Many are suspecting the ban on sulphur additives in maritime shipping fuel is a major contributor to this trend. We're reducing SO2 which is great, but apparently it was helping reduce warming. Now without it we're witnessing where we're actually at. We're pretty fucked.
When you're defending patents you have to demonstrate you're developing your own products or licensing them and so you can sue for damages. At this price point this "prototype" is just a loophole so they can extort Apple.
I guess this is better than nothing, but what happens if you take a photo of a generated photo? There are setups where the result will be impossible to tell that it's a photo of a photo, and then you can have the camera digitally sign the fake photo as real.
Source on previous offers from Hamas?