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Cambridge analytica, containing all facebook data for 87M people?

This. This was basically a lay off in disguise, and yet it's being portrayed as the opposite. Stichfix has continually automated many of their processes using their 100+ data scientists. This is no different.

The company's executive has continually failed at PR though, which is hammering the stock price. Unbelievable that they're letting this narrative just persist.

"We" by Zamyatin is one of the best books I read all of last year. It's out of copy right, so freely downloadable too. Found it much more compelling than either a brave new world or 1984, even though both those books are also great. "We" seemed much more coherent and thought through.

Reading his back story makes this even more interesting, given that he was living in a totalitarian state. I'd recommend reading his Wikipedia entry too.

In short: highly recommended reading.

Airpod Pros do exactly that too.

Never seen over the ear headphones come with alternative cups (though easily doable with the Max as they're detachable)

> One of the biggest drawbacks is that you can’t brace your hand against anything whilst typing – think how much easier it is to type on a smartphone with your thumbs versus trying to stab at a virtual keyboard on a large tablet with just your index finger

This is a common problem for large touch screens, that I've experienced for instance in Tesla's massive displays too. the way around it: always rest part of your hand against something stable, ie in the tesla wrap your pinky around the display and then use your thumb or index finger. For me it increased accuracy from 80% to 99%. This doesn't work if you need to touch the center of the screen, all other parts work great.

for changing amazon smile: is it "Signal Technology Foundation - Location: Mountain View, CA"? no description available unfortunately. seem to be a bunch with the name signal and that was the closest in name to what seems to be the signal foundation

That's a terrible idea from a user perspective. All of ionity and tesla's superchargers are in urban or shopping areas that allow you to quickly buy some food, go shopping or go to a bathroom in a respectable location.

I personally would have zero interest in going to my car dealership as their locations are typically far away from anything urban or of interst.

The reason it has been stuck to 16GB is precisely because Intel mobile chips did not support any more than that up until a year ago. So rather than blaming Apple, it should rather be placed on intel.

I don't think expecting more than 16GB of ram for entry level Apple laptops should be expected.

The low amount of ram, energy inefficiency and plateauing performance are the exact reason why Apple is moving away from Intel and onto a platform where they can control their own destiny.

The responses here seem to not really acknowledge what a rabbit apple has been pulling out of the hat. 2-3x the performance both from a CPU and GPU perspective, whilst being far more energy and thermally efficient. Of course this was kind of known and rumoured, but now we know.

Finally real competition for intel. If only these chips were available to others. they are literally running laps around the competition.

Curious where Apple's pro offerings will go, and whether these will be available as servers...

Apple clearly has an edge when it comes to silicon that others just won't be able to replicate anytime soon. From a cost perspective, just eliminating 4-5 chips by utilizing a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) allows them to create much simpler logic boards whilst saving hundreds of dollars. Not to mention saving the intel tax or being burdened by intel's lack of progress.

The big question remaining is how is this going to scale further up the mac pro line-up? I'd imagine a chiplet like architecture similar to AMDs zen3 is the way forward. But will they go all the way to 64 CPUs and beyond? Or will they just stick to a single SoC chip?

What cadence will they upgrade these chips with? I'd expect something closer to what the ipad has done with the AX chips, ie every 2 years. Questions.

Very interesting times. I want one, badly, just to have more than the meagre 2-4 hours of realistic batterly life i get on my 2017 MBP.

The written English language is an odd one. It's technically not at all standardized, or if so by some private non-officially or only locally recognized institutions. Unlike other languages, say French and German, that are strictly maintained and rules set by an official institution that may even be cross-border (Germany-Austria). These haven't been shy to institute bigger changes just to make the written language more coherent.

Really this just shows how the British empire managed to spread it's word (literally) but not manage to manage it properly. We now have a litany of different English language versions, which is interesting from a cultural perspective but entirely contradicts what a language is made for: communicating.

We really ought to start officially standardizing the English language and untangling the current written mess. That way we'd make 10% of English speaker's lives much better...