Interesting Links for 04-08-2021

[andrewducker]

Carbon neutral cement - by extracting lime from seawater

(tags:co2 cement materials )

Middle Pleistocene fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution

(tags:fire prehistory society )

Apple holds out in adopting next-generation RCS texting standard

(tags:apple communication Technology )

Why X-rated masterpiece The Devils is still being censored

(tags:censorship movies UK USA history )

The UK's safety checks will not be recognised by the EU from 2022 (or vice versa). Manufacturers are not ready.

(tags:safety uk europe regulation doom )

Neil Gaiman catapulted into Chinese bestsellers charts after recommendation by wuxia star

(tags:publishing China neilgaiman )

The delightful friendship of the two men who shared gold for the Olympic high jump

Google will kill off very old versions of Android next month

(tags:Android obsolescence security )

Taika Waititi's Flash Gordon Film Is Apparently Live-Action Now

(tags:movies scifi )

We're More Willing To Engage With Sexists If We Think They Are Intelligent

(tags:sexism Intelligence )

Fast, Efficient Neural Networks Copy Dragonfly Brains

(tags:insects ai )

DOJ repatriates looted "Dream of Gilgamesh" tablet, other artifacts to Iraq

(tags:iraq archeology usa )

Comments

[armiphlage]

European and North American standards are deliberately made identical whenever possible (example: EN 62368-1 and IEC 62368-1), so designers don't have to make country-specific models. The British Standards Institute's BS 62368-1 seems to be the same, so all good there - no need to redesign anything (yet).

When I am making a commercial product in a factory for sale in the EU and in North America, I currently get periodic on-site audits by (for example) Underwriter's Laboratories (for North American safety certifications) and by TUV (for EU safety certifications). Unless the UK recognizes audits by EU agencies such as TUV, I'm also going to have to have regular on-site audits by a UK agency such as BSI.

Those on-site audits aren't free. If I'm making a low-margin or low-volume item, the incremental cost of audits could exceed the profits from my sales to the UK. So I wouldn't bother getting BSI to sign off, and wouldn't sell to the UK.

[andrewducker]

Yup, that seems like a likely end-point.

[dewline]

*winces in empathy at some of the implications*

The Android Versions Question

[dewline]

Well, that's going to be a pain for a number of us, right?

Re: The Android Versions Question

[andrewducker]

A little under 0.2% of the global users, yes.