Maybe my wording wasn't totally clear. Meta defaults to backup unencrypted to the cloud. Government can get the data from cloud provider (exact rules subject to jurisdiction). Not saying Meta sees the backup.
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Afaict Whatsapp nudges the user to backup to cloud, and defaults to unencrypted.
Whatsapp by default backs up unencrypted to Google/ Apple. So Google / Apple can share with the likes of law enforcement.
Beyond this, it would surprise me if certain spy agencies didn't have a mass surveillance backdoor. The only question is how widespread it is and how that data is being used. For the special cases, you could hack the whole phone / compute instead of just whatsapp.
He's a narcissist. I think quietly disappearing isn't really his vibe. More money is a facet of the ego trip alongside tacky golden things, having his name on hotels and getting likes on social media.
More rationally (if he is ever rational), it's often hard to properly retire (see most African dicators etc) as the next guy might come after your wealth or liberty. Admittedly, and a touch surprisingly, he has developed a next generation that could protect him while he plays golf.
TSMC are the masters, inventing small machines and leading the world. Apple are 2nd with a working 3nm wafer fab line. Samsung have a working 7nm line, I heard they were upgrading to 5nm, but I never heard of product coming out, so they seem stuck there. Intel has a 10nm wafer fab line, but Intel can't get it working. They've rejigged things so their 10nm line is actually putting out 12nm chips but they still lose money trying to make silicon. They make their CPUs on a 14nm line.
This is misleading. Inaccurate and mixing fabless chip designers (Apple, Rockchip) with fabs (TSMC etc). Dumping in random stuff like earthquakes.
Apple doesn't have a fab, they use TSMC. Intel is way ahead of 10nm, on approx 2nm. Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron etc all have high end fabs even if some are focused more on memory (DRAM, HBM etc) than more general purpose.
Lots of these companies have older tech still running for lower end chips, and yes, eventually you get into nodes where China competes in particular for things like microcontrollers and lower end ARM chips.
Rockchip uses extensive non-Chinese IP (ARM in particular) to make fairly generic chips using foreign fabs (TSMC for RK3588), I assume using foreign software. I doubt they're even a good example for Chinese players. These chips are broadly comparable with what a RaspberryPi has.
China has been making chips for ages. This is about making AI chips that are comparable with Nvidia, AMD, Google, Amazon etc using modern fabs (TSMC primarily, also Intel, Samsung, Micron etc that mostly use ASML machines).
The article suggests they're likely > 5 years behind, and that probably isn't to scale production. Also consider EUV was first used in 2018 commercially, 2019 at scale. So maybe early Chinese EUV will be a decade behind when it launches.
Lots of the supporting ecosystem to develop too.
Meanwhile West aligned companies are investing like crazy too. So it's a moving target.
BBC's experience doesn't match mine. Shop at Waitrose in London and they will have a large number of self checkouts without the annoying scales to check you scanned correctly. So much faster and less hassle.
Shops like Decathlon and Uniqlo which have rfid tags on everything and magically scan everything in one go. Awesomely quick and easy, but only works if the shop has full control of its supply chain.
He really hasn't bet the whole company.
The metaverse loss was $13.7bn per year, so without it they would have made about $37bn net profit.
It's not like he's funding it with debt, he's just reinvesting a bit of profit.
It's similar to Amazon's spending on Alexa, which is still losing $10bn per year, or one of their many other bets like stores without checkouts. Amazon is loss making.
Europe sells around 12,000,000 cars per year, so 1,000,000 per month. Tesla sold 19,144 in a month, and maybe it was a glitch due to fluctuating imports from China.
Good news an electric car is doing well, but not sure how much you can take from it. Maybe other manufacturers just have more models for instance.
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Ok, so maybe I'm not the only one wondering if it's made up.
If the metaverse was to become our new everyday world, or a large portion of it, then people are arguing for censorship in our everyday lives.
What we can say and do will not judged by principles of freedom of speech, alongside regular social constraints, but by Meta and its AI police. If we wear AR googles as we walk around the real world, will Meta also police us then?
Xiaomi is a lot more than just phones. They create quality, yet affordable hardware products across many areas (smart watches, robovacs, scales, hairdriers, monitors, electric scooters etc etc., electric car factory getting built). So they have control of an ecosystem in a way that Apple doesn't.
I don't know how well they integrate, but there's potential there, and from a retail perspective it means shops aren't just rows of the same phones.
Having said that, I suspect they won't integrate all that well as they feel a bit more like opportunists, who like to get things out even if they have little design input, and that feels deeply cultural. How much it matters is another question.
It's fake news.
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