It has some useful functionality with parameter controls. If you want to know the weather somewhere other than where you are right now, you can just say, “what’s the weather in Tulsa”, rather than opening your weather app and searching for Tulsa. If your listening to a podcast on a Google Home, or playing video…

I have three alternate theories, in order from most to least likely:

It’s a slightly more human way to interact with technology. You just say the questions you have, or the things you want your “assistant” to do, rather fumble around for you phone and thumb away at a screen.

Oh, good. My local McDonald’s kitchen staff already implodes in panic if more than five people place orders within a few minutes of one another, so they’ll definitely have no problem handling the extra complexity of working with fresh meat.

The special effects and production quality are absurd, for a Netflix reboot of a campy TV show memorable mostly for its laughably bad effects, and for its memorably awful Matt LeBlanc-featuring movie reboot. The preview clips could easily pass for scenes from a Christopher Nolan movie.

How is it possible we didn’t uppercase “Jet Ski” when the AV Club tweeted, 5 minutes after this article was posted, that Jet Ski should be uppercased?

I love this as a recurring feature (if that’s what it is) because I can’t get enough kitten (not a euphemism), but am torn by how fucked up the economies of the Internet are that this has equivalent (if not superior) economic value as, e.g., thoughtful critical analysis from an experienced and eloquent movie critic…

“Whoa”, was my Keanu-esque reaction when I first saw news of this yesterday, as literally just the day before, I was reminiscing about how incredibly cool I thought that phone was, and contemplating whether I’d still think it was cool, now. [If it helps prove I’m not making it up, the genesis for the flashback was a…

Either Johnny Walker paid someone for that shameless plug, or they didn’t. I’m not sure which I’d find more offensive.

Rush Hour was a great movie, but I think Tucker and Chan have gotten too old for this shit.

You’re quite right. I remembered the scene with Pike and the ship’s doctor, and in my head it was with McCoy. I was remembering incorrectly.

The irony is that last week Zack critiqued (rightly, I thought) that this show hadn’t justified where it sat in the timeline. It imposed the limitations of a prequel on itself, without doing anything with it. Now, finally, the show is setting itself up to do something that is only possible because of where it sits on…

He also had a great multi-episode guest spot in Silicon Valley, which was the first time I’d seen him in at least a decade.

They’re both obscured by beards, I can’t tell!

Seriously? There are ordinary fans who had nothing to do with making the original trilogy that go fucking ballistic over choices made in the new movies. Yet the guy who CREATED the universe and made the original trilogy isn’t allowed to be “pissy”? He just has to take his money (which, by your own assertion, really…

SG-1 is such an awesome show. That was my first box set, back in the days before streaming. I didn’t have much spare money, and spent basically all my disposable income in high school on box sets. I caught up with the seasons as they were newly airing around season 6. Then streaming became a thing, and my DVDs are…

Torrent binges (Kazaa for me, more precisely) were hard in the early days, because each episode took so damn long to download that you couldn’t exactly go back-to-back. But I remember watching a ton of Star Trek: Voyager that way. It was totally out of order because the episode selection was wickedly random. You’d add…

I had a really hard time remembering this, but I think it was one of either Firefly or Breaking Bad. I also watched Sense8 and Narcos early after their releases, and definitely binged those. I never got into OINTB or House of Cards.

“He’s literally phoning it in” — I was wondering why in the preview clips, they cut away from Dakota Johnson to a still image publicity shot of Jamie Dornan, and Dornan is a CNN foreign correspondent instead of a billionaire, and Dakota Johnson is Wolf Blitzer. I was puzzled about that.

This is fun.