Clearly Apple Execs either are being myopic about investing in space/satellites or they know something we don’t about launching future sats that make Globalstar partnership obsolete …
They could be working on their own constellation and launching with SpaceX to tightly integrate the whole stack.
The immense political and economic inertia is to keep mobile phones as profitable federal.gov.<your-country> surveillance-accessible tracking / identity / payment devices for the general population. Governments have seen Musk play in politics. Nobody political can trust commercial satellite networks to support them in conflict resolution or domestic enforcement. That means they'll regulate against them as a national security threat wherever possible.
Besides, satellite is generally slower/less economic/less feasible with a tiny portable handset due to technical reasons (eg. distance even @LEO, lack of a directional antenna) so IMHO emergency satellite SMS has to date generally been a fudge-feature (mobile phones use them to make sales since they're ~similar since ~2010, this one is perhaps targeting the 'concerned parent powered purchase').
A $7,700 fine when they have 5000 queen ants with each potentially being worth $220 is a slap on the wrist!
Meanwhile the 5000 colonies the queen ants were extracted from will collapse and the knock-on effect to the ecosystems will be catastrophic for decades!
Ants act as keystone species by engineering ecosystems, regulating populations, and fostering biodiversity.
The judge in this case is clearly not a biologist/entomologist and doesn’t understand the need to send a clear message when sentencing.
Nope. Google+ was a ghost town. They made the right call to shut it down and focus their efforts on YouTube.
The videos and comments on YT are superb training data, every bit as good as Google+ was.
In 2025, YouTube’s total revenue (advertising + subscriptions like YouTube Premium and TV) surpassed $60 billion. If they spun out YT it would have a market cap $500-600bn putting it in the top 20 companies.
Google+ would never have been worth much as the 7th most popular social network.
This I find hard to believe. Most YT comments are just noise. Even the UX of writing comments in YT is just terrible. Comments randomly appear and disappear, and you are never sure if it is some yt algorithm, a technical issue or specific moderation practice. I am pretty sure if they valued yt comments as data, they would have put a bit more effort into that side of their platform.
The videos are good training data, but the comments? The comment UX is so non-conducive to discussion, and the general quality is very low compared to what used to be on Google+ (to be fair, the self-selected users of Google+ were not representative of the general population).
My buddy owns several Firehouse restaurants. There’s a couple windows programs he uses to run his businesses. Not having a way to virtualize windows was a show stopper when the ARM Macs came out.
Same with my father in law who’s a general contractor. He uses some freeware estimate program and an extremely old photoshop he got in the early 2000s.
He also went through 2 crappy Amazon bought chrome books for his wife that could barely function. The Air was too pricey.
I daily-drive a base level MacBook Air M1 with 8GB RAM for writing docs and some light coding in VIM/VSCode. Never had any issues.
When I need more I offload tasks to a remote VM (usually AWS/GCP).
I can easily afford a top spec Mac but chose this because I want to have a “entry level” device that I don’t mind my kids breaking or getting stolen at public co-working space.
Plenty of people will get MacBook Neo and never hit its limitations.
Most students/educators and many professionals just use the web all day and never need much RAM.
Having said all that, Apple could easily have made it 16GB cleaned up the market place and nobody would be talking about Neo being under spec’d. But Tim Cook has to be a Tim Cook and squeeze every last penny of profit. ;-)
Having said all that, Apple could easily have made it 16GB cleaned up the market place and nobody would be talking about Neo being under spec’d. But Tim Cook has to be a Tim Cook and squeeze every last penny of profit. ;-)
I think this has more to do with binned A18 Pro SoCs which enables Apple to do this with economies of scale. A later version may get the 12GB variant of the A19 Pro SoCs.
It's like credit cards loaning money to people who are unemployed and will default on payments. It's a risky business that is legal and can be very profitable, but may also be disastrous in the future.
I don't see the problem as long as materially significant transactions by publicly traded companies are properly disclosed to investors. If someone loses money by buying NVDA then they have only themselves to blame.
Tuld wasn't wrong. There will always be financial bubbles and misallocation of capital. It can't be prevented, and even trying to prevent it would involve intrusive government overreach that would make most people even more unhappy. Investors who want safety are free to buy Treasuries.
Come on, calling a round of vendor financing (which is what the NVIDIA money is) "funding" is eggregiously misleading. The only new money entering the sector from this is SoftBank's stake.
They might have dressed up the wording, but the details are all there for anyone who wants to objectively look at the deal. It is a group of two executives making a non coerced deal and disclosing the required information to investors.
Might be a stupid gamble, but it's not akin to a loan shark shaking down a hungry, cold person for life's essentials.
The first mistake anyone makes is thinking they are “buying” anything with a domain. You’re renting it. And the company you are renting from can arbitrarily push up the price above inflation. NameCheap is good for the basics. But a .site or .online domain is a no-go beyond an MVP/test.
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