The thing is, and this is true of nearly everything Musk has his name on, what is being demoed here is a technical achievement, but that achievement is being overshadowed by misdirection and outright lies. Making a robotic humanoid with the dexterity to perform tasks such as folding clothes is difficult, and for it to…

I usually think “ok so it’s someone who knows about <insert industry> and their spouse”

Having to manually and tediously scrub to each ad and then watch like 10 straight minutes of marketing just to be able to watch content without constant interruptions isn’t exactly a mark in streaming services’ favor. 

Isn’t the benefit of Matter supposed to be that when you purchase a new device you don’t have to worry about compatibility? Maybe it’s just me but the fact that the author doesn’t feel the need to upgrade her already-compatible devices to the new spec seems both obvious and missing the point. This new system seems…

I can’t possibly imagine how they would enforce this. They have a hard enough time regulating guns themselves; 3d printers are so ubiquitous it just doesn’t seem feasible. What about schools, libraries, and makerspaces? Would everyone who attends one of those places also be required to undergo a background check? If a…

That’s how I felt about Twitter. Except there it was weaponized ADHD combined with just constant anxiety and people arguing. At least on TikTok it’s just dumb comedy sketches and bullshit like this.

Ok but the thing is, this does work. TikTok is full of accounts that just do this—post entire movies and shows in small increments—and they get views. And then those same videos get duetted by other accounts that just smash two videos together (i.e. a comedian delivering a joke and someone making slime) and those get…

But the case does everything I need: it protects Apple’s review unit while I have it on loan, it offers access to the volume rocker, Action Button, and power button, and it works with MagSafe accessories.

I’m not sure 10,000lbs driverless vehicles without a track is just an economic concern. Frankly, I’d be a bit worried driving next to one on the highway...

No corporation cares about anything except profits. That’s why we keep needing legal intervention to prevent companies from taking advantage of their customers, running monopolies, abusing their workers, etc. 

Oh, I fully realize that Tesla is not alone in this. Hell, auto manufacturers aren’t alone in it. This is a problem in many industries, and cars are just the latest egregious example.

I feel like it should maybe be illegal for features that are present in a product you buy to be artificially restricted. Like, if not paying for heated seats or whatever meant they put cheaper seats in the car, that’s one thing. But to have all of the hardware and software necessary already in place and just a little…

That technology has now been identified as commercially available in the U.S., with some of the technology readily available online, officials told the Wall Street Journal. The gear found in the debris supported the government’s belief that the balloon was intended to spy on the U.S. and contradicted China’s claims…

The trouble with these kinds of laws is that they encourage a lack of parental oversight. We’ve seen the same thing with underage drinking laws: kids still drink, but now they hide it from adults because it’s illegal. And parents, who might otherwise be okay with it and willing to be present to ensure they’re doing so…

“Capture information from the ground” does not necessarily mean “capture information of the ground”—it could well mean “capture information and send it to a base station on the ground” which is pretty normal behavior for any scientific equipment. And that’s not to mention the fact that weather balloons carrying…

Sure but the presence of a transmitter doesn’t inherently point to spycraft over weather data gathering.

Can someone please help me understand how “the balloon contains commercially-available transmission technology” supports the government’s claim that it was used to spy on the U.S.? Wouldn’t a weather balloon also be capable of data transmission and be more likely to contain off-the-shelf components?

Given that Hailee Steinfeld is already a character in the MCU (Kate Bishop in the Hawkeye series and likely a future Young Avengers movie) that seems unlikely, even if they do portray live-action versions of the characters at some point.

Apple’s headset is not the first one to solve this problem. The exact same methods Apple uses have been used in plenty of other--far cheaper--headsets. Theirs is just shinier.

I hate all of this “better be careful or Skynet will get us” crap. All it is is a convenient excuse for AI companies to misdirect public attention from the actual issues their products can cause. As long as their AI doesn’t gain sentience and drop nukes on us, they can say they’ve done their jobs. But the real threats…