If you don't want AI, why would you but a GoogleBook?

That's not a flimsy excuse, it's a plausible one. But considering "Blackstone owned" I'm not sure that I believe it.

Also, even if it's true it's "more than they agreed to".

Cultural engagement and it's "lower" form, escapism, basically represent tribal social engagement and exploration of the unknown/new, you know, the things we previously evolved to be good at. That this sort of activity provides purpose, meaning and connection and thus educes stress totally makes sense.

I personally see and experience an amplified version of this in close embrace social dancing (massive health benefits, scientifically proven) and due to my diploma and experience in performing arts. It basically makes me 15-20 years younger than my peers.

You might ask Firefox. They've reported a few. I think most companies aren't reporting them...which is what should be expected.

The problem is that chips like the Vortex86 (still in production) are getting caught up in this. I use the Vortex86 for other purposes, but by losing Linux support the Vortex86 will go out of production that much sooner. (Of note, gamers like the Vortex86 because it runs classic videogames natively.)

More generally this is a sign of a kernel-wide "cleanup" effort where stuff that's old is getting yoinked for no particular reason. I used the Minix filesystem pretty regularly and I am certain that is going to be removed before too long.

It was awesome. I even got this special grafics card calles Matrox Mystique which had this very special function: It would specifically support enhanced gaming(!). A brand new concept, can you imagine?

... what electric motors are capable of. Seriously, a specifically designed for MX purposes e-motor will launch you into orbit if that's your aim. No need for flywheels or other ghetto-type shit / steam age technology.

Seriously, now the cat's out of the bag, there's no stopping.

A fine paid by the business will not change behaviour of managers -- who just profited (got bigger bonuses) from this. The decision makers need life changing fines or prison time. Managers in other companies will see this, decide that they do not want the same and so behave.

... is drying up. No more 150k+/year for building bullsh*t online services that might turn a profit in 10+ years. Boomers have stopped investing and are spending and passing on heritages in their last days of life. This isn't the only factor crunching the tech industry, but a notable one, I suspect.

... late than never I say.

Of those, Google will be the hardest to replace. At least without exerting eminent domain over patents.

What's sad is that it has taken so long to reach that decision. I thought it was clear they needed to do this back before 2000. (I'm not exactly sure how long, but plausibly while I was in high school.)

be that they just start growing when the moisture reaches them ?

Unless you are stupid or trying to curry favour with the Orange Idiot ?