Sherlock has managed to highlight the already well documented fact that the US has under-invested in its power grid. For their next trick, there will be a page-turner on the sky being blue.

MSFT wants to sell you and your enterprise the tools and capacity to bug hunt your own code and allegedly help you "drive costs" out of your operations. I suspect this is more of a "look, we are eating our own dog food!" exercise to drive sales.

They're trying to slap the copilot moniker on anything they can lay a hand on to further that goal. Someone's gotta pay for all that capex they're pushing into their datacenter infrastructure....might as well be you.

While Paramount claims they cancelled Colbert as a cost cutting move, that makes no sense since other late night shows on other networks with smaller audiences continue. They must make some sort of financial sense.

It is widely understood, though not provable, that the move was a bribe to Trump in order to get the merger approved. Trump has had a longstanding dislike of Colbert because of his commentary on Trump as a person and as the President.

and perhaps more to do with them failing to shake down their customers for incremental subscription-based revenue streams. Confronted with heavy handed "we're bundling all this extra stuff you don't want or use in with whatever you currently have and we're going to charge you more for all that 'additional value you're getting'....even if you've been shrinking your overall IBM hardware/software footprint."

Hard pass.

When is a hard question. Rationally it should never have blown up this much in the first place (some expansion would be rational, but not like we've seen). Clearly the minds driving this are not rational.

Insanity is notoriously hard to predict. That's why short selling is so risky. The market can clearly remain irrational longer than most people can remain solvent when betting against it.

I don't believe that shit for a nanosecond. Spare me.

It is. And the market is ultimately going to push back. I will have zero sympathy when the the value of these companies comes crashing back down when reality returns to the market.

copilot is still a mess.

Cable TV was initially ad free too. And so was Amazon Prime. The slimy advertising folks always find a way to "add value" by disrupting our viewing experience. Except for the people selling "advertising" you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that actually wants to see ads.

Why would the earth huggers think that an American regulatory body would have jurisdiction in this case? Outer space is OUTSIDE of the United States.

No mention of a handle of bourbon every night so I guess that's just fine as long as you're not camped out on your phone. :P

To be fair, IBM has jumped on the rent seeking train with both feet as well.

Actually, the people who forget that seem to be in the business of marketing and press releases. QC has been the apocalypse that would turn the world on it's head breaking crypto left and right in the next 2 years for at least 10 years now. It still can't do prime factorization better or faster than a sixth grader with a pencil and paper. And the sixth grader won't charge as much.

Perhaps it will be useful one day, but not today. It may well take 100 years. Remember about 3 years ago when the size of quantum computers was going to double overnight? And how it went radio silent shortly after? The problem with QC isn't that it will never get here at all, it's the damned hype machine that promised it would be here now.

It's the same hype machine that told us we would be using crypto currency for all of our everyday transactions by now. The same hype machine that claims AI will replace everyone next year.

I think we've got a better chance of seeing Joe Biden win this year's NYC marathon than seeing this "startup" doing anything other than making investor capital vanish.

That's not how this works. There are a few ways to send an image to the bare display, but HDMI isn't one of them. If you actually look up the item list from TFS you will see that.

You didn't expect them to actually explain how you could manufacture an e-ink panel starting with sand and some chemicals in your kitchen, did you?