They will. It’s cheaper. People will die. Congress will take money from the lobbyists and say there’s nothing they can do.

Not just the local stuff - the brain drain, rebuilding the trust of allies, etc.

Good article overall. TLDR: The biggest changes you can make on a phone are : get a bigger sensor when buying a new phone, and wipe off the lens and don’t move when taking photos.

My guess is that within 5 feet it can see enough to recognize things (especially when you digitally stack it), but outside 15-20 feet it’s pretty useless, which also means you’re not able to take photos of random people… which was part of the problem with the glassholes.

“new AirPods aren’t designed to support hand-gesture control. The upcoming Apple glasses also aren’t currently slated to offer this capability, according to people familiar with the products”

What. The. Hell. That is part of the Magic of the Vision Pro. I would buy those damn AirPods if it let me minority-report my freaking phone.

I mean, North Dakota uses dollars since it’s a US state, Russia is just getting ready for the same once it’s a Chinese vassal state.

Generations.

And that’s active users. Everybody has a shadow profile, whether or not you’re on Facebook, and they monetize that as well. Facebook.com itself could cease to exist, so long as the ad infrastructure remains able to track you and sell ads.

Technically a DVD is 4gb; a CD is 768mb. But the size of a modern compressed movie is probably 800-1500mb.

That said, that’s a LOT of wasted space on the boot drive, especially given how much hard drives have gone up in price lately

My company wants to see that we’re using it. The obvious the better.

“We need this investment, we need these jobs, we need these tax revenues.”

You weren’t going to get any of that either way. Construction, and then that’s it.

The “other AI”?

I mean, can he be expected to know about people who he doesn’t see on TV? Only people on TV are real!

Fantastic news, and shows that the battery tech is poised to eat coal/gas’ lunch.

Yeah, I’d love a truly portable multi-mon setup. And I’m hoping somebody will do it, seems like they’re getting close between nreal and meta the others. But still curious what Apple or someone like that could’ve pulled off. The hand gestures sold me on that control scheme.

And something high end on TV that requires a 4k headset screams apple. ;)

It’s going to wind up as a transformative event, but I don’t relish getting to the other side. Especially with a government adversarial to moving off of the fossil crap.

Cory Doctorow wrote about this too, recently, and it too is worth a read: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/20/praxis/ .

“This is the template for the long-foreseeable future. Thanks to Trump’s stupid, bloody, unforgivable war of choice in the Gulf, the world is going to install unimaginable amounts of cleantech. They are going to throw away their water heaters, motorbikes, furnaces and cars and replace them with all-electric versions. They’re going to cover their roofs and balconies with panels. The battery industry will experience a sustained boom. The fortunes that fossil fuel companies are reaping from the current shortage is their last windfall.

The writing is on the wall. Trump opened Alaska for drilling and the oil companies noped out because they couldn’t find a bank that would loan them the money needed to get started. Then it happened again in Venezuela. This de-fossilizing was already the direction of travel, the only question was the pace at which the transition would proceed – and Comrade Trump has just stomped all over the (liquid natural) gas pedal.”

I always assumed the Vision Pro was just a stepping stone on the way to transition to smart glasses or something like that. Figure out what kind of UI and UX and controls work and don’t, and get the ecosystem ready for it. Everyone saw the Magic Leap and said “well, that’s going to replace smartphones, how do we get there iteratively”.

That said, the demo, once they dialed it in, is beautiful. It’s like staring into the future. It all works as seamlessly as you’d hope. Go to the Apple Store, if you have any interest in XR/AR/VR, and do the demo. It’s not perfect, but as someone with an interest, it was jaw-dropping.

Also: they were idiots for not leaning in heavily on the sports. During the demo they show you a Brief scene of a baseball game, and you are there at the dugout or second base or something and it’s like being there. I can’t imagine that they looked at that and said “NAH, we won’t take sports fans money”. What the hell. That was easy money. Set up that camera ringside at every major venue, and rake in the cash.

Fascists gotta fascist.

They have a point, it does sound like they have a ChatGPT model on hand to write this crap. “In the manner of a truth social post, write a legal brief…”