The Tesla Robotaxi seems similar to the prototype car without steering wheel or brake pedals that Google announced (or demoed?) in 2014: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/28/technology/googles-next-p.... It seems likely that Waymo is 10 years ahead of Tesla in autonomous driving, and not 2 years.
What are those? It is a chat app that got popular by providing free texting in a world where SMS costs were high and working across a wide set of phones.
Knowing someone's phone number means you can reach them on WhatsApp. At least, that's true for 2B (out of 5B) of phone numbers, which is likely to be 1,000 times the number of RCS users.
The second and most important advantage of WhatsApp is that you don't have to maintain an address book anymore. People change phone numbers and the new number is automatically reflected in WhatsApp. It's quite likely that address books on phones are outdated and thus stale.
> Knowing someone's phone number means you can reach them on WhatsApp
...that would be super useful if I had WhatsApp installed. It also means that WhatsApp is tracking the phone number of all the people and doing selective (assuming only your friends can see it) publishing of it. I guess that's usually okay, but it also kinda wierds me out that it leaks info that way.
My phone number is already managed by me, I've given it to the people I want to have it. This really just limits any WhatsApp messaging I would to to entities that I want to have my phone number. It's probably much easier to block WhatsApp accounts (and attempted messages) than calls (phone calls which are synchronous communication have a much higher urgency to me than some random phone ding that's async).
Can I opt out of all of these as well? Unfortunately, not very easily. With Google Photos, you can choose not to run the facial recognition tool on your own photos, but you can't control what other people who may have uploaded photos of you decide to do.
For Google Photos, what can other people who have uploaded photos of me do by enabling facial recognition on them? How is that facial recognition data used by Google?
I don't understand why these articles don't even bother with a slightly more in-depth reporting, instead of just pivoting to the next bugaboo, namely Facebook.
Quote: We broadly provide per unit royalty caps that apply to certain categories of complete wireless devices, namely smartphones, tablets and laptops, which effectively provide for a maximum royalty amount per device.
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We broadly
provide per unit royalty caps that apply to certain categories of complete wireless devices, namely smartphones, tablets and laptops, which effectively
provide for a maximum royalty amount per device.
Yet they keep all their licensing deals a secret so that statement means exactly nothing. That cap could be $20k for all we know. Furthermore it's negotiated per oem and at their discretion.
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