tl;dr it seems like it's been different things at different times, officially, and that NeXTSTEP has been used for a long time.

From the Wikipedia page, this 0.9 release doc lists "NextStep" as a registered trademark.

https://vtda.org/docs/computing/NeXT/NeXT%200.9-1.0%20Release%20Description.pdf

Some CD images show all caps:

https://auctions.c.yimg.jp/images.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/image/dr000/auc0403/users/dec444a55bdd461a83b1b7c3f2c8e7fa3a731b8b/i-img1000x901-1678086322oe8huf16.jpg

Some show mixed:

https://wagtail.cds.tohoku.ac.jp/coda/topics/nextstep/index.html

1.0 manual goes with "NEXTSTEP":

https://dn710300.ca.archive.org/0/items/NeXTSTEP_User_Guide_1994/NeXTSTEP_User_Guide_1994.pdf

1993 book uses "NeXTSTEP"

https://simson.net/ref/1993/NeXTSTEP3.0.pdf

This marketing flyer uses "NeXTSTEP"

http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/NeXTProducts/NeXTSoftware/NS-Release3/files/page625_1.pdf

Squeak squeak!

Just get corn-on-the-cob, it will self-pop after this mess.

Careful what you wish for, the plutocrats always find a way to make us plebeians bail them out.

It's clear the original trilogy was lightning in a bottle for many reasons, and it's clear that Marcia Lucas and other skilled editors had an absolutely huge impact. But can you really say the editor is the "more talented" Lucas? Seems to me that for a time, whatever partnership George and Marcia had personally and working together, worked really well.

After the split, neither one of them ever created something as on target as the originals.

Then again, Star Wars is almost unique for the cultural impact it's had. Hard to do a repeat.

Just shows how sometimes connotations and visceral impacts of words change over time.

I learned about that movie from The Wall..

My kids call me a boomer when that happens to me. And yeah, it happens.

Though to be fair, I actually really like the side button -- the one on the lower right that is touch sensitive. I use it for activating and using the camera. I just ALSO sometimes activate it when reading in landscape mode. Oops.

Don got a gold bar in his knickers after hearing that.

"algorithmic funds" have been around for a long time. Letting neural nets guess rather than a hand-coded algorithm guess is not much different, conceptually. It's generally the type of investment that "high rollers" select.

Somebody forgot to validate the word-count

"AI will save Linux from Rust"

MBA 1: "Hmm, how can we squeeze more revenue out of this gizmo?"

MBA 2: "Short term revenue or long term?"

MBA 1: "Short term of course! It's all we do."

MBA 2: "Then stuff it with more ads!"

MBA 1: "Brilliant!

"Taiwan is booming"

Especially when Xi goes to grab it.

endless scrolling, a never-ending click-bait engine.

Maybe I'm a bigot, but I cannot unsee this stereotype of a Swedish Chef.