BlueLightning

When AI gets closer to answering simple questions correctly 90%+ of the time, it may have general usefulness.  For now, it should be called artificial (that is "FAKE") intelligence.  

Recently, I ask Google for the fear index (vix) value.  It replied 13.  I looked it up, it was 20 (and was around that value for hours beforehand).  I think it may have pulled some historical value.  

There are often very strange assumptions made by AI, especially for questions about people or products old enough to lack much coverage on the internet in the last 20 years.  

Later comment from White House was that 25% tariff also applies to Samsung cell phones, which are also expected to be made in US. Good luck with that. Expect to keep your smart phones for 2-4 more years, when Democrats take over the House, Senate and White House.

Suspect a lot of audio/talk podcast listeners opt for $5-10 wired, lower-end Koss or Sony headphones. A $10 Sony sounds better than the $5 Koss, and is a bit more comfortable. I believe the main target audience for lower end Koss and Sony models (from Amazon) is for use by schools and businesses (and "thrifty" folks like me).

We periodically had an occasional Dell or HP server that would Not power off when the front panel switch or the network based control was activated.  Our Windows server admin would try a remote power down first, then would ask me to go into the server room and press the power button.  If that did not work, he'd tell me to go around back and remove BOTH power cords (redundant power supplies).  

The only time my home mac is powered down is during a prolonged power outage.  My backup UPS has about 2 hours run time for my MacBook Pro, voice over IP telephone, cable modem and router.  Otherwise, I just let the machine go to sleep after a set period of inactivity.  The machine is restarted and network connection dropped just before each incremental backup.   

Suspect a large amount of rack hardware may be included within third party lease agreements.  At the end of the lease, racks can either be bought-out for residual value, or returned to the leasing company (depending on the type of lease).  

With improved performance (and likely less heat output per unit of processing), cost of electricity for processors and cooling could be substantially lower.  Very few things use as much electricity as a major data center.