This sock-it-to-me would be over-priced even at $39.95. Those likely to buy it are the same ones that fall for the coutour-priced Hermès-labeled watches with their "exclusive" faces and bands ...

So I asked "What month is it?" of Siri on these of my devices: MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, Original Large Home Pods, and AppleTV streamer, and they ALL came back with "Friday, March 21, 2025". Only my iPhone 15 Pro could not answer the question in either voice or text modes, responding with "Sorry, I don't understand". Therefore something seems to be amiss with the iPhone's parsing of the English word "month" when preceded with the words 'what' or 'which' before it is sent to the cloud for translation and response. If the question to the iPhone Siri is phrased "What is today's date?", it comes back with the exact same answer as the other devices mentioned above. Yet if I ask my iPhone Siri "What does the word 'month' mean?", it responds with "Each of the twelve named periods into which a year is divided". I then asked my iPhone Siri "What is the month?" and it came back with a discussion of moon cycles. When I asked "how is the word 'month' spelled? it came back with "M, O, N, T, H." Yet when I asked my iPhone Siri "How are today's month and today's date related" it then asked if I wanted to have it submit the question to ChapGPT and I said "yes" resulting in this response: "Today's month (March) and today's date (21st) together represent the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, which is observed annually on March 21st." Finally I asked my iPhone Siri: "What is the M, O, N, T, H?" and it responded with a dictionary definition of the word month." So if I want to know the current month from my iPhone Siri (if I ignore the fact that it's always present on the lockscreen) then I merely ask: "What is today's date?" In German "Was ist die Uhr?" (literally 'What is the clock?') is their way of asking "What time is it? When I asked my iPhone Siri "What is the clock" it came back with the correct time. Go figure.

Hmmmmm, sounds like HP is getting out of the printer business. FIle under: Boneheaded Business Decisions

Samsung will NEVER through sales be able to recoup the R&D costs associated with its folding phones. They're an interesting 'gimmick' from an engineering standpoint but not at all practical. The same is true of their screens that wrapped around the edges: totally unnecessary. Perhaps Samsung has a large population of engineers just sitting around with little to do so they have to keep coming up with weird projects and products to occupy their time and talents. One wonders if Samsung has made any profits at all from making mobile phones over the past 10 years.

Apple was jumped all over for proposing scanning text messages for child pornography before those messages were locked into the cloud. Apple had to back off because of the air-heads running around, jumping up and down, screaming and yelling, tearing their hair out, without really trying to understand the very sophisticated approach that Apple was proposing. Societal airheads are like mosquitos ... troublesome, annoying, myopic, lazy, dangerous, and essentially useless as human beings. When deeply GROKKED, Apple's well-thought-out proposal makes good sense. The EU will get it done ...

Fcuk North Dakota. They don't need smartphones. They only need cheap app-free flip-phones from some warehouse store. After all, there is no Apple Store in North Dakota. With a state population less than 800K, they are an INSIGNIFICANT market for the kinds of sophisticated electronic products enjoyed by more urban regions. Some think that this is just a feeble attempt by North Dakota to get noticed. Where is North Dakota anyway?

This "essay" was obviously NOT created by an app with 'smarts' ... more likely it was composed by some airhead with an agenda and a desperately sad life. It contains words and grammatical constructions that no known AI app is capable of devising at this time. Total nonsense.

FWIW, Chinese appliance manufacturer HAIER purchased GE's appliance division in 2016 for $5.4 billion {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haier } . So now when one sees the 'GE' on an appliance, it is NOT ONLY made in China, but also ALL of the profits from its sale end up in China. If one wants to support the Chinese industrial complex and government, then definitely buy GE refrigerators, GE ranges, GE water heaters, GE dishwashers, GE garbage disposals, GE microwave ovens, GE trash compactors, and GE washing machines and GE dryers. OR, purchase the same kinds of appliances labeled with the HAIER name. Today China ... Tomorrow the World!

We are, it seems, a most destructive "weed in the garden of the universe"; hopelessly flawed, surprisingly myopic, dangerous, stupid, breeding out of control. Perhaps our eventual replacement by AI will be a boon to this planet and galaxy. We will probably not be missed ...