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Comment I can see the sheep (Score 2) 201

You got to remember the algorithms are still relatively primitive. My guess is that in that pictures were geo-tagged in a region known for sheep. It saw the tubes coming out the ground as legs. In the other photo it saw the white rocks in the creek bed as wool with shadows.

Comment Makes sense since Android is going away... (Score 1) 138

The writing is on the wall that Android will not be with us for much longer. At least not as an officially maintained platform. Android is getting bigger and bigger and becoming harder to maintain. Plus Google has been moving to development in HTML PWA (Progressive Web Applications) and lighter weight Go based applications.

Android is a mess. Its big. Its bulky. Its hard to maintain. And it has fragmented implementations. No phone table run Android the same way even on thier own devices.

The plan as I see it is that Google drops Android and Chromebooks support. and unifies their platforms in the Fuchsia OS that same way Apple did with their products. I would see some part of their OS to start closing off. The core will still be open source. But higher performance sandboxes will be closed off. Also look for low cost but restrictive licences for Fuchsia OS to to unify the platform.

Comment Discord (Score 1) 263

The real goal or the Russian ads were not to sway the election. Either way the Russians were going to win. Hillary with the Uranium One deals and Trump with general of the cuff remarks. The ads were about discord. They wanted the Americans to be so angry and distracted so that Putin could get a strong foot hold with Iran and smaller former Russian state nations.

Comment Republican said the same (Score 4, Interesting) 179

Ok the Republicans said the same about Democratic videos popping up against Trump. So which is real? Can we can the # of times that pro-Trump and pro-Hillary videos actually ran and unique views by person? We never will because it would reveal too much about Google's algorithms.

Comment Re:Fuchsia (Score 2) 142

You're thinking about Google's server / desktop OS they run internally. If you believe the marketing, Fuchsia is meant to be a fusion of web app (Chrome OS) and the power of its current API's (Android.) Rust was pushed hard when Fuchsia first appeared as if that was going to be the replacement for Java and C++.

Also that about when they started pushing PWA (Progressive Web Apps ) and dropping support for the Chrome apps as the 'light weight alternatives for light weight OS's like Fuchsia that can run on low end phones.'

I know at one time Google talked about an Android virtual machine for Fuchsia ala ChromeOS's limited Android support. But obviously was never demo'ed it.

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