Did Trump really want a load of shopkeepers that weren't required two months ago? Essentially a new class of dropshippers to add costs to transactions

Funny how everyone's a patriot until they get a tax bill

If countries end up paying people not to work, what would stop people migrating to the most lucrative countries?

Dyson will be remembered as a traitor for helping take the UK out of the EU. Then leaving the country rather than pay a fair share of taxes

I'm no sales whiz but if 95% of the users of your competing product are on a free tier, burning billions in energy costs just to create new Ghibli memes, then Microsoft may not feel too bad about missing out

Any non-standard phone with crappy specs is going to be more expensive than all but the best mass market devices. Unless you can buy and assemble the parts yourself, economies of scale make these little curios a non-starter

Individually, I'm sure each developer is more productive from home, as long as you're only measuring lines of code written. Innovation and creativity from the company as a whole? Jury's out on that one to my mind

What do software testers even do with this crap? Raise a bug and what? I don't even know where to start!

The numbers don't surprise me. If my industry is representative of employment in general, employees are much less likely to bond over beers after work now - for one thing there is more remote work and therefore less opportunity to go out and rather more worrying for the drinks industry, gen z just don't go for killing their brain cells in the same way

With the various agendas being pushed in the media and even via scientific papers, it seems predictable that AI would start making up stuff. Just reading tech news sites in general is to see recycled and rehashed AI generated content that will mostly be read by other bots!

Imagine if they had taught the musician morse code so that his communications could be deciphered!

There must be a fairly direct link between the number of AI generated action figure images produced this week and the amount of carbon in the atmosphere (or smog from coal-fired power stations). Using the common measure of "disability-adjusted life years" (DALYs), it should be possible to see the human cost of each new AI meme in future. Government departments will be asked to issue warnings of new memes in the same way they would for dangerous heatwaves or tropical storms!

It's surely only a matter of time before Trump realises that the number of people trying to reach America could be matched with the number of Americans needing maids and servants and perhaps some indentured servitude could be a way to keep MAGA voters onboard (definitely not slavery, no sir)

When you're a powerful man and the stock market hangs on your every word it's a problem when you're also a thin-skinned egomaniac given to impulsive actions. Any smart bot could be reading tweets, performing some sentiment analysis and then putting a bet on. Given that DJT is chronically online, it would have ample training material

Cops on the street would be good at deterring those mobs of black-tracksuited feral teenagers that seem to shoplift and rob phones at will. Apart from the tiny policewomen, they don't really deter anyone