hold on to your butts people i've been ready since day one
things were a bit calmer in the apple vs epic trial during its third week but
yesterday apple decided to make things spicy again their legal team floated the
idea that microsoft is actually behind the assault on the app store
with epic as their puppet
the suggestion was put forward in another request by apple to strike the
testimony of xbox executive laurie wright in the form of this quote a
reasonable observer might wonder whether epic is serving as a stalking horse for
microsoft oh apple fortnite players don't know what a stalking horse is
there was some more gold nuggets from apple this week too phil shot scheiler
is it shyler schiller phil schiller testified that you know to
be honest apple doesn't even know if iOS is profitable
it's just this little thing that we're trying to protect with all of our energy
probably worthless and an attempt to emphasize how
important the iOS app store is craig freder frederic what is with all these
hard last names craig federighi described the level of
malware on macOS as unacceptable oh yeah you wouldn't want iphones to be as
much of a disaster zone as max
for better or for worse it looks like the trial may come to a close next week
so i guess we'll finally have a chance to play fortnite on iOS together
seagate has announced a hard drive that just may be best of both worlds when it
comes to storage the mach 2 exos 2 x 14
is a 14 terabyte hard drive that can reach sustained transfer speeds of up to
524 megabytes per second which is not only faster than any other hard drive
it's fast enough to compete with some SATA based ssds the xs achieves this
because the xs achieves this because of a number
of technologies like using two actuators per disk platter instead of one because
it's geared for enterprises and not your collection of cat photos
it uses an sas connector instead of a SATA and yeah most modern SATA and m.2
based ssds will still beat it in speed but it's got 14 terabytes
i put all my cat phones in there deep mind the creator of ai systems
famous for defeating the top players in chess go starcraft and more was acquired
by google in 2014 but according to the wall street journal the research unit's
founders have been negotiating for more autonomy from their tech giant owner for
years and those talks have now failed deepmind argued that the powerful
artificial intelligence they were researching shouldn't be controlled by a
single corporate entity google obviously disagreed and maybe
they have a point i mean i don't know what it's like to be a mega tech giant
yeah we should hear him out yeah maybe yeah
yeah google support reportedly helped deepmind continue their research but
it's definitely a bit concerning that the people making super powerful ai are
trying to get out of google's hands
yikes but it's fine
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twitch has finally sort of addressed its community's concerns about the
platform's so-called hot tub meta by announcing a new category called pools
hot tubs and beaches sounds fun
can't wait to join in
it will function just like any other twitch category perfectly satisfying to
all twitch users that was a joke
snap has announced the company's latest spectacles and while previous models
were simple sunglasses with an embedded camera this one actually has augmented
reality capabilities they look like they're from an alternate
60s inspired future but who cares what you look like when wearing them because
you'll be looking at a cool ar screen with a tiny 26.3 degree field of view
sounds awesome i feel like i'm there yes
during their io keynote this week google announced that docs will be prompting
users to use inclusive language when writing a document by underlining
certain words for instance if you write chairman it will suggest that you use
chairperson instead and while we might all agree that
inclusive language is good you wouldn't expect to get a gentle reminder like
this from the technological equivalent of a pad and paper hey and at the very
least this should cut down on the emails to hr right
faison electronics corp and seigent technology have partnered to create
flash storage drives with protections against ransomware data theft and other
attacks built right into the firmware it's a response to increasing ransomware
attacks across the globe in an age where locked cabinets just aren't cool anymore
speak to yourself
and researchers at darpa and the university of central florida have
developed an ai system that can understand written sarcasm
oh really the scientists say that ais should help
with 200 tweet long twitter arguments in which both parties actually agree
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