But given the sometimes-wonky nature of EU regulations, good luck growing a tech company in Europe.

THIS is why I bought into a YouTube Premium account. That way, I don't have to frustratingly deal with ad interruptions all the time, especially on longer videos. Yes, I know it's US$13.95 per month, but given the cost of a premium Starbucks drink or even a fast food meal nowadays, it's definitely worth it.

Unfortunately for Google, iMessage is so entrenched nobody wants to really switch to RCS, even with the GSMA working on an open end-to-end encryption standard. Most everyone in the USA are either on Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp as their primary messaging platforms.

Well, there's been a clamoring by environmentalists to remove several dams along the Columbia and Snake Rivers to increase the salmon population. Mind you, there are many opposing such an idea, including many farmers in eastern Washington and Oregon dependent on the water stored from these dams for irrigation water, let alone removing the power generation capacity from these dams needed for the type of large server farms you mentioned.

There is one solution: put the AI data centers at locations where cleanly-generated power is plentiful. And that only means two countries, Iceland and Norway, where you can tap into the huge amount of geothermal energy available on Iceland or the huge excess of hydroelectric power from Norway's many dams.

At least that's the solution in the short to medium term. Long term, it's time to starting building cleaner and safer Generation IV nuclear reactors in modular form with each small reactor generating about 100 to 250 MW of power, which should be enough for a fairly large-sized AI server farm. Why Gen IV nuclear power? Because the physical footprint of power plant will be a tiny fraction of a large solar farm or a large installation of wind turbines.

I wonder will this change of no more free single checked luggage mean airlines around the world that belong to ICAO will soon impose a standardized size limit to 55 cm height, 35 cm width and 20 cm depth including wheels, handles and side pockets, with a maximum weight of the luggage at 5 kg? I can see a huge demand for passengers to switch to carry-on luggage that meets this standard.

I would have agreed with you up until around 2017. But ever since the cable companies rolled out DOSCIS 3.1 gigabit service and other companies are figuring out how to start using all that installed "dark fiber," most metropolitan areas can get 500 to 1,000 megabits per second download speed Internet, and the pricing is good because of the competition between cable and fiber optic ISP's.

I KNOW I will get way downvoted for this, but I think the influence of the infamous Sweet Baby Inc. with their emphasis on "woke" content hurt most AAA games in recent years.

I don't think we should judge Apple Intelligence until the totally revised Siri tied to Apple Intelligence arrives (likely) with the release of iOS 19.0 in September 2025. Apple doesn't want a fiasco like what happened with the initial rollout of Google Gemini.

I think one factor that could change EVERYTHING is the possibility that some "state actor" hacker figures out how to break the encryption used by remote work software such as Cisco AnyConnect. If such a hack becomes successful, all heck breaks loose and work for home will end in very short order.

Not surprised given how very expensive it was to put up neon signs, given it had to be custom-made for each application. The Vegas resorts often had neon signs out front that cost well over US$1 million--and that was in 1960's and 1970's money!

Home computer
iPad Pro
iPhone
Apple TV 4K
TiVo DVR
Insignia brand TV
Xfinity X1 set top box.
Amazon Echo (2nd Gen)
Amazon Echo Dot

My work laptop computer is connected to the cable modem router by CAT 6 Ethernet cable whenever I work from home.

Especially the "nutty prices." The cost of even a _matinee_ ticket is just ridiculous at over US$12 per ticket for a first-run movie.

Reason: at 1 gigabit per second transfer rate, it's already way overkill for Internet access, given that most web server farm providers can only push out so much data even on "fat pipes." I'd rather they improve Wi-Fi technology for more reliable data connections instead at home or in the office.

Hence my suggestion that they should put the data centers in Iceland, of all places. Reason: plentiful available geothermal power.