> First of all, even if they block the ads how will you know if they are still sending your data to 3rd parties?

I don't think they're even pretending to not do that. They just aren't targeting you with ads based on the information they are collecting anyway.

No, it's not. Facebook creates internal accounts for tracking people who aren't even registered.

The anonymous reader might be.

I just want my flying car. And fusion reactors. They've been 10 years away since the 1950s.

Google does it with everything. They create a service that achieves some level of success and then monetizes it to the point where it no longer serves its original purpose.

The LD50 for saccharin was at least an order of magnitude higher than what they're saying for aspartame. If you pump some creature full of enough of anything, it will get cancer.

They stopped putting radium in bubble gum in the 40s and switched to plutonium. Cocaine was phased out by the late 60s, and is no longer used. But that white powder you find on bubble gum in baseball cards and Wacky Packages? That's anthrax.

When I heard that news, my first thought was "Who's paying them to say that?"

I'm 58, and I tend to keep the TV significantly louder than my wife, but a lot of movies and shows, etc., make the dialog hard to hear, with either the music and background noise too loud (Nolan, I'm looking at you), or a lot of dialogue being whispered or spoken really low.

I would attribute part of it to my old man hearing, but definitely not all of it, because we watch a lot of old TV shows and movies, where I don't feel the need to turn on subtitles.

If it were useful, sure Meta, which has sunk 10 figures into trying to make it happen would have something interesting and compelling to show... and yet, all they seem to have to show for it is an avatar of the Zuck with big, girly eyes.

(Yes, Meta has demonstrated some really interesting tech, but they haven't demonstrated a use-case for it.)

Apple probably just isn't seeing the level of interest they expected because the headset costs $3500.

No one is showing off a "killer app" for AR. It's one of those things that's cool, but no one has demonstrated a compelling reason to use it. Also, even for Apple, they should have expected people to balk at that price tag.

Brave has been my primary for about 4 years now, and I very rarely have any problems. I've never had to do any weird configuration to make things work.

If the viewscreens are not showing the outside, then they could give no sign. If the images are faked, then we would see exactly what the was revealed at the end of the episode. It doesn't answer any questions, just deepens the mystery.

Or '"The Starlost"... if it turns out they are on a spaceship. The idea's been done to death, so the show needs to succeed on its execution. I thought the first episode was fine, but I'd be afraid of this being one of those "mystery box" shows where nothing is ever resolved. If I subscribed, I'd definitely watch it more, though.

The premise of the show is very old, and has been done many, many times before, going all the way back to "The Starlost" 50 years ago, and perhaps even before that.

That said, it was very well-done and I really liked the cast. I'm intrigued and would definitely watch more if I subscribed to Apple TV.