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You wouldn't download a citizenship

It's also pretty important infrastructure. Even before AI, one of the major providers datacentres going down would take out a solid chunk of modern internet.

All he made was some dinky algorithm. Google Bard could do that in three minutes flat smh.

They were also presented as being cheaper and more ethical. You didn't risk being roped into paying a higher price because the cabbie deliberately took a long route, or be surprised by the price being different in person. You could order an Uber, and you'd pay only what was in the app.

On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it's clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It's dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children's media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?

You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don't pay the rent, they'll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.

I do wish that more games still had cheats. It does feel a bit like a lot of newer games have foregone them entirely. You can't type plane into GTA V, and have a plane materialise, like you could in Vice City, for example.

You'd need to mod it in.

It doesn't help that a lot of it is simply so out of date now, that it's considered the norm now.

We don't exactly think all that much of Picard being bald, or Janeway being Captain of the Voyager. For us now, they're normal, ordinary things.

Whereas back in the day, it was an unusual choice. There were many jokes about it being natural the Voyager would get into a space accident on its first voyage, because Janeway was in command, for example.

I don't know if it was only a part. The world has moved on from the day, so a lot of what would have been in-your-face bleeding-edge progressivism back then no longer is.

The women could wear miniskirts. No-one was smoking. Uhura (African American) was not a maid or cook, but a well-respected competent peer, along with Chekhov (Soviet Russian), Sulu (Japanese), and McCoy (Caucasian American).

We may not think much of it now, and in the miniskirt case, think poorly of it, but back in the day, they were bleeding-edge social stances.

It might also be groundwork for more complicated things on their GPUs.

The article says nothing about nVidia actually planning to enter the desktop CPU market, only that a bunch of unrelated analysts compared the CPU performance, and said it was about equal to what's on the market.

Quite surprised that they are pushing that, seeing as one of the biggest obstacles for Windows 11 getting adopted was that a lot of the existing hardware didn't support the TPM requirements it put in place.

Doing it again so soon seems like a recipe to make people not want to use 12 at all. After all, Windows 11 works fine for them, why change so soon?

Nor are a lot of cables. 100W is far more likely, at least for a while, since that was a standard for a fair while as it is.