What does it even mean the answer came back in 2 days? Was Gemini working continuously for 48hrs unprompted before coming back with the answer? What was the cost? How much computing power? Or, were the scientists feeding it prompts and data the whole time and it just came back with a statistical significance? Seems more like an advertisement.

The issue isn't that they invented some new technique, it's that there may not be any moat that justifies the high valuations and expenses. If these companies spend trillions of dollars to develop AI and anyone can offer similar performance for 1/100th the cost, a lot of people are going to loose a lot of money.

Apple beat Qualcomm to 64 bit processors by years. Major black eye for Qualcomm.

Someone has to do all the effects. It'll just have to be done before the film is shot.

Probably contains pricing information that they don't want anyone to see. If they disclosed it everyone would want those prices.

Considering he shipped 18 iPods and 3 iPhones, it must be pretty good.

Does Datacenter come with an unlimited number of CALs to go with the server licences? Or, are those separate?

So society should spend lots of $$$ prosecuting minor shoplifters stealing candy?

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Here is a story of a woman who lost all her gut bacteria and almost died because she couldn't digest her food. They injected some of her husbands and cured her almost instantly. http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/26178/

These are two stroke diesels!

If you don't include an e-mail client !!!!!

What's odd is the streaming aspect. Is downloading a torrent and then watching it "streaming"?

( 5 days to 4 days is a 20% change.) Either labor costs go up 20% if you pay the people the same amount but they only work 4 days, or, everyone takes a 20% pay cut. Which is it? There's no magic wand you can wave to eliminate unemployment.

If the demand gets to the point of saturating supply, the Backbone vendors will start to raise prices. The price now is artificially low due to all the fiber laid in the late 90's by companies that went bankrupt. Plus, the ability of vendors to increase data rates on a stand of fiber keeps increasing dramatically.