Sorry, but I fully believe that NS (Natural Stupidity) can and will conquer such attempts at using AI (Artificial Intelligence)

On top of that, the less intelligent ones will refuse to use the AI support, or will not follow it's instructions correctly and blame the AI.

Long time doing tech support, so it's not just being pessimistic about humanity but my own experience with the ones calling tech support for help.
(Yes, that's not evidence, it's just anecdotal, but it absolutely is my opinion.)

We're talking about Apple, "rational thought" really isn't part of their plans.

As we know, "Newspaper" companies are falling like dominos this century, mostly due to lack of income for various reasons.
This totally feels like a move straight out of the playbooks of the many patent trolls out there.
Does anyone think this is their new "business model"?

Never had to deal with a blue screen of death back at the software company I worked for.
I'd changed it to a sort of mauve color, so it was an MSOD, and an MS OD is so much a better acronym ;p

No idea what their chances of winning are, but you can bet this will spawn at least one class action suit.

Further in the article they finally mention that the device has a cooling phase in addition to the heating phase.
Run it once, it heats up, run it again, it cools down.

In short it's replacing the coolant in a regular AC unit so you don't have to pump around the compressed hot liquid/gas, let it decompress which will cool it, then recompress it, all the while cycling it back and forth so it absorbs heat from inside, and releases heat outside.

Now they can have those ceramic thingies switching phases to absorb heat from inside, and then dump it outside.
Seems likely there will still be a liquid or gas used in the transfers to keep things going the right direction for whatever phase a ceramic piece is in, but far less complications than a regular AC has to go through. And yes, if it can improve efficiency, and even expand the operable temperature range, all while keeping costs, both initial and maintenance down, it would be a great improvement.

Of course until they can provide the numbers (and an independent 3rd party can verify them), it's all just marketing whizz.

Get the regulation back so the #$^@#$%&s can't "discriminate against data".

And contrary to what the article said, the internet did break numerous times because of that deregulation, it just wasn't anything that brought down the entire internet in the same day, but rather functionality breaks for LOTS of stuff... Anybody else remember Comcast intentionally F'ing over Netflix data so your streams were lousy until they agreed to pay Comcast a lot of money? Well I certainly do, and that wasn't the even close to the only shakedown from both ends.

Net Neutrality was the default for the internet until greed seeped in from the corporate giants, let's get Net Neutrality back!

I wouldn't even have facebook or twitter accounts if it weren't for the fact that many companies REQUIRE you to have one or the other for various reasons!
Still, facebook and twitter are NOT worth paying for in my opinion. As to ads, that's another reason to avoid them if my ad blockers can't deal with them.
I don't watch youtube on the phone anymore because I haven't found an ad blocker that will strip the ads on youtube. Tried tons of free ones that say they can do it, but none has worked properly yet. As to the paid for versions, there's no way I'm paying for one until after I have it verified that does what I want, is reasonably priced by my evaluation, and doesn't have those F'd up subscriptions. (Have you ever tried to cancel some of those? It's easier to reach orbit that dealing with some of those!)

I guess the synopsis is: Paying subscriptions for social media not acceptable.

It's behind a paywall so you have to pay to get the better version.
It has DRM so that you can't share it with anyone else.
Those two things are not mutually exclusive in the slightest.

However, neither one is all that favored in the mod communities, so the cracking of it isn't a surprise.

If it can absorb water, it will do so, even if very slowly.
Humidity and heat will only make it worse.
The boards will swell and components will fail.

It's a great idea right up there with exposed bare electrical wiring in a hydrogen lift vehicle...
(Think Hindenburg)

This basic premise has been tried in court a couple of times already, though not always printers, and they all lost.
Technological methods who's purpose is to block competitors is not allowed.
Of course it will get dragged through the courts for years yet again, but I'm betting it'll go the same way it always goes, the anticompetitive bastard company will lose.
This stuff goes back to at least the 90s and Zip Drives that I know of.

Well, it's more of a stooopid! idea with all three Os.

"Truth" is neither facts nor data, it's a rather fuzzy thing that's seriously abused and implies faith these days.

With all the noise to signal out there, especially among the waters melon husk likes to sail in, they aren't going to be able to train anything other than a crapservative talking head, because you know that's the trash they're going to feed it instead hard and verified facts & data.

He'll junk the project if it doesn't say what he wants, and if it does say what he wants, then it's also going to be a total failure that will be laughed at by the entire AI field, along with most technically and/or scientifically adept people. On top of that, it won't sway the opinions of the public, which is probably what his unstated goal is to start with.

Yes, sodium bicarbonate is a weak base, that's why people mix it with water and pour it on that nasty acidic crud that can accumulate on batteries.
(It doesn't fix the battery, but it helps clean things up and stops the crud from burning things.)

I'd like to see the actual numbers on how much it would affect the oceans, not just vague reassurances from the guy who wrote the study.
(He may have provided that info, but the writer of the article didn't publish it. Just ask a chemist, everything is toxic, the only question is how toxic.)

We've known for a long time all of this stuff.
Heat kills, especially high heat.
Greenery, especially trees, reduce the heat island effect, thus providing much needed cooling when it's hot.
They also perform numerous other beneficial actions including filtering various atmospheric pollutants, helping control water runoff, and that's not even bringing up the psychological benefits that have been measured.

In the US one of our larger cities did a study and determined the cost/benefit of having & maintaining the trees.
Basically, the money used for the trees resulted in a much larger reduction in other costs that otherwise would have to be paid for.

And to the people saying it's not important because we have A/C, you apparently don't know how A/C works. A/C units being ran may cool the inside of the structure, but they increase the heat outside by even more than they reduce the inside. That makes the heat situation worse, reduced the efficiency of the A/C units, thus causing more use of A/C and an increase in demand for electricity. A/C units are not a solution to the heat issues, they're just a bandaid for comfort and in some cases, saving lives. We know people don't want to give up the comfort, and we also don't want people dying of heat related issues, but A/C can't be a real solution, and non-energy intensive ways of helping are valuable even if you don't have an energy or heat crisis brewing.
Remember all those high populated areas where when it gets hot, more people turn on A/C that has to use more electricity and the rolling blackouts that sometimes just turn into flat out blackouts start happening?

But they said "undershipping", which implies they aren't "underproducing".
That would imply warehousing product they're holding back until they actually get around to deciding to sell it.
If they are doing that, it can severely backfire if there is a shift in demand to a different product, either from themselves or another company.

Of course this could just be interpretation of semantics issues, but as they sign contracts ahead of time for most of the chip production, they won't be able to change that on a whim, so I'm leaning towards them hiding away perfectly good product they already made. Essentially creating a fake shortage of product to pump the prices. Something that I hear can get a company in legal hot water depending on circumstances. As ianal, if anyone wants to discuss the legal ramifications of manipulating the market, or contract laws, please go find a lawyer that works those fields, not an internet rando commenter. :)