If I wanted nothing but pro "Net Neutrality" (Title II FCC regulation) posts from every conceivable angle, I'd go to Reddit.

Uhhhh... no. You're exactly wrong. 180 degrees out of phase.

Similar, but different. Intel bought Movidius, which designed this chip (the Myriad X). Initially it was for visual processing (computer vision), but it morphed into being optimized for neural network inference (AI).

So where is x264, which encodes most of the video you watch? x264 powers YouTube, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon, Hulu, most cloud video services, and more commercial/broadcast video encoder systems than any other encoder library. Where is x265? FFMPEG? LibAV? Gstreamer? VLC? Open source dominates video and audio processing. As far as image processing... where is GIMP? GEGL? OpenCV?

Tim is not a product guy. He's an operations guy. The product guy, Phil, is a poor stand-in for Steve Jobs, and he doesn't have the all-powerful authority to overrule everyone else in the company or take big bets that Steve had.

.. isn't hardware. It's software. More specifically, Apple offers a complete platform where hardware, software (OS and built-in apps), web services (iCloud, App Store, iTunes music and video) and content are all fully and seamlessly integrated. Users get a consistent experience across devices, and app developers can count on relatively consistent capabilities on end-user devices (as opposed to the fairly disparate device software and hardware configurations and capabilities on Android and Windows platforms). All the attention at an Apple product launch is paid to the shiny new hardware. Relatively little attention is paid to the fundamental improvements in the platform, like the adoption of HEVC and HEIF (2x better photo and video compression), or the introduction of Augmented Reality and Machine Learning (ARkit and Core ML), multitasking, drag and drop. Why do you think Microsoft is now in the hardware business, and Google is building a hardware business? They can't compete with Apple if they can't offer a seamless experience.

Last year they funded the Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us...

UPDATE: It worked! Phoenix OS is now on Github and kernel source is available. We're still gathering signatures, because we must first verify that the source is legit and not just a copy of Android-x86 with no custom Phoenix OS modifications. We'll let you know when we've verified.

The secret to Netflix's success is not video streaming. Their "disruptive innovation" was their business model - a flat monthly fee to watch movies instead of paying per use, and then also paying late fees. Business model innovation is as disruptive as technology innovation, as Blockbuster video can tell you. Sure, this idea has lots of details that need to be worked out in order for it to succeed, but don't say that it has no chance. It could work. People have gym memberships, why not movie theater memberships?

Very funny. LLVM and Clang have revolutionized compiler technology. There are very few people in the computer science world with a resume as impressive as Chris Lattner. I'm not too surprised that he didn't thrive at Tesla. They are working too far up the stack. But Google develops low-level compute devices (Tensor processor), programming languages and frameworks, and he'll be a great fit to figure out how to make it all go fast.

Most of the comments so far are variations on the same theme... Firefox's product management has not been great. If you want your product to win in the marketplace, it has to serve end-users better than the competing alternatives. Nothing should make it into the product if it doesn't improve the end-user experience. I use Firefox because plugins like NoScript and Adblock Plus work in Firefox. But there are many strange problems that we Firefox users always have to contend with. For example, if I have EVER had a secure connection with a domain (Netflix.com), Firefox will INSIST that I always have a secure connection with that domain, and I can't browse non HTTPS pages on that domain (like the Netflix Tech blog). That's not security. That's just stupid. I'm just trying to browse a static web page... I'm not posting any information, or entering a password or credit card info on that page. Mozilla also gets religious with respect to video codecs. Again... just stupid. Tens of thousands of companies worldwide want to support newer industry standards, like HEVC, but Mozilla in their infinite religious wisdom thinks that HEVC should fail and VP9 should succeed, so even when a website wants to deliver HEVC video, and the consumer has an HEVC capable device, Mozilla believes that Firefox should block the HEVC video from passing through to the device. You can have whatever political beliefs you want, and you can try to influence the discussion, but when the market has spoken, you need to listen. Any browser vendor that thinks they can leverage their installed base and market power to force their worldview on the end-users will ultimately fail. This is why Mozilla succeeded in the first place - because Microsoft was inflexible and not listening to the needs of end users.

Do the owners of Snopes.com own and control the snopes.com domain name? If so, move the site, and redirect the DNS to point to your own servers. Do the owners of Snopes.com have a copy of the site? It's their copyrighted code and content. A vendor can't "hold it hostage", or even hold it at all without explicit rights to do so. If the vendor doesn't have a valid contract (i.e.; if the contract expired or was legally terminated), hosting Snopes.com without permission is a copyright violation... which is a very expensive problem for that vendor. Any number of lawyers would take this case on a contingent fee basis... no up-front money needed... if it's such a clear cut case of a vendor having no rights to host snopes.com, but refusing to give snopes.com access to their code and content, or to their domain or DNS. Some details are clearly missing here... or the owners of snopes.com are technically and legally illiterate.

Kiss game developers goodbye. The only reason game developers invest massive budgets developing a new game is because they expect to get that money back. Your PS4 will become worthless (in terms of getting access to new games) if the platform is hacked.