Programming was a good career choice for our generation though, and there are plenty of industries that need programmers with musical knowledge.

Hope you could at least keep up music as a hobby.

I think the tech just came along a little bit too early and people got too excited.

True. We kind of needed an intermediate medium. We went from approx 1MB floppies to hundreds of MB on a CD. Nobody had any idea how to fill all that space. But floppies were really suffering from being too small. The likes of Wing Commander and The Secret Of Monkey Island 2 each took around a dozen disks.

It is a very suspicious correlation.

The problem really is that it's high risk - those who can lose will have diverse assets which will cushion the loss whereas if they get caught, they'll lose everything. And the benefits are somewhat limited. We already know what Boeing did.

This would punish people who did nothing wrong except hold shares in a company where someone on the board or management broke the law, but completely let off the members of the board or management who broke the law but have since left.

A "company" is an abstraction. It doesn't make decisions. It can't go to jail.

At some point, there was a person who actually made these decisions. A person who may not even work for Boeing or own any stock in the company any more. Prosecute them!

If I was selling anything of any reasonable value, I'd want to make sure there was a clear and definite agreement precisely to prevent this sort of lawsuit from happening.

I'd have responded with "I need more than a thumbs up. Can you send an email confirming that you agree to the terms", or at least asked for a text providing clear unambiguous confirmation.

Streaming absolutely bundles. You just buy each bundle from a different provider.

A la carte wouldn't make things cheaper. There's typically one channel that people are willing to get the bundle for, and the others are added as a value add. The cable company pays more for certain channels, and you're paying for the one you want in a bundle.

It's left leaning - certainly relative to the current Overton Window in the UK. You're a lot more likely to see an article advocating a left wing viewpoint than something that would be typical in the Telegraph.

Don't they do several orders at once? A single family could easily be around $200

"Electric VTOL air taxi" seems like marketing buzz rather than a description.

I guess this is really just an electric quadcopter. And that's fine from a technology point of view, but the speed and range seem limited so I can't imagine people using this to travel more than 30 miles/50km or so, so wondering who they want to sell this to.

UK rail prices are high but we seem to be looking at about twice the price of the equivalent German rail journey rather than 5 times, and not substantially slower.

Sure, the London-centric nature of the rail system is a problem, especially because changing involves faffing about on the tube, but on the whole, the UK's rail service is pretty average for Europe.

It's not about blaming the model. It's about illustrating that the model could well be argued to contain copyrighted information.

Instead of "Mickey Mouse", I create "Cartoon Mouse" or public domain characters like "Snow White" or "Beauty and the Beast". The AI creates something superficially similar to Disney's versions. If a human artist created it there would be no question, but the AI artist created it.

Disney comes and insists that it uses their IP and demonstrates that the model does indeed contain a representation of their characters. Can you swear, under oath, that no part of the image is derived from a Disney property?

It doesn't even require a lot of hard work. I tried "Starry Night by Vincent Van Goph" in nightCafe. Ended up with something very similar to the famous painting. Same swirls and everything.

Not an issue in this case because it's out of copyright. But if you try "Mickey Mouse" and get a weird picture of a mutant mickey, it's pretty clear that the training data contains a decent amount of Disney images. I doubt Disney are being that free with their licencing.

For a publication like Nature, I'd say this is a pretty obvious decision. This is very much about facts and the truth. Illustrating with some algorithm's interpretation doesn't make sense.

In the UK, I've not used a cheque this side of the year 2000, and I think a lot of adults have never owned a chequebook. Nevertheless, there are still millions of cheques written every year.

No idea who these people are though. That works out to an average of 3 a year per person. There must be a small number of people writing dozens or hundreds of cheques per year.