If it works as well as their cars, it’ll keep walking into fire trucks

Some negotiation will happen, but as long as Apple is a US-based corporation they are subject to US law and can't just ignore the US government sanctions...

since US businesses are banned from doing business with them!

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

> Essentially it adds discovery of available IPP servers using Apple's proprietary discovery protocol, but there are a bunch of AirPrint extensions to the IPP part as well.

Um, DNS-SD and mDNS and ZeroConf (Apple marketing name Bonjour) are IETF standards - nothing proprietary there. IPP Everywhere uses the same protocol. Similarly, none of the IPP stuff is proprietary (I know, I wrote the PWG specs...) Just the marketing is proprietary... :/

Um, the Printer Working Group has been around since 1991, and was the organization behind the creation of the Internet Printing Protocol workgroup in the IETF.

> Is CUPS used in/by iOS or does iOS works with something else?

libcups is in iOS, but the spooler is a completely different implementation on top of it.

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

OK, so the people involved in this study cannot verify whether all 264 cases involved an Apple watch, nor did they correlate the 41 they think involve the ECG or pulse monitoring of an Apple watch with the resulting diagnosis (or verification, for those already diagnosed), so how can they come up with 10%? If all of the cases of an Apple watch triggering a visit were for patients that already had a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (58), then the number is 100% (all valid and potentially life saving).

If we assume that all 264 cases involved the watch, and 30 *new* diagnosis were issued, then (30 + 61)/264 or ~34.5% potentially involved atrial fibrillation or (30+132)/264 or ~61.4% involved some cardiac issue (including afib).

Regardless, the point of these monitoring features isn't to only detect new conditions, it is also to monitor ongoing symptoms and provide on-the-spot data that isn't always easy to collect in a doctor's office or while walking around with a monitor for several days to a month. Same as a car's onboard computers recording performance data that allows a mechanic to read it and more easily determine what is going wrong with the engine, etc.

I wouldn't want to try swallowing a 30x43mm "micro" robot!

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.