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  1. ByteDance rejects Microsoft's bid to buy TikTok's U.S. operations

    Social media platforms are largely powered by algorithms that connect you to similar people with similar interests. A social media platform without a decent algorithm will fail.
    6 points
  2. Why? Give me one good reason why. "I like Apple" doesn't count.
    5 points
  3. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Since it was already sold to a Japanese company how are you losing it again?
    5 points
  4. Pretty interesting stuff for sure. Always good to see them thinking outside the box, and we do have a good chunk of space underwater to use. Toss in the fact it runs on wind and solar and it looks like a big win win for the project.
    4 points
  5. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    You could say it cost them an arm and a leg.
    4 points
  6. Just in: Apple retroactively sues Sony for selling earbuds for decades using their iconic AirPods design.
    4 points
  7. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    * Apple to Nvidia, I don't want to talk to you anymore * Apple, we will move to ARM. * NVidia buys ARM. 😵
    4 points
  8. ByteDance rejects Microsoft's bid to buy TikTok's U.S. operations

    Explanation: See Larry Ellison - Trump And ya, illegal on many levels, but nobody cares anymore. Authoritarianism and fascism have taken over.
    4 points
  9. ByteDance rejects Microsoft's bid to buy TikTok's U.S. operations

    So, I'm guessing that you don't realize that these algorithms have been well understood for over a decade now and, quite frankly, they aren't even very complicated. In truth, it's the DATA that's been mined from the users that's the only thing of value to advertisers and their megacorporations who just want to sell everyone things they really don't need. https://sproutsocial.com/insights/social-media-algorithms/ No, this is clearly just posturing because TikTok wanted the money without having to give up their codebase and database and Microsoft isn't desperate or stupid enough to go into business with potential Chinese espionage software without having complete access to their code and data. But Oracle is both stupid and desperate enough to do just that. Which means that TikTok's code will still have all the access to Americans it ever had even after Trump has finished his latest childish temper tantrum... Hooray? Considering these algorithms are not about just gathering data but also influencing their users, I find your understanding a little lacking.
    4 points
  10. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Be interesting to see what they can do in this space. Intel: enters GPU market Nvidia: enters CPU market AMD: You guys do you, we're gonna keep being awesome
    4 points
  11. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    So again another one of our businesses get sold out to the Americans, it was bad enough when it was sold to a Japanese company. It is time our government put their foot down and stop this happening.
    4 points
  12. "a good chunk of space underwater" Understatement of the year there.
    3 points
  13. Facebook leaks its own Oculus Quest 2 with "near 4K" resolution

    Cool. But Oculus became irrelevant when Facebook decided to require it's Oculus customers to sign in with Facebook going forward. I'm not gonna sign up for a new Facebook account just to use a VR headset!
    3 points
  14. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Apple and every other mobile chip manufacturer was already paying Arm licensing fee for using their architecture, and will continue doing so regardless of the company now being owned by Nvidia.
    3 points
  15. ByteDance rejects Microsoft's bid to buy TikTok's U.S. operations

    Partnering with Oracle, a company that chiefly consists of lawyers... resembles hiring a law firm.
    3 points
  16. My kids and I are in the UK and my daughter doesn't have to worry about it being banned over here fortunately. She and her mates use it all the time. It seems to be the new Bebo. Most teenagers seem to be using it these days. Our government over here sure isn't perfect. They are trying to break international law at the moment (I hope that doesn't fly with MP's), but they don't hold childish grudges against people and companies the way Trump does. That man is an embarrassment of the western world and more importantly for the US. I feel nothing but empathy for our US partners. I hope things change for the better soon.
    3 points
  17. Apple didn't invent Bluetooth, and if you're talking about the physical design, no, "same as Sony earbuds from the '90s but with the wires cut off" doesn't make it an "original design".
    2 points
  18. You know what's making the ice caps melt more? Your god damn air conditioning. Everyone's air conditioning in america. You could have picked a cooler place to live but no instead you pick a bit of land that's too hot for the entire year and waste a lot of energy on trying to cool it back down. So you suggest relocating 100 million people from the Southwest & deep South to other parts of America? Sounds positively Hitlerian/Stalinist.
    2 points
  19. A known company only in third world countries. Apparently every country is third world except US..for the US
    2 points
  20. I should think that cooling in this way is a lot more efficient than land-based solutions.
    2 points
  21. A known company only in third world countries. No... Not even close.
    2 points
  22. I saw this on Facebook and I got mad

    If the bins are full and no one emptied, that is one thing. Trash will not stay in the bin. But I still see people of all ages tossing trash without walking an additional 10ft to the trash bin. I have a family member that tosses ###### out of the car when driving instead of holding on to the trash until they get home. I always yell at them when I see it. And do not get me started on people tossing out cigarette butts. I think the laziness of people plays a big factor in littering. Edit: Only thing I toss out the window is apple cores, banana peals, or other biodegradable stuff. In a week or so, will be decomposed or an animal will come by and take care of it. As long as it is in a dirt/grass area and not in the middle of a city where it will not decompose very well. Currently I live in a very rural area and lots of fields and farm land where I am at. Month or so, moving back to Phoenix so I will not do this in the city.
    2 points
  23. OnePlus 8T leaks in high-resolution renders, could support 65W Warp charging

    Glad to see flat display. Fingers crossed regarding pricing
    2 points
  24. You'd think they'd research what they seized before running to the internet to brag about it..........
    2 points
  25. My question is why, when it has its own packaging for a well known company too. These don't even look like air pods. OnePlus should raise all kinds of hell for this instead of being nice about it.
    2 points
  26. IMHO, the green heroes are who generate green energies, not who eats it, unless you are using this energy directly (i.e. close to the wind turbines).
    2 points
  27. Facebook leaks its own Oculus Quest 2 with "near 4K" resolution

    Just make a fake one. I don't get what's the big deal. It's not that hard, Russian bots make millions of accounts each day. If a bot can do it, you can too. Wow what a bad attitude. No, I'm not gonna sign up for a ###### service with a fake account to use a VR headset when all competitors offers headsets without such stupid requirements.
    2 points
  28. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Since it was already sold to a Japanese company how are you losing it again? American companies are ######ing ######. Source: work for a previously british company that was taken over by an american one. NO ONE in the whole company on the non-american side is happy with anything they've done. This is a very expensive purchase for Nvidia and they can't afford to mess things up too much. The goal is to add the best of Nvidia to Arm, and anyone not happy with that prospect should not be at the forefront of tech innovation. American companies normally seem to muck up when they buy other companies, only have to look at Cadbury and see how rubbish that is now.
    2 points
  29. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Since it was already sold to a Japanese company how are you losing it again? It should never have been sold in the first place, it was only our Teresa May that forced them to keep the HQ in the U.K by all accounts. But this is the problem with this country, we have something and then it is sold to a foreign company. i was not happy that it was sold the Japanese, but worse that it have been sold to the Americans as they change stuff, only have to look at Cadbury's, well I was not a great fan of their chocolate when it was British owned, since kraft took it over, it is greasy tasteless muck. We will see what happens, but it is a pity our government did not buy Arm
    2 points
  30. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Could ARM have survived on its own without being sold to Softbank? It's better than going out of business isn't it? Nvidia has the resources to do great things with ARM so I don't see how this is a bad thing for the company. The headquarters is staying in the UK so it's not as though you guys are losing your jobs thankfully.
    2 points
  31. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    nvidias chipsets for cpu's way back in the day were utter trash anyways
    2 points
  32. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Since it was already sold to a Japanese company how are you losing it again? American companies are ######ing ######. Source: work for a previously british company that was taken over by an american one. NO ONE in the whole company on the non-american side is happy with anything they've done. This is a very expensive purchase for Nvidia and they can't afford to mess things up too much. The goal is to add the best of Nvidia to Arm, and anyone not happy with that prospect should not be at the forefront of tech innovation.
    2 points
  33. While the Chinese are ######, this fact is irrelevant to Trump's latest presidential temper tantrum. He's selectively applying rules he just yanked out of his fat ass because the users of TikTok epically trolled this idiot regarding the Tulsa rally and he can't go after thousands of teenagers. Trump specifically made it clear that his "order" doesn't affect all of the other computer related businesses these Chinese parent companies do in the USA, from video games (re: Riot, Activision/Blizzard, etc.) on down, so that makes it really obvious what his agenda really is here. Any judge is going to injunction this arbitrary nonsense until after the election. But instead of selling out on his whim, the Chinese could just shutter TikTok for a few months until Biden can clean this mess up too. I'm all for an adult examination of our relationship with China. But the idiot Trump isn't even capable of understanding the scope or nature of the problem. Better for the adults in the room to handle this next year. Trouble is that Trump is so busy installing judges of his own "kind". The US is the very model of Democracy gone bad..... very very bad. Corruption etc everywhere to the point of it being no better than the "enemy" they are using as a scapegoat for their election process.
    2 points
  34. you are incapable of making any point without trash talking him. Learn to make a point without mentioning Trump, Oh yeah, you also insulted me by saying I was whining, Did you honestly miss the fact that this entire topic is actually about TikTok which is all about Trump's attempt to blackmail them? So, yes, I will continue to insult that reprehensible charlatan, pathological liar, and textbook narcissist in any topic that mentions the dumbest, most imcompete, most corrupt American ever to hold high office. Whether you like facing it or not, everything I have said about President "######ing Moron" is true, based on facts and supported by evidence. I'm not the whiny yellow snowflake here, mate.
    2 points
  35. Trump did the usual and spat his dummy out. Kids pranked his campaign. They did this through the Tick Tock app and it was a huge embarrassment for Trump. He was boasting of record 1 million (I think) numbers for the Tulsa rally. Shortly after that, Trump suddenly had a problem with Tick Tock. There is no way this was a coincidence. I bet Tick Tock wasn't even on his radar before that.
    2 points
  36. Look, I don't know where you've been the last 25 years, but no Democrat or Republican politician has given two asses about China and how they were destroying the American manufacturing sector. Clinton started it, Bush enhanced it, and Obama just didn't care. Romney wouldn't have changed anything, Hillary wouldn't have, McCain etc. I don't know where you get this notion that somehow if Biden and his Democrats win, then magically they will become adults and handle China properly. There is literally nothing in Biden's 50 year record to show he will do anything to China. The US government didn't care about China until Trump came in, therefore the so called adult examination of our relationship you call for only happened because of Trump, not anybody else. Dial the TDS down. Yes, the American manufacturing sector was sold old by the 1% and our bought and sold politicians did nothing about it. But neither did Trump. In case you missed it, he didn't actually "do anything" with China, mate. He lied over and over again specifically to drum up anti-China sentiment among the ignorant and gullible racist fools who can't tell that he's a lying incompetent crook. It also gave him leverage in personally grifting Ivanka's Chinese copyright deals, etc. But I'm sure that that's just a coincidence, right? Regardless, the adults in the room have known since before Obama that now it is too late to do anything about it because all manufacturing is going robotic anyway. Even in China they are laying off millions as they replace them with the latest generation of robots capable of making iPhones. So, now you are whining about something that is a long lost cause and giving props to a con-man who just used the Chinese as yet another xenophobic racist foil for his own narcissistic ends. Notice how manufacturing did not return to America under the idiot Trump? Notice that no new trade agreement or any meaningful changes were actually accomplished? It was all just a racist smokescreen for suckers. Don't be one of them. So, yes, the adults returning to the White House will normalize relations with China again. And, no, that doesn't mean childishly and ignorantly turning them into the big bad enemy for something that our own 1% did to all of us purely for their own greed. After all, who do you think the Chinese learned their unabashed Capitalist ways from in the first place? The adults in the room know all of this. Now you do too. You might as well learn and adapt, because the racist crooked Charlatan in Chief sure isn't going to.
    2 points
  37. While the Chinese are ######, this fact is irrelevant to Trump's latest presidential temper tantrum. He's selectively applying rules he just yanked out of his fat ass because the users of TikTok epically trolled this idiot regarding the Tulsa rally and he can't go after thousands of teenagers. Trump specifically made it clear that his "order" doesn't affect all of the other computer related businesses these Chinese parent companies do in the USA, from video games (re: Riot, Activision/Blizzard, etc.) on down, so that makes it really obvious what his agenda really is here. Any judge is going to injunction this arbitrary nonsense until after the election. But instead of selling out on his whim, the Chinese could just shutter TikTok for a few months until Biden can clean this mess up too. I'm all for an adult examination of our relationship with China. But the idiot Trump isn't even capable of understanding the scope or nature of the problem. Better for the adults in the room to handle this next year.
    2 points
  38. Not defending China here, but they don't ban anything outright all the time. Their stance has mostly been, "Comply to our rules or GTFO", similar to what the US is doing here. It is the individual companies that choose not to do so. Edit: They do ban stuff when you stoke the ego of the CCP, but hey US isn't a free market champion either.
    2 points
  39. A known company only in third world countries. Apparently every country is third world except US..for the US They're well-known in the US. He'd be including the US in that list of third-world countries.
    1 point
  40. This is an excellent way to accelerate melting of the polar ice caps to reveal more oil resources for us to drill and extract.
    1 point
  41. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Lol what? Intel has been doing gpu for quite awhile, long before AMD became competitive again for CPU . Also, AMD bought ATI years ago for their “GPU” edge. Intel is only just entering the dedicated GPU market (again) so it's still valid.
    1 point
  42. Wiring help needed

    Actually if it's in Canada, even a pro will say re-wire if its something THAT old since it is required by-law to bring it up to code
    1 point
  43. While the Chinese are ######, this fact is irrelevant to Trump's latest presidential temper tantrum. He's selectively applying rules he just yanked out of his fat ass because the users of TikTok epically trolled this idiot regarding the Tulsa rally and he can't go after thousands of teenagers. Trump specifically made it clear that his "order" doesn't affect all of the other computer related businesses these Chinese parent companies do in the USA, from video games (re: Riot, Activision/Blizzard, etc.) on down, so that makes it really obvious what his agenda really is here. Any judge is going to injunction this arbitrary nonsense until after the election. But instead of selling out on his whim, the Chinese could just shutter TikTok for a few months until Biden can clean this mess up too. I'm all for an adult examination of our relationship with China. But the idiot Trump isn't even capable of understanding the scope or nature of the problem. Better for the adults in the room to handle this next year. Look, I don't know where you've been the last 25 years, but no Democrat or Republican politician has given two asses about China and how they were destroying the American manufacturing sector. Clinton started it, Bush enhanced it, and Obama just didn't care. Romney wouldn't have changed anything, Hillary wouldn't have, McCain etc. I don't know where you get this notion that somehow if Biden and his Democrats win, then magically they will become adults and handle China properly. There is literally nothing in Biden's 50 year record to show he will do anything to China. The US government didn't care about China until Trump came in, therefore the so called adult examination of our relationship you call for only happened because of Trump, not anybody else. Dial the TDS down. You forget that the US citizens caused it by living their lives of excesses and not buying local. Do not just blame the politicians for what you have caused by not supporting your local manufacturers and causing them to look overseas to produce cheap products to satisfy your material needs.
    1 point
  44. Such as the iPhone SE -t hat £400 phone that shares the processor with it's flagship device. At the cost of the 4 years old design and the rest of the hardware. There is no cost to an Apple design. it is what it has always been. And I don't know its about "design" so much as it is about performance with the Apple watch. As you know, Apple tends to stick to a basic formula and they don't deviate much. Nothing new there. Smart watches for me at least have to be able to do basic things well. Apple watches can do that.
    1 point
  45. Hangs and bluescreens almost daily on new build

    Apologies for the late reply but I felt the need to add closure. Swapping the TPM chip solved the issues. I did expectedly have to enter the BitLocker recovery key on first boot, but working fine since.
    1 point
  46. Rotting on the vine? I use Siri literally dozens of times a day, and it does exactly what I want. What's wrong with it? Genuinely intrigued as to why you say this... Home automation. You typically can only buy products that have either Google assistant/Alexa support. Or home kit support. The ones that support all three are typically expensive or niche. I.e an ecobee works with all three, but when you have nest smoke alarms an cams, why would you get an ecobee and not a nest thermostat, especially when ecobee doesn’t have nearly the same product portfolio Same with my wifi switches. They support Alexa and Google assistant but not HomeKit. Google assistant and Alexa have far better routine support. I actually tried the home kit version, it was terrible. Didn’t work half the time. Tried another brand. Same result. And that was only a year ago. another example: my chamberlain garage door. Works with Google and IFFFTT/Alexa out of the box, if I want siri/HomeKit support, I have to buy a 100 add on because the HomeKit certification/licensing is expensive. Also: 5 $29 buck Google home minis. Or 5 $200 plus Apple homepods. Neither, they're both ######. Siri is clearly shittier though. I'd recommend anyone looking at assistants borrow one from a friend and use it for a couple of months. You'll most likely find out YAGNI. lol sounds like someone’s doing it wrong. You mean like your post? Hey I said from the start, get a loaner to try it out because YMMV but if you're such an expert in what I need why don't you get off your butt and deliver me what I need. No need giving you an address or anything since it seems like you already got everything covered. Lol. What?
    1 point
  47. Apple cannot flex at game streaming services. Apple does not have core competencies in the design and production of mobile/ video games or much experience developing/maintaining their own back end streaming service (pretty easy for Microsoft given Azure). The suits at Apple likely know that game streaming is the future and that players like Microsoft can actually take a big chunk of sales away from the App Store. In 2019, 68% of revenue was generated by the sale of games in the App Store. That's huge. Nowadays, even consoles are getting those well designed and popular mobile games. If one could simply pay $7.99/month to access (with other perks of course) then I would rather give my money to Xbox Game Pass than pay $0.99 per app on the App Store.
    1 point
  48. A cheaper Apple Watch could be announced next week, to come in two sizes

    heavily disagree. i was once in the 'never apple' camp. but after the fall of WM10 i dipped my toe. Have had the watch for about a year and a half. super convenient.
    1 point
  49. Join Neowin Folding@Home Group

    Sony headquarters?
    1 point