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« devices running these legacy services and software through either carrier or wi-fi connections will no longer reliably function, including for data, phone calls, SMS and 9-1-1 functionality » 911 not working without BlackBerry servers? SMS and calls too? Did they route all of that through their servers?

How would you get vaccinated twice and get covid twice? I thought most countries allowed to do one shot only if you recovered from covid once.

1) the screens are really close to your eyes, which is an issue for your eyes to focus on 2) the screens need a high field of view 3) the headset need to provide 6D pose feedback to the computer 4) battery

5-8 layers but how many weights per layer? I can’t access the article but it says it’s a deep CNN so probably in the order of a few thousands weights per layer.

It does, governments can pass laws, big businesses can't. They may buy politicians to pass the laws for them but in the end they can't pass the laws themselves.

What do you mean? I thought we were able to run programs on these processors already.

How much have changed since 2007? CPUs are more and more parallel, GPU have taken a big role in computations with specific memory types, etc... ?

Color is tricky because it varies way too much depending on the lighting conditions, right?

French firefighters do this when arriving at a scene. The first messages sent over the radio will say:

- I am... (who you are and where you are)

- I see... (describe what you see in simple non-ambiguous terms)

- I do... (what action you are taking now)

- I ask... (ask for reinforcements if necessary, you may be asked to justify yourself more)

In the demo video, for every basic task it needs some setup by a human (see how they fixed stuff on the stretchable arm for every action other than picking-up something) and all the interesting tasks were teleoperated.

I don't care about teleoperation, for a home robot I want automation.

The article is mainly about how cis white males don't like astrology and thus it is misogyny. So the connection is pretty much perfect as he is giving an example of how you can be annoyed by astrology without being a cis white male.

edit: typo

Looks like the journalist is trying to convince us that Google is in fact a company created by the CIA. It's amazing that the CIA had already predicted that Google would beat Yahoo!, Lycos, Altavista, and Ask.com in 1995.

Which probably means an regular engineer assigned to customer service, I don't think it is means that customer service is viewed as an engineering discipline.