Clearly you are unfamiliar with how tech startups work. You burn VC money until you have your customers hooked, THEN you put the squeeze on them to make money. Amazon took 9 years to turn a profit; Facebook 5 years; Netflix 6 years; YouTube 4 years; Uber 15 years. Twitter took 13 years to show a profit (and that was only for a single year in 2019) and now it's back to losing money again. Is that proof that Elon's X is a propaganda organization or just that he's a shit manager?

They put the majority of their EV R&D into hybrids and plug-in hybrids (and to be fair, had lots of early success in that area), thinking hybrids would be a bridge technology until hydrogen was ready. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have a plan B.

Yes, pulling the fire alarm is exactly the same thing as violently attacking police officers, vandalizing a government building and attempting to hang the vice president.

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.

If true, that does not explain why the machine civilizations can't make contact. At the very least they should be looking for more biologicals to kill.

I would prefer to do an Elvis

PHB: "We invented the Homo-Sapien-based product purchase verbal cross-checking system to augment our store management AI for advanced quality assurance!"

Naive Investor: "Sounds brilliant!, I'll take 10,000 shares of your stock!"

US Government: "Patent granted."

>>whose impressive technology was truly ahead of its time

Other than being done remotely, how exactly is hiring a human being to follow customers around and bill them for what they take "ahead of its time"? More like a throwback to the (very) old days of picking something off the shelf and telling the shopkeeper to "put it on my tab". The only "innovation" is the off-shoring of labor (which in this day and age is hardly innovative).

I had a hard time parsing it until I discovered that "Byju's" is the name of a company (including the apostrophe). Whoever picked that name needs to spend less time studying coding and more time studying English.

>>Pedantic, but I don't think a large touch screen plus electronics is cheaper than some wires and switches.

Touch screens are ridiculously cheap (especially if you pick a common size that's used in other products) and physical switches/knobs with associated mounting/fit-and-finish hardware is surprisingly expensive. Touch screen interfaces can also be modified with a software upgrade. Any change to physical controls will require an expensive recall.

"Anyone rooting against robot soldiers is cheering for tens of thousands of people killed every year by human soldiers."
or how about this one:
"Anyone rooting against AI generated news articles is cheering for tens of thousands of bullshit, false-equivalence arguments from human journalists like Eric Newcomer."

>>Varda Space Industries' in-space manufacturing capsule, called Winnebago-1, landed in the Utah desert at around 4:40 p.m. EST. Inside the capsule are crystals of the drug ritonavir

Crystal drugs being delivered to the desert in a vehicle called Winnebago. If this is supposed to be a Breaking Bad reference they messed up, because the RV in the TV show was a Fleetwood Bounder.

>>Nest cameras are very much outdated in their approach.

Sadly, vendor lock-in and recurring payments for devices you already own are the default approach for most tech companies these days.

>>That's a great quip but what about 4G? Is that widely available? If my cell phone plan was $20 a month I might be willing to tolerate my data coming in a bit slower.

Exactly. Do you really need to watch a 4K streaming movie on your tiny phone screen? No doubt some will say 5G speeds are necessary because for many in the US that is their only internet connection; but that really just points out how shitty the US fibre/broadband service/coverage is.

Because it's the perfect pairing for Lay's Olestra chips.