I think you must be confusing things or were told a lie. Bluetooth is a standard that is definitely not designed to be able to work like that. NFC is designed to work with thin tags that don’t have a battery. Essentially they get power wirelessly from your phone in order to be able to send information. But, due to the inverse square law, you would need extreme amounts of power to be able to do that over a long range, so it just isn’t something that could work with mobile phones.

We accepted control at expense of convenience

I would have thought it would be more accurate to say we accepted convenience at the expense of privacy and security…

I’m confused… There’s an Android Auto WiFi that’s available while you’re driving around?

Have you tried being less of a prick about it?

Hmm, OK. Guess I’ll probably have to switch soon then

RiMusic is still working fine for me

People gotta earn money to survive, I don’t blame the employees for this. And this is not just a case of Meta’s privacy being bad. This is close government involvement with potentially serious impacts and implications across all US based platforms.

Discord is great (ignoring privacy concerns) for playing games and chatting with some friends. But, it’s crazy that so many people seem to think it’s good for more public information sharing and support.

Well there wouldn’t be much point to the Great Chinese Firewall if lots of uncontrolled information was flowing in and out through social media.

I could understand that. But, with a bit more context from the article (that I should have included), it’s talking about the criminals that are targeting specific individual children to assault them.

When a parent is anxious about the child enough to install a bloody tracking app. The parents is giving the data about the child to the criminals.

That sounds unlikely and more paranoid than the parents who would install those apps… How many criminals are going to data brokers to track their child targets?

I think it’s in the pipeline. AMD has bought Xilinx, which builds FPGAs and already had some AI specific cores in their processors. I believe they’re developing that further and integrating it in their GPUs now.