There are very good reasons to buy PREMIUM priced phones, but more often than not, sampling my circles of families and friends, it's uncommon to see people really using the features that justify the premium price tags.
Whether marketing, status, or pressure to upgrade from a carrier store (with an attractive monthly lease price), I see a lot of people with $1000+ phones, who probably only use about $300 worth of that phone.
It seems there's an acceleration of people working in #tech speaking out or resigning over lack of serious #ethics work while developing #AI (#Hinton). Now #chatGPT linked to #MRI successfully reads thoughts. While the study concludes: "subject cooperation is required both to train and to apply the decoder", we know the pace of #technology means this won't be an obstacle for long. Then what? Is saving 1 person with cerebral injury worth enslaving 1 million? #techethicshttps://www.independent.co.uk/tech/brain-scan-ai-chatgpt-thoughts-b2330628.html
Sometimes, it appears as if there are technology solutions to management problems, but that is only because it occasionally requires technological tools for the #implementation of management policy.
The will to create and use the tool must first exist. #Policy and #design are paramount.
The current Apple Watch trial ends in a mistrial. Now the FTC will likely spend several months deciding whether there should be a ban on the Apple Watch because Apple stole IP from another company.
Apparently, when you're a $2 TRILLION dollar brand, you can just steal tech, distribute it at a ridiculous scale, and then stall the legal process (while lobbying in DC) when it's time to pay for stealing that tech.
My phone is the Moto G Power 2020. I got it on sale after the 2021 was released because all the reviews noted how the 2021 version was a significant downgrade from the 2020 version. Wild! I don't know how the 2022+ versions compare, but I want to wring out as much life from this thing as possible.
Isizwe’s Fibre-to-the-shack in South Africa — uncapped 100Mbps for R5 (US$0.27) a day
“The brick structures have a fibre drop and a network termination unit. The tin structures receive their Wi-Fi through a pole-mounted outdoor, fibre-connected, Wi-Fi access point,” Briggs explained.
While the network operator initially wanted to use Wi-Fi ...continues
Think the WGA strike isn't relevant to you? It's relevant to anyone doing creative or knowledge work because if it happens to writers, it could happen elsewhere. They asked this consortium under AMPTP including Amazon and Netflix that AI be prevented from training on covered material, and rewriting their work. The request was not only denied but they were offered a token yearly meeting to "discuss advances in technology".
Even some technologists I know don't fully understand how much training is required for AI, and that its generative capacity sits on literally millions of thoughts and ideas generated and ingested into systems. Protecting their IP from being ingested by a variety of neural networks owned by Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, NBC Universal etc., for generative AI use, is a baseline expectation for people who, like actors, may only make a single sale of their labor in a calendar year. #AI#wgastrike#wgawriters#writing#technologyhttps://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-guild-strike-begins-1235340176/
This week, we head over to Midgar to clean a fire bombed bar, a mechanical spider, a three-wheeled truck from the 50's and a familiar, but oddly named bike.
Amongst all the things we cleaned, we discussed what it would take to get people to move over to platforms like ActivityPub and to leave capitalism behind in general.
I love shooting candids, and it's these little slice of life photos that really help show off how much phone cameras have improved. Shot from the telephoto on the Xiaomi 13 Ultra, about an instant before the three ran off for the playground. I hope my daughter remembers what they were talking about when she gets older. 🥰 https://flic.kr/p/2oxj7ia
How did the Enigma Machine work? (www.youtube.com)
Let's use 3D animation to go inside the Enigma Machine.