Mexico tried to stop buying it. The US screamed bloody murder "We had a contract!!!"

From TFA:

Sixteen months ago they found a frozen, baby woolly mammoth in Canada. It is 30,000 years old and might have samples of mammoth DNA that can be sequenced and used for the revival project.

Well-Preserved, 30,000-Year-Old Baby Woolly Mammoth Emerges From Yukon Permafrost

It's a bit more insidious than that. In the EULA for TurboTax:

(emphasis added by me for clarity)

So having an Intuit account gives them permission to pull your credit rating for marketing purposes for as long as you have an account. This wasn't a problem before this year as you could use TurboTax without creating a registered Intuit account.

Starting this year, to use TurboTax you must create an Intuit account in order to register and activate the software. Intuit claims this is to combat piracy of the software but it surely benefits them to require every copy sold will now have an Intuit account. They could have done the activation with multiple other methods to make sure multiple people were not using the software without paying, but I was disappointed they require allowing credit report authorization to use their software.

Intuit lost a little of my faith when about 2018 they started removing features from the Deluxe edition and required you to purchase the Premier edition to do things like Capital gains, Schedule D, etc. There was such a backlash from customers that they added them back into the desktop version but not the online version. Every time you get to an edge case (rental homes, AirBnB rentals, Farming income, etc) they won't show you the forms unless you upgrade to a pricier version.

For the past 20 years I have used TurboTax and been happy with it. This year they went a step too far and I will be choosing a different tax software package.

That link is to a story that is four years old and doesn't have any mention of the Brave browser anywhere except the title. The preview on Google shows the phrase "Privacy browser Brave was called out this weekend when users ..." but there is no longer any information in the story about the Brave browser in the article. Perhaps it was removed when the story was fact checked or edited.

If you have recent information that shows that the Brave browser is worse or less secure than the Chrome browser, please provide it so we can make an informed decision on what browser is best for our needs. Otherwise, Firefox on the desktop and Brave on Android remain my current two choices.

I'd have to agree with you, but for a different reason. Instead of Computer Science, let's say we wanted all students to have Automotive Repair education. What are the minimum requirements to show proficiency?

Do they focus on the fundamentals of early internal combustion engines? Points, timing, dwell, cam profiles?
Do they teach new troubleshooting fundamentals? Bear or Sun engine diagnostic machines? Can-Bus monitoring? Troublecode analysis?
Do they teach newer technologies like Li-Ion charging practices? Battery chemistries? Wireless charging methods?

In the one or two classes they allot to CS education they will only have time to teach the fundamentals, whatever they decide they might be. Binary numbers? CPU fundamentals? Beginning programming concepts. Trying to teach stack pointers and heap manipulation is like teaching fuel injector air flow mixing in a turbocharged Wankel engine. Relevant but not at a beginner level.

Or microplastics are so small they permeate almost everywhere like a dye in water or smoke in air. Saying they found microplastics in lower levels of sediment in a lake just means they are highly mobile and aren't limited to a single layer like larger particles.

If microplastics are being carried globally in the high atmosphere, there aren't many places on earth where they won't show up eventually.

If they can project a field of 45,700 dots through a photonic crystal surface-emitting laser (PCSEL) almost like LIDAR, it might open the door to on-phone 3-D photogrammetry.

Right now the best way to 3-D scan an object is to take approximately 100 photos around the object with something like the KIRI app or the equivalent on an Android phone. Not needing a cloud service to process your 100-photo set would be a huge benefit.

Also, if you see an area that is under scanned or has a hole in the data, it should be relatively easy to rescan that area and add it to the cloud-point model already in the phone. I would love to have a built-in 3-D scanning feature in my phone that I could then export. Imagine scanning a broken part and slicing and printing a replacement with minimal CAD tweaking.

Can I trade my original trump NFT for a shoe?

Funny, the shoe is priced at almost the exact same amount as the first trump NFT cards are trading for now. Coincidence? LOL, probably.

Your new autocorrect must be powered by AI. :)

Microsoft said it themselves back in 2015. "Edge is the new Internet Explorer"

Not really. The AI is using the data to strengthen relationships between ideas. If the only thing the training strengthens from reading your site is "dogs wag their tails when happy" or "climate change is increasing" then not much is retained. If your site is the only one talking about the breakthrough in perovskite photovoltaic efficiency, then yes, your data is probably going to be a singular node and regurgitated more directly.

I came here to say the same thing. Cooling the PV cells makes them more efficient, just like water cooling your CPU/GPU helps keep them in their optimum temperature range.

Actually, the best time to cool the PV cells is when the sun is at its strongest, so summer would actually be the best boost for the cells efficiency. In the winter, if the sun is less strong or the temperature falls below freezing, you automatically divert and drain the system until it is beneficial again.

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Example: I'm a suspect in a murder trial. They found titanium dioxide on the murder weapon and I was apprehended wearing white sun screen. If this becomes a law, I can subpoena the source code and algorithms for the mass spectrometer and x-ray fluorescence machines used to identify the titanium dioxide.

The prosecutors would need to contact the manufacturers of the test equipment, negotiate a release of the source code and algorithms used by the devices, and provide it to the defense team. Every piece of equipment used by the forensics team would have to have a point of contact at the manufacturer to handle these requests. If the manufacturer does not agree to release than information (trade secrets) does that mean the forensics team cannot use that equipment any more?

While having access to the source code and algorithms sounds good on paper, in real life it would just give those trying to game the justice system another tool to confuse and drag out criminal proceedings.

It doesn't have to be an entire military branch. It could have been Special Ops Command, Southern Command, Eglin AFB personnel, soldiers deployed on ships in the middle east, Army Contracting Command, Air Combat Command, etc.

There are plenty of commands and units that could combine to make up the 20,000 individuals that were affected.

Do you violate copyright every time you remember a fact you learned from a book in school? Does watching Bob Ross videos mean every landscape painting you create violate copyright? Does visualizing the periodic table of elements in your head mean you're violating the copyright of the creator of the poster you remember?

Copyright means you cannot take the original and reproduce it exactly. Using it for derivative works is allowed, otherwise the first person to draw a horse would claim copyright for all horse images. Using a book to learn the style of an artist (Sarah Silverman, George Carlin, Arnold Schwarzenegger) and creating new works that resemble something the artist might say, or emulating their cadence and timing, should be allowed as long as the work is not pretending to be originals by them.

The fact that ChatGPT read the books and learned something from them does not mean the ideas or concepts are copyrighted.

TL;DR
Learning - good
Plagiarizing - bad