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So if anyone was following the stock market, especially Apple or Google Stocks today, they may have noticed a brief bit of interest between 9:30 and 9:40 (at least on the Apple stock). Apparently someone at Dow Jones Newswire may have accidentally hit the publish button on an article that was a test bit for their internal system. This test article was that Google was going to buy Apple for $9 billion as a part of Steve Jobs will. The interesting question that comes out from this is whether the brief jump and subsequent drop of Apple stock by (admittedly fraction of a percent) between 9:30 and 10:20 before it normalized is in relation to this and computer stock trading. CNBC Article: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/10/dow-jones-posts-fake-headlines-claiming-google-to-buy-apple.html Ars Tech Article: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/dow-jones-posts-fake-story-claiming-google-was-buying-apple/ This makes for a really fun read, however it does bring up whether computer stock traders can be sophisticated enough to tell a fake news article from a real one as well as what the economic implications of these kind of issues... Apple's stock appears to have normalized within a half hour yet that may not always be the case. Any economists in the crowd want to take a stab? Note: If mods don't feel this is news-worthy, they can move it. Just thought it was an interesting bit of Tech SNAFU with potential implications...

Was thinking the same thing first reading the article... While the technology by itself would not appear to be able to tell who is in a building (unless they can create a breathing biometric fingerprint), when combined with other existing devices, it could be fairly invasive. Would be interesting (if not additionally NSA/CIA worthy) if they could not only measure breathing, but use that to calculate what a person is saying.

So, you're telling me that Intel is now performing some kind of dark ritual to trap their best performing employees into their CPUs?

You could try to look for a 5.2 surround system, with 2 subwoofers... As it is, I have a Yamaha 5.1 channel speaker system being fed from a Sony Receiver and can usually get a decent amount of bass in my listening area.

Origin Wireless has created a series of new algorithms that can be applied to their existing Mesh Networks which would allow for them to supposedly detect someone breathing in a room. Essentially, they are using the resistance to propagation of your wireless signal to map out the room and scanning at 50 times per a second they were able to detect any motion to within 2 cm. https://www.techspot.com/news/71318-origin-wireless-can-detect-small-movements-wi-fi.html Engadget Article: https://www.engadget.com/2017/10/09/origin-wireless-motion-detection-breathing-rate-sensor/ This seems like a really neat use of mapping out the rooms using existing technology, however I would still be leery of the security aspect of the Mesh Network and how it could potentially be accessed/logged... On a business side, it would be useful in places like a big box store to keep track of motion throughout the whole store and potentially to better improve the flow of traffic inside of buildings.

So just as an update to this... Project Loon has apparently gotten the okay from the FCC and is beginning to deploy balloons to Puerto Rico. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/alphabets-internet-balloons-will-try-to-restore-cell-service-in-puerto-rico/ Not sure how fast they will be able to integrate into the network, but they appear to have at two balloons floating into station on the island (HBAL 017 & 194) with another three on route (HBAL 031, 029 & 192), at least if I'm reading the Flight Radar 24 site correctly... https://www.flightradar24.com/18.57,-65.05/7

Just for fun, I did do a bit of digging and at least in US law there is a definition in 47 USC 230 (f)(1) of and 21 USC 802 (50) of Funny deal is 21 USC is Food and Drugs and 47 USC is Communications. I'm sure there are probably other legal definitions out there as well in other US Codes and in the laws of other countries... Would be interesting to compile them all and see what the differences and similarities are between them.

Yay for subjective answers! I would rather know what the common, agreed upon definition for 'internet' is before coming up with an answer of when was it created. Can probably be divided up based on hardware, software and protocols used... Personally, I would probably go with the first fully released version of the Internet Protocol, so probably in the early or mid-80's.

It should at lease be Thunderbolt on the Type-C or it's fairly much useless IMO... Also wish the articles had a bit more specs about the hardware driving it as opposed to just focusing on the lack of USB-A and the narrow bezel. Based on this image at least two Type-C ports appear to be Thunderbolt...

In before thread locked? Not sure why Ryzen users should feel bad... From what I've seen, Intel has not really improved the IPC of the cores, just tacked on two more cores. I might feel a bit salty if I was a 7700k owner since that launched only 10-months ago and would feel worse if I was stupid enough to purchase a 7740k.

Yahoo email does have one good use, as a throw-away email account when you're required to sign up for a service that you'll only use once...

Well, I guess I'll keep using my S6 Edge for another couple of months... Would have been interested in the Pixel if it still had a headphone jack at least, but not having that is kind of a non-starter for me. I'm really disappointed in the removal considering I don't think there has been a big upsurge in people saying 'Please take away my headphone jack to justify buying brand new wireless headsets'. Just seems like they are using it as a gimmick to say their product is as good as an iPhone.

I'm glad someone else noticed that... As for the silicon lottery, I would think that getting an 8 core processor running stable at 5.0 GHz and 1.36 volts would be fairly good, so you probably did not lose the silicon lottery. If anything, I might be concerned about the parts degrading from excessive heat and voltage, especially around the VRM with Sky Lake-X.

This is a horrible idea for a lot of business/organizations as there is a lot of custom software that is not a part of the UWP/Windows Store, especially with accounting or legacy software. As it is, there are a couple of applications that I run on a Windows 7 machine at work that were originally coded for Win95 and would suddenly become unusable as I have to make Registry Edits to keep them working.

It would be a good use case for deployment, however, I don't yet see any of the Project Loon balloons being shown in the airspace around Puerto Rico. The closest one that shows up on Flight Radar 24 is located about 300 km to the east over the Atlantic Ocean as HBAL 194. https://www.flightradar24.com/HBAL194/f0ced02

Maybe it's just me, but if it is sending data parallel or in a parallel-serial combo then I get a bit of a chuckle over the whole Universal 'Serial' Bus... I also seriously hope it doesn't take them that long to catch up to TB3 considering that a Type-C connector can handle the 40 Gbps data rates...

So they are achieving the data speed doubling by adding a second SuperSpeed pin set? Does that mean it will be sending data over in parallel or serial to achieve that data rate? Appreciate the improved data rates, however, I'm wondering how long before they achieve parity with the latest iteration of Thunderbolt... Also appreciate that they are keeping the number of connector types down to Type A, B-Micro & C. Finally do away with that blasted B-Mini connector...

Cubicles: A way to put your employees in boxes that afford zero privacy so you can hear all of their conversations. Most cubicles don't really afford you much privacy and depending on where you work, actually can force more socialization if your co-workers are really into chatting to escape their cubicles.

I would have been interested in this if they had just kept it like the original 3310 and just updated the cellular chip inside to work on modern networks... All I really wanted it for was a durable phone/texting device that would last forever on battery (or nearly) and be near bulletproof. I don't really need it for Internet Services or social media...

What this comes down to is how much can a task be divided up for parallel processing... GPUs will not replace CPUs as some tasks do not scale to splitting up the workload, while other tasks do perform better when you can divide it up. As well, there may come a time when you have a system that offloads a majority of the tasks to something peripheral, you will still have something that acts as the 'Central' unit that coordinates all of these tasks and acts as a conductor of sorts to determine which GPU gets which tasks in which order.

Yeah, I agree with the efficiency aspect of it, but I would still prefer to be able to purchase from Nintendo directly a single emulator system like this with the catalog for both SNES and NES games as opposed to having to either buy the games through the Nintendo Shop or having to build my own Pi based solution...

Black enough and strong enough to get over the soul crushing depression of working in a cubicle? Really just black, strong, freshly ground and pour over dripped or french pressed...

According to OC3D, Eurogamer has dissected the upcoming SNES Mini and is confirming that the hardware inside is the same as was in the NES Mini meaning that all Nintendo did was rework the external casing and update the ROMs being provided. This also means that it is theoretically possible to get either a SNES Mini or NES Mini and add emulation for the other system. (NES Mini first picture, SNES Mini second). https://www.overclock3d.net/news/systems/nintendo_s_snes_mini_uses_the_same_hardware_as_the_nes_mini/1 I would personally prefer to have all of the SNES and NES library in the NES Mini case myself and would much rather see Nintendo just release something like a gaming classic system that had their complete SNES and NES library installed in a single device...

So this is a bit of an interesting article that Engadget wrote based on a small snippet of an article on Wired (link below). Back in September of 2015, Anthony Levandowski of Google & Uber fame filed paperwork to establish a non-profit religious corporation called Way of the Future. The mission of this religion is "To develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead contribute to the betterment of society." https://www.engadget.com/2017/09/28/anthony-levandowski-google-uber-AI-religion-god/ So my natural skepticism makes me wonder whether this organization is truly looking to a Godhead moment with AI or whether it is more of a shell religion to gain tax exempt status for millions of dollars... Either way, at least when our AI Overlord decides to take over, we will at least have one organization ready to worship it. Wired Article: https://www.wired.com/story/god-is-a-bot-and-anthony-levandowski-is-his-messenger/