I think there is limited utility to having the screen be transparent. However ...

How about darkening the back of the display with liquid crystals when up?
Then when you close the lid, you turn off the liquid crystals revealing the screen: mirror the pixels and enter the computer into tablet mode.

I think that a double-sided screen would be much more sensible than a 360 hinge, and having to flip the entire laptop around.
Of course, the keyboard would have to be made so that it is completely black whenever its backlight is off.
Personally, I would prefer a keyboard with actual keys, but...

If the lens is made of plastic then superglue would make the plastic fog up in addition to sticking to it.

This hits the nail on the head.

Microsoft made this shitty investment, and now they have to market it to people to make it seem worthwhile.

However, in reality nobody will buy a copy of Windows because it has AI.
Nobody will buy a new laptop because it has Windows 12 and a "copilot" key on the keyboard.
Nobody uses Windows because they like it, because Microsoft has seen to it that they don't by making the user experience as shitty as possible.
People use Windows because for the applications they are using, it is the only alternative, Linux is too difficult and alien, or Macintosh is too expensive.
People use Windows because it is the default installed on their machines, and they don't know about alternatives.

Any other reason is only is only in the delusions of Microsoft execs.

Microsoft is a company in the enshittification phase. But managers and investors don't see it, because Microsoft still has too much money in its bank accounts.

Unfortunately the world is not managed by logic but by greed and fear.

Too many people are going to be, .. (I'm sorry) are being laid off right now not because an AI can do it better, but because ignorant managers have been fooled to believe that AI could do it better or just that the remaining workers could do better work with the help of AI.

When AI replaces you there is no need for urinals any more.

Would it, or would it not lead to more posts about hot grits down my pants on other web sites?

There is a 73% risk of a magnitude 6.7 earthquake in the Bay Area within the next twenty years.
Right underneath San Francisco is the San Andreas Fault, which has a lower incident probability than the rest of the region but a risk of higher magnitude.
AFAIK, downtown San Francisco is one of the areas in the region most susceptible to liquefaction = the earth will turn into quicksand when the earthquake hits.

That is not anywhere where I would like to live when it happens.

I would, but land-lines aren't available in all areas. And in many places where they are, telcos are setting prices exorbitantly high to coerce people to quit.

I consider myself lucky to have relatively cheap ... IP-telephony, at home, to a "classic" phone (as much as a cordless digital DECT phone is a "classic phone"). But in many areas, you can't even get wired broadband.

The supposed inventor of Bitcoin is in the west called Satoshi Nakamoto, with the surname last.
In Japan, however, the surname is first. Nakamoto SAtoshi.

You can guess who I think the inventor is. :P

Being a triple cancer survivor, I sympathise with anyone who has got cancer, royalty or poor.
But I agree that this piece of news is not "news for nerds", and does not belong on Slashdot.

Indeed. His opinion is unimportant precisely because it is predictable. This is the man who pushed watching movies in the theatre with 3D glasses on us, so why wouldn't he endorse these 3D glasses?

The 3D craze is a large reason for why movie theatres are practically dead today. I will never forgive him for it.

Just so you know: China will invade Taiwan if Trump wins.
Because they know that Trump does not care about world politics, and that will give them free rein.

MultiView on the Amiga was a bundled program that could view any file for which there existed a "datatype".

A "datatype" was special type of a dynamically loaded shared object that could load and/or save a specific file format, providing a unified programming interface. For instance, a program only needed to support image datatypes to be able to load and store any image file format for which there existed a datatype: that is how all web browsers on the Amiga got PNG support in one swoop back in the day.

There have already been many reports of "deepfake audio" trained on social media posts used for fraud: Impersonating a relative or superior over the phone to make people send money.
People have learned to not trust text messages but they will trust a voice over the phone.

This is not a surprise to anyone for whom English is not their first language.

Just try to search information on a topic in another language and you'll find a lot of crap sites in your search results that contain badly auto-translated "content".

This has been a nuisance ever since Google Translate was introduced.