If you didn’t know that Chevron used to be Standard Oil, and if you didn’t know that its been the most prominent company in the Richmond area for about a century, the connection might not be that obvious. But if you know any of the history, its not hard to figure who runs “The Richmond Standard.”
I don’t know much about batteries and charging, but I do know a thing or two about bold pre-product claims at CES press events.
You gotta figure that today’s white house visit was for Ted to kiss the ring and pay the bribe. Probably at least one of those didn’t happen.
I think your description is reasonable, however I’d argue that they are not security cameras. Rather a nationwide public surveillance network intended to circumvent the 4th amendment.
Flock doesn’t secure people or property. They merely catalog the movements of people and vehicles for future law enforcement work, allowing both current location searches and comprehensive retrospective location history searches, all without warrants or court orders. Again, not picking on you here; just adding some color because while security camera is easy to understand, it also has a connotation that is quote different from what flock does.
Face detection as well, and partnered with Amazon Ring.
Admit nothing, deny everything, and make counter accusations has been the standard argumentative tactic of “the good guys” for generations.
lol, right? I was literally thinking "What about Arc?"
I’ve been suggesting to friends for a while that the US government (where I live) is likely to start debanking their critics. So I’m not surprised to read this, I’m more surprised at how uncommon (or perhaps under-reported) these sorts of events are.
I’m also not familiar with Qonto or French banking. Does this person have rights? Are the french courts functional, and does this person have a good chance of prevailing against Qonto?
Even if this turns out to be true, Microsoft has a pretty clear track record that any walkback will be temporary and purely for PR optics.
Free or at minimal cost, but it still didn’t age well.
Probably. There’s never been a Trump branded anything that wasn’t a scam, so no senators are genuinely questioning whether it’s a scam, they just haven’t figured out how to square it with their base yet.
The APU and taxi rules would likely help a lot, but would likely require a lot of change to infrastructure and airline and ATC SOPs. The electrification bit is beginning to happen where it makes sense, but that part will likely be slow to make a difference, and a small difference at that.
I agree that having transportation alternatives like rail could help reduce demand for commercial air transport, but we would be a generation away from useful intrastate rail service if we were serious about building it now, which we’re not. So there’s no good reason to not do these things while we faff about on “high speed” rail.
Yeah, that’s been true for a while. I have a Tesla model 3 and it’s the first American car I’ve bought in 30 years. If it weren’t for the surveillance capitalism, I’d say it’s an an exceptional car.
The whole car world has changed though. Honda used to be great, but they’re kinda shit now. Toyota and Lexus are still pretty great for long term reliability. Comfort is great, but driving dynamics are mid. BMW and Mercedes (some of them anyway) drive very nice, but you don’t want to own them out of warranty. Most American cars are somewhere in the middle. They’ve improved a lot since the 80s and 90s, but so has everything else.
Encrypted apps like Signal encrypt messages in a way that only you and the recipient can decrypt and read. Not even Signal can decrypt them. However it has always been the case that another person could look over your shoulder and read the messages you send, who you’re sending them to, and so on. Pretty obvious, right?
What the author and Signal are calling out here is that all major commercial OSes are now building in features that “look over your shoulder.” But it’s worse than that because they also record every other device sensor’s data.
Windows Recall is the easiest to understand. It is a tool build into windows (and enabled by default) that takes a screenshot a few times per second. This effectively capture a stream of everything you do while using windows; what you browse, who you chat with, the pron you watch, the games you play, where you travel, and who you travel with or near. If you use “private” message tools like Signal, they’ll be able to see who you are messaging and read the conversations, just as if they were looking over your shoulder, permanently.
They claim that for an AI agent to serve you well, it needs to know everything it can about you. They also make dubious claims that they’ll never use any of this against you, but they also acknowledge that they comply with court orders and government requests (to varying degrees). So… if you trust all of these companies and every government in the world, there’s nothing to worry about.
Harris did pretty bad during the Primary back in 2020
Harris actually dropped out months before the primaries in 2020. She was something like 16th most popular candidate at the time she withdrew. She was a pretty unpopular AG in California at the time and likely would not have even won her own state primary.
You’ve done a bit of a misleading headline change; they’re battling over who’s gonna pay to raise a road.
It was great for a time.
Ah, yeah, I missed that you referred to America. We do have it pretty good here in CA, and my use case is favorable for an EV. I’m able to charge at home, and rarely need to charge en route to get somewhere. Those few occasions when I do, the 10 mins to charge up isn’t a big deal. If I couldn’t charge at home, or regularly took very long trips, the EV wouldn’t make sense.
As for the weight… I just looked and my EV (a model 3) is 50 pounds heavier than my other car (a Lexus hybird sedan). That’s a pretty negligible difference. It’s about 500 pounds heavier than the Honda accord I used to have. That’s a more material difference, but not as big a deal as people online make it out to be.
They are part of the problem, but inability or unwillingness to build quality public transit has been a problem in CA longer than they’ve been alive.
Haven’t we been all year?