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Re:Tesla's Robotaxis Blow Through School Zones, NHTSA Petition Alleges
on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:30PM (#50092613)
On a Tesla robotaxi article, you're highlighting a Waymo incident when Waymo is approved for a fully driverless operation?
Re:Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operati...
on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @05:11PM (#45268100)
Can we expect you to come back on Jan 1, 2026 and provide an update?
Re:Tesla Robotaxi
on Friday October 11, 2024 @01:24PM (#41811426)
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.
Re:Facebook Political Problems
on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:12AM (#28782286)
WhatsApp uses the same growth hacks that Facebook (and Instagram) used to grow at all costs.
Re:How WhatsApp enables multi-device capability
on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @08:03PM (#28623665)
You don't need to personally know about the problems with Signal on Android -- just need to read the parent post thoroughly.
Re:Upgrading Messaging on Android in the U.S. with RCS
on Thursday November 14, 2019 @02:24PM (#21538479)
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 It's quite likely that address books on phones are outdated and thus stale.
Re:Google collects face data now – what it means and how to opt out
on Thursday September 12, 2019 @01:10PM (#20953863)
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.
Re:Privacy Sandbox – Open standards to enhance privacy on the web
on Friday August 23, 2019 @12:53AM (#20774614)
Is the expected outcome of these changes that most publishers migrate to Apple News instead of the web that's accessible via Mobile Safari?
Google offers search choice screen during setup on Android in Europe
Re:Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem Chip Business
on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:46AM (#20507659)
Qualcomm has royalty caps for smartphones, tablets, and laptops: https://investor.qualcomm.com/static-files/f2a607b2-efed-424... [PDF]
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.
Re:Apple in Advanced Talks to Buy Intel’s Smartphone-Modem Chip Business
on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @11:45AM (#20507641)
Qualcomm has royalty caps for smartphones, tablets, and laptops: https://investor.qualcomm.com/static-files/f2a607b2-efed-424...
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.
Re:Google’s Secret China Project Sparks Fury Among Workers
on Sunday August 05, 2018 @12:52AM (#17689750)
> If products and services from companies like Apple and Google are not available ...
Products from Apple aren't available in China?! Hasn't Apple made billions of dollars in China every year for the last few year?
Re:Fortnite Boycotts Google Play Store; Teaches Kids to Sideload
on Friday August 03, 2018 @06:34PM (#17684162)
I don't know about Play Store policies, but Apple's App Store definitely doesn't allow the app listing or the app itself to link to an external site for subscriptions or payment methods. See <https://gizmodo.com/5761383/apples-new-subscription-model-is... (I couldn't find a better reference after doing a quick search.)
Re:Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up
on Saturday June 30, 2018 @12:39AM (#17429506)
Google Maps, Waze, and other third-party apps are finally coming to CarPlay: https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-carplay-ios-12-will-fina...
Re:Amazon Echo Spot
on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:15PM (#15353753)
You can ask Alexa for a map to their house (as a follow up question after calling them)?
Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the iPhone
on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:21PM (#15009852)
Is there any reason to believe that Apple would even have this setting, if Google stopped paying them billions? After all, there's no setting to use a different browser, maps app, etc., by default.
Re:Facebook’s Onavo Gives Social-Media Firm Inside Peek at Rivals’ Users
on Monday August 14, 2017 @12:10PM (#15009741)
I'd imagine that platform companies have greater obligations towards their developers.
Re:European Commission fines Google €2.42B for abusing dominance
on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:45AM (#14646456)
Step 1: "the more consumers use a search engine" --> presumably because said consumers like the product (search engine)
Step 2: "more attractive to advertisers"
Step 3: "profits generated can then be used to attract even more consumers"
Wait, why were consumers attracted by the product (search engine) in the 1st step, but were convinced by the profits in the 3rd step?
Re:Google Will Stop Reading Your Emails for Gmail Ads
on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:21PM (#14622433)
As the founder and CTO of Blekko search engine, one would imagine that you would be familiar with Google's personalized advertising policies: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/143465?hl=en (Found through a quick Google search)
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music
on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:06PM (#10429699)
It's odd that you cut&pasted so many references to IAP, but totally missed the 2nd clause (immediately following the one about physical goods): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10429681
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music
on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:02PM (#10429688)
Re:YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music
on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @08:01PM (#10429681)
You left out the second clause:
Developers offering products within another category of app downloaded from Google Play must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment, except:
* where payment is solely for physical products; or
* where payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself (e.g., buying songs that can be played on other music players).
Re:Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings
on Thursday February 06, 2014 @02:56PM (#7192564)
Not the Asus Chromebox that uses Intel Core i7.
Re:We hear you: Better commenting coming to YouTube
on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @05:54PM (#6441029)
Have you tried creating a G+ Page?
Re:iOS 7 before and after screenshots
on Tuesday September 17, 2013 @05:02PM (#6401946)
It'll be interesting to hear the views from Hipmunk designers or engineers, if any, lurking on HN.
Re:Python for Android
on Thursday August 08, 2013 @03:58PM (#6181456)
Question on mobile/Android starts at 42:30: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EBR...
Re:How Gmail’s New Inbox Is Affecting Open Rates
on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @01:38PM (#6091590)
You can also train it by dragging the email from one tab to another. Sometimes I end up dragging emails from my bank or phone carrier from Promotions to Updates tab.
Re:Microsoft reorganizes
on Thursday July 11, 2013 @04:44PM (#6029100)
Surprised that no one has mentioned Asymco or Horace Dediu and his recent podcasts and blog posts:
http://www.asymco.com/2013/06/27/preempting-the-praetorian-g... http://www.asymco.com/2013/06/27/the-critical-path-90-the-pr...
where he goes into a lot of detail about how functional organizational structure might be relevant to innovation in a large company.