People I know that have touchscreens use them for one thing - scrolling through websites. I'm sure there are other uses, but that is what I have observed with friends as well as when traveling. Small sample, for sure, but pretty much consistent across laptops and Surface devices. Frankly, what would be cool if apple could build the scroll capability off screen in the black area around the active screen.

I have used my iPad as a second screen where touch is enable, and never really found it useful as well. I suppose there are specific use cases and it will be interesting to see how well it sells. I just hope they introduce an as powerful non touch version for less cash.

When the only "evidence" is "AI said", that's where there is a real problem here. The idea of probable cause being needed comes into play. AI saying the person MIGHT be the criminal when AI is prone to being wrong means that before arrest, the police should have done at least some really basic checking about the person.

That is why those police departments SHOULD have lawsuits going on for this case, because even basic verification wasn't done before the arrest was made.

Prior to the 1990s, communication was very primitive, and required manual work to see what happened one town over. The idea of "just flee to the next town/county/state" was enough to let someone who had violated the law just go somewhere else and start their life "fresh" with a new identity, because being able to look up the records from other places wasn't possible.

In this case, it's not a person who incorrectly identified the person in a lineup, it is purely from AI being believed without any sort of verification was done.

There are some crimes where the accusation alone is enough to ruin the life of a person, even if the person is later found to be innocent. Being a pedophile, rape, and murder are some of the big ones where if your name is linked to one of these types of crimes, you will quickly lose your job, and be blacklisted when it comes to getting another job. Later, a background search will still bring up, "known pedophile", even if you have been declared innocent, Google would find it for example.

Now, if the police had actually done investigation BEFORE an arrest was made, that's one thing, but this is, "AI showed you as being a possible suspect, so you must be guilty", and that's not going to be something that should be allowed.

You use a new tool, but then, you do a VERIFICATION of the results. Think about it from a business standpoint, a new hire comes in, fresh out of high school or college, not much of an employment background, so the new hire starts, but isn't going to be working without any sort of supervision, to make sure that the job is actually done, and done correctly. Any team lead, supervisor, or manager that would let someone without a proven track record just start working without any oversight or verification about the quality of the work being done should be seen as incompetent. AI is the same way, you can't TRUST that AI will be doing the job properly until active monitoring of what AI is doing has been done for months, if not years of monitoring/testing. You know all those "AI hallucinations" that have been reported are a real issue.

Even though many people give ICE a pass when it comes to violating due process when it comes to "law enforcement", if police are lazy and just take the "word" of AI for this stuff without doing any sort of verification before an arrest is made, then yep, the police departments involved are absolutely valid as targets of a lawsuit. They violated the due process of a citizen by not actually investigating before the person was arrested.

We really need more variable speed limits, but also speed ranges for each lane. Left lane with generally open roads, 70-85 miles per hour(again, the roads don't have a lot of traffic). Middle lane would be 65-75mph, with right lane being 50-65 miles per hour. Below 50, use surface roads. Have signs above the road showing what the CURRENT speed ranges are based on traffic volume and speed. If there is too great a difference in the speed of each lane, people can't switch lanes without an increased risk of an accident. By having this level of monitoring and dynamic speed ranges for lanes, it will keep the idiots who drive slow in the left lane from being there in the first place(at risk of a ticket). Oh, it starts raining, reduce the speed limits, snow, reduce them a bit more, colder temperatures where there may be ice, yep, that can be taken into account.

The idea of speeding tickets SHOULD be that if you drive excessively fast, that is a danger to others, but then, make it so "what is excessive" can be adjusted based on conditions. There isn't really a good reason we don't have this sort of system in place, except for those who don't like change get into positions of power/authority far too often.

Trump acts and talks like a troll all the time, so Republicans don't want to go near that subject.

When the majority of politicians are corrupt and easily influenced by 10,000 idiots, that is where things get VERY messy. If the idiots didn't have as much of an influence over the politicians, it wouldn't be a problem.

The big problem is that those who are trying to make money from selling AI based services, then you have those making money from the hardware side of AI(NVIDIA and AMD), and then you have those who are looking to see if AI is even going to be useful in their business in different ways. All of these are going at it full speed ahead, and then you have the politics on top of it with politicians trying to manipulate people, and now, other nations using it to try manipulating others. It's just NASTY. Those who aren't able to do a basis analysis just go along with the messages being pushed are then being useless tools who parrot the false information being spewed all over the place. I miss the 1990s.

You shouldn't discount the problem that the push for AI is harming the computer market, and due to all of the export restrictions in place, that helps the Chinese PC industry as they play catch-up. I agree that AI is overhyped and isn't as useful as these corporations try to make them seem(you have to really watch them for mistakes for several years before you can trust them).

Clearly not "deeper into cognitive decline". Trump has been showing very obvious signs of dementia for the past five years, including talking about sharks and electric boats while on the campaign trail. If you actually listened to the whole thing from Trump, you would KNOW something was seriously wrong with his thought process.

So, you believe someone who has been PROVEN in a court of law to lie continually, and you ignore that every single claim by Trump about election fraud has been shown to be a lie. You want to believe that 20 voting precincts with only 50,000 total population should be more important in elections than one precinct that has 200,000 people.

We can always set up a coal power plant right next to Mar-a-lago, since Trump hates clean power generation from solar and wind energy.