Shut. Up.

they say, "Granular data from Strava also show where cyclists have to stop and wait..." We all know cyclists do not stop and wait for anything, let alone a stop sign or red light.

American Telephone and Telegraph, what speed to you expect??

jews did 9/11

Yeah, this used to be called astroturfing (fake 3rd party reporting & articles). It's really annoying when you're trying to find authentic information & all your searches return articles that fawn all over the organisations &/or individuals. The problem is, more & more mainstream media publications are publishing astroturf & "reputation management" articles. Wikipedia, CorporateWatch.org.uk, et al. are a safer bet when this happens.

BTW, Edward Bernays was the first to do this in the USA when he created cover stories to support a CIA-backed coup in Honduras on behalf of the US United Fruit Company. The regime was the origin of the term "Banana Republic."

They are both disgusting.

I suspect that part of the problem that enables this is that Google seems far more interested in recent results than anything else. I've noticed that unless I use an advanced query to control for dates, Google wants to serve up results from the most recent sources even if something I'm looking for is an event the occurred years ago and the best sources are from that time period. For some items this isn't a problem because there isn't any new coverage, but for others it's a quagmire of crap that's useless. I don't know why Google made these changes, but I suspect it made this particular kind of gamesmanship possible.

I've mostly switched to using DuckDuckGo for searches these days and for a long time I kept putting off moving because Google tended to give much better results, but at some point that stopped and I don't think it was because DuckDuckGo got better, but because Google got a lot worse. Whether that was something they did or someone else figuring out how to abuse their algorithms isn't something I could say for sure one way or another, but there was a sharp degradation regardless of why it happened.

If this is anything like TiVo, there will be many competitors, all of which have totally terrible implementations. Cable companies for some reason were insistent that they had to have a DVR and yet seemingly outsourced the work to the cheapest bid. Part of the difference may have been that TiVo was designed to make customers happy, whereas the competition from the cable industry designed their DVRs to make Hollywood happy. For Roku, it's hard to really improve on it other than adding extra memory for those who want to do more than just stream (and not savvy enought to make their own PC based streamer). I wouldn't trust a cable company in this regard. I don't know about Amazon as I avoid them, but I can't imagine them being neutral and detached regarding their own streaming services.

interesting seems to cover everybody in the media! Works for me!

Just my 2 cents ;)

Autocode. What a great name. Programs just go an write themselves. Oh wait, a thing called TI CoolGen. IBM ASM, stage 1 and stage 2 decks fir ICL computers. I now see how FORTRAN and PL/I got going early. And these pioneers wrote clean efficient compilers to boot with crippling memory constraints, hence multiple pass object code/decks. Looking to today, most programmers have zero knowledge of compiler options, and this is seen as a plus by companies turning out defective operating systems, with root-kitted drivers. Then I look at Java, and think, 70 years later we have not gone forward at all, and still patent spats on concepts known - 70 years ago.

Believe it or not LA has been a technology leader since the early 90's, having recognized the power of the internet as an inexpensive way to provide information - and later services - to the public.

Years ago they moved every statewide executive department to a central network managed by a single entity - the Office of Technology Services (https://www.doa.la.gov/Pages/ots/Index.aspx). There are only a few major cities/metro areas and they still do their own thing but the rest of the state follows. Each Parish does their own thing as well but the state OTS is available for anything they may need.