All that R&D is kind of ironic though because Zuck's actually-successful invention (facebook) required no new techology at all.

I am interested in live subtitles because of my hearing deficit. There are already special-purpose glasses for this, but I'm hoping the $100B that Meta has blown on AR/VR would make these more advanced - higher speech recognition rate, easer-to-read display, slimmer glasses with longer battery life. I don't know if any of that will be the case, but I look forward to an in-store demo whenever they get around to selling them in my area.

I cannot imagine why somebody would choose to bet over something in which the book holder gets to decide what constitutes a successful prediction

Does the bookie have a stake in the outcome? Or are they just brokering between clients who choose opposite sides of the bet, so the house makes the same money either way? This seems like an important distinction as to what Polymarket actually is.

The leading company of the day always takes on that mantle in those types of stories. They just change the name of the company about once per decade and run the story again. I've been around long enough to see it be Amazon, previously Apple, Walmart, and Nike.

So unless they plan to keep a few people around to proof-read the translations and provide contextual translation updates, I see this being prone to challenges

The summary says the translations will be checked and finalized by humans.

Hell, next year they'll write a story framing the human part as a big scandal proving that the AI is dumb and the company is trying to trick everybody into being impressed its technology when it's actually part mechanical turk.

Your concern is that Amazon warehouses aren't automated enough, or that they're not trying hard enough to do so?

I don't even blame Tesla too much for going for minimalism in its initial design, since that was the epitome of futuristic at the time, and Tesla was still pretty busy just managing to pull together enough various pieces and parts to build an entire vehicle. But things have moved on and in a lot of ways it seems like they aren't leading the charge any more, or perhaps even keeping up, and in 2026 it is accepted that a luxurious modern interior is not just the biggest possible touch screen attached (and not even integrated!) to the dashboard.

https://medium.com/ekys-exlucs...

My sister has an EV6 and nothing but good to say about it.

He argues that human preferences for human connection -- from podcasting audiences to romantic partners -- will sustain an economy for human labor simply because it is human.

It's outright funny how precisely this coincides with the story from yesterday:

Influencers and OnlyFans Models Dominate US 'Extraordinary' Artist Visas

People now do a tiny amount of manual labor compared to before the industrial revolution.

But he didn't say egalitarian, he said everyone can have everything they need. Big difference. Still doesn't mean he's right, of course.

The impressive part of this demo was the fluidity of movement and balance, and that part is not remote control. Just look at that disastrous humanoid robot demo from Russia a few weeks ago. However the life part of this demo showed nothing in the way of manipulating objects which is disappointing. The battery self-swapping shown in the video is really cool, I wish they had live demoed that.

I disagree. I used to listen to NPR a lot, but finally got tired of it and quit because the majority of the stories are about some minority interest group angle. Story after story, hammering home the same narratives over and over. I think they're just doing what they think is right, but most of their stories are on social issues and all of their commentators have the exact same mindset.

If I had such a great solution to getting perfect information from crowdsourcing I suppose I'd be a rich man.

I experienced the same as others, I tried to contribute to stack exchange but was rejected, never met some criteria and never bothered to figure out how to do so.

Gatekeeping (quality assurance) is their only value-add. It is the essential problem with crowdsourcing (if you manage to draw a crowd in the first place).