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  • Beats Studio Pro now available in 24 additional countries worldwide

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    But are they any good???

    Having already spent the money on a set of AirPods Max I'm not in the market for new headphones just yet. But at the lower price point and with better battery life these things might be worth looking at in a year or two - it just depends whether or not they provide a better listening experience. All I've read so far indicates that the "beats" prioritise bass; I much prefer neutral headphones/speakers that provide personal tuning options.
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  • Copyright laws shouldn't apply to AI training, proposes Google

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    22july2013 said:
    AI has multiple data processing stages that could have different legal rules apply. It seems that Google is talking only about the training stage here. The training stage needs to examine large data sets, true, but the language model file that results from that training is surprisingly small (smaller than many large computer games, like World of Warcraft.) I'm no AI expert, or information theory expert, but I can't see any way that the language model itself (eg, a 50 GB file) "contains a copy of the Internet" therefore the model by itself probably isn't violating anyone's copyright. If you ask a chatbot something like "how many basketballs can fit in an average house?" the file itself doesn't contain the answer in its data, it still has to go to the Internet to get the data (eg, size of a basketball, size of a house) needed to generate the answer. If there is a copyright issue, it's probably at the answer-generation stage, not at the model-training stage, because the model that gets created does not contain any of the data that the training-stage had to read to generate it.
    If I, as a human being, want to be trained on a particular skill, specialty or subject I can choose to learn from source materials that are made available for no cost or I can choose materials that are available for a fee. It is the right of the publisher to charge a fee; it is not my right to take something from them and then tell them "so many things are given away for free, I just assumed your stuff was free as well."

    The learning I achieve has value to me, the cost in my time to achieve that result can be reduced by paying someone for their expertise - that's the choice I get to make. That expertise was gained at a cost to that other person/entity and I don't have the right to deny them the chance to extract value from it.
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  • Saudi Arabia passes law requiring USB-C charges for smartphones

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    imagladry said:
    Acut down on e-waste? You know how many cables I have to throw out with the switch to USBB-C?
    Recycling centres exist, and cables can be converted back to raw materials quite efficiently.
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  • China tightens its grip on foreign and independent app developers

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    waveparticle said:
    22july2013 said:
    China is copying US requirement on TikTok. 
    The only ban currently in effect is Biden's Executive Order 14034. It doesn't ban all foreign software on all US smartphones. Have you read it? When you remove the fluff, Biden's order says: 
    If persons who own, control, or manage connected software applications engage in serious human rights abuse or otherwise facilitate such abuse, the United States may impose consequences on those persons in action separate from this order.
    Do you oppose "consequences" on "persons who engage in serious human rights abuse"? Or are you trying to suggest that China thinks the US is a serious human rights abuser?
    Does US government need to prove the case? No! LOL 
    Sometimes, if the consequences of an action are severe enough it is worth enforcing the ban while the details are discovered and an informed judgement made. If a mistake has been made, it's rare that monetary compensation is insufficient to restore the harm done by the false accusation - at least in Western societies. In Eastern cultures, reputational damage is viewed as a much more significant blow and those who made the false accusation must compensate in non-monetary ways; it's more likely that the alleged behaviour will be allowed to continue while the facts are being determined.
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  • Encrypted iMessage chats lead to record-breaking SEC fines for Wells Fargo, Wall Street

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    AppleInsider said:

    Governments all across the globe have tried to argue that these apps are a criminal's dreamland.

    They're a law-abiding citizen's dreamland as well. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
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