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Beats said:

Zuck really is the innovator though. He knows what he's talking about......

P.S. Did anyone see the Occulus keynote pictured? He really thought he was Steve Jobs. lol

The Ars review is a good read. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/09/review-we-do-not-recommend-the-299-oculus-quest-2-as-your-next-vr-system/

SpamSandwich said:

Invasions of privacy? Spying? If one engages in such a program voluntarily, I guess you get what you get. Forced compliance would be a huge problem.

What invasion of privacy? What spying?

In theory I suppose if they knew your "drug dealer" tested positive and submitted the one time code they might be able to see who shows up for testing and maybe have some weak evidence that you were within 6 ft of that "drug dealer" for at least 15 minutes. Otherwise, pure FUD.

fred1 said:

Do these actually work? Has any country had success? I was under the impression that it requires 60% of the population taking part and the most any country has seen is around 20%. 

Of course my fear is that people will stop taking the necessary measures because they’ll think they’re “covered” by this app. 

That depends on what you mean by work. Any number of installations gives some chance of contact tracing, but they estimate around 60% before it's a useful way of reducing infections by catching cases before they can spread too far.

As for installation numbers: it's hard to find a current metric. All the articles I found were 3 weeks old or older, but the Republic of Ireland had installations equivalent to 37% of the population by July 21 and their app had only come out 2 weeks earlier.

Bebble: Ireland (Northern and Republic of) both have API based apps with cross border support.

Beats said:

Probably the last CEO of a major tech company to become a billionaire further debunking the "greedy Apple" myth.

Non-greedy Tim Cook does not preclude "greedy Apple".

DAalseth said:

Nano-Texture Glass.
Isn’t that just Matte?

Conveniently explained in the companion article:

 https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/04/what-apples-nano-texture-is-and-what-it-brings-to-apples-new-27-inch-imac