Apple's software chiefs decided they needed to upgrade Siri after spending weeks testing out ChatGPT themselves businessinsider.com/apple-software…

Apple was probably playing on the term 'creative destruction' and wanted to convey it visually but the slow and grinding sound of beautiful objects being crushed are ill-advised as a pitch to any tech product.

My counter would be the entire global banking system is essentially run on a programming language that's more than half-century old, i.e., COBOL, and past efforts in migrating to a modern language were colossal failures and resulted in hundreds of million 💷 of losses. To say

Occasional reminder that there are no low energy, rich countries

Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour tells senate hearing that company took 'ma... youtu.be/PP0xhIe1LFE?si… via YouTube

Canada is in trouble. This is the ninth budget in a row that depends heavily on excessive borrowed money managed by an obesely bloated federal bureaucracy that is now 40% larger and 68% more costly than when the Liberals took power in 2015.

Unwilling to live within the tax

#4 Smartphone seller in the world (by units sold) is a Chinese company focused on Africa!

Transsion shipped 20M+ units last year.

Claims AI image processing optimized for darker skin. Phone optimized for durability, long battery life, etc.

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Top food price increases in Canada over the past year:

🫒 Olive oil: +44%
🍬 Sugar: +21%
🍼 Infant formula: +17%
🍟 Frozen fries: +17%
🍊 Orange juice: +15%
🍗 Chicken drumsticks: +14%
🥒 Cucumbers: +14%
🍇 Grapes: +13%
🍅 Tomatoes: +13%
🧅 Onions: +13%
🍔 Ground

The democratic system is structurally 'short-sighted', especially when it comes to long-term investments that don't yield short-term electoral rewards. The case in point is carbon tax.

Asking the leaders of democratic Europe, e.g., Germany, to sacrifice their citizens' standard

The rise of the personal improvement industry can be largely attributed to this trend.

What Taylor Morgan described in his comment is essentially what sociologists call 'atomization,' a process where individuals or social groups become increasingly isolated from one another and

Apple Car's Decade of Development and 'Failure' Detailed in New Report macrumors.com/2024/03/06/app…

Apple has no long term growth prospect with the cancellation of Project Titan🚗. This could be interpreted as the culmination of Tim Cook's many missteps stemming from his lack of

There is no doubt in my mind that had Steve Jobs still been alive, Apple would have been where Microsoft is in terms of AI.

He saw in Siri what no major player at the same time saw. It's regrettable, to say the least, that Tim Cook didn't share his vision and neglected Siri for

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Macron is finally speaking Russia's language.

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You hate to be right about this kind of thing.

Invoking Emergencies Act wasn’t justified and infringed on Charter rights, Federal Court rules /via The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

“Frankly I’m surprised we screwed it up because we sit in such a privileged position in Canada,” Beata Caranci, chief economist at Toronto-dominion Bank, told a packed audience at an Economic Club of Canada event on Thursday.
Unlike many other countries, including the U.S.,

I have been a personal development fanatic since my college days. I still remember reading book after book on how to manage your time and take better notes in the library and printing out a weekly timetable on Sunday and filling it with different colour time blocks as the week

As a tradition, my yearly predictions for 2024 are:
Technology
1. Start of long-term decline for #AAPL 🍎 due to weak sales of #AppleVisionPro & #iPhone .

Politics
2. Rise of far-right & far-left parties in most Western democracies. Even centrist parties will introduce