Conspicuously missing from the specs is any mention of Apple Pencil support. I can understand maybe not integrating a way to charge it so forcing you to use the USB-C version but touchscreens look like crap with fingerprints smudges so Pencil support would go a long way. Considering I have both a MBP and an iPad and I have to clean the iPad's screen daily... this seems like a gap.

I think of license plate readers like I think of all the new "features" from Apple or Google. The idea behind an LPR is they're only catching criminals, solving crimes, or giving you a fix-it ticket for your expired registration. The idea is "if you aren't doing anything wrong you have nothing to fear". Apple (and others) do similar... they add all these features for location tracking, family sharing, etc. But they only work if you're on the up and up. Imaging the guy that's cheating on his wife. If he has Location Services enabled and Find My sharing then he's going to get caught. If he turns them off, it raises questions and doubts. Or what about the guy that's buying something from his dealer? Or sometimes its even the innocent thing where he's buying jewelry for his wife but she sees him at the jewelry store. All these "features" work off the assumption that you're not up to no good... that you aren't buying weed in a state where its still illegal... not cheating on your wife... not driving with your tailgate down cause your tags are expired cause you lost your job... not at the bar when you said you were at the AA meeting.

Our local county just announced they are doing away with stickers for registration. They're touting the cost savings of not printing, mailing, etc. They're also touting that they no longer need to deal with stolen tags (well stickers anyway... a plate can still be stolen). But this is only possible due to the fact that they have hundreds of plate readers throughout the county and they've spent millions to add LPRs to every county and city police vehicle.

This is why I have a custom plate. Granted it says FDPOLES which I explained means "Fire Dept poles" and they approved it :P

Occasionally I would get my truck behind a Smart car and joke that if I rear-ended them they would just roll right up onto my hood and roof and down into the bed of my truck. I know its not really funny in actuality but my sense of humor is jaded. That said, this is exactly why I have a truck... if I'm going to be in an accident, I want to be on the living side of the damage.

So I don't read romance novels... but I know enough to know that you can't just do a word-for-word translation in many cases. Granted both Google's and Apple's real time translation apps are pretty good. But even they make mistakes when doing literal translations vs what is meant in context. So unless they plan to keep a few people around to proof-read the translations and provide contextual translation updates, I see this being prone to challenges... the kind of challenges where people read them and quote it online to show either how wrong it is or how the true meaning is lost. Compared to coding which is much more binary (yes, pun intended), human emotion... especially which I assume would be heavy in the romance section... isn't always perfectly translatable by what are still mostly binary-thinking AI agents. Also, worth a mention that "romance" wording often times uses words that have multiple meanings and/or are plays on words. Even "foul" language words have different meanings in context (anyone remember the gravelly voiced guy discussing all the various uses of the word f**k). A simple word like "steamy" can be used in multiple ways in English alone and then they have to transliterate that to another language. They'd be better off using AI to translate encyclopedias... if we still used them.

My overall thought is this is going to be more for kids that actually play with Lego's than for adults who tend to build and collect them and put on shelves for viewing. My 5 year old would love something like this for his Lego T-rex or his Technic Grave Digger, but as an adult I doubt I'd care for this as a general rule. An exception may be something like the Soundwave Transformer (imagine sounds as the cassettes eject and transform), but still... even on my shelf I'm unlikely to have it make any more sound than it already can. Personally, I would've preferred a more native lighting solution such as many 3rd parties sell but without all the wiring... (I know, next to impossible with today's wireless options). But still, would look great in the Tron Lightbike or similar. Will be interesting to see if Lego understands this as well and targets the kids models vs the UCS ones, etc.

"This also raises the question of whether we should adjust our diets in some way, or how we grow or produce our food." If we truly believe in evolution, survival of the fittest, etc then we really shouldn't need to do anything. We will continue to evolve even as our sources of food change.

Granted, keeping RC4 around has led to many "wrecked" systems and environments, but pretty sure it "wreaked decades of havoc"... not "wrecked" decades of havoc. Or are we trying to be funny with words ala Reek from Game of Thrones?

"I've reduced it from 9,000 head to about 5,000 because I need less heads," Benioff said... maybe he could use some AI to help with his grammar since he now needs "fewer" heads...

Would be better to headline as "Apple Denies Blocking 'Fortnite' From EU Stores in epic Epic Dispute"

”chief editor of Driving Vision News” such a narrow scope of subject material I mean how many articles can you write about vision while driving that you need a chief editor?

So basically The Purge... those with money can get next level security... just don't open your doors for anyone... not someone injured or a hot girl. Oh, and don't run up the stairs either...

This isn't all that much different than what happens with Safari and Chrome on IOS. At present, all IOS browsers are Webkit based so if you have tabs open in Chrome on IOS or iPad OS... through Continuity on your Mac you can have them show up in the Dock to view on your Mac the same as if they were open in Safari on IOS or iPad OS. Honestly this freaked me out the first time it happened but once I realized why it made sense. With Edge and Chrome, they're all based on Chromium so makes sense you could have a "similar" experience. Edge is really just Chrome at the core but with MS "extensions".