Good job Intel, but I don't think most people bought a Neo over a comparable Windows laptop just because of the processor. It's more the whole package (i.e.great build quality). Now if Intel stuffs their new Neo killer processor in a machine that looks and feels like a Neo in terms of overall hardware, then they might have a shot.

The thing is, in the long run I can't see this new processor having any legs at Intel. Intel's bread and butter is high-end, high-margin products. Working on those chips is what advances your career at Intel. Working on the low-margin products will never get you noticed or rewarded.

They've never had any appetite for competing in the low-end market, and in fact have repeatedly flubbed every attempt to gain a foothold. I have to wonder how many good engineers at Intel found their careers going off a cliff after being assigned to the purgatory of discount microprocessor design.

Or you could just have a NFC-like chip inserted into the animal's neck which can be cheaply scanned by rescues/vets and have owners contact details looked up (as we do in the UK: it is a legal requirement to have all dogs and now cats 'microchipped').

Seriously, if a person is betting six figures on the whether an interceptor worked, that person needs to re-evaluate their priorities.

Yes, they can, but they can't do it well. As another example to those in the original link, I asked Google Gemini to compare two PDFs to find differences. The PDFs in question were commuter train schedules with different effective dates. The PDFs had tables with stations and times. Some trains were express trains (skipping stops) and some made all stops. I asked, "The attached are railroad schedules for the same train line during different time periods. Summarize the differences between them" followed by "Are there any differences in the timetables for travel between the X station and Y station?" The output detected that there were no differences between the timetables for these two stations (yay!), but it was *terrible* when it tried to list the actual train times; it couldn't figure out when a train skipped a station. After a few back-and-forths, it gave up on determining the train's departure time, and focused on the arrival time at X station. I gave it hints as to the formatting, and it improved.

The lack of privacy is not new. What is new in the last 20 years is the lack of anonymity that mass surveillance has enabled. I did stupid stuff as a kid, but there was almost zero chance of my stupidity being filmed and uploaded for the world to laugh at.

I know a romance novelist quite well. She is a very successful, very intelligent professional who decided to go down the rabbit hole and start writing after years of reading romance novels.

What I've learned is that becoming a romance novelist is like joining a giant sorority. There are hundreds of women in the industry who constantly go to the same conventions and book signing events. They spend lots of time reading and critiquing each other's work in a giant support network.

I question if any of them really make much money at what they do, but I doubt that makes a difference. For them, it's a community they love to be a part of.

Even if most of them turn to AI to write their novels, it won't make much difference. The social aspect is what draws the writers in.

Shouldn't the headline actually read, "Waymo vehicle saves child from serious injury"? Because that's pretty much what happened.

A human driver probably would have hit that kid and knocked him 20 feet, or even run him over. Instead, the child gets up and walks away after doing something incredibly dangerous.

The latest version of Gemini is causing quite a stir in our engineering school. We've been testing it by snapping images of problems from exams on cell phones and asking Gemini to solve them. The worst exam performance we've seen so far is an overall grade of B-, and that includes graduate-level exams. Gemini even helpfully provides all of its intermediate work to show how it got the solution.

Gemini can even (correctly) find a solution for many simple design problems. We're scrambling to adapt to what's happening, and wondering what we'll be dealing with a year (or two) from now.

We had hoped that engineering (as opposed to computer science) would be relatively immune to AI disruption for at least a few more years, but we were very much mistaken. If all one evaluated was homeworks and exams, the best AIs are already capable of earning an engineering degree in most disciplines.

Between this and off-shoring a ton of IT to India, this is pretty much how it is for us. Manager is no longer 1/2 a state away, but still in a building and we rarely see him in person. ALL meetings are done via teams. We collab all day long via Teams chat just fine, but still RTO required. I show up, sit in a cube with noise cancelling headphones on while I listen to something on my ipad... rarely chat with but 1 or 2 other team members that are local. Only a handful of meetings all YEAR really need to be in person.

It turns out there's a big difference between you having data, and some US company having data. The government isn't tracking your phone. Private companies are. Hence LPR.

You're right, there's something magical about a cell phone provider that prevents an authoritarian government from simply demanding access to all location data at any time. Oh, wait ... there isn't.

My point being that if an authoritarian government does want to track everyone's location, LPR cameras would be only one tool in a much larger toolbox available to them - and frankly, not a particularly effective one.

The premise of this article makes no sense at all. Why would Uzbekistan need LPR cameras to track citizens when everyone is already carrying personal tracking devices in the form of smartphones? And unlike an LPR camera that only records when your vehicle is on the road, a smartphone reveals your personal location. Why even bother to query LPR camera records when the police can just ping the local cell phone provider and learn exactly where you are and where you have been for several months?

I see this same bizarre doublethink in my own city, where critics of LPR cameras decry their deployment while simultaneously recommending that everyone should be riding mass transit in the first place, where all passengers are placed under constant video and audio surveillance.

If you truly hate government surveillance, why do you tolerate it in mass transit? Read a little about the capabilities of the systems installed and maintained by March Networks in mass transit systems. LPR cameras are a joke compared to what our government leaders subject us to when we hop on a bus or a subway.

I've had a similar issue trying to contact Sony since I cant log into my account through my computer. After jumping through page after page of unhelpful 'Did you try this?' type prompts I eventually exhausted what little help they were willing to give and ended up in help 'dead end'. All I wanted was a phone number or even an email to report my problem to.

APL even made an appearance on the VideoBrain computer in an incredibly rare cartridge. Well a subset of the language did anyway (they called it APL/S).

https://www.atariprotos.com/othersystems/videobrain/cartridges/apls/apls.htm

"Employee bought company ABC's stock after hearing that his employer is planning to acquire ABC" is already against insider-trading laws, which I imagine is part of the training for Warner (I had to retrain every few years when I worked at a public company). Whether ABC was a former employer is not really relevant. The enforcement of the laws is an open issue in the current administration.