It runs blockchain Above the cloud!

I get way more screen time than I used to and, uhh..., now I, umm...

Oooh! Look at that cat video!

I fully support ending the time changes, but using daylight savings time year-round is idiotic. That is just setting noon to 1PM. If we do this in the US, sunrise in New York will be about 8AM in the winter. Although the name implies it, daylight saving time does not actually make the day longer.

Sounds like a great place to hide something in plain sight.

A soccer ball with a transmitter that isn't supposed to have one would stand out. However, a soccer ball that has a *different* transmitter than it came with would be much harder to identify.

Violating your privacy is Facebook's core business. Whether they are acting as the broker to sell advertising through their network or selling data to third parties, your private information is their product. The social networking service they run is the bait they use to get you to hand them your information.

The electronic privacy laws in the US are fairly weak so there is a lot they can do without breaking them. Being surprised that Facebook invades your privacy is like being surprised that Ford continues to manufacture and sell cars. It is their core business.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If anyone is going to profit off my personal data, it should be me.

Huh? You can download flacs of albums from sites like 7digital.com and hdtracks.com. with NAS and backups, these will out last your CDs.

http://www.equifacks.com/

I tried stapling batteries to horses, but somehow that felt incorrect.

Those guys never do time

Let's see, Uber has already had large public announcements abut developing self-diving cars, then flying cars. Each of these were after some bad press about Uber. What will they announce next to distract from this.

Alternatively, there just could be so much bad press that any PR stunt they hold will be immediately after something bad came out.

Uber challenged the stale Taxi monopolies with a new dispatch and payment processing system. However, eventually VCs will get tired of buying people cab rides.

Anyone remember the 20th Anniversary Mac?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That was a $7500 (in 1997) priced, under-powered piece of desk jewelry that was released at a point when Apple nearly went out of business.

This may be history repeating itself with Microsoft Windows replaced with Google Android.

It's not really shrinking, it is maturing. Over the last few decades the semiconductor market has moved from a relatively large number of smaller disruptive companies to a relatively small number of larger streamlined companies. As an example, consider how many CPU architectures there were in the '80s and '90s. You had x86, 680x0, MIPS, Alpha, SPARC, PA-RISC, just to name a few. Now there is x86 (the modern version of it) and ARM.

You can also look at car companies in the first half of the 20th century. Lincoln, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Dodge, et. al. were independent car companies when cars were still new. They were acquired by what became the "Big Three" US automakers before the merger of Dialmer-Chrysler. Maybe electric vehicles will be enough of a disruptive market to foster more auto companies.

The large development costs and relatively stable products of mature markets favor large, streamlined companies that can benefit from economies of scale. The fast changing nature of new markets favor small agile companies that can be disruptive. We are in the later stages of the maturation of the semiconductor industry.