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Neal Stephenson wrote a great novel about this. Check out Termination Shock.

I believe they do this the same way they do traffic jams, by seeing how many android phones are at the location vs. average.

From the video it looks like the plastic rings are casings and the wheels are inside them, and the wheels poke out at the bottom. Seems dumb to me.

You can kind of see it here but it looks like they’re intentionally hiding a good view of it with angles/lighting:

My company built a big lab with expensive equipment and then laid off the person who was an expert in using all of it.

And Onion articles, and other satire.

You didn’t read the article. These are images that appeared in the documentary and were not marked as generated. It was implied they were real photos.

The bridge in Baltimore collapsing after its pier was hit by a cargo ship.

They work better for podcasts than music. For music, they’re better than a phone speaker but worse than cheapo earbuds in terms of sound quality.

I have those exact ones and I love them; I use them for running and when I’m doing stuff around the house but still want to hear people getting my attention. I had a previous version that I also accidentally turned to Chinese but I just learned to recognize the different messages.

These people are saying “we finally created the utopia of Neuromancer.” And I look at them and I go, “I don’t think you read Neuromancer."

–Cory Doctorow