I agree. This feels fake

I think that Uber is making the wrong decisions in these disaster scenarios. At least if you have an algorithm that responds to demand, you can stand behind it and say "this works as it is supposed to, and is designed to get the most number of people rides as quickly as possible". Once they start turning it on and off (when people complain), it starts to feel a lot more arbitrary and less fair.

We have one at work and I've tried out some of the demos. It's a pretty impressive piece of kit.

If ever there was an example of ageism in tech...

This is what you get when you decide to sell public space to the highest bidder. If I were paying billions of dollars for the right to advertise, I would want to own it too. Maybe this is an indication that we should stop selling our public spaces and events to such and extent.

Actually the original vision for Xbox One wasn't just gaming. Microsoft was pretty clear about this point. In any case, good use of random quotation marks and fictitious statistics. Always makes a good argument better. Well executed.

I feel like MS has missed the fact that there are a lot of Xbox users out there that bought the machine specifically for the Kinect and associated content. If I wanted an ultimate gaming platform I would have bought a PC. I bought the Xbox because the Kinect is fun and gets you off the couch. Just because non-gamers don't rant and rave on the internet about Xbox vs PS4 specs doesn't mean they shouldn't have some say about how the platform develops.

A self-driving car should always be able to judge its stopping distance to a high degree of accuracy. None of these scenarios should ever happen. The car shouldn't be driving that fast to begin with.

If consumers could actually buy a priv at $290, things might have turned out differently. I've never seen one for sale anywhere close to that price.

I'm going to go out on limb here and suggest that it might have less to do with greed and more to do with the fact that infrastructure and people cost money. As much as I would like it if everything in life were free, it isn't, which means that the people that build and maintain their infrastructure need a salary (not to mention what I imagine are non-trivial hosting costs), and that money has to come from somewhere.

Years ago I registered the site publicpatent.org. I had planned for people to just submitted random stuff (i.e. idea A + idea B), so that stupid, obvious stuff would be in the public domain and no one could try to patent it. Using NLP to automate the stupid idea generation is great!

As someone who has worked with young students, high school teachers, university students, and university faculty getting Pi's into the classroom (e.g. http://clean.energyscience.ca/..., http://rpi.science.uoit.ca/ I can say that the micro:bit may be a better starting point for really young kids and their tech phobic teachers than the Pi. From what I can tell, the micro:bit isn't really a computer (unlike the RaspberryPi), but rather a peripheral that enables some physical computing.

There are some ugly sides to the Pi for the uninitiated. I'm not saying one is better than the other (I really like the Pi), but I do think the micro:bit could be a welcome addition to the ecosystem.

I'm disappointed that BBC isn't making them available to the general community from the get go (or even before release to schools). We have a way better chance and troubleshooting (and populating stackoverflow) issues than they do. Despite the fact that this is intended to be plug-and-play, things never are (especially when they involve locked-down machines like those present at most schools).

In any case, I'm looking forward to getting one of these things!

I think it's worth mentioning that the Pi Zero likely has the ability to broadcast data, though not in the way you might expect. (I can't say for certain because I don't have one yet) There are a few examples on the web about how to do this: http://www.instructables.com/i... I tried this recently on the Model2, and it worked well. Obviously you would need something on the receiving end to listen + decode, but I don't think it would be too difficult. People have been doing this with HAM radio for ages. If the antenna is a decent size, the range is pretty good. You could easily cover a house with low bitrate data. I'm sure this is in violation of lots of FCC rules, but meh.

I'm curious what they paid per user. I wouldn't mind moving to a co-op model. How much could it possibly cost to run this place per year?

We got rid of the penny here in Canada. It was no big deal. I've hardly noticed the difference.