Much of the agricultural uses of data rely on a satellite connection. It's really difficult to run even fiber out to a tractor in the lower forty.

I wonder how happy the rural voter will be with this decision?

Notice how they blamed a human and defended the machine. Sounds like the facial recognition company drafted the response.

Nobody should want to get inside my head. It's very weird in there. I don't spend any more time there than I absolutely have to.

Somebody must be paying them to sell their product. Whack the people that hire them.

Isn't this award limited to young mathematicians? Nothing to take away from their achievements but do older people not make contributions to the field?

My land line comes through the ISP fiber so when the power goes out everything stops. The cell tower has a backup generator to keep the service going for a while longer than the internet service.

Who is this owner of which you speak? Do you really own the system?

Sitting on hold trying to get through to an insurance company specializing in military personnel doesn't help.

Yeah. It only takes one or two murders to give police a bad name.

It's funny that there is a case "Ticketmasters v Microsoft." Pot, meet Kettle.

I can't help but think that having a retired US Coast Guard admiral on their board gave the company more respect than they deserved.

The check must have cleared.

Ship it! We'll fix it later.

"American tech companies are required to share data with the U.S. government due to the Cloud Act in force in that country." - the CLOUD Act. It's not clear if a subpoena or summons was issued as required by the act. . All I have seen is that the US "demanded" the data. The Dutch government probably didn't want to go up against the US government, or worse Microsoft.