Good for browsing and side by side though.

The use case is you have a decent size screen on a device that you can pocket. If you look at the latest foldables, they aren't much thicker than non-foldables. About as thick as an iPhone from a few generations ago.

They seem to have reached the point where the tech is reasonably mature and not excessively fragile. Now they just need to get the price down.

Puts anyone accused of being Satoshi at great risk.

When you win the lottery in the UK, they help you hide the wealth. Special bank accounts, advice on how to avoid other people finding out, that sort of thing. There is a risk of both crime and people coming to beg for money.

In the medium to long term the main outcome of this war will be accelerating the move away from US based currency and payment systems. Lots of alternatives to Mastercard and Visa already have some momentum, and trading oil is moving away from USD.

With such a system you can tolerate a lot of false positives, to ensure you don't get false negatives. All that happens is the false positive image gets sent to the ground for verification.

And remember that the other option is having nothing at all.

eBay? That's your go-to for new product research?

I can walk over to Microcenter with $600 and walk out with a spiffy laptop with an 8 core snapdragon CPU, 16 gig of RAM and 1TB of storage - running Win 11, the same OS most companies & schools run. (Acer Aspire 14 and 16 laptops in specific)

The people excited about a $600 iPad are looking for a laptop to take the place of an iPad, and they have to be casual users that don't have specific software requirements/needs - nothing beyond a browser or office suite.

There are a lot of them, but not enough to scare or "terrify" a company like Acer in any meaningful way.

Didn't they try to do that kind of image recognition in the 90s and find it unreliable? IIRC they tested it with tanks and found that rather that detecting tanks it was detecting sunny days, and once they eliminated the weather variations it couldn't do anything useful.

Today Tesla's vision system is notoriously unreliable, and you would assume that in military applications the aircraft are going to be camouflaged.

But then you have to transmit potentially massive amounts of data back to Earth.

Say you want to detect aircraft entering airspace. They are difficult to detect with radar, so you want to do it optically. You need decent resolution to capture small drone sized ones, and you need multiple images to help with camouflage, false positives, and determining flight path.

That's a lot of data. The data rate is likely to be the limiting factor on what resolution and how frequently you can image an area. Being able to do the detection on the satellite, and only send reports or images that suggest further investigation is worthwhile, is going to be very useful.

5-6 million pieces is a far cry from 'limited edition' in my opinion...

No PC vendor is seriously worried about a $600 Mac iPad w/ keyboard attached - they mostly all offer a lower price model Windows laptop.

It's an interesting product, it's targeted at the lower-end of the market, but it's not going put a serious crimp in any Win laptop Mfg sales.

He gave cash to name the building, if they strip off the name, it is conceivable he is entitled to consideration - otherwise, the school could continually resell naming rights anytime it wanted, tanking the value of naming the building and eliminating an easy source of income/donations.

What's wrong with that? He wanted Detroit to have a zoo and golf course, and structured his donation to enable/enforce that.

If you accepted cash to name the building after Gates, will you give back the cash if you rename the building?

Things named after Chavez were named as an honor to him.

Things named after Gates, et al, were bought and paid for with (presumably) very, very large cash donations from Gates.

Would schools give back the money 'evil' Bill Gates gave to name facilities after him? I doubt it.

What has *actually* been proven about Bill Gates and Epstein? AFAIK the issue is they were buddies, and his wife left him because of his association with Epstein - I'm not aware of anyone claiming Gates personally took advantage of anyone, etc.

Lots of politicians took donations from Epstein, are they "tarred with the same brush" as Epstein?

China is headed that way with their renewables. Ireland is planning for renewable hydrogen production as well.

I think it will probably only end up with relatively niche uses, but it's a useful option.