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Teslas get regular OTA updates. They sometimes fail, but they've been remotely patching their vehicles for years.


She didn't voluntarily choose "Send me pregnancy related ads," the system inferred that from her history/context. She's asking why the system couldn't also infer that her pregnancy failed, after she made a considerable amount, if not more/stronger signals for the later.


Driving is a much smaller scope than technology. If you restrict the development of technology skills, when you eventually reintroduce technology it will take months or even years to catch up to peers that have been using technology for their entire life.


At what time were they expect to be making 5000 cars/week in January?


Heroku, HBO, Discord, Amazon Prime, etc all have free trials/plans that require a credit card . . .


Not sure what Prime is but I suspect everything you can do requires a purchase anyway? If so that could, perhaps, be reasonable.

Wouldn't ever sign up for any of the others though.

And when a free trial requires a cc that kind of implies that you have to read the fine print very carefully and actively cancel before you get "upgraded".

Doesn't exactly inspire trustworthiness, I'd research competitors closely before considering a company that does that.


Yes, because China being lower on the developmental scale than the US is a bad thing.

Also, copying isn't cheating. Copying/imitating is the free market at work.


Copying isn’t cheating but they have spies in the top tech firms in this country. Everywhere in the world that’s cheating. Stealing confidential proprietary anything anywhere in the modern world will send you to jail, whose sending China to jail?

Donald Trump and your mad about it.


Many would love to see a single US official going to jail for starting wars under false premise, installing puppet regimes and ruining whole ecosystems to support business interests, from banana imports to oil and gas, and cheap clothes.


VC funding.


Groupme. Largest group messaging app used, by far. There is also a large number using Discord, but that is mostly the more nerdy/gamer kids. No one wants to use facebook, but unfortunately most of the parents use facebook so they are forced to use it by association.


This is a poor article. Props to Fortnite for having a higher percentage of female players, but the article doesn't provide any legit justification for it. An inside source providing vague information doesn't really help the legitimacy of the article.

The game isn't as much aimed as females as gender neutral. Without spending money there is a random chance that you play each match as a boy or girl, and the idea that "when you play as a girl character, guys will help you” is complete bs.

More important to the games success (and it's higher percentage of women playing) is a lower barrier to entry than other more hardcore games such as PUBG or Battlefield. The game was designed to be easy to get in to, and is available on almost all platforms. This more than anything has led to it's smashing success, not "women characters"


The sad truth is that for all that it seems to be popular here, Bloomberg is a rag and it almost always shows. They start with an agenda and work lazily backwards from that. Fortnite is f2p, and massively popular, and a lot of women play games. Therefore, a lot of women play Fortnite, but that doesn’t support their foregone conclusions or let them shit out an article.

Welcome to Bloomberg.


Eh. I don't buy the "women play games" argument. Why weren't they able to write this article about Dota 2?


They probably could've mentioned exactly that if they took into account South Korea, where gaming is much more engrained in the culture and shows less of a gender divide - but then they would have to do research and gather domain knowledge...


But they disabled the store on the streaming app. So in function it was separate.


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