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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. Is there life on ... Venus?

    I watched the entire presser today by the Royal Astronomical Society and the evidence the presented was compelling. The mission now moves to the stage of proving its NOT microbial in origin.
    1 point
  40. Nvidia is acquiring Arm for $40 billion

    Considering how the world is moving towards ARM architecture, SoftBank is actually doing a grave mistake by letting it go for such a cheap pricing just to hide their messed up that they did in their over valued investments on WeWork, Uber etc
    1 point
  41. 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. A fake one will get shut down.
    1 point
  42. Actually, I remember those days very clearly and we were never really given a choice. That "buy American" line came AFTER it was long over. And, due to the fact that American wages were still not keeping up with inflation (but CEO pay was climbing as were health insurance premiums by double digits every year) Americans had little choice but to shop at Walmart (for example) just to make ends meet. It was also the time of Walmart eliminating every mom and pop shop across America. And, again, Americans were not given a choice in this and certainly not a meaningful one. Americans made their own beds to be sure, but for the last 50 years now the megacorporations have been buying off our political class in order to increase their own profits at the cost of everything that actually matters.
    1 point
  43. New leak reveals PlayStation 5 box contents

    hey sony fanboy, you forgot to reply to my last comment: https://www.dexerto.com/gaming...ero-dawn-pc-reveal-1339652" rel="external nofollow">https://www.dexerto.com/gaming...awn-pc-reveal-1339652" rel="external nofollow">https://www.dexerto.com/gaming...awn-pc-reveal-1339652" rel="external nofollow">https://www.dexerto.com/gaming...ero-dawn-pc-reveal-1339652" rel="external nofollow">https://www.dexerto.com/gaming...zero-dawn-pc-reveal-1339652 Children like the one from the video, should not be considered in any way serioues. Wrecking your own purchase..... Childish acts have no age limit, as such should be avoided and never considered as a point of reference in an adult world this was just an extreme example, but you have no idea how many reacted badly after this announcement That is still a chilish reaction. Not like they are removing the Game from PS. So what they made in another platform. There are other things to worry about, dunno...like they increasing PSN cost or reducing warranty to 6 months or Sony spying on you (somethiong that happened 15 years ago from Sony audio CDs). Because really, being mad because of news like this...it's still childish. The world still spins
    1 point
  44. Sooo...you didn't read my reply to him. Because I made the point that it's too late to fix the manufacturing issue and that Trump just spent years lying to help himself and his crime family -- having made no actual difference in trade, manufacturing, or really anything substantive at all when it comes to China. All smoke and mirrors. And, of course, Biden won't "fix the trade issue" either. First, because it no longer needs to be fixed (re: the robots are coming). Second, even if this wasn't the case, it simply can't be fixed in the way you think it should be, as there is simply no way to rebuild America's manufacturing base with anything except robots (re: same as above). And, finally, because Biden's a hand-picked corporate stooge and the megacorps don't want it to be fixed. But even with all of that Biden is still better than "fiddling while it burns" Trump -- an incompetent, corrupt international laughing stock. If people actually wanted to see America finally grow up and start acting like an adult modern nation, they should have come to the primary polls and voted for Sanders. Instead, our choices are now between re-electing the worst president in American history and four years of GHW Bush-lite. Hooray?
    1 point
  45. New leak reveals PlayStation 5 box contents

    That's the problem right there. Brand loyalism is a useless construct that almost always ends up hurting the customer. You should buy based on the quality of the product itself and what it offers. I bought a PS4 two years ago, and the main reason wasn't sony but the fact that they released nice exclusives after their lackluster early titles. If I don't like PS5's exclusives, then no purchase from me. P.S. there are horror stories on the MS side too.
    1 point
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  47. Wow, delusional much? I guess it has nothing to do with the spying... It's sad how many people will defend crooked companies due to their derangement of Trump...
    1 point
  48. File encryption software recommendations

    Be wary of Cryptomator on OneDrive. OneDrive will think it’s ransomware. No fix is available atm.
    1 point
  49. It looks like a cow!

    And getting smeared across the windshield.
    1 point