The MacBook Pro Pro. Starting at $3999.

I miss the days when minor new features and upgraded components were part of a normal product refresh and didn't justify a new name and pricing tier.

Google is at fault for allowing unfettered access to data that 99.999% of honest apps would never need.

If an app has a valid need for SIM card info, or any private, exploitable, or uniquely identifiable data for your device, it can bloody well ask for it.

Letting apps apparently work on the honor system, and not even policing apps in their own store, puts the blame squarely in Google's lap.

"Everybody good? Plenty of slaves for my robot colony?"

13 bits of weeks = 157.5 years. It's safe to assume there will be entirely new navigation systems by the year 2175.

Google Fi already uses both Sprint and T-Mobile’s networks. Many phone radios can communicate using either GSM or CDMA, and at this point LTE has largely replaced both of them. By the time the merger goes through and the new company is ready to start consolidating towers, 2G/3G will probably be a distant memory.

He follows the UK standard practice of using Fahrenheit for high temperatures and Celsius for lows.

You really think they're two different people?

Funny you mention California, since the state recently passed a sweeping data privacy law which is scheduled to come into effect at the end of the year.

This bill seems to be a reaction to that, though it remains to be seen if the bill is meant to extend such state laws nationwide, or gut them.

And I'm curious as to the constitutionality of 'preempting' state consumer protection laws.

When I'm moving around I prefer the convenience of Bluetooth, and when I want quality I prefer a decent DAC+amp and nice headphones with a quarter inch jack.

From an engineering point of view digital earbuds/headphones could be great; the analog signal path could be a lot shorter and better shielded, while amplifiers could come tuned to the characteristics of the cans for ideal frequency response.

But from a practical point of view, a lot of decent cans would be ruined by crappy noisy DACs and quality cans would cost twice as much due to the extra hardware. And attaching expensive electronics that will last 50 years to earbuds that you'll throw away because of a frayed cord/blown driver/accidental run-in with a washing machine is simply a waste.

An implausible clip of a so-called "Promobot"...built by a promotions firm...may, in fact, be a promotional video?

I'm not trying to downplay the danger of lasers in general; as the saying goes, do not stare into laser with remaining eye.

But it is also true that localized heating will damage most camera sensors faster than the human retina. Even an 'eye-safe' laser can leave spots and streaks on CMOS and CCDs.

The retina is submerged in a water bath while the camera sensor is surrounded by insulating air and plastic. The sensor may have a higher absolute temperature rating but it can't dissipate heat nearly as well as your retina.

We should start a conspiracy theory claiming Q has hidden vital messages inside critical thinking textbooks.

https://xkcd.com/720/

So far "GeForce NOW" has just been a service that lets you play your own Steam/Blizzard library on nVidia's servers. The service could shut down and you could still play your games on your own hardware.

nVidia also makes their GameStream software available to users so you can send your own games from your PC to a nVidia console or tablet, or any device running the FOSS Moonlight client. Or you can cast your games using Steam's streaming protocol.

Mind you, I'm not a big nVidia fan for other reasons, but so far they've handled game streaming pretty well. Still, GeForce Now is a beta product so things could always change before (or after) release.