I want to develop apps for Android and iOS and so I was looking for a framework that offered that. Google's Flutter works best for me. It abstracts the iOS crap and enables me to focus on the code. I still have to deal with XCode for a few tasks but I never program in Swift. The docs are pretty good and Dart makes sense.

And I don't care. If I'm eating a burger I'm not eating it to be healthy but to fill me up and make me feel good. The Impossible and Beyond Burgers do that in multiple ways.

AWS developers are very used to this too. At a recent AWS developer's Conference in Las Vegas, there were tweets about Amazon going full Red Wedding and locking the doors when it came to their turn to present their "innovations". The story I heard from a defector to Google Cloud Platform was that the Amazon culture requires their Product Managers to come up with business ideas every year and targetting known-good business models is an easy choice. They're not always successful, but their size means they take a chunk of the market no matter what.

I'm in tech security and these are some of my favorite types of attacks because they are often innovative exploits. Reading the internal operations of an MCU via the power supply is a known issue and indeed many secure IC's will run from purposely noisy internal power supplies to mitigate this attack (see Microchip secure MCU's and HSM's like the ATECC608A for example). Although side channel attacks can be considered contrived, especially when they are first detected, you'd be surprised how they can become a wide-spread exploit if some clever person or organization makes it a priority to exploit it.

Apple and Qualcomm entered into a six-year license agreement including a two-year option to extend, and a multiyear chipset supply agreement April 1, 2019. Apple buying Intel's patent portfolio will help in negotiations post that agreement (or prior if there's a way to rip it up) but won't mean they automatically won't have to pay Qualcomm royalties. Patents last for 20 years, Qualcomm has a stack of them and they doesn't make phones. For years Qualcomm has charged phone makers a percentage of their BOM even if they don't use Qualcomm chips because of that IP.

I dunno, maybe I made a mistake by watching a Korean drama once, but my Netflix suggestions is just full of foreign programming now. I suspected it was my fault, but then I went to Japan and opened up Netflix there and there was a ton of great American content for me to watch! It turns out it's all licensing. Netflix has got virtually nothing in the US from US content providers so they fill up on foreign content and the same goes for overseas. The best way to watch decent TV is to get the ol'VPN going again it seems.

You're right. Unfortunately, Japanese companies have lost their edge when it comes to innovation. This is a prime example of a very safe and conservative incremental improvement to a problem that doesn't exist. It plays into the concept of ECO (pronounced "echo" in Japanese) that is seen as a reasonable marketing justification in Japan for almost anything in consumer electronics. I grew up with companies like Sony and others coming out with leading consumer electronics tech in the 80s and I went to work in Japan at the end of that decade for a Japanese electronics company, but Japan Inc. really lost it in the 90's and ever since. I swear, all the guys who made Japan great retired and handed over to their sons and daughters who can't innovate themselves out of a wet paper bag. There's no risk taking. Anyone who visits Akihabara nowadays will recognize that there's a demand for electronics, but it's all ho hum and the cool stuff is from Apple. The only shining light I see is from the rebels like Rakuten or Softbank, but even they are conservative. One day maybe they'll get over their Galapagos-syndrome and start trying to make cool stuff again.

I love this type of article, even though he didn't find anything suspicious, because he did contribute to the art by showing how weak some of these developers are that crap approaches they take. It all indicates that the developers are a "factory" of sorts churning out crap to get cash from unsuspecting users. It's an electronic equivalent of the cheap and nasty fake toys at the market that break as soon as you get them home.

I could never afford a Sony during high school and had to made do with a Sanyo quad-AA-battery-eating "personal stereo". But when I move to Japan after college I went to Osaka's DenDen Town (like Akihabara) and bought some top-of-the-line Sony Walkman's (Walkmen?) for friends and family. The main differences were:

1. Made out of metal instead of plastic
2. Very slick paint jobs - my favorite was the British Racing Green one
3. Inline remote controls on the headset cable - had buttons, an LCD and a volume control
4. Rechargeable removable battery with its own charger - this NiMH so much better than a NiCD (there were no Lithium's back then)
5. A soft case or sometimes a Tyvek-style case that the whole thing would slip into.
6. A screw-on AA battery pack that could be used instead of the rechargeable
7. In-ear headphones instead of over the head micro-headphones
8. And the best - overall it was not much bigger than the cassette it held - no chunkiness anywhere!

My wife still has hers and it all works. The rechargeable battery doesn't so that AA optional bit comes in handy!

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The so-called insecure pumps have been a godsend to the closed-loop users who have managed to make a much better system by themselves than the original manufacturers. This is a head-on three-way crash between the FDA, a manufacturer and users and their respective rights, responsibilities and wishes. This appears to be the FDA doing CYA to make sure the ever-growing demand for users to design and use their own hardware is not met with any form of implied acquiescence.

I was hired straight out of University to go work for Mitsubishi Electric in Japan. Hereâ(TM)s a big shout out to the Melco Alumni out there! You know who you are! Anyway, one of the reasons Mitsubishi did this was to internationalize their workforce and try to introduce some foreign concepts. One of these was going home at 5pm. We were paid overtime every month, I think it was 20 hours or so, but we were told not to do it. So it was essentially free money. As it happened for 2 nights in the work week I was always heading off to Umeda, Osaka to take language classes at the YWCA so I was out of there by 5 anyway.
Did it help? I donâ(TM)t think so. The team would still stick around until late. The company campus was about 10K people and they had plenty of cafes and food places open for dinner on site so you could stay there easy. Add to the fact that any single guys were living in a dorm anyway and it wasnâ(TM)t so bad to hang out with the guys at work. Indeed, the bosses would often come in on the weekend to smoke and chat with each other rather than stay at hone in a cramped apartment.
Staying late was so common that when the big earthquake struck the Kansai region in 1995 at something like 4 in the morning there were a couple of guys in the lab when it happened!
The other thing we had to do was show the Japanese staff how to take vacation. You earned it and it accrued and some people had months of time racked up and never used. The problem was that sick days were also âoevacationâ so one year I took all my vacation and then got sick at the end of the year. They made me work Saturdays to make up for the time I took off. You wouldnâ(TM)t believe the look on the adminâ(TM)s face when I returned after I took the days off.
My boss actually told me that the smart way to take time off without having to take time off was to come in to the office, sign in and then go to the company hospital. Yes, they had a full hospital with X-ray machines and everything. Then the company doctor would send me home but Iâ(TM)d be credited with the day and it wouldnâ(TM)t be a holiday. Oh well, you live and learn.
It was great fun looking back. Wearing the uniform, doing the radio exercises, breaking g in the workplace smoke. I got fluent at Japanese I a way that surpassed language. According to a taxi driver I once had, I sigh like a Japanese person. I think itâ(TM)s from the years of working as a salaryman in 90â(TM)s Japan.

> The obvious example is a user can ad-hoc top up their miles on a hired electric scooter simply by tapping their phone or watch to a NFC sticker on the bike.

If you tap an inert sticker to pay, that's fine, but the scooter still needs to know that you paid and that requires the scooter to have an active LTE connection. So, there's no savings in terms of hardware, indeed you have to add an NFC sticker (a few cents). It really does appear to be that you're only saving the opening of an app to scan a QR code. I think pay per use scooter have bigger problems than how to pay for them, like how useful are they anyway?

I know we have a few politicians who are technical, but we really need more of them. I'm not sure how to increase the number, but it'd help in cases like this.

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Good idea but why not push for 100MB and just be done with it? If you are going to lay a cable to a rural location just make it fibre already. Or, if it's going to be wireless, used fixed 5G or something fast.