The WHO disagrees. The data on masks is very mixed. Benefits may be offset by changes in behavior, and masks themselves may become a source of contamination.

Are they? The data is rather mixed. What appears on the surface isn’t always the case. For example, is the additional safety provided by masks offset by people’s changes in behavior (like people being less cautious and not keeping the physical distance they should). This is too complex to jump on things based on…

While integrated photonics will undoubtedly have it’s uses, I remain unconvinced of its application in on-chip interconnect, unless perhaps to replace/augment the power-hungry clock tree.

Amazon also tried to say goodbye to Alexa, but the response was:

Thanks to Octonauts, my daughter could say “giant siphonophore”when she was 4.

You can definitely do a lot better than 2 years to get plastic parts in to production, but it can’t be done over night. I work for a consumer electronics company, and our entire product development and production ramp cycles (including electronics, firmware, compliance, etc.) are approximately a year.

“Players create their own kid characters based on a couple of fun, inspiring traits (like a robot who only eats candy canes)...“

“...the association of being used as a prison makes it kinda creepy at the same time.”

The escaped bioweapon story was an internet rumor, not a scientific hypothesis.

I don’t understand why anyone would be attracted to this branding. Pablo Escobar was a murderous narcoterrorist. He wasn’t some latter day Robin Hood (who probably was a murderous thief, if he existed).

Nice story. It made me smile after a s**tty day of a wife and toddler with flu.

Shame. The Innovator’s Dilemma is a book I quote often.

I used to have that problem at lot in the UK during winter. I solved it by moving to California!

I had basically the same idea probably five years ago. My idea was to turn the entire windshield in to an LCD (and the same idea of tracking the eyes and sun with cameras). I’m an engineer, but I didn’t do anything with the idea, because a windshield-sized, curved LCD would be infeasibly expensive. Using a small, flat…

This showed up on my YouTube homepage yesterday. I’ve worked in digital imaging since the mid-90s (including on CMOS image sensors and digital cameras) and I was impressed.

Google doesn’t know what it’s doing when it comes to phone hardware. I hear from insiders that there’s zero strategy, just copying of bits of what Apple does.

This wasn’t interesting enough to bother reading through the stupid dialect prose. It was cute for a paragraph, maybe two, but after that it wasn’t worth reading further. 

I recommend people click on the link to the piece about BPA replacements. BPS is potentially as, or more, harmful than BPA, but consumers see “BPA Free” and continue to buy plastic, and plastic lined bottles thinking that the issue is resolved. It’s not!

If the universe is a black hole, then we’re looking at a much, much bigger one.

I’d rather have a compass that points towards my enemies!