It would drastically affect most of Northern Europe, also the Eastern US. But Iceland would probably be the most seriously affected. Greenland might refreeze, I believe that the "little ice age" was responsible for the failure of the Norse Colony on the shores of Greenland.

If you read to "popular science news", you'll get a(n oversimplified) version of the news. More exact sources are available, often all the way to the raw data. But they take more effort to read.

You seem to think all robots are the same. We've got LOTS of different kinds of robots, from robot pencil sharpeners on up. We've got robot forklifts, robot snakes, robot airplanes, etc. Humanoid robots are just another kind, but a kind that's potentially quite useful in environments shaped for humans to operate in.

Whatever, it correct anyway. The press tends to be xenophobic. They'll criticize France or Canada just as readily, though less fervently. For some reason they tend to go easy on Mexico.

You;re assuming they care whether it "musician" is an AI or not. Usually they won't. Think of it as "mood music"...it's purpose is to establish or reinforce a particular mood.

Actually, it doesn't matter much whether the "musician" can feel the emotion or not...if it did jukeboxes would never have been a thing. What matters is that it establishes a particular mood in the listeners, and note that that was a plural.

But isn't that's what popular music is reported to be already? If only a formula can win, then an AI should be able to do it.

FWIW, my tastes are "folk music" and sometimes "filk music". That's much less a formula, but possibly only because the sample size is small.

Untethered means battery-powered wifi gaming.

Immediately, not interested.

I can play my Vive Pro as long as I like (e.g. at a party we can all have a go for hours), it's reliant on the power of the machine connected to it, not the device itself, and it provides tech specs far in advance of the wireless junk.

I solved that problem with a hook in the ceiliing and one of those springy-cord things (like people used to have on their keys) so that you can move in literally any direction and it doesn't matter at all as the cable will follow you, and then spring back to the hook when you step back again.

Literally a $10 solution, never had an issue after that.

Yeah, you remember when all the game-streaming services failed because they just couldn't actually overcome the latency issues?

And you know that in VR, latency is the thing that makes you feel travel sick and/or have an awful experience? (Good VR sets have such low latency that it's incredible, and this is basically a non-issue, but even a poorly-programmed game can introduce enough latency to have this effect even with perfect hardware).

And that wireless tech - regardless of its implementation - is subject to local radio noise and will "hang up" if there's interference?

Streaming shite to VR is a TERRIBLE idea. That's why they often need proprietary cables to do it, as per the OP.

>"I agree with everything in your post except for that. My search engine is startpage.com, which acts as a proxy between me and Google so that it has no way of knowing who made which query."

I use both DDG and StartPage. StartPage is a non-Google search page, even though it returns Google results. So you do actually agree with everything :)

And at that point, they will be worthless.

>"It's probably not legal, but M$ has always thought they were above the law."

They *are* essentially above the law. As evidenced by an entire history in which nothing is really ever done to slap down their monopolistic anti-competitive behavior.

Google isn't far behind.

>"I simply refuse to use an OS that leans so hard on trying to modify my behavior."

Me too. Which is one of many reasons all my machines run Linux.

And I refuse to use a browser that allows Google more control over the way the web works, works against open standards, and creates a seriously dangerous monoculture. Which is why all my machines use Firefox.

And I don't want Google having complete control over search either. Which is why all my searching is done with non-Google search pages.

>"Sounds nice, is unworkable in practice."

Oh, I think it is workable. But I don't think the Times team will get what they want that way. :)

>"How on earth can you "exhaustively" deidentify millions of chat logs that could contain literally any personal details"

Exactly. There is no way. Except....

Expose the logs to the Time's team, but with extreme control. Meaning the Times could have people go into a secure room of OpenAI, with no personal electronics of any kind allowed, and use a locked-down machine of OpenAI's to search and view logs and tag some of interest. The data never leaves OpenAI's machines. And OpenAI can look at the tagged ones and ensure they are suitably scrubbed before a copy of ONLY THOSE are transmitted to the Times or court.