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Eh, it's a version of their final product. If I remember right this is the gen2 chip already.

Yeah, I think it's going to be a while before this is well developed. For now, it's kind of like an alpha/beta product as far as I can tell.

Lol, that number is the main reason I'm so interested. Some very wealthy people seem to think that 21.co knows something that the rest of us don't.

Oh man, didn't see that metal surface bit before... I feel like they launched before they were entirely ready for it. The next gen of these devices might be pretty cool once you are able to sell/host your own services, however it seems like $400 is going to be a stretch for most people when it looks like a slightly modified raspberry pi.

Regardless, I'll be watching 21.co to see what all they end up doing with these things, if nothing else I'm intrigued.

Yay, an example of a useful service!

21.co seems to be confusing the crap out of people, so I'm hoping that some examples of actual services will maybe cool out some of the more extreme criticisms. The whole marketplace for digital goods thing sounds great to me, I just don't know how they're going to make that $400 price tag tenable.

There are millions of dollars invested in this project, I highly doubt that the entire goal is to have a massive mining pool.

The main idea is to buy and sell digital good and services, that's the big revolutionary bit of this, not some mining pool scam.

So, yeah, this product is a bit confusing until you realize it's just meant to be for application development. The whole idea is to build services that people will pay you for, that are served off of your personal 21.co machine, that or to purchase the services that are being offered. The mining bit is just meant to give you a small stream of bitcoin to mess around with.

This could all be done with your own server or whatever, the 21.co machine just makes setup easier.

From what I've seen this is all pretty tame. Brennan was definitely stupid to keep around an AOL email after becoming one of the highest ranking law enforcement officials, but it doesn't seem like there was that much damning information sitting around.

What reason is there that these paid journals need to exist?

Apparently there are tons of BS papers in them anyway, so what exactly is it that the scientist is paying the journal for if not for good peer review? It seems to me that the journals provide very little that a free online version wouldn't do better.

Way to make something that should be philanthropy at its finest into opportunism Mark Zuckerberg. What a dick.

Ugh, the TPP is going to be bad generally speaking. Trade deals don't tend to help out the little guy much, only the corporate interests.

I just hope we don't all end up in that Audi commercial stuck in an office building, heh.

But seriously, I'm glad to see the FAA is paying attention to drones.

Good luck avoiding all electronics with parts from China :P

That hinge is so cool! Finally a real tablet/laptop hybrid comes out!

Seriously, this makes the difference for me. I never wanted to buy a tablet device because I thought I wouldn't use it much, but if I can just pull off the keyboard and turn it into a tablet that runs the same OS occasionally, that's something I'm interested in.

Well yes, I imagine the US force dwarfs most others, however that doesn't change my being worried about China's activities.

The whole world needs to start making protection of user data (private sphere) and citizen data (public sphere) a priority. Until that happens, there will continue to be massive hacks of sensitive data that end up hurting very large numbers of people.

It's well past time that the world as a whole started taking the issue of cyber security seriously.

I mean isn't it already widely accepted that China has one of the world's largest and most active cyber warfare forces?

When is the US going to get its shit together and start worrying about cyberdefenses?

The amount of money the TSA has cost the US since it's foundation is staggering 0_o

Universal Search -- Yay, Apple once again catches up to the rest of the group! Now we get to wait for their crappy-come-lately tv service to come out and have "revolutionary features" like a queue.

Yeah, I'd really like to see this benchmarked against µBlock Origin. I'm fine with switching if it truly is faster and works comparably, but until I see proof of that, I see no reason to switch over.

The authors of this product should run their adblocker against all of them here: https://www.raymond.cc/blog/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested...

Just what we need, more meta-data analysis :\

Kudos to the authors, I really enjoyed reading that!

Lol, I like the sharing economy as much as the next person, but it's a pretty ludicrous name for itself. There's not really any sharing to be found here, just buying and selling.

Once the companies involved start being more reasonable with paying taxes and employees instead of trying to essentially skirt the law and be irresponsible corporate citizens, they'll be a great addition to our economy. As of right now, they just make a lot of money for a few people at the expense of the rest just like any other Mega-Corp would.

I like to think the tech community tries to make the world better rather than just scrounge for cash, but maybe I'm too much of an idealist.

Chalk makes me feel weird when I use it. Tactically it just rubs me the wrong way and gives me the same chills I get from fingernails on a chalkboard. Just thinking about it bothers me :\

However, it is nice to read about people who have a passion for what they do, and this man seems to have passion in spades.

Ha, awesome, hopefully this takes any wind that was there out of Apple's sails(and sales), heh. Once again, Apple puts out a feature 5 years late and is praised...

Everyone except the very rich are about to get slapped in the face by a whole slew of bad policy decisions :\

Please, please let Uber get pwned in the face for their general combative business practices :D

Seriously though, they give the "ride sharing" economy a bad name.