Microsoft's latest holiday ad for its Copilot AI assistant features a 30-second montage of users seamlessly syncing smart home lights to music, scaling recipes for large gatherings, and parsing HOA guidelines -- none of which the software can actually perform reliably when put to the test

Examples of wasted potential:

Sarah: Built a fusion reactor at 16. Now? Debugging fintech payment systems.

James: 3D-printed prosthetic limbs for A-levels. Today? Writing credit risk reports.

Alex: Developed AI drone swarms for disaster relief at 18. Graduated with top honours from Imperial. His job? Tweaking a single button's ergonomics on home appliances.

These aren't outliers. They're a generation of engineering prodigies whose talents are being squandered.

This isn't just wage disparity. It's misallocation of human capital on a national scale.

"Berlin is not a pretty place. The winters are a total nightmare, no sunlight, no warm face. Its cuisine is all about fast food. Large parts of town smell like a public toilet; overdosed tourists randomly pass out on the street. It’s not a city where you would sit out on a cafe terrace to people-watch. But also it’s now nearly impossible to find an affordable flat you could call home"

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Sony’s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development – it’s go big, or go home

Europa hat sich in den vergangenen 40 Jahren doppelt so schnell erwärmt wie die Welt im Durchschnitt

Vorbildlich: Baden-Württemberg genehmigt Threema statt Zoom für elektronische Nachrichtenübermittlung an Schulen und beweist damit IT-Kompetenz

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