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  • Meta to continue use of facial recognition technology

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    I've not always been aligned with tech reporter Kara Swisher, but her Brief But Spectacular on PBS NewsHour is right on. Facebook (now Meta) needs to be shut down -- they can't be fixed. 

    https://youtu.be/6t7bm1WZQ4A 
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  • New Apple hinge tech could be used in a folding iPhone, MacBook Pro, or future wearables

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    Someone thinks this is patentable?

    I fear for our society if this gets approved.
    I can think of little more important or varied as hinges. Everything that has multiple rigid parts and moves and still stays together requires a hinge. Our skeletons for example, robots, the origami of flowers, and the folding and unfolding spacecraft solar panels. The amazing Rubik's Cube, and other twisty puzzles. 

    The functional requirements are vast, and solutions are certainly patentable subject matter. 
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  • Apple's 21.5-inch Intel iMac is officially retired

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    Too bad. The 21.5" is the ideal size for a desktop computer at home. At lacks nothing. Gets the job done without the size getting in the way. 

    And, unless the computer is somehow your actual business, you don't want the computer to be the primary focus. Lawyer, doctor, nurse, intake -- anything to do with public communication, clients, you don't want the compute to separate you from the people you're serving. 
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  • Facebook changes the one thing it doesn't need to, is now called 'Meta'

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    Better name would be WeZuck
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  • MacBook Pro shipping delays caused by UPS 'mechanical' problems

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    Japhey said:
    davgreg said:
    Not a fan of Oops! (UPS).

    Not sure why Apple uses them instead of FedEx and DHL. I would like it if Apple offered us a choice and it would not be Oops.
    My “signature required” $2000 + laptop was left with no signature at my neighbors house and not because there was nobody home.

    This is just the kind of service often seen from Oops in my area. With numbers clearly on the house in broad daylight in 70 degree sunshine they managed to not get the delivery right.

    Grrr…


    I don’t know about DHL, but I’ve received Apple deliveries from both FedEx and Oops in just the last month. And believe me when I tell you, they’re not exactly brain surgeons at FedEx either. My last delivery from them (a watchband) never even came to my house. Instead, they delivered it to an auto parts store and told me to pick it up there. Um, ok I guess. So, I went there and picked it up but they never marked it as delivered. So now in my Orders section of the Apple app it says “Your order is on the way” and “Expected delivery Sept. 27”.  I’m not saying anything to either of them, I’m just going to wait to see which one figures it out first. 
    IRS gets things wrong also.

    Decades ago, fresh out of law school, five of us newly minted lawyers set out to open up a legal partnership. As managing partner, I contacted the IRS for appropriate partnership tax forms, telling them to send c/o Attorney Lawrence Winkler at our office.

    Weeks later a package from the IRS was delivered, but wasn't for us. I figured it was for some hardware store close by. A couple of days later I realized this was indeed our package: c/o A Turning Lawn Sprinkler. 
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