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Sounds like they use it for high output rather than efficiency though. Still interesting that it has real world applications though. Shows that the technology has potential as well.

A company often spend some floor space on areas where employees can take a break from work to disconnect for a few minutes. Why not put a ping pong table there?

Trump has the experience. If he will work towards resolving the issues in good fashion is a question worth debating though.

I suspect there are EU rules on the top of the chain forcing all member countries to enforce such laws.

If you read a book and publish a review for commercial purposes, you have as a human scanned the whole book for commercial gain. I fail to see the difference.

Governments don't need to be able to catch everyone with such a law. The fear is that it could be used to "get rid of" targeted people whom the government don't like for political or ideological reasons.

There are a lot of companies that run large numbers of tools only available on Windows, often including expensive in-house tools.

Having people in the company run different OSes cost a lot of money because of the duplicate tools that has to be adapted or created for different OSes.

It's been a while since I did anything iOS related. I didn't remember exactly what the class was named, and clarifying this in the title would have been helpful. It's not a question of how well I read.

The point of that comment is that OSX gives developers the tools that Windows simply don't do very well like the console and package manager. It's not that OSX is Linux, but to many developers, it serves the same purpose.

Modbus has been installed in hotels for years and years. They are probably using it because many hotels already have infrastructure in place for it.

It's not "special rights". It's the same rights as everyone else. The special accommodations are there to allow disabled people to live their lives as normal as possible.

[statement from Apple:] Apple did not conspire to fix e-book pricing and this ruling does nothing to change the facts

Isn't that exactly what a court ruling does. It settles what really happened.

Many people doing stuff like this are just doing it for shits and giggles. They don't want to deal with the business side of things.

This is the comment section for the article.

The issue is that with medicine, it cost vast amounts of money to develop and test a medicine. If there was nothing making sure the investment would pay of, there would be much less money spent developing medicine.

I am not saying the system is perfect, and some companies push the prices to the ridiculous to exploit people in need, but removing medical patents altogether would require some other equally strong economic incentive to keep development rolling.

All of this is very well known and written much about in books, blogs, talks, etc. already...

While voice assistants are likely to become a big industry, I don't see such a limited solution as Alexa stealing any large spotlight. They are too heavily locked down to be able to gain any traction in the big picture.

One does not feature a good speaker and is intended to connect to your existing speaker system. The other is portable.

It's not really a reference. It's just the same joke. I am pretty sure I have saw "sudo <real life action>" as a joke around the internet long before xkcd did it.

I am pretty disappointed in the printer shown in the clip. All the designs are really just a single layer. These 2D designs could certainly be made by a skilled hand without much effort.

The "impossible" designs from future 3D-printers will probably be cool, but the technology appears to not quite be there yet.

It's targeted at companies that invest in development kits with a goal of making serious money in the AR market. Microsoft does not intend this to be a product for use by early adopters.

Yes, the Cortex M0 chip from Nordic can last years in a low-intensity Bluetooth connection. It can spend almost all it's time in the deep sleep modes and only read some sensor and connect to the phone to keep the connection alive every second or so.

It's a very different use-case than that of the ESP8266.

Well, this is true for any form of authentication. If you have information you need to update, you need to have a form of authentication, and authentication data can get lost. You just need to have good routines limiting the access to this data.

This is a problem for signing software, but also things like updating their webpage and content on the App Store. All these systems need to have authentication data exist, and if lost to people with malicious intent it could be lost.

Yes, but it is opt-in and require the user to have the phone fully charged and plugged in for an hour while the process is performed. Few people bother doing it. The encryption hardware in most Android phones is also not as fast as the iPhone, so there is a performance hit by encrypting.

Same as for EU countries where software patents are not valid. You can make a product that violates US software patents, but not sell that product in the US market. Depending on your business model that may be acceptable or not.

For once an article translated by Bing without grammar errors all over the place.

Yea, they pick the 4% most likely to contain smuggled goods. 25% of them do. That does not mean 25% of all containers contain smuggled goods.

So mean.io with React instead of Angular.

Not only prototyping. If the final product will have a moderate amount of users generating a moderate amount of data, there is really no drawbacks with mongoDB. The real cost is development time.

MongoDB plays very well with the rest of the javascript based stack, which mean development and testing is simpler. For many use cases the development time is the real cost, and the database itself is simple enough that what it is running on does not really matter much.

Most people are not building Big Data systems.