I remember people right here on Gizmodo swearing that Bitcoin would replace “fiat” currencies one day. Hilarious.

Cool.

You’ve clearly never had a conversation with an amnesiac.

There’s a small step between predicting and causing. I’m saying Skynet is coming.

I used to live in a house with a “fallout shelter.” It was an empty concrete box in the ground about the size of a U-Haul truck accessible by a rickety latter and with one light bulb socket in the ceiling. It was covered by a wooden trapdoor because that will really keep the radiation out. On the other hand, this was…

This really pisses me off. I create very short videos. 30 seconds or less. Many under 15. I have 2500 subscribers, but with videos that short, I could never make it to 4000 hours a year.

Can I just add that the music was really good?

I agree. There’s nothing wrong with porn.

I call Kaku ‘science whore’ for that very reason.

You haven’t convinced me of the ubiquitousness. Absolutely all of those items can be purchased as non-’smart’ items and there are far more options there. Until there is a product- a microwave, a fridge, whatever where the majority of options have digital assistants, even though that will always cost more than making…

If those phones don’t have backdoors built into them, China is a lot stupider than I thought.

Why CW gotta keep a brother down?

Just wait till Minidisc makes a comeback!

8-Tracks had higher sound quality than cassettes.

Werner Heisenberg was stopped by a police officer.

The announcement post also links to some developer documents that offer up examples for commands that include “Alexa, microwave the popcorn” and “Alexa, cook the pizza in the microwave.”

Sorry about your sense of humor!

Durn city dwellers with yer city water... We don’t drink your big city water round here, boy!

I can’t say I’m not a little disappointed that he didn’t sign off with, “fuckity bye then!”