If you subscribe to both, probably less. Paying more than the combo of the two existing services alone wouldn't make sense if they're trying to compete with the likes of Youtube/Disney/Netflix/Amazon. They'll just price themselves out of competition.

If you only pay for one services, it might go up. It's unclear how they will bundle the content. The backend assets will get consolidated, but that doesn't mean they will make all the assets available to every user. They could do tiered accounts. Base is P+ catalog, add on HBOMax content for $$ with some preview (1st few free?). Kinda like Disney/Hulu. Who knows.

The reality is that they still need to compete with the major streaming networks to stay viable. As they were, viewership wasn't there (regardless of what people think of the quality of content). In July, niether P+ nor HBO had higher streaming viewership share then YouTube, NBCU/Versant, Disney, Netflix, Fox. (Nielsen Source). In most service industries, only the top 3-4 companies survive. This merger was probably their only shot of being successful at the risk of it being a pyrrhic victory.

Since the summary doesn't mention it, AMP is Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages project (https://developers.google.com/amp/). I could be wrong, but for mobile devices, it's basically a means for caching/serving web sites with "optimization" (AMP creates an mobile-optimized version of the page, presumably without stuff that will slow down most mobile browsers).

"Last week the Democratic party took control of all three branches of the U.S. government"

Did I miss something? I clearly remember the Supreme Court having a fairly strong majority of Republican nominated, Moderate-to-Conservative Supreme court justice (even if certain ones don't always agree with their colleages). That's a far cry from saying the Democrats run the Supreme Court.

Doesn't have to be about Ads directly. It could be used in filtering suggestions as in (if fitbit data says you're doing tons of exercise, maybe that will inform predictive models of what restaurants you'll likely want to visit later that night). Who knows. I don't own a fitbit, so I'm not sure what sort of user agreement they make you sign before creating an account/using the device, but I wouldn't be suprised if some form of health data (PII removed) is used to inform recommendations.

Depends on what you want to manipulate. The grey matter (cell bodies) that you would target in mammalian cortex is only 2mm thick layer, but it is folded upon itself many times (forming gyri and sulci) - think of a crumbled sheet of paper. Most sensory and motor cortex is accessible within 7 mm of the surface of the brain and that would probably be an ideal target for this sort of approach.

While this finding is interesting it's not the first time neuroscientists have found complicated functions being performed in the retina of non-primates; the extrapolation in the summary to implications on human vision is a bit of stretch. Mice have poor high-frequency vision, but they can sort of make up for it with vision that's sensitive to motion. Many others mammal have this feature as well (rabbits, cats, etc).

Since when were scientists ever concerned about happiness. If they were, they wouldn't be in such an often-unrewarded (financially, emotionally, etc.) profession. Scientists are happiest when they can bring some sort of meaning and structure to what appears to be chaos. Arguably, children are the ultimate form of chaos!

No doubt. I'd wager that the majority of the most successful scientists (in terms of publications, innovations, peer respect, etc) are that way because they devote the vast majority of their time to science and nothing else.

Children can cost plenty but our memory is selective; we often ignore the constant "cons" for a few blissful, and unfortunately infrequent, "pros". In the end, you're probably right that logically, people that make science their raison d'être shouldn't have children. Fortunately for society, these people do as they often encourage the next batch of new scientists...

Excuse my ignorance but...

Are hydrophilic substances necessarily oleophobic? I would think any substance that's sufficiently hydrophilic will repel nonpolar molecules.

Why not just use a phone that supports Google Latitude? http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html. All the work has been done for you.

It's one thing to monitor traffic for things like accidents and traffic jams, but NYC traffic is its own beast. While there are certain times of the day (morning/evening rush periods, midday lunch, etc) when there is heavy congestion that lasts for an hour at a time, a lot of times you get these little jams due to someone double parking, etc that lasts for 25-30 minutes tops. And they're more or less randomly distributed around the residential areas of Manhattan. Constantly rerouting to avoid these situations in NYC sounds like a nightmare. For instance, you could avoid all the congestion but take a circuitous route (25-30 minutes local - downtown to uptown), or you could sit through 10 minutes of congestion to get onto the FDR or West Side Highway + 15 minutes of driving. In the end, you're better off just listening to the cabbie for advice. While it's possible he might want to rip you off, more often than not, he wants to get you to your location fast for A) a better tip and B) so he can get more cab hires a day.

You mean like this? http://slog.thestranger.com/files/2007/10/483225120_62bbc45b36_m.jpg Not sure how much more of a flaming skull you can get. ;)

There are numerous monocular depth cues available, but you won't "see" in 3D; you'll just know you're viewing a 3D world. The answer to you question depends on what exactly you're referring to by "simulate 3d."

If it's just depth perception, then.. you can use motion parallax, occlusion, kinetic depth perception (when objects change size, while your viewpoint remains fixed), perspective lines, spatial frequency/texture gradients, etc..

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Glass wearers should be fine..

Unfortunately, the Nobel prizes cannot be awarded posthumously, unless they died after the nomination process.