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  1. Weekly output: teens + AI chatbots, Android updates, Trump on data-center energy use, Archer + Starlink, balcony solar, customer feedback, CDA 230 + AI, Bluetooth updates

    BARCELONA–It’s a treat to be able to start off a post with this dateline. This is the 13th trip that’s afforded me that opportunity and the 12th involving MWC. But this trip isn’t like the ones before it in one way; on my way across the Atlantic, my country started a war of choice because the president felt like it. The world is better without Iran’s worthless, murdering theocrat Ali Khameni, but I have little confidence in the Trump administration’s ability to do the right things for that long-suffering country.

    In addition to the links you see below, Patreon readers got a bonus post from me in which I shared lessons learned from more than 10 years of booking Airbnbs.

    2/24/2026: Most Teens Use AI for Homework Help. 10% Let It Do Everything, PCMag

    Getting an advance copy of this new study from the Pew Research Center gave me a chance to note a new student-understudy chatbot called Einstein and quiz the CEO behind that app.

    2/25/2026: Android Update Puts Gemini AI In the Driver’s Seat for Ride-Hail, Food Orders, PCMag

    I have somehow become PCMag’s Android-updates guy. This report included a little testimony about Google’s call-scam-detection feature misfiring for me, an important bit of context to include in a post telling readers about Google bringing that tool to Samsung’s new Galaxy S26 series of phones.

    2/25/2026: As Energy Costs Soar, Trump Pushes AI Giants to ‘Produce Their Own Electricity’, PCMag

    I didn’t watch the entire State of the Union address because self-care is an important thing, but after reading about President Trump’s call for data-center operators to pay for their electricity and power infrastructure, I knew I’d have to write about that initiative.

    2/27/2028: Archer Aviation Taps Starlink for Air Taxi Connectivity, PCMag

    I still don’t quite get the point of adding Starlink connectivity to aircraft that won’t fly longer than 15 minutes or higher than 4,000 feet above major cities, but this was an easy post to crank out Friday morning before heading to Dulles that afternoon to start my journey to Spain.

    2/28/2026: After Years of Shining in Europe, Balcony Solar Comes Out of the Dark in the US, PCMag

    This story had been in the works for literally months–I took the photo you see at the top of the piece on the afternoon that I arrived in Berlin for IFA in September–but the policy picture has also changed dramatically, and for the better, over the intervening months.

    2/28/2026: What’s the Best Way to Get Customer Feedback in 2026? Hint: It’s Not Email, PCMag

    Two weeks after the customer-experience firm Medallia had me at its annual conference in Vegas (with my hotel covered upfront and my airfare to be reimbursed), PCMag ran my recap of what I learned there.

    3/1/2026: Online Platforms Are Not Liable for What Users Post. Should That Include Gen AI?, PCMag

    I spent Thursday at the Cato Institute for this enlightening conference marking the 30th anniversary of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the 1996 act that bars you from suing an online platform for something that one of its users posted.

    3/1/2026: Bluetooth Is Getting an Upgrade. Here’s What It Means for Your Devices, PCMag

    I took almost all of the notes for this at CES in January, but I needed more time to confirm some details and then write the post, after which its lack of a news peg left it easy to set aside for a bit.

    #AIChatbots #android #ArcherAviation #balconySolar #Barcelona #Bluetooth #Catalunya #CatoInstitute #CDA230 #ces #customerExperience #customerSatisfaction #cx #dataCenters #eVTOL #GeminiAI #IFA #LasVegas #Medallia #MWC #PewResearchCenter #plugInSolar #PresidentTrump #RatepayerProtectionPledge #SOTU #Spain #Starlink #StateOfTheUnion #travel #TrumpEnergyPolicy #Vegas
  2. Hype for the Future 80E: Las Vegas, Nevada 🎰

    Introduction There is perhaps no city more performative than the City of Las Vegas in the southern portion of the modern State of Nevada! Today, Las Vegas is most famous for a strip, the Las Vegas Strip, that is technically not included within the incorporated city but rather in the community known as Paradise. However, a few other distinctions also exist to separate the community from similarly associated communities nearer the coast, particularly Los Angeles or San Diego. Climate Though […]

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  3. Exciting news: InfiniTokens has a BOOTH at #MCVegas!

    Make sure to drop by to grab yourself some InfiniTokens, get a free sticker or just say hello. Spread the word!

    #mtg #magicthegathering #vegas #magiccon #edh #infinitokens

  4. Weekly output: Qualcomm’s connected-home vision, BMW’s Panoramic iDrive, Zoox’s robotaxis, Delta at the Sphere, Better Offline, Red Bull Ford Powertrains

    This would have been a long week with CES alone, but nine hours after my flight back from Vegas touched down at Dulles I was on my way into D.C.  for ShmooCon. How could I not? I’ve learned an enormous amount since I first covered that security conference in 2019–and this weekend’s edition was the con’s final go-round.

    1/6/2025: Qualcomm’s Smart Home Vision Includes TVs That Read Your ‘Emotional State’, PCMag

    I got a head start on my CES coverage with this post I filed from home after getting embargoed copies of Qualcomm’s CES announcements.

    1/8/2025: BMW Unveils Smartphone-Inspired Panoramic iDrive Dashboard, PCMag

    I started Tuesday by going to the German automaker’s introduction of this driver interface, which featured comedians Tim Meadows and Ken Jeong leading a schtick in which they, the BMW executives onstage and those of us in the stands had all been shrunk down to about smartphone size.

    1/8/2025: Taking a Robotaxi From Amazon-Owned Zoox for a Spin on the Vegas Strip, PCMag

    My second stop in Vegas, after a quick check-in at my hotel, was to this robotaxi service’s offices to get a test ride in its autonomous vehicle–where I was delighted to see that the other journalist joining me in the car would be my long-ago Yahoo colleague Dan Howley. This became my second story datelined from Vegas this week after I needed clarification on a couple of points from Zoox.

    1/8/2025: Delta Tips AI-Powered Concierge, In-Flight YouTube, More at Flashy CES Event, PCMag

    The Delta Air Lines keynote introduced me to the Sphere, but only after getting to that venue reintroduced me to how utterly awful Vegas traffic can be during CES–the “Tech Express” shuttle needed more than 50 minutes to crawl the 1.3 miles from the Las Vegas Convention Center to the Venetian. The production values of Delta’s event were fantastic, but the substance of the announcements didn’t live up to that standard. Two aviation journalists who have covered the airline far longer than I have, Brett Snyder and Seth Miller, came away almost entirely unimpressed.

    1/9/2025: Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 – Pt. 2, Ed Zitron

    Ed, a longtime tech publicist and more recent scourge of how growth-at-all-costs tech companies are ruining the digital world, invited me to join his podcast sometime when I was at CES, and I picked the last slot available–4:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday. Skip ahead to almost the 1:11 mark to hear my conversation with Ed and fellow CES journalists Ed Ongweso, Jr. and David Roth.

    1/10/2025: Red Bull and Ford are building a new F1 hybrid race car engine—first as bits, then atoms, Fast Company

    I started work on this piece months ago and then kept putting it off as I had other Fast Company projects with less flexible deadlines demand my attention first, then finally wrote and filed it the day after Christmas–just in time for it to get caught up in the publication’s winter break.

    #Amazon #BMW #ces #connectedHome #Delta #DL #EdZitron #F1 #FordRedBullPowertrains #Formula1 #iDrive #LasVegas #NeueKlasse #Oracle #Qualcomm #RedBullFord #robotaxi #smartHome #Sphere #Vegas #Zoox

  5. My only advice for gamblers is any slot machine with kittens on them is a pure sucker bet.
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    #vegas
    #slotmachines
    #kittens

  6. Reposted from @Defcon_Music (please follow!) Its Pirate time! Sat Aug 12th at Caesars Forum, A&E will be hosting YARRRRGH PIRATE NIGHT! We are super excited to have the @ocraven Pirate Rock Band and a pirate costume contest!

    ocraven.com
    defconmusic.org

    #defcon #dc31 #defcon31 #ocraven #pirate #costume #band #infosec #hackersummercamp #dcparrot #vegas #pirates #seashanty #defconmusic

  7. Its Pirate time! Sat Aug 12th at Caesars Forum, A&E will be hosting YARRRRGH PIRATE NIGHT! We are super excited to have the @ocraven Pirate Rock Band and a pirate costume contest!

    ocraven.com
    defconmusic.org

    #defcon #dc31 #defcon31 #ocraven #pirate #costume #band #infosec #hackersummercamp #dcparrot #vegas #pirates #seashanty #defconmusic

  8. I found out today that yesterday was the last ever A’s game I will attend because they’re officially going to #vegas.

    Utterly disgraceful — from #MLB brass down to Fisher and his goon Kaval. We all saw this coming from a mile away anyhow — #RootedInOakland was such bullshit. And yet I am still sad and angry.

    The Coliseum was not pretty but it had personality. The tickets were #affordable and it has divey character. It had #publictransit to get fans there without a car. More diversity than I've seen at most other ballparks.

    Farewell to the last dive bar in the MLB.

    Baseball should be #democratic not #plutocratic. #Athletics #baseball #lovethecoliseum

  9. I found out today that yesterday was the last ever A’s game I will attend because they’re officially going to #vegas.

    Utterly disgraceful — from #MLB brass down to Fisher and his goon Kaval. We all saw this coming from a mile away anyhow — #RootedInOakland was such bullshit. And yet I am still sad and angry.

    The Coliseum was not pretty but it had personality. The tickets were #affordable and it has divey character. It had #publictransit to get fans there without a car. More diversity than I've seen at most other ballparks.

    Farewell to the last dive bar in the MLB.

    Baseball should be #democratic not #plutocratic. #Athletics #baseball #lovethecoliseum

  10. I found out today that yesterday was the last ever A’s game I will attend because they’re officially going to #vegas.

    Utterly disgraceful — from #MLB brass down to Fisher and his goon Kaval. We all saw this coming from a mile away anyhow — #RootedInOakland was such bullshit. And yet I am still sad and angry.

    The Coliseum was not pretty but it had personality. The tickets were #affordable and it has divey character. It had #publictransit to get fans there without a car. More diversity than I've seen at most other ballparks.

    Farewell to the last dive bar in the MLB.

    Baseball should be #democratic not #plutocratic. #Athletics #baseball #lovethecoliseum

  11. I found out today that yesterday was the last ever A’s game I will attend because they’re officially going to #vegas.

    Utterly disgraceful — from #MLB brass down to Fisher and his goon Kaval. We all saw this coming from a mile away anyhow — #RootedInOakland was such bullshit. And yet I am still sad and angry.

    The Coliseum was not pretty but it had personality. The tickets were #affordable and it has divey character. It had #publictransit to get fans there without a car. More diversity than I've seen at most other ballparks.

    Farewell to the last dive bar in the MLB.

    Baseball should be #democratic not #plutocratic. #Athletics #baseball #lovethecoliseum

  12. Lets get the Traveling Piano back on the road! The engine needs to be replaced. ragginpianoboogie.com/donate.p

    We met a couple on the street today visiting from Paris. This guy is a math teacher who also plays piano. His music sounded really nice considering how difficult the Traveling Piano is to play these days, it still needs to be replaced from like a half year ago. The idea of putting my piano into the truck originated from one of my visits to Paris many years ago and seeing the street performers there. www.travelingpiano.com

    #mainstreet #nevada #lasvegas #vegas #vegaslife #journey #vegaslocal #vegasfun #vegascommunity #downtownlasvegas #lasvegasblvd #lasvegaslocals #lasvegascommunity
    #dtlv #downtownlv #vegas_community #dannykean #travelingpianoman #travelingpiano #travellingpiano #pianoman #pianoplayer
    #thetravelingpianoman #music #musical #improvisation #improv #fun #friendship #respect #syncronisity #spontenaiety #empowerment #inspiration