You could do it â" but I imagine it would require real-time sensing of the Earth magnetic field in various locations and communication back to the device, since it does change all the time.

This may be real, though â" birds manage to navigate this way as far as I know.

This is also my question. I am one of the remaining paid Skype users. Itâ(TM)s great for receiving and making calls to US numbers overseas. Iâ(TM)m open to VoIP number suggestions.

Woe to him who says to wood, Come to life!
        Or to lifeless stone, Wake up!
Can it give guidance?
        It is covered with gold and silver;
        there is no breath in it.

Habakkuk 2:19

(Might one consider a computer a form of rock covered in gold?)

I am a 3D enthusiast. Iâ(TM)ve spent way more than most people on 3D hardware and was one of the 5 people who lamented the death of 3D TVs.

That being said, this is the wrong approach. 3D content is hard to produce, and bad 3D is WAY worse than no 3D. I would love native 3D output from game consoles. I think light field displays will take off some day. But you should not make 3D content out of thin air. Every single incorrect guess by AI in any frame will ruin the experience.

I hope I get proven wrong. And I want the ability to author my own 3D content for this thing.

Some people pay for it, including myself. Skype is the best and most stable way to make international phone calls to actual phones, and to purchase an actual number to be called on while abroad, if you donâ(TM)t want to pay roaming costs.

I also occasionally use it to talk to people in countries where other apps are banned.

No, it doesnâ(TM)t. The state provides 4 years of free education to people qualified to enter the university. The entrance exam is the only criterion, determining not only the school but also the department. Itâ(TM)s not a perfect system by any means, but cheating on this exam deprives another student of a spot. Students spend 2 years of their lives doing nothing but preparing for this exam. The people would NOT stand for a cheater not being punished.

I imagine the actual point of this is the name scalping impossible.

Optional always becomes the default when it benefits the entity offering the service.

Right now AI is more like a compiler which turns natural language into machine code.

Soon, once the excitement dies down, people will realize that natural language is a bad way to specify the precise behavior of very large systems.

This will (if we are smart) lead to the creation of very high level languages which will still be a type of code with precise meaning.

If we are dumb, we will end up work mountains of inefficient high level code which will make each web page into gigabytes of JavaScript and one terabyte of memory barely able to run Chrome.

We will probably have both.

There are no dystopian uses for this tech. None. None whatsoever.

Anyone claiming otherwise is guilty of thoughtcrime.

I would like a future where every device has a physical power switch and maybe a trivially removable battery.

EMG based electrodes driving prosthetics are not new. How many electrodes? How many degrees of freedom does this enable? (Normally there are only two electrodes, enabling open and close movements, with co-contraction of two muscles enabling the user to go through a menu of sorts, mapping the commands to different movements. This is tedious.).

AI (neural networks usually) can be used to deduce user intent. The article could at least give the brand of the prosthetic so that we could look at the specs.

The article certainly does not say This step is well intentioned. Not sure how Slashdot has gone downhill like this â¦

Quoting:

It's a well-intentioned move but will not stop there.

  For responsible adults with decades of experience from which to draw their own conclusions, the idea that adults we have never met have the power to govern our online activities is a borderline insult.

Both the article and the company website are stupidly low on details. This seems like the vehicle would need some sort of after market modification before this tech can be used. How long does that take and how much does it cost? How does that affect the range of the vehicle or the warranty? Can it still be charged at home?

Something like this makes sense for an EV fleet but whether it makes sense for regular EVs depends on these details and on whether they can have this type of battery pack built into off the shelf EVs.

WTF kind of nonsense is this?

You respond to every article, I have no idea who you are trying to slander (not that I particularly care), but it is pathetic.

If you're a kid, do something productive with your time like learn Python or something. If you're an adult ... well I'm sorry.

I meant only three letters. I miss the preview feature and working quotation marks from the old Slashdot.

From the article:

Translation depends on which Remmyo letters are used by the sleeper and picked up by the software, which already has information from multiple dictionaries stored in its virtual brain.

Virtual Brain??? WTF are they talking about â" is this the 1970s or something?

The idea is interesting but there is no detail either in the linked article or the abstract or the paywalled journal article to tell us what this language is, or now one communicates using inky three letters.