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  • Apple commits to 100% recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025

    tipootipoo
    That's good to hear! Cobalt is a really dirty business and following through to the source mines often found horrendous child labor where the facilities said there was none, young boys crawling into holes with no protection and absorbing contaminants and risking fall ins and so much more.  
     
    I hope in the meantime, Apple is aggressively checking all their suppliers of cobalt. 
    watto_cobrajony0Alex1N

  • Former Apple PR head Katie Cotton has passed away

    tipootipoo

    1965 - 2023 so 58, maybe 57 depending on the months. That's really too bad, but this life thing is random and oftentimes good people go way too young.

    Not to overshare but my own mother is in hospice now with glioblastoma at just 62, it's probably unhealthy but whenever something like this comes up I start doing this mental calculation of did they get more or less years than her, I need to stop doing that. When people are sad about like a 96 year old celebrity dying my reaction is now like, that's not sad though, that's getting to the finish line of life, when many people are cut way too short. 

     I'm assuming by her age and appearance of health, it was cancer? Can humanity please Manhattan Project cancer at this point? 

    watto_cobracg27

  • iOS 17 could introduce updated Control Center, says leaker

    tipootipoo
    I just want that Snow Leopard release year with deep optimization, refinement, and bug fixes.  
     
    If they were just able to fit in a few key features after doing that, cool. I hope they didn't give up that idea so they could market more new features. 
    williamlondonbraytonakcgWerks

  • Apple self-driving test program grows to over 200 drivers

    tipootipoo
    badmonk said:
    tipoo said:
    I'm still struggling to see how Apple racks up the data collection miles of Tesla without hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road with the hardware in place and the software running in shadow mode. 200 vehicles is very small. 
    Undoubtedly because Apple will be using LIDAR and not cameras for autonomous driving which is becoming a glaring flaw of Tesla’s autonomous driving program.

    Because those using lidar are magically ahead? You still have to train a massive neural network on massive amounts of data regardless of the approach, there's no sensor you can add that gets to autonomy without that step. 
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Apple self-driving test program grows to over 200 drivers

    tipootipoo
    I'm still struggling to see how Apple racks up the data collection miles of Tesla without hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road with the hardware in place and the software running in shadow mode. 200 vehicles is very small.  
     
    Edit: Actually even smaller, that's just drivers, 67 vehicles 
    watto_cobra