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Sexual preference and genetic material are very different from sexual activity and genetic data. These privacy polices are always very broad (not saying this is a good thing). The multitude of microphones in cars can easily accidentally (or purposefully) record sex acts. A camera to detect driver awareness (for auto cruise or sleep alarms) can detect your eye color, which could be construed as genetic data. Idk if airbags deploy based on weight on seats (i.e. less powerful for smaller people), but weight data is health data.

I'm not so pessimistic that I think the Toyota techs are swabbing your car and sending it over to 23andMe.

I used to attend O-RAN meetings for a major telecom, and this was always the major hurdle I envisioned for the adoption of these things. On the technical side, it's a fun problem and interesting work, but O-RAN and open source cellular lacks the organic growth other open source projects can enjoy. A comparison point was always the networking space. Open source routers/switches broke into the Juniper/Cisco market, but it doesn't work as well in cellular. Small businesses can buy 1 or 2 open source switches and in aggregate that can start to change the market. No small business is going to own their own spectrum and deploy an open source cell network. And moving to shared spectrum eliminates most of the advantages over WiFi.

Somewhat related, but I recently discovered the Calibre "Fetch News" function. It parses the articles (similarly to archive.org I assume in that it also bypasses paywalls) and puts them into a nice EPUB format. I run it in server mode on a RPi so every morning I can just load up the Calibre web reader on my phone and read the news in pure text form.

Compare a list of companies that attend MIT's career fair vs those that attend UMass. There will be some overlap, and it's not a closed door if you don't go to MIT/Stanford/etc. But, if you want to land an internship at "the best" companies (which can often lead to jobs), being recruited at a college career fair is the best option.

These types of articles always frustrate me because the authors never seem to question where and how these apps are getting your data. These APIs and privileges are granted by iOS and Android. If only we had real privacy legislation in the US that could limit what is exposed to apps rather than being at the mercy of Google and Apple to put limits in place. It's not like TikTok is hacking into your phone ...

I work for a major wireless provider in the US (as a wireless engineer). Huawei equipment is almost an order of magnitude cheaper than the Scandinavian companies. Samsung is such a small player in the US that they don't really matter.

Personally, I'm worried (not sure that's the right word) that China will just do it's own thing in the near future. It was a miracle that LTE phones work worldwide, IMO. China had/has its own 3G CDMA tech. I wouldn't be surprised if the market gets fragmented in later releases of 5G or with 6G.

Publicly stating your opposition to a contentious issue your company is facing isn't exactly an easy thing to do. Workplace marginalization is a real thing.

I think most are looking at this backwards. This system is most likely the reCaptcha of facial recognition. The same way Google already knows you're not a robot, and they just use you to improve their image recognition algos. The facial recognition at the airport is one of the few ways to get multiple pictures of people while knowing with near 100% certainty the face matches the name. The system is building out their data set. Running facial recognition in other scenarios (e.g. security footage after a crime) off a single passport photo is hard. Running facial recognition off of a data set with many different photos is much better.

The focus on supercomputing seems odd. x86 is not nearly as dominant in supercomputing as it is in servers. A quick look at the TOP500 shows many other architectures (top 3 aren't x86). Is there something a homegrown x86 chip would give China over top of the line Intel silicon? Does Intel have secret IP on the die that only the US govt can access?

Those are all there. With the nicknames as well.

Apple sold over 200million iPhones last year. That's 60million$ in saved BOM costs. At the scale that smartphones are sold, saving pennies here and there adds up to millions in additional revenue.

Obviously there's costs to running servers somewhere, but that hasn't stopped companies from making similar decisions for a variety of other services.

4G mobile standard was LTE from 3GPP, which competed against WiMax from IEEE and won in the late 00s.

5G mobile standard is NR (stands for New Radio) from 3GPP. There is no competing mobile standard from anyone else.

Biggest change compared to LTE is the formal standard for millimeter wave communication for mobile. Previously it's been used for fixed wireless access and/or satellites. We'll see how it plays out in a mobile consumer environment.

That's basically https://arxiv.org/. The pre-print copyright (i.e. before editor/review comments) still belongs to the author so they can post it.