I'm about to cancel Hulu because they won't differentiate the ad-supported content from the ad-free content I'M PAYING FOR. At least Prime makes this distinction clear. If Netflix muddles their content, I'll cancel them too.

It's literally the whole point of the last section of the article. There's a US company that wants to get involved with the technology again, but they can't get a license from the DOE.

There are exactly 2 steps in this process. 1) Fix 2077 for the relaunch on PS5/XBX. 2) Make a Witcher 4, and make it as good as W3. (Good luck on that one.)

Just sounds to me like a cagey way to capture and track EVERYTHING about a user's browsing history, across EVERY site they visit, without needing cookies and web bugs and all that other nonsense. Even Facebook can only track so much, when some sites don't download their script. When you look at it like that, it's no wonder PG is all about this.

Even $179 sounds cheap. When I first got curious about what it would cost to buy an actual copy of a movie back in the rental craze days (even before Blockbuster), I remember them costing more like $700. Then I understood that the studios were making sure to price them for rental company purchase only. Which, of course, encouraged piracy, and yada, yada, yada; that old chestnut. But, yeah, they WERE really expensive at the time.

I've got some sad news for you. All consumer-grade products are made by the same few companies, and they're ALL crap. I learned this the hard way by trying to really get serious about researching the appliances for a house I was having built, and the highest-rated units I could find from "Consumer Reports" and other reviews all -- ALL -- had serious breakdowns within 2 years. (I replaced the washing machine and dryer with used refurbs from a local shop. The guy wouldn't even take my old units on trade, because he knew they were junk.) My parents bought a "good"-level washer and dryer from Sears when they got married, and those units lasted 25 years. The only way to get actual "BIFL"-quality appliances these days is to buy "commercial" versions, and pay 5x-10x more.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

You're not paying attention. Why do the legwork? All they have to do is give Facebook and Twitter a couple of bucks, and those platforms will put their message in front of hundreds of thousands of right-wing nutballs.

I've been ranting on Twitter about the shortage of PS5's, and thinking that maybe I just spent a little more and build a new PC. I guess that's going to be even more frustrating that trying to find a console! This is starting to smell like a conspiracy to collude and drive up silicon prices!

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.

We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!

:-)

I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.