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Comment TRAIN AI ON ETHICS AND NOT COMMITTING CRIMES (Score 3, Interesting) 71

FFS it's like the CEO is a goddamned toddler. You must teach AI to NOT BREAK THE LAW. It's their poorly-trained models that don't treat ethics and morals and laws with any respect. just because you CAN do something does not mean you SHOULD.

Comment haptics history (Score 5, Informative) 44

Taction Technology is a San Diego-based audio technology company that was founded and incorporated around 2014. The Patents Involved in the Apple LawsuitThe high-profile patent infringement lawsuit centers on tactile transducer technology (utilizing dampening systems, magnets, and ferrofluid to handle low-frequency audio and haptic feedback). The foundational patents were created, filed, and issued within the following timeframes: U.S. Patent No. 10,659,885 ("Systems and methods for generating damped electromagnetically actuated planar motion for audio-frequency vibrations"): Filed on October 3, 2019, and officially issued on May 19, 2020.U.S. Patent No. 10,820,117: A closely related continuation patent sharing the same core technical specification, issued later in 2020.*(Note: Taction originally filed the federal lawsuit against Apple in 2021, which recently went to trial resulting in a major jury verdict.)

Now wait, when did Apple add haptics to the Apple Watch?
Apple's First Device with Haptics
Apple Watch (2014): Apple first introduced its proprietary Taction Engine (branded as the Taptic Engine) in the original Apple Watch released in late 2014 to simulate physical taps on the wrist.
iPhone 6s (2015): The technology was brought to the iPhone lineup the following year with the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.

So Taptics didn't start operating as a company until the time Apple built haptics into the Apple Watch. And they didn't file for a patent until 5 years later. That's sus.

Sony: Released the DualShock controller for the original PlayStation in 1997, which introduced built-in dual eccentric rotating mass (ERM) motors to deliver rumble feedback. (Note: While Nintendo introduced the plug-in Rumble Pak accessory earlier in 1997, Sony's DualShock was the first mainstream controller to build native haptic motors directly into the standard hardware).
Microsoft: Included dual rumble motors right from its entry into the console market with the launch of the original Xbox ("The Duke" controller) in 2001.

So haptic technology had been around in popular gaming products for 17 years prior to the Apple Watch and 22 years prior to Taptics filing their patent.

Taptics is a patent troll. They can Fuck Right Off.

Comment A crisis of clean air and water and electricity (Score 1) 90

AI CEOs have a history of being egocentric, lying assholes, but also we don't trust them to allow us to have clean air to breath, clean water to drink, and electricity to run our heat and A/C in the winter. They've prioritized their potential for earning wealth at the expense of every other point of contact. He's lucky we don't start burning down data centers. All these lies about the jobs they'll create and the wondrous things they'll do are a mirage. Having worked in data centers for 20+ years it's just equipment and the sales guy and the security guy and the occasional cleaning staff.

Comment Stock Market Manipulation (Score 1) 37

At what point will will call this out for what it is: massive stock market manipulation by promising to sell and buy in the future with money Open AI does not have today? NVidia is playing a dangerous game here, one which threatens the US power grid and our drinking water, and our lives, by simple ugly greed.

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