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Great Britain and other countries are pushing back against the U.S. demands to boycott Huawei.

Huawei has something useful the world wants and we don't have a suitable substitute - we do have Facebook, Twitter, and the lead in making Apps so there is at least that....

https://notthebee.com/article/scientists-turn-dead-spiders-into-zombie-robots-as-if-we-dont-have-enough-problems

Spiders, zombies, and robots: pick any of the three, and you've got yourself the makings of a pretty decent horror flick. Combine them together, and you've got a real life experiment out of Rice's George R. Brown School of Engineering.

According to a university press release, engineering students have created necrobotic (zombie robot) spiders from spider corpses. ...

Assistant Professor Daniel Preston who supervised the team said,

"There are a lot of pick-and-place tasks we could look into, repetitive tasks like sorting or moving objects around at these small scales, and maybe even things like assembly of microelectronics."

Spiders are renewable and biodegradable after all; never mind the pounds of machinery in that video used to reanimate one.

Still, it seems fitting to imagine a future where an army of dead robotic spiders builds the technology that entangles us in the world wide web and slowly sucks our life away.

Just more pipe dreams. Try reading about that futuristic city that is going to piss away the Saudi oil fortune. These people are beyond deluded.

anonymous says

Huawei has something useful the world wants and we don't have a suitable substitute - we do have Facebook, Twitter, and the lead in making Apps so there is at least that....

The big deal about Hauwai, as far as I can tell, is they were the first with 5G.

You might be thinking "what's the big deal about 5G?" - NOTHING for the consumer. You can download a film faster now, but you already have real time playback. But what's in it for the service provider?

When you are on the network receiving data, you are the ONLY person in the cell receiving the data. Cells are geographical locations connected to a single transmitting/receiver tower. When you are accessing that antenna, you're the ONLY person in the entire area accessing it although you might be sharing it with 100 other people at the same time, even 1000 other people. Cells CAN overlap, but you can ignore that, mostly they don't except on the fringes.

You are on what is called TDMA - Time Division Multiplex Addressing. You get a slot where you have permission to send or receive data, and when you get this slot, you're the only one that does. When you're transmitting a little piece of data, NOBODY else is, that's true for voice or anything. When you are "talking on your phone" you're actually having your voice recorded for a short period of time, having that digitized and compressed and then that data is sent - there's a delay between the time you say something and by the time the person you're talking to hears it, but it's so short they rarely notice it.

Now what if you increase the speed of transmission so it's 10x the old speed? Well you can have 10 x the number of people using the same cell, or you can reduce the number of cells to 1/10th the size. This reduces maintenance costs and upkeep, and increases profit.

The "problem" is the Huawei came up with a workable stable solution for 5G first so some bullshit had to be made up to keep them out of the market. It has nothing to do with spying or any of that bullshit. It was to protect American corporations from competition. If Huawei was doing spying, we could detect it by their data transmission, we can even block it quite easily. The problem is that US and European companies couldn't compete.

And really, they don't need to. We are at the goddamned point where you can see a 1080p film (that's movie theater quality) on your phone. It's just cost reduction now, there's nothing to be added for the consumer.