Another obligatory XKCD

I'd say "doesn't want" is too strong... it'd be more accurate to say "couldn't care less" - at least for me.

Side note... I wonder if the same story submitter, posting about a hypothetical future version of Chrome that finally eliminates third-party cookies, would use phrasing like "finally giving Chrome users a small amount of improved privacy that Firefox and Safari users have enjoyed since 2015." I suspect not.

Obligatory XKCD.

Forget the technical details of the movie itself. How about adding ushers that can and will kick people out for talking - or for repeatedly using your phone?

That's what caused me to stop "going to the movies".

But it might be too late... enough of us now have decent-sized home displays with decent sound systems, and don't care if we have to wait a month to see a particular new movie. It's hard to compete with a nearby kitchen, a private bathroom, and a "pause" button.

I never understood what happened to OMAP.

Just as the market for handheld devices was exponentially growing, TI retreated. If that's not shooting yourself in the foot...

I purchased a DVD - Nosferatu the Vampyre. As of today, the order status is still "delayed, not yet shipped".

Back when I was younger, I knew quite a few people in bands (I was the IT person for a music store, back when I was in high school + college). All of the ones I knew basically were just hoping they could make enough to survive without taking on other jobs... and most of them were unable to even get to that stage.

I think I'm agreeing with you, if it's not clear...

I mean, did a million people really search out Velvet Sundown, or did Spotify just inject the songs into a million people's streams? The article doesn't really say, one way or the other.

Yeah, I also have to wonder - musical tastes and styles often shift every few years. What's popular right now will probably be dated and unpopular in 2030. Since these sorts of AI "bands" aren't likely to come up with new styles and experiment with new sounds... if they chase all the real musicians out of the business, the people behind the AI will probably find their profits drying up in very short order.

Uh, that was in 2024.

Investigation closed in 2025 via the new administration.

It's a subscriber-only 404 Media blog post.

Too bad... I was curious to learn how "AI" could build something that would generate RF radio waves near railroad tracks. Is there nothing AI can't do?

That's not exactly a recent phenomenon...

(and I'm sure I'm guilty of it as well)

I can't speak to this particular airport... but, for most of them, I suspect you'd find those areas were mostly open space when the airport was first designed and built.

ROT...14?

14!!

BRILLIANT!

"Within our lifetime, engineers will go from bricklayers to architects, focusing on the creativity of designing systems rather than the manual labor of putting them together."

Scott Wu obviously doesn't know very much about what an engineer actually is or historically has done.