I'm interested to see what Apple's WWDC 2025 will reveal. A new look/theme for sure. But I don't expect much in the AI department. I doubt Siri will improve, unfortunately. Unlike most geeks in the Bay Area, I don't want my phone to automatically book reservations at my favorite restaurant and schedule cab service to pick me up. Or make plane reservations and reserve a rental car. I just want Siri to tell me where the nearest location of a place is. As it is, it doesn't do that automatically based on where I am. It makes mistakes.
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College Students Are Using ‘No Contact Orders’ to Block Each Other in Real Life. What a sad world we live in now. We'd rather interact virtually instead of in real life. And some college kids feel that they have to block people from trying to interact in real life.
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Meta is invading your privacy in a new way. Bottom line: Don't use Meta and Yandex apps. Don't use an Android phone. Don't use the Chrome browser. Better yet, just stay off Meta/Facebook period.
Japanese scientists have invented a plastic that dissolves in sea water. One might cause a lot of mischief with this. Just sayin'.
MIT scientists again. With a new kind of magnetism. It's called p-wave magnetism. Unlike Harvard or Columbia, MIT actually does useful stuff.
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Another report touting the life-extending benefits of metformin. This has been shown before, and it's nice to see that the effects have been confirmed.
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There's a way to deliver gene therapy through the airway into the lungs. The agent is called AAV.CPP.16. It may be a useful way to deliver therapy for interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, among other things.
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Seattle is so crappy that next year's Microsoft Build developer conference will not be held in Seattle. After this year's attendees complained about urban decay, open-air drug use, and numerous tents lining the streets. Seattlites have become accustomed to all that crap and filth, but that doesn't mean the rest of the country has to put up with it, too. Now you all know what living in a Blue City is like.
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I've often wondered about this. Remember when schools used Apple computers and software. Then suddenly they switched to Google products. Now our kids are under surveillance. There is a hidden privacy crisis in education technology. But of course, the people in charge of purchasing are not likely tech-savvy, and don't know enough to select the best products. All those Chromebooks using Google Docs. Not good.
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