“...and they will most certainly never fit in your pocket” - Famous last words

While to people of normal intelligence he may appear very dumb, it’s his method of controlling the *actually* dumb portion of the population, some 35%, who still think he’s doing a reasonable job. When you’re dealing with a street parlor trick you have to watch the hands and the audience, not the cards or dice

Mythbusters tested it, it’s better to walk if there’s no wind

A lot of people were bamboozled by Theranos, I can’t really put blame on them - just Theranos was that good at selling a scam... which puts them in the same business as Trump

but there *is* a reason - reducing the attack surface. If Apple lets MS do this they should let everyone do the same, increasing the potential for a hack

This is not normalized by cars present on the road.

It actually does. If an organism was to live to 10000 years it wouldn’t be evolving and will be producing the “same” offspring; another that has 1 year lifespan would have 10000 iterations and have the most fit offspring represent the entire population in 10000 years

So many reasons this won’t work: gravity signature, spectrum coverage, engineering at that scale.... But there’s one that would work VERY well: if aliens see a planet that fires lasers at power equal to that of the power that the Sun provides to Earth they better run. 160 quardillion joules, give or take, will…

For the record - not all of these neurons perform visual pattern recognition. And 16M neurons isn’t the same as a frog - not only because the frog doesn’t use all neurons for pattern recognition but also because of the specific targets trained into the neural net, making it much more efficient than a frog at…

I love it how anyone can pretend to write scientific articles without even having a clue that a protozoa and a virus aren’t synonyms. Just copy-paste some scientific-looking stuff, add some of your own mumbo-jumbo to sound like you know what you’re talking abou, claim it’s horrifying in some twisted way (ex: “your cat…

I’d love to know the technical detail on that black-out. Failures like this are too easy to avoid with proper architecture, I want to know what was their “duh!” setup that failed

number of humans already increases at an exponential rate, let’s make the curve steeper

sure but then what’s the need for long-living humans?

What about the Apple TV? It majorly sucks. Siri is there but you have to get the remote in your hands, and it’s one stupid remote, way too symmetrical I always grab it the other way around and the screen selection starts moving as my palm rubs against the touch-sensitive area.

It *really* depends on execution.

I bought one based on an previous suggestion on giz. It’s junk. It can’t keep the brightness setting of the alarm, so you don’t really know if your room is going to light up or not the next morning. Whenever it does - the light works, you just can’t count on it.

I bought one based on an previous suggestion on giz. It’s junk. It can’t keep the brightness setting of the alarm,…

That part with the “anecdote” - it’s not an anecdote. Pretty much anyone who has dealt with writing software that involves input from non-technical people has experienced that. Many of those who have experienced it just attended the conference call while fixing the problem, fewer probably had the balls to not join the…

Another scenario for alien life - may operate at a completely different time scales, ones that are far too long for humans to comprehend. If a being that’s alive for 0.0001 second looks at a human we’d look static, our neurons would look static and chaotic. That being wouldn’t consider us alive by their standards, it…