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Adam Banks

@adambanksdotcom
13 posts
2020-10-15
UK digital tax intended to make multinational platforms like Amazon “pay their fair share” will in reality tax small sellers using Amazon's platform while giving Amazon's own sales an advantage. This is what happens when you legislate by soundbite https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
2020-10-15 View on X
The Times

UK admits that Amazon will not be affected by its new digital services tax but small traders using its online marketplace will be penalized

2020-10-14
UK digital tax intended to make multinational platforms like Amazon “pay their fair share” will in reality tax small sellers using Amazon's platform while giving Amazon's own sales an advantage. This is what happens when you legislate by soundbite https://www.thetimes.co.uk/...
2020-10-14 View on X
The Times

UK admits that Amazon will not be affected by its new digital services tax but small traders using its online marketplace will be penalized

Amazon will not be affected by the new digital services tax but small traders who use its online marketplace will be penalised, HMRC has admitted.

2020-08-30
Your memories wouldn't mean anything to a robot body, you might as well download C++ to a whelk https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-30 View on X
VentureBeat

Neuralink, Musk's brain-computer interface company, revealed a prototype showing readings from a pig's brain using a coin-shaped device implanted under skull

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :

2020-07-11
Makes sense to start with notebooks when USP is thermal efficiency. Air the obvious choice, add 13in MBP to show higher performance without getting into GPU questions - though new 14in made for ARM will be stronger. 16in will surely need parallel ARM/Intel+GPU configs at first https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-11 View on X
MacRumors

Kuo: Apple Silicon Macs to include 13-inch MacBook Pro this year, MacBook Air this year or Q1 2021, and 14.1-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models in 2021

and big changes may be in store Eli Blumenthal / CNET : New Arm-powered MacBook Pro, Air may arrive this year, report suggests Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : 14-inch And 16-inch ARM MacBo...

2020-07-10
He said close to “the basic functionality for level five autonomy”. A very different claim from having a self-driving vehicle that drives itself on actual roads. What he calls the “long tail of small problems” will be a decades-long negotiation between vehicle and road design https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016

it hasn't Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : Elon Musk: Tesla is close to achieving basic level 5 autonomy for its cars VentureBeat : Elon Musk says Tesla is ‘very close’ to level 5 aut...

Makes sense to start with notebooks when USP is thermal efficiency. Air the obvious choice, add 13in MBP to show higher performance without getting into GPU questions - though new 14in made for ARM will be stronger. 16in will surely need parallel ARM/Intel+GPU configs at first https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-10 View on X
MacRumors

Kuo: Apple Silicon Macs to include 13-inch MacBook Pro this year, MacBook Air this year or Q1 2021, and 14.1-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models in 2021

At last month's WWDC, Apple officially announced that its Mac computers will be transitioned from Intel x86 to homegrown Apple Silicon chips.

2020-07-09
He said close to “the basic functionality for level five autonomy”. A very different claim from having a self-driving vehicle that drives itself on actual roads. What he calls the “long tail of small problems” will be a decades-long negotiation between vehicle and road design https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-09 View on X
Bloomberg

Elon Musk claims Tesla is “very close” to developing fully autonomous vehicles despite Tesla's “Full Self Driving” feature not living up to its name since 2016

- The billionaire says it'll have basics worked out this year  — Tesla's in an industry race to develop fully self-driven cars

2020-07-07
Postmates never made it to the UK, but it'll be interesting to see if Uber is looking for comparable acquisitions https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-07 View on X
CNBC

Uber buys food delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in an all-stock deal

I met Bastian Lehman, CEO and co-founder … Kari Astillero / Micky : Uber confirms $2.65 billion all-stock purchase of Postmates Bhumika Khatri / Inc42 Media : Daily Tech Briefing: ...

2020-07-06
Postmates never made it to the UK, but it'll be interesting to see if Uber is looking for comparable acquisitions https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-06 View on X
CNBC

Uber buys food delivery service Postmates for $2.65B in an all-stock deal

- Uber agreed to buy Postmates, the fourth-largest U.S. delivery food service, for $2.65 billion in stock.  — Uber had attempted to acquire GrubHub last month but talks failed.

2020-05-31
What tech giants should be thinking: we're paying journalists just to pick stories, shouldn't we be funding journalists who actually report stories? What tech giants actually think: this app scrapes whatever looks like news into a page with “News” at the top, that's good enough https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-31 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft lays off editorial staff at its News and MSN divisions, reportedly affecting around 50 US and 27 UK jobs, as it increases use of AI for news curation

Microsoft News and MSN is increasingly being run by robots  —  Microsoft is laying off dozens of journalists and editorial workers …

2020-05-29
The Communications Decency Act 1996 originally attacked freedom of speech, which was ruled unconstitutional, leaving intact s230, which offered limited free speech protections to online services. Trump is trying to weaponise the limitability of s230 to attack free speech again https://twitter.com/...
2020-05-29 View on X
Axios

Trump signs an EO designed to limit Section 230 protections by directing the Commerce Department to press the FCC to roll back portions of Section 230

President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday designed to limit the legal protections that shield social media companies …

2019-08-05
Think smart, make them switch to 16chan, then 32chan, they think it's fine but just seven days later their URL is bigger than the known universe https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-05 View on X
The Cloudflare Blog

Cloudflare CEO on why the company terminated DDoS protection service for 8chan: the site was “lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths”

The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio are horrific tragedies.  In the case of the El Paso shooting …

Think smart, make them switch to 16chan, then 32chan, they think it's fine but just seven days later their URL is bigger than the known universe https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-05 View on X
BuzzFeed News

If 8chan vanished, its users would likely just flock to a new copycat site, like how 4chan users switched to 8chan amid increased moderation during Gamergate

Less than an hour before killing at least 20 people and injuring some 26 more in an El Paso, Texas, Walmart, the suspected shooter …