Police say they arrived to find a Tesla in a catastrophic pole position and on fire, with two being burned to death inside.
Officers responded to the intersection of Highway 92 and Springfield Drive at 10:45 p.m. to a reported crash.
When they arrived at the scene, officers found a Tesla sedan had crashed and was on fire with two people inside.
Both the driver and passenger died at the scene.
The ban of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 goes into effect now, and only in America, based on an International Trade Commission (ITC) determination.
The ITC issued the ban after finding that Apple infringed on blood oxygen saturation technology patented by a company called Masimo. It also ordered Apple to stop selling any previously-imported devices with the infringed-upon tech.
Both companies are headquartered in California. Apparently the dispute is directly related to more than 20 engineers targeted and poached by Apple from Masimo to recreate patented technology without paying for the rights.
“This is not an accidental infringement — this is a deliberate taking of our intellectual property,” he continued, accusing Apple of hiring more than 20 engineers from his company. “I am glad the world can now see we are the true inventors and creators of these technologies.”
More specifically, this complaint sounds very familiar for anyone who has ever worked in Silicon Valley high-tech.
The company said it met with Apple about integrating its technology into Apple products in 2013, and that Apple later hired away several of its employees.
Apple for its part has complained to the Patent and Trademark Office to have Masimo’s patent rights invalidated, and also counter-sued claiming that the Masimo smart health watches are an infringement on Apple’s late entry into the smart watch market.
I can understand why Masimo is expressing dissatisfaction about its engineers being invited to discuss matters with Apple in 2013 and then hired away. It likely stems from the fact that a particular Sony smartwatch had gained significant attention in 2012.
Notably, the initial Apple Watch being designed at this time bore a very striking resemblance to the earlier Sony watch. This kind of detail holds significance in the dispute, suggesting that Apple may have been closely observing and potentially sourcing innovations from others including Sony and Masimo.
For those unfamiliar with what the $150 2012 Sony Xperia SmartWatch actually looked like (an upgrade of the 2010 Sony LiveView Watch, which likely first got Apple thinking), here’s an image to jog your memory.
From that view, here’s what an Apple watch looked like basically two years later, during the time Masimo was summoned by Apple to reveal their sensor technology.
Fun Silicon Valley insider fact: way back in 2010 I warned clearly how an Apple lag in innovation was a little under two years, such that I found them shamelessly representing Japanese technology as their own ideas.
The Panasonic W5 was released September 12, 2006 while the Apple MacBook Air was announced on January 15, 2008. The W5, although nearly two years earlier, came with numerous advantages over the Air.
By Joelle Taylor — 2021 winner of the most valuable British prize in poetry — a poem performed (432 views) from her 2011 book Ska Tissue.
And here’s where she explains her preference for spoken performance versus written format, how she “didn’t submit to magazines, we submitted to audiences”.
When slam became popular it was colonised. The middle classes flocked to it as a way of shortcutting their careers – win a title, win a career. They had completely overlooked that slam was never about the winner, but about the elevation of distinct diverse voices, and their relationship to the audience. It was a community event, a bridge between ideas and audience. It was political at its core, allowing stories of poverty, racism, sexism, exclusion, and the language of the streets to flourish. To connect. And its popularity depended on this. But when the middle classes, clutching their tidy notebooks and tidy mouths, invaded, they needed to change the content expectation of the events; they could not after all speak from their own experiences and have a chance of winning. And so, the project to belittle working-class poetry began again. They called the poems ‘confessional’, they called them ‘hysterical’, they called the poetry ‘trauma for points’. They criticised the rough vocabulary, the directness of the pieces offered. They policed language and vocabulary and content. They patrolled our mouths. And it worked. It always does.
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But it is vital that we value these nights, these beginnings of poems. Spoken word is the last free art – in no other art form is there an equivalent to the open mic, for example. Imagine an opera preceded by locals trying out vocals rehearsed in their bedsits. It is rare in other art forms for participants to elevate to the feature within a few months of beginning. It is a community of exiles building not just a platform and a following, but a home.
I’m reminded of the Clash belting into microphones.
In a war-torn swamp stop any mercenary
And check the British bullets in his armoury
Dare I also mention here the fifth subject of Plato’s Phaedrus was “superiority of the spoken over the written word”?
Related news is that poets today need independent publication paths, a modern digital printing press, yet the privatization and over centralization of the web threatens their freedom. The subtext here is not good:
Poetry sales boom as Instagram and Facebook take work to new audiences
Which reminds me of the story of poetry.org, founded in 1995 to make poetry accessible online from everyone to everyone, only to be sued by an aggressive bank executive (Utility Industry M&A — Enron) who claimed he had a trademark on the word “poetry” and thus an entirely cornered market.
Remember 2016? Remember the outrage from a Daily Beast dossier on the Trump’s egregious plagiarism? Let’s recount.
Oh how the times fly.
…at least 20 pages of the Trump Institute textbooks were lifted in near-entirety from a book in the “Real Estate Mastery System,” a 1995 series completely unaffiliated with Trump.
Lazy incompetence was not hard to see.
On its Idaho webpage, the campaign copied and pasted local radio station KBSX’s 2012 article on election law, removing the author’s name and renaming the story “REQUIREMENTS TO VOTE FOR TRUMP.”
Not only had the article been plagiarized, it was also advertised out-of-date voter information.
“Clearly we were not contacted by the Trump campaign for permission to use old content from our website,” Peter Morrill, KBSX’s general manager said…
It’s like the Trump really thinks he can steal without accountability.
On Nov 11, 2012, six days after President Obama won re-election, Trump filed to trademark the now-infamous campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.” But “Make America Great Again” was a famous slogan in Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign, “employed prominently in everything from buttons to posters to his acceptance speech at the Republican convention.”
The Trump fraudulently claimed that he alone in 2012 invented the phrase that Ronald Reagan had very loudly used in a presidential campaign on the 1980 GOP main stage:
…a great national crusade to make America great again.
It’s right there, obvious for everyone to see why and how the Trump stole from others.
Moving on, the heart of the problem perhaps is related to thirst for illegitimate power. Stealing is a symptom of unfair competition practiced among Americans known to embrace hate.
…perhaps Trump’s most flagrant cases of copy-paste appear on Twitter, where he often copies text and images, sometimes from users with names like “WhiteGenocideTM. …[and those] celebrating the death of a noted Holocaust survivor.
The conclusive remark on Trump’s plagiarism should have unequivocally been “America First.” Historically, this phrase carries a toxic and racist connotation, tracing back to the “nativist” anti-immigrant politics of the late 1800s. It’s crucial to remember that President Woodrow Wilson revived the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in 1915, adopting the racist slogan “America First.” However, contemporary perceptions often link this slogan only to Hitler posing a genocidal global threat, unfortunately overlooking more than 100 years of racist violent domestic terrorist groups in America continuously using the phrase to express hate.
“America First will be the major and overriding theme of my administration,” Trump announced in a foreign policy speech. Unfortunately, “America First” was already claimed in the 1940s, by an American nationalist movement, which—among anti-semitic and isolationist campaigns—encouraged the country to do business with Hitler.
The Trump calling himself America First thus wasn’t trying to hide the hate, but he of course eliminated attribution. There is no evidence he didn’t mean to continue the absolute most racist things by stealing the KKK phrase, while pretending the words were his. He may as well have been brazenly copying Hitler speeches and claiming them to be his own.
In other words, Trump’s response when criticized for using Hitler’s language was to acknowledge the criticism and then to use it again.
This plagiarist guy. He literally stole from Reagan, KKK, and Hitler. Could he be any more racist?
He goes around saying what Hitler said, while trying to take credit for it as if he’s the first guy to ever think up Nazism.
Hitler said what? Mein who?
…it was my friend Marty Davis from Paramount who gave me a copy of ‘Mein Kampf,’ and he’s a Jew,” Trump told Brenner. Brenner then asked Marty Davis whether he gave Trump a copy of the book. “I did give him a book about Hitler,’ Davis told her. “But it was ‘My New Order,’ Hitler’s speeches, not ‘Mein Kampf.’ I thought he would find it interesting. … but I’m not Jewish.”
Hitler not Hitler. Order not Order. Jewish not Jewish. Whatever, truth seems irrelevant to the Trump as he insults and attacks Americans with his piles of lies, let alone “art of the steal” habits of corrupt plunder.
…stealing ancient Israeli artifacts isn’t surprising. Trump all but ransacked the White House on his way out of office, most notably absconding with hundreds of classified documents.
Is there any limit to the audacity? Perhaps the next will be Trump asserting ownership of a supposedly newly invented holiday by him, called Hanukkah, demanding payment from anyone who celebrates. The blatant and disgraceful abuse of public office, coupled with a history of shameless plagiarism as evident in repeated unapologetic copying, makes one wonder if his anti-American sentiments should ever be unexpected.
[The Trump’s 2017] statement, released about 34 minutes after Exxon put out its announcement, copied a full paragraph from Exxon’s statement… Trump heavily complimented Exxon, which was most recently run by his appointment to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson…
If there was genuine concern about high-profile plagiarism, as extensively documented by the Daily Beast in their report, the Trump always should have been a primary focus of scrutiny. It seems inconceivable that someone with such a history of lies, cheats and theft could have met qualifications to compete for any public or private office.