After reading the journal article, I'm thinking that this is a remnant of mimicry.
As a mild sufferer of misophonia, I do have the annoying habit of aping things as well - almost completely reflexive.
So, it's not like avoiding sounds, but the brains wiring of repeating them.
I also don't remember being so adversely affected when I was young, but it's gotten worse as I age.
So - the next study should be to look at the wiring of infants. My thesis is that everyone gas this mimicry wiring and then most grow out of it.

I was at first committed to Google. Then came SmartThings and all of the cool things you can do. Brought home an Alexa Show and it quickly and effortlessly integrated into all the SmartThings and Ring (of course) devices. Now more Alexa devices are popping up around my house instead of google homes.

For whole house audio sync, though, chromecast is still winning.

STIR / SHAKEN are protocols to lessen caller ID spoofing. Scammers need the anonymity of bogus caller IDs.
Agreed that there are other methods of scamming, and am also frustrated that the US doesn't take a more aggressive stance.
Jim Browning's videos from the scammers security system are fantastically informative.

The US Government passed TRACED Act into law last January.
The timeline is about 18 months - but I'm sure implementation will be delayed and telemarketers will find a brand new way to annoy us all.

While a large majority of the folks who I chat with are from India, lately I've been getting more people from Thailand / Indonesia. The accent is about the same. The biggest difference is that they don't get mad if you call them Pakistani.

The TRACED Act, signed into law last January, compels phone companies to implement the STIR/SHAKEN protocol, with increased fines for abusers, generally does as you suggest.
The timeline is about 18 months - but I'm sure implementation will be delayed and telemarketers will find a brand new way to annoy us all.

I could be wrong, but I believe that DI Guy was sold online by Boston Dynamics (before DI Guy was sold off to MAK).

While the original Tron was before the Tron game, and the Tron game was short lived, the second Tron Movie should count, and it did $172,062,763 domestically.

Anyway, Warcraft, while it didn't do well domestically, still tops worldwide at $439m.

In addition to pulling down articles from fairly large sites, the bots also prevented users from logging into those other sites with their Facebook credentials.

I would presume that those here would understand what happened (bots trained poorly and overreacting), but the Facebook community (people trained poorly and overreacting) sees an article being pulled down and flagged as spam as authoritative and thus fake news.

Months ago, I started getting hammered by robocalls. Eventually, I answered one and they said they wanted to know if I needed supplemental medicare insurance. I said no. But they kept calling, so I made up a fictitious name (Scott, but call me Scotty), a birthday (I'm now 74 years old), and address (I live out west). They'd spend a long time getting these details and then ask if I wanted to talk to someone about this insurance and I would say "no." And they'd get mad and hang up.
But they'd call back. And call me Scotty. The hard part was that they'd ask me to verify my birthday. But I'm old and claimed I didn't hear them. They'd eventually get to the final question: Can someone call me and talk to me about insurance and I'd say no. This went on for weeks.
But then it stopped. And SelectQuote Senior / Tiburon (877 820 1718) and United Medicare Advisors (866 282 5797) started calling my number (which is on the do not call list) and asking for Scotty.
I told each of them that the only way they got my number was from this foreign company that keeps calling. One lady felt bad about it. The other said it was my fault for having a phone number out on the web somewhere, and they help 500,000 people so it's a good system.
I am now going to claim my $500 per call (each called my 4 times).

I use AWS day in / day out and love a lot of it. But JEDI is more than just the Cloud - enterprise software, hardened (real) computers, etc. This is stuff that AWS doesn't do by itself.

Ironically, the guide itself is very irresponsible. Obviously written by a 50+ year old ex-hippie.

In their "Timeline," they advocate for those that campaigned for the release of "computer programmer Clark Squire." Clark Squire, aka Sundiata Acoli, was convicted of a 1973 murder of a state trooper. Incomprehensible that they draw out this example in their brief timeline.
They, of course, are anti-Military and anti-ICE, applauding those that deleted code they had written in protest. A responsible article would have couched the decision to support the Military or ICE as something to consider, not bad at the outset.
They come to the incorrect conclusion about bias in the Northpointe/COMPAS parole algorithm. It's not human biases that are programed into the software, it's statistics. Specifically, the study says "The authors found that the average risk score for black offenders was higher than for white offenders, but that concluded the differences were not attributable to bias."
Then, they offer advice - "nonprofit or government actors researching AI...are worth exploring" and small companies "are more likely to be in a financial crunch and possibly resistant to making decisions for ethical reasons."

Worth the read to see how old hippies think.

The setup doesn't take "1 trillion frames per second of an object," it takes "up to 350 frames captured at (a rate) up to 1 trillion frames per second."

The setup is awesome, but as you suggest, much of the work is in the reconstruction - fitting curves to each bit in each frame. At the end of the paper, it says "72 pixels × 512 pixels × 350 pixels took about 15 min for 50 iterations" on an "Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 CPU (48 cores at 2.3 GHz) and 256-gigabyte random-access memory."

The JEDI contract was very broad and did contain services outside of Azure and AWS. Specifically office tools and edge devices. If the competition was solely compute and object store, AWS would have won. But in this new environment, the government wants to outsource as much IT as they can, and expanded JEDI to include related things.

I love AWS. It's great for a lot of things. However, for the purposes of the JEDI program, Microsoft is the correct choice. Enterprise IT, hardened edge devices, office tools all point to Microsoft as the better choice. Yes, AWS could have done it. But if AWS would have won, it would have taken a bit longer.