A couple of issues ago, "American Annals" published an evaluation and comments on research dealing with delayed cognitive development in children who were essentially left to smartphones to be their babysitters. Their language and reasoning capabilities were noticeably hampered by the lack of human interaction.

They seemed to be developing their own form of AI and it isn't pretty.

Let's all just hope that the "search" engine is better at returning relevant results better than I run into looking for things on the Amazon marketplace.

Let's see, the FCC is headed by a former Verizon lawyer that doesn't believe in net neutrality. My local politicians go mum when questioned about how to pay for broadband expansion or how to negotiate with the current owners of the cellular infrastructure concerning rates or expansion.

About the only thing I think could help (and good luck on this!!) is to force the industry into some form of regulated monopoly status and require regular reviews at the state level concerning outcomes.

I've seen it work - mostly - with insurance and electricity. Maybe it could work for something like this.

Chromebooks were essentially designed to sell to a marketing segment that was interested in having a "laptop" for cheap. As long as they could get online and do browser-based tasks such as email, they were happy. However, the architects of Chrome weren't interested in much more than that because the money wasn't there. The same folks who got their Chromebook for cheap weren't going to fork over many more dollars for OS and system upgrades, so why bother to spend the money to provide those options or develop apps specifically for the OS that might never recover the development costs?

Based on stated projections, AI will be displacing workers faster than they can be effectively retrained; not to mention how fast AI will make inroads into coding.

No, Mr. Trump - face the other side of the fan !!

For various reasons, I run multiple OS's. I was part of the recent wave of upgrades to WIN-10 because I have to anticipate what my accounting clients are going to run into when they upgrade which they tend to do without warning.

I personally think MS is just assuming that people will run through the process without thinking much about privacy settings and security issues on the other side. I'm a wee bit OCD about that, but the public I try to work with isn't even when they're told to be careful. I'm still baffled by the number of systems I deal with that have either no antivirus or outdated versions, no firewall, etc. Let's face it, if MS gains marketing data in exchange for a "free" upgrade, most folks won't complain. What I'm also concerned about from a practical manner is the fact that various support builds are going to be pushed though without the option of deciding when to install meaning that various drivers that worked earlier are suddenly off in the ozone upon restart.

There is also the matter of when, where, and how MS will acknowledge problems with the OS. For example, the Edge browser seems to have some real issues integrating with printing which simply aren't there when you switch back to IE-11 which fortunately hasn't been removed (yet), but only disappears from view.

MS's view of the future which they've been fairly clear about is a device-spanning OS that they're going to drive and I think that's one of the main things to keep in mind with WIN-10.

Make it so!

It used to be that the 3-letter acronyms whose existence was never confirmed - only alluded to - could claim the "right" to hide their malicious mischief under the guise of national security, but apparently no longer. The Federal Bureau of Instigation whose long record of abuse against the unworthy among us is a matter of record now feels free to confirm their addition to the other worthies.

I realize that Bush 43 thought the Constitution essentially a worthless scrap of paper, but, to paraphrase what someone once said over a millennia ago, "Who shall guard against these self-same guardians?"

First - props to developers who put in the hard work to bring these features to market; I guess we'll even find some of them useful.

BUT - IMHO - the 8,000 lb. gorilla remains the crippled Bluetooth stack and especially the HID components that were lost when the transition was made from Mobile OS 6.x; funny how resolving this issue which has over 11,000 votes in some MS blogs never even made the review.

Presenting this OS as business-oriented as some have done is blatantly half-fast as you'd know if you ever tried doing some real work with Office Mobile without something approaching a real keyboard and mouse. Yah - you can get things done, but at nothing approaching an efficient use of time.

Imagine my joy 2 years ago when upgrading to my old-by-now HTC Trophy from my Motorola Q9c only to discover I'd been ambushed by this issue which remains the red-headed stepchild all these years later.

And I'm only one of at least 11,000 still waiting.

Seriously, the RNC should set up its own programming task force and pay good money to develop their own system. It would put money into the economy and . .

Wait, how many H1-B's do you think they'll hire to save money??

I still have and use a DSL landline connection in my SOHO and a few times each year when my cabled neighbors go down for however long after a storm, I pick up the phone and listen for the sweet dialtone.

Science? Schmience!!

Who do we think should take Liv Tyler's place when they film this sequel??