CarPlay

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    eriamjh said:
    I have Carplay in the 2017 Chevy Bolt EV.   Now, the Bolt doesn't have any mapping abilities or charge and route planning.

    Neither does Car Play.   

    All it has is Maps, for navigation, which I use... sometimes.   If I play music, it's either iTunes or Youtube Music.  And those don't really require anything on the screen.   

    Apple wants OEMs to adapt Carplay as an easy way to slap an interface on their cars instead of developing expensive interfaces in-house.   Instead, the OEMs mostly do a half-ass job and no one notices how bad they are because most don't care.

    Car Play came out of the dead Apple EV.   And it probably won't get very far either.
    I have a 2019 Bolt - you're missing out.

    You can have maps directly on the Bolt with a subscription. CarPlay is "free" - You can use Apple Maps or third party apps like A Better Route Planner for charge and route planning.


    Also - I think a lot of people aren't catching what Tesla and Rivian are really saying. They don't have many physical controls or controls separate from the main screen…
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  • Samsung's half-hearted attempt to capitalize on Apple's Crush ad misses the point

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    coolfactor said:
    She wasn't even looking at the tablet. Why was it there? That's my question.

    I was really hoping Sammy had something creative and sensible here. 
    Well, you see, it's like this… She's creative, so doesn't need no stinking sheet music on a stinking Samsung tablet!
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  • Apple finally pulls generative AI nude apps from the App Store

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    Massiveattack87 said:
    I ask myself if AAPL is gonna ever allow such apps when their goggle is ready for the mass market. 
    The success of their goggle depends on nude and porn. 
    I think you've missed the point - it's not regular nude and porn. This is face swapping/body swapping technology. Nonconsenusal use is flat out illegal in several jurisdictions.
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  • Apple's generative AI may be the only one that was trained legally & ethically

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    foregoneconclusion said:
    "Training" is just a marketing term. Generative AI programs, like any computer program, require a database in order to work. No data = no output. If copyrighted works are part of the database, then the company that owns the program needs to have paid to license those works. Think of it like a generative video game similar to No Man's Sky. Yes, the program can procedurally generate things but it's still dependent on the database of assets that the game designers built for it to use. 
    That's not terribly accurate.

    The training data goes through a Neural Net - it doesn't result in anything resembling a database.

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