I guess you didn't get the email yet (seriously) that they are discontinuing the old assistant entirely.

I use voice on my phone constantly for setting calendar reminders, timers, alarms, etc. When they did the Gemini push recently that broke entirely (and seems to be intentional). I had to switch back. Now we're going to lose that as well.

I think Bezos hallucinated this out of his ass...or at least "generatively created" it.

That is modern Hollywood though. Just look how many franchises have been destroyed because they insist on rewriting them for "modern audiences" that never show up, throwing away the entire existing fan base in the process--Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.

This was probably for the best. If this was the same attitude the studio obviously had then they would have kept trying to interfere repeatedly during production until they got their way.

To clarify, requires power capability (transmission) be provided, not the electricity itself at no cost of course.

"To their trailer" is the key here. Texas law already requires that every utility company provide power to every property, no matter how remote, at no cost--but only to the property line. It's up to the homeowner to get it across their property as needed (or pay them to).

Simple: If you have to spend $2bil to support one customer, you make that customer pay it, not all of them.

I ask this question seriously: How are you getting "ripped off" by drop shippers? You're getting what you paid for, and I assume in the estimated time frame.

I'm not counting the fake international drop shippers here (advertising US-located items but actually shipping from China), mostly the Amazon drop shippers.

Police hate this one neat trick...

"Plenty of people" has been leaked as 40,000 views per episode for Starfleet Academy. Kurzmann has treated Star Trek fans like they're the ones swallowing combadges.

Given they are recycling late 70's/early 80's equipment to make any of this work that probably isn't far from the truth.

You could argue that it is a free speech concern, which has always been a common topic on /..

Honestly the biggest change I've seen in grocery stores over the last number of years is they no longer restock overnight. Instead half the traffic on every aisle is some outside vendor stocking in the middle of the day. If they went back to doing all that overnight it would make the store a FAR more pleasant experience.

And outgassing tests. Just wait until they're halfway to the moon and start choking on toxic fumes because someone took a kickback from Apple.

I remember reading somewhere recently that he is finally starting on the series that will actually start tying everything together. He's always claimed there are clues all over for how all the Cosmere worlds are tied together, but doesn't seem like anyone has ever figured it out.

It gives me a little open that we might get something watchable, as opposed to the travesties of Sword of Truth and Wheel of Time, where they basically threw the books into shredders and scooped out a random handful to cobble together each episode.