Australia gave them some cardboard drones they developed.

Also some view ChatGPT (and the other “AIs”) as massive plagiarism machines.

As someone who has smart bulbs and smart switches. The switches are a 1000x more preferable. It’s nice to be able to use my phone, but it fucking sucks needing to use my phone every time I want to control them.

Apple told the regulators that implementing the changes would mean it won’t be able to “meet the PLI targets,” minutes from the meeting state. PLI, India’s Production-Linked Incentive scheme, is a major project of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, providing manufacturers with financial incentives for investments and incremental annual phone sales.

The use of USB-C in the iPhone 15 means Apple meets the criteria for the rules with its current-gen hardware. However, the bulk of its sales in India are based around older iPhone generations.

Apple says it can comply with a timeline for compliance by June 2025 if existing models are exempted from the rules. Otherwise, it would need another 18 months beyond 2024 if there isn’t an exemption.

If the average American’s carbon footprint is 16t, then coal plants have saved at least 7.4MM tonnes of CO2 over the last two decades.

(Coal lobby pls DM for where to send the check)

I know this is more about switching from ICE to electric, but this is kinda hilarious

Feedback about the company’s new capacitive multifunction steering wheel was so overwhelmingly negative that last year, Schaffer promised to ditch the design. Meanwhile, much of the range—both electric and gas-powered—is saddled with temperature and volume controls that are touch-sensitive but not backlit, making them all but impossible to use at night.

To that point SS is fully funded till about 2035 and then can pay out approx 75% of benefits after that. Removing that $160K cap would pretty much solve things.

They supported this legislation before it was passed. Still not out of the goodness of their hearts, this version includes provisions that they had wanted previously.

Standing in the way of GME is the Sunken Military Craft Act (SMCA), a law signed by then-president George W. Bush in 2004 which recognizes the sovereignty of a country over its former warships.

More context, Empire State Building is 380m without the spire, 443m with spire and antenna.

The number is massive regardless, but this figure is speculation fyi

The Justice Department’s lead litigator Kenneth Dintzer, estimates Google’s ISA payments to be over $10 billion, and while the true figure remains confidential, the $18-$20 billion estimate assumes a new magnitude.

“I’ll just buy some extra so I have lunch for tomorrow” - me blatantly lying to myself

Considering he survived the last bribery corruption scandal, I’d assume there’s little chance he’s gonna resign without something huge.

I’m so tired of people saying the headline was misleading because they lack basic reading comprehension… but that’s not the case here. Was expecting to see he threw his phone at the clerk or something.

Oh that’s a very important note. Updated.

Sorry wasn’t trying to drag you personally. Just see so many memes with some bait head line and then the bottom half is like “everyone loved that” or whatever.

College is very expensive in the US, with the average “in-state” school costing $26K/yr for someone who lives on campus and $56K/yr for a private institution. Since a majority of undergraduates are teenagers with virtually no savings, they take on loans to pay for college. Also unlike traditional loans where you can declare bankruptcy, these loans are very difficult to get forgiven.

There obviously a lot more to it, but that’s the gist in three sentences.

Hear me out, what if we just didn’t repost the 3rd party click bait spam at the bottom of news and other websites as memes?

Google seems front and center too after the recent “privacy” updates to chrome (the web browser with 2/3 the global market share).

Are these shocked cell phone companies in the room with us? iPhone sale peaked like three years, Samsung probably close to then as well.