Month: April 2023

By Daniel Kline As a frequent flyer, I’m surprised to learn that it’s not Southwest or JetBlue where loyalty pays off the most. For a few years before (and through) the covid pandemic, I held Southwest Airlines A-List status. That’s not an easy status to achieve or maintain as it takes 25 one-way flights (or 35,000 points) to earn A-List, and in 2020, it literally took an unneeded round trip to essentially nowhere to lock it in. That seemed worth it to me because for many years I worked for an employer in the Washington, D.C, area and I flew roughly once a month between Florida and D.C. or Bal… Read More “This Airline Might Have The Best Loyalty Rewards Program”

By Andy Silvester The European Union is likely to reach a political agreement this year that will pave the way for the World’s first major artificial intelligence (AI) law, the bloc’s tech regulation chief Margrethe Vestager said on Sunday. This follows a preliminary deal reached on Thursday by members of the European Parliament to push through the draft of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act to a vote by a committee of lawmakers on May 11. Parliament will then thrash out the bill’s final details with EU member states and the European Commission before it becomes law. At a press conference af… Read More “Vestager: AI law on the way – but it might take a year”

By Luc Olinga The metaverse is now a “long term project,” giving the billionaire an excuse whenever he’s asked about Meta’s former next big thing. He never admits that he was wrong, insisting, even in the face of the evidence, that he was right or that history will eventually prove him right. Mark Zuckerberg masters the art of dialectics. When it comes to the metaverse, which he presented as the next big thing for his social media empire in October 2021 when he renamed it Meta Platforms, this dialectic becomes sophistry. He has just made a spectacular demonstration of it in an attempt to convi… Read More “Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Save Face About the Metaverse”

By Luc Olinga The metaverse is now a “long term project,” giving the billionaire an excuse whenever he’s asked about Meta’s former next big thing. He never admits that he was wrong, insisting, even in the face of the evidence, that he was right or that history will eventually prove him right. Mark Zuckerberg masters the art of dialectics. When it comes to the metaverse, which he presented as the next big thing for his social media empire in October 2021 when he renamed it Meta Platforms, this dialectic becomes sophistry. The tech tycoon has just made a spectacular demonstration of it in an att… Read More “Mark Zuckerberg Is Unapologetic About the Metaverse”

By Luc Olinga The metaverse is now a “long term project,” giving the billionaire an excuse whenever he’s asked about Meta’s former next big thing. He never admits that he was wrong, insisting, even in the face of the evidence, that he was right or that history will eventually prove him right. Mark Zuckerberg, the king of social media, masters the art of dialectics. When it comes to the metaverse, which he presented as the next big thing for his social media empire in October 2021 when he renamed it Meta Platforms, this dialectic becomes sophistry. The tech tycoon has just made a spectacular de… Read More “Mark Zuckerberg Is Right. Everybody Else Is Wrong”

The following is a gist of the declaration for the Group of Seven ministerial meeting on digital issues released Sunday after a two-day meeting in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. The G-7 agrees: — to promote responsible use of artificial intelligence. — to establish an international framework to facilitate cross-border flows of data with trust. — to support developing countries to build a secure digital infrastructure. — to promote a free and open internet and tackle digital authoritarianism. — rule of law, due process, democracy, respect for human rights, and harnessing opportunities for inn… Read More “Gist of declaration for G-7 ministerial meeting on digital issues”

Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida has revealed PlayStation “cancel so many games”. The Japanese businessman has been a key member of the PlayStation brand since its original concept in the 90s, and he admits loads of games “fail” and end up in the trash. He told The Guardian: “PlayStation embraces new ideas, and many of them fail. We do a prototype, we evaluate, we decide whether to spend more time and resources, or we just stop. We cancel so many games. I usually try to convince the developer that I’m trying to save them from getting stuck with this project … We tend to work with people who have very str… Read More “Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida: PlayStation cancel so many games”

Sony PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida says AI “could develop interesting animations and behaviours” for games in the future. The head of the Independent Developer Initiative was complimenting students’ use of Midjourney – the AI art generator — to make a game, however, he is of the belief that while Artificial Intelligence can teach game developers, it won’t replace them entirely, as he predicts “more beautiful things” are to come from humans. He told The Guardian: “That is powerful, that a small number of young people can create an amazing-looking game. “AI will change the nature of learning for … Read More “Sony PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida says AI will give game developers more time for creativity”