Viewpoint: Where People Can Protest Has Limits

For $650 a head, Jim Myers leads cryptid-curious folks from around the world into the wilderness of Colorado’s Park County for a three-day camping expedition in search of the elusive Bigfoot. Myers’s business, Rabbit Hole Adventures, provides tents, meals, guides, first aid kits and satellite phones as part of the quest.

In the nearly three years since McDonald’s announced that it was partnering with IBM to develop a drive-thru order-taker powered by artificial intelligence, videos popped up on social media showing confused and frustrated customers trying to correct comically inaccurate meals. “Stop! Stop! Stop!” two friends screamed with humorous anguish on a TikTok video as an AI drive-thru misunderstands their order, tallying up 240, 250 and then 260 Chicken McNuggets. In other videos, the AI drive-thru rings up a customer for nine iced teas instead of one, fails to explain why a customer could not order Mountain Dew and thought another wanted to add bacon to his ice cream. So, when McDonald’s announced in a June 13 internal email, obtained by trade publication Restaurant Business, that it was ending its partnership with IBM and shutting down its AI tests at more than 100 U.

When it comes to how a sale of Tattered Cover to Barnes & Noble would change the storied Denver bookstore, James Daunt is insistent: that will be up to the team managing and staffing the business. Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble, was in Denver Friday and Saturday to talk to Tattered Cover’s booksellers, or employees.

BERLIN — When Michael Bommer found out that he was terminally ill with colon cancer, he spent a lot of time with his wife, Anett, talking about what would happen after his death. She told him one of the things she’d miss most is being able to ask him questions whenever she wants because he is so well read and always shares his wisdom, Bommer recalled during a recent interview with The Associated Press at his home in a leafy Berlin suburb. That conversation sparked an idea for Bommer: Recreate his voice using artificial intelligence to survive him after he passed away. The 61-year-old startup entrepreneur teamed up with his friend in the U.

Apple, Microsoft and Google are heralding a new era of what they describe as artificially intelligent smartphones and computers. The devices, they say, will automate tasks like editing photos and wishing a friend a happy birthday. But to make that work, these companies need something from you: more data. In this new paradigm, your Windows computer will take a screenshot of everything you do every few seconds.

Daniel Miller and Summer Lin | (TNS) Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — The hooded man darted past shattered glass, his headlamp illuminating the rare collectibles housed in display cases that lined the walls of Bricks & Minifigs in Whittier. “Ninjago” Ultra Violet (Oni Mask of Hatred). Percival Graves (“Harry Potter” Series 1).