Itâ(TM)s not that simple. There are still AVC patents in force in multiple places for several years more.

Dolby has been a patent troll for decades. Theyâ(TM)ve had more lawyers than engineers for years. I worked for a company that was effectively killed off by their changes to third party access to AC-3 DirectShow decoders nearly 25 years ago.

Tencent? Chinese companies prefer VVC over AV1, and not just because it achieves better compression ratios. It was developed by an international standards body, not a group of America
companies, no matter how "open source" they claim the process to be, and subject to American export laws. Licensing and royalties are secondary after that.

Social media? /.? The site frequented by 50 and 60 year olds who live in their parents' basements building Beowulf clusters and fantasising about pouring hot grits on Natalie Portman?

No doubt this will be one of their crap UI changes that doesn't actually improve usability nor attract new users as their market share continues to decline. Why about fixing some real issues? Or how about invest in maildir support in Thunderbird? How many years has this page said it's experimental? There are two warnings on the page telling you that you will lose your data if you use it, FFS.

Move to a country with a tax treaty with the US. Unless you're really earning a lot, you won't pay any taxes, although you will have to file a US tax return, because taxes are higher other places. If you're still paying US taxes, you're doing alright. I have a friend here in London who is a CFO, he has to pay taxes back in the US, but it's not that much and he's pretty flush and not bothered.

Is there any 3D TV you can watch without stupid glasses? What I've seen is: if 3D is being displayed, the image is blurred if you don't have stupid glasses on. Maybe I've missed something though.

Not everyone can see 3D. Iâ(TM)m part of a sizeable minority who donâ(TM)t have any or have just partial stereoscopic vision. And who wants to wear special glasses to watch TV anyway, especially if they already wear glasses? I enjoyed the original Avatar for what it was as a story in the cinema (subsequent ones are shit), but it was annoying having to wear the glasses even though they offered nothing to me.

What is wrong with the description? It describes her as the ambassador of Londonâ(TM)s financial sector, which is essentially true.

The City of London is basically one of Londonâ(TM)s administrative districts, along with the 32 boroughs. The Lord (or Lady) Mayor of that district represents the residents (not many) and the businesses (mostly finance) of that borough. The City of London is about a square mile, and itâ(TM)s synonymous with the UKâ(TM)s financial industry because so much of it is based there.

As the spokesperson (or ambassador) of the sector generating the most tax receipts and the most exports, people do actually give a shit about what she says, even if you personally donâ(TM)t like London or the banking sector.

Other countries are affected. Russian GPS jamming has been disrupting flights in the Baltic, Med and Black Sea areas: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/art...

Russia trolls out today down modding people who tell the truth.

Thatâ(TM)s a stupid response. The OP explicitly said iPhone, and if youâ(TM)ve got an SD card, you donâ(TM)t have an iPhone.

*hundreds

Thatâ(TM)s as-in nearly 300mbps at home where the 5G signal is weak

I pay 33 quid ($43) per month for unlimited data and uncapped speeds with roaming to 83 countries and Netflix Premium as a bonus. I get hundred of mbps too.

The leave campaign was definitely racist and bigotted and tried to leverage that sentiment in the electorate.

Take this card, which was mailed out nationally:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/ne...

A lot was made of the far-fetched possibility of Turkey joining the EU, and that it would happen soon. Vote Leave were suggesting 76 million people would move to the UK immediately, never mind that 550 million EU citizens already the right to do that and hadn't, nor that many Turks have connections with Germany and would rather network there. But then there's the whole Syria and Iraq aspect of that card, who weren't even in talks about joining the EU and probably never will.

And of course, there was the Farage/UKIP breaking point poster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Taking one unrelated event and trying to give the impression that a horde of foreigners was coming straight for the UK (they were Syrian refugees heading to Germany).