>> It took the US nearly 30 years to recover from the WW2 debt.

Did you mean the UK? Because the US was booming in the 50s and 60s. 30 years after WW2 was when things in the US started getting bad again but that was mostly due to the oil crisis.

>>The new device -- designed for students, businesses and casual users -- will target people who primarily browse the web, work on documents or conduct light media editing, according to people familiar with the matter.

This could sell well to K-12 schools but I can't see any businesses being interested and casual users are probably better off with an iPad.

It was never even about bots that much. Deciphering distorted text was actually training AI to read poorly scanned documents. Clicking traffic lights and bikes was training AI to analyze photographs. AI doesn't need our help for those tasks any more so those "bot tests" have disappeared.

>>The four-month program began with seminars on Western civilization, U.S. history, and leaders including Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill.

Because people who skip college to work in a technical job are most in need of remedial history courses?

>>"The darkness of permanent savings time would be especially harmful for school children and working Americans."

There is nothing stopping schools or businesses in northern areas from starting an hour later in the winter. Don't make everybody go through this hell because you are too unimaginative to fix your own problems.

The delivery services charge fees to the customers AND to the restaurants. Additionally they also screw over their own drivers so that they are basically working for tips (which are on top of all the fees). It's a predatory business model and I refuse to participate in it.

Layoff half the workers to be "replaced" by AI. The rest of the workers now must work twice as long and be thankful they weren't part of the first group. AI is a scam just like robots, outsourcing, offshoring, rightsizing, 7 sigma, etc etc. Some new technology or management technique promises huge productivity gains but actually delivers minimal (or no) gains. The real gains come from threatening workers. Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.

[citation required]

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm or genuine stupidity.

For the people we are talking about, $20,000 IS a little bit of money. Welcome to the world of income disparity. A few people with too much money and not enough to spend it on driving up prices for everyone else.

Is this finally the year of Linux on the desktop?
Is anyone here old enough to remember that joke?

Batteries are too expensive because they are too big; supposedly to deal with Americans' range anxiety (a situation mostly created by big oil propaganda). American EVs are big, heavy SUVs and crossovers with giant batteries for long range despite the fact that many people just need to commute back and forth to work. It's almost impossible to find a small, light commuter EV in the US (or even a commuter gas-powered car for that matter). European and Asian carmakers have no problem producing affordable compact and subcompact EVs.

In many ways, a plug-in hybrid is the worst of both worlds. When running on gasoline, it's less efficient than a normal hybrid vehicle because it's hauling around the extra weight of an unused larger battery. When running on electricity, it's less efficient than a full electric vehicle because it's hauling around the extra weight of an unused internal combustion engine and fuel tank.

However, when it comes to vehicles, many people are oddly willing to put up with a lot of inefficiencies in the name of occasional convenience or peace-of-mind. How many people drive a pickup with a huge cargo bed that only gets used a couple times a year?

Only Apple has the courage to remove the plus from their name.

The article is paywalled, but I'm 99% sure this report is saying that per capita use is down (controlling for population changes).