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For a moment I thought this headline was about the lunchmeat, often spelled as "baloney."

U.S. companies have been snoozing at 5G — and are losing to international counterparts. But they can regain the lead by playing to their strengths, says a director at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), speaking unofficially.

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Astronomers are working with Google Cloud to build AI models that detect asteroids, identifying nearly 30,000 candidates in a few weeks. The research has implications for pure science, of course, and to detect potential hazards to space navigation and threats to Earth.

This seems like something that Google (and IBM) should have been thinking about _before_ spending truckloads of money developing quantum computers.

"I have plenty of useful iPhone apps. Footpath is the app that brings me the most happiness.”

Say “yeah” at the three-minute mark.

> There is a herding effect in tech…. The layoffs seem to be helping their stock prices, so these companies see no reason to stop.

Layoffs “are contagious.... when one major tech company downsizes staff, the board of a competing company may start to question why their executives are not doing the same.”

Downworthy: A browser plugin to turn hyperbolic viral headlines into what they really mean

- "Literally" becomes "Figuratively" - "Will Blow Your Mind" becomes "Might Perhaps Mildly Entertain You For a Moment" - "One Weird Trick" becomes "One Piece of Completely Anecdotal Horseshit" - "Go Viral" becomes "Be Overused So Much That You'll Silently Pray for the Sweet Release of Death to Make it Stop" - "Can't Even Handle" becomes "Can Totally Handle Without Any Significant Issue" - "Incredible" becomes "Painfully Ordinary" - "You Won't Believe" becomes "In All Likelihood, You'll Believe"

Security is a looming issue for deployments based on open-source software, Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie said. Maintainers of key foundational projects are aging out, leaving the software unattended.

Companies are rediscovering cost awareness, which Amazon CTO Werner Vogels calls a “lost art.”

“What if it learned from its training data that people usually slow down in December and put bigger projects off until the new year, and that’s why it’s been more lazy lately?"

I'm glad to see work is continuing on ActivityPub support in Tumblr, and also not surprised to find there isn't much interest in WordPress ActivityPub support.

Most people who want something with ActivityPub support just go to Mastodon. At least for now.

“… blogging never died…. journalists just stopped paying attention.”

IBM’s Selectric line of typewriters were quite popular in the 1960s, thanks in part to an innovation called the typeball which allowed for easy font changes on a single machine. Unfortunately, as if often the case when specialized components are involved, it’s an idea that hasn’t aged particularly well. The Selectric typewriters are now around 60 years old and since IBM isn’t making replacement parts, those restoring these machines have had to get somewhat creative like using a 3D printer to build new typeballs.

OP and I have different experiences here. I'm very satisfied with iOS 11, with one significant exception: my iPad mini 2 is very slow. But it's nearly five years old so I think that's just the way the tech industry works.

I don't see Apple paying a price for this so long as it's a one-off thing and not a new trend of deceiving customers.

Just having a client in the mobile space wouldn't have done it. It's more than that. SL was made for a world in which the desktop computer was people's primary computer. Now, smartphones and tablets are people's primary computers, and SL doesn't adapt well to that experience.

You're right about MMOs. But what's missing there is the opportunity to do anything or many things. In an MMO, you can only do one thing -- play the game. And that's fine, and millions of people are happy doing just that. But it's not a general-purpose tool.