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Police said they thought Clark had a gun when they shot him seven times. He was holding a cellphone.

The white woman whose accusations prompted the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till talks in a memoir about getting preferential treatment from Mississippi authorities after the killing.

In a press release, Acura teased a photo and video of its electric concept car, and it has plans to follow in Honda’s overall plan to go electric.

Facebook and Apple have been at odds for several years now; Apple announced back at WWDC 2020 that iOS would require apps to ask users to opt-in to cross-app advertising tracking. Facebook spent much of the next months speaking out against Apple’s plans and predicting revenue instability due to the upcoming changes, but the feature was released in iOS 14.5 back in April of 2021. Somewhat surprisingly, though, a new report from The Wall Street Journal claims that before this all went down, Facebook and Apple were working on a partnership and revenue-sharing agreement.

According to the Journal, Apple and Facebook were considering a a subscription service that would offer an ad-free version of the platform. And since Apple takes a cut of in-app purchases, including subscriptions, it could have been a very lucrative arrangement indeed. 

Another arrangement that was discussed and ended up being a point of contention was Apple taking a cut of “boosted posts,” which essentially amounts to paying to put a post in front of a larger audience. Facebook has long considered boosted posts part of its advertising portfolio; as the Journal notes, small businesses often use boosted posts to reach more people. The issue came down to Apple saying boosts should be considered in-app purchases, which would be subject to the 30 percent revenue cut that the company takes. Facebook, on the other hand, maintained that those were advertising products which aren’t subject to Apple’s cut.

Since rolling out its user-tracking changes in 2021, research firm Insider Intelligence claims that 37 percent of iPhone users have opted in to letting companies track their activity across apps. Since the change went into effect, Facebook (now Meta) has seen its revenue growth shrink significantly — and last quarter, Meta reported the first revenue decline in the company’s history. 

As these discussions reportedly took place between 2016 and 2018, we’re a long way off from these talks. Apple is doing its best to position itself as a defender of privacy, and Meta… well, Meta is busy trying to make the Metaverse a thing. But for now at least, advertising is the only notable way Meta makes revenue, so the company will have to continue to adjust to a world in which iOS app tracking protection is a thing that most users take advantage of.

To the surprise of many, Xiaomi showed its CyberOne humanoid robot (official page), a 5.8 feet tall (115 Lbs) robot that can move autonomously and recognize human emotions and surrounding sounds it hears.

The OLED face would allow CyberOne to express emotions and inform users about its status. By the way, did you notice the resemblance with the Tesla Bot? Xiaomi’s CyberDog looks cooler in my opinion.

Xiaomi’s CEO Lei Jun made the robot come onto the scene for a quick selfie. CyberOne’s walking is rigid, timid, and nowhere near as fast as Boston Robotics’ robots. But, there’s admittedly not a lot of competition out there.

I was both nervous and thrilled to interact with him on stage. What did you think of his performance tonight? #CyberOne pic.twitter.com/Je1eXDYEGR

— leijun (@leijun) August 11, 2022

With today’s estimated price of around $100,000, CyberOne will not be mass-produced anytime soon, but we think it can serve as a good experimentation platform for Xiaomi.

We’ve seen extraordinary progress in the industrial robotics space in the past few years, with robots using artificial intelligence (AI) to learn goal-based skills instead of mimicking pre-recorded motions.

These robots can workaround unforeseen problems such as going around unexpected objects that should not be on the assembly line.

Conceptually all this work around robots, including the extraordinary tech from Boston Robotics, could someday take the form of a domestic helper robot. However, we’re still far from that.

Xiaomi CyberOne Humanoid Robot

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