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I suspect at some point in the next 5-15 years we will begin to see AI generated entertainment perfectly tailored to a person's preferences.

I believe the individual you responded to is stating that from a moral perspective it's murder, not from a legal perspective. I would agree with them as well.

I say this having never driven a Tesla, but are they really suitable rental cars? My understanding is that Tesla vehicles differ quite a bit from regular ICE vehicles, to the point that there's a bit of a learning curve to operating the car.

I'd be interested to hear from a Tesla owner on this. Maybe it's a non-issue.

Off topic, but Bill Bryson is such a fantastic author.

I'm kicking myself for not going for a job there in the past! I know/knew quite a few people who work for Verafin, and I've heard it's a great place to work.

This is fantastic news for Verafin, and, like you said, will have a huge impact on the local economy of the St. John's area. It's nice to hear some good news for our area for a change. I look forward to watching the software industry in the area unfold over the next few years.

It's great to hear that their headquarters is going to remain in St. John's as well, I feared the worst when I initially read the headline.

I only used Chrome Remote Desktop for the first time two weeks ago. I was blown away how easy it was the setup and how well it worked.

SMS Backup+? I totally agree, I wish I could opt out as well. Having my text messages and phone call log backed up to Gmail with this app has come in handy so many times since I started using it in 2012.

I don't have an Alexa myself, I'm a Google Home user. One thing that's always impressed me is the ability of Alexa to order things from Amazon just by issuing voice commands. Although, I'm sure that comes with its own host of problems, especially if you're not just ordering a generic product.

In your experience do they drive differently than any other car on the road? If a vehicle around you was powered by Waymo with no markings stating as much would you know (ignoring the fact of an empty driver's seat)?

Please don't post if you don't have anything to add, or a valid question to ask. If you feel like posting memes Reddit is a better medium for that.

As with all Apple products, I'm sure Apple will iterate on this and keep making a better product until it can rival Google Home and Amazon Echo. It seems quite often that Apple first generation of new products (huge exception for the original iPhone) can't really compete with competitors, but very quickly, in two or three generations, they end up with the best product on the market.

Although what really surprised me in this article is that Google Home only has 14% of the market share while Amazon Echo has 73%. I had assumed that their market shares were much closer, but according to the article Echo is out selling Google Home more than 5 to 1!

Really? I've looked for something like this in the past for my driveway, but come up empty handed. Are you able to share any of the product names with me? I would love to have something like this.

No kidding! I recently picked up lock picking as a hobby, and it really makes me realize just how insecure most locks really are. I'm a total beginner and I'm able to pick some locks in seconds.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one. I was very confused for a moment after reading that comment. Never seen the acronym "SF" used for science fiction before.

I'm not the parent poster, but I believe the parent was referencing the fact that Opera now uses the same rendering engine as Chrome/Chromium.

I haven't used Opera since they changed rendering engines, so I can't comment beyond that.

Where is that? Where I live there is a 100km/h limit, and the local police sometimes post on social media when they ticket someone going 160km/h+.

That said, 100km/h made sense in 1970, but now with the safety of modern cars, there's no reason that 130km/h shouldn't be the standard everywhere modern cars are prevalent.

Could it have been an issue with the deign of the battery itself, so the failure would happen regardless of who manufactured the battery?

Is it Google's responsibility to? I would say no. If algorithms detect that an individual is going to a bar every Monday and Thursday night, and then starts providing information about said bar on Monday and Thursday nights I don't see the problem.

But I think it would be a problem if every Monday and Thursday night Google Now started providing information about AA meetings in the area, instead of bar information. It's up to the user to make the choice, Google Now just detects trends and then displays information based on those trends.

I go to the gym every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday morning. And each of those mornings Google Now tells me how many minutes it will take me to get to the gym from my current location. Should Google Now start giving me directions to the nearest breakfast place instead? No, not unless that starts becoming my pattern.

Taken in the context of the article, I believe they're talking about how the chiller room will be used to develop batteries that are more efficient at lower temperatures.

I've been following the progress of that project over the past few months, and it's amazing to see what they've achieved in such a short time-span, given the difficulty of the task.

Personally the emulator is of no use to me, but like you said, it's all about the preservation of the generation of games. In 50 years will it even be possible to find a working Xbox 360? Probably not. That's why projects like this are needed.

Very impressive. I remember being a young teenager when Google first went public, and around the same time my parents were looking at investing a moderate amount of money (around 10K, if I remember correctly) in the stock market. I suggested they buy stocks in Google, they didn't take my advice, which I don't blame them for as taking investment advice from a 14 year old typically doesn't end well.

It will be very interesting to see where Alphabet/Google go in the next 10 years.

Just wondering, do you think the fact that you "poked a bit towards the "unethical" side of things" played any part in you not getting the position?

Fantastic comment. Thankfully I don't have an Apps account so this isn't really a concern for me, but it's almost scary to see the list you provided, it made me realize just how truly entrenched I am to Google's ecosystem. I use almost every feature you listed. At a certain point moving away from Google's ecosystem just because unfeasible because you come to rely so heavily on certain products in your day-to-day life.

I doubt it would ever happen, but I really wouldn't be surprised if Google attempted to acquire Value. They've been making moves to get in to the "casual" gaming space with Google Play and the Nexus Player. If they purchased Value they would effectively own a large segment of the "hardcore" PC gaming market share.

Again, I doubt it would ever happen, but it's interesting to consider what the impacts would be if they did. I don't think Value is for sale, and if it were Microsoft would be much more likely to purchase them.

I really enjoy my Chromecast, I use it almost daily, and I agree with you, it doesn't do anything revolutionary. In my opinion what it does, it does a great job of. Before I purchased my Chromecast it was a nuisance to play media from my computer onto my TV, I had to mess around with long HDMI cable. If I wanted to play something from YouTube or Netflix I had to boot up my Xbox 360/PS3, wait for it to load, if there were updates I had to wait for those to download/install.

With Chromecast I can have the desire to watch something and have it playing on my TV within seconds. So it may not be revolutionary, but it certainly speeds things up.

I agree with you, but will it ever happen? I would imagine that Google benefits from capturing the audio, so they really have no incentive to allow you to use their voice recognition without them getting the audio.

If enough people had these in their homes then there would no longer be "peak hours" or "non-peak hours", I would think that this would normalize the grid so that pricing is always fairly consistent.

Wow! The bezels on that phone are huge. I personally find that very unappealing, it makes the phone hardware look very outdated.

That said, I'd love to sit down and play with the OS on the phone to see what it does different from other mobile OSes today.

Serious question: Did you read the article, or did you just watch the video? Reading the article along with watching the video made it perfectly clear to me what this product is doing, despite the fluff in the video.

Of course I see your comment after I finished reading the parent on my tablet. Thanks though!