Webster, Texas has been on a long downhill slide for two years. Optical media (CD/DVD/BluRay) removed and replaced with "as seen on TV" a year ago. Then, a month ago when I went to buy a solder sucker, electronic parts were down to about 25% of original shelf space and the only one available was part of a $50 kit. This place is literally two miles from NASA/Johnson Space Center, so there is no shortage of geeks that could keep their hobbyist section alive.

Surely you jest. Yes, an OLED is susceptible to burn-in, but will not let you down if treated properly. A display model, which has probably been set to a static image for hundreds of hours, is not a proper case study. I have a 2015 OLED with 7000 hours on it. Not a bit of burn-in. I wouldn't trade it for anything (especially because in addition the color advantages of OLED, it's also a 3-D model.

My dad just got hit by that one this morning while using Edge. Killing Edge, disconnecting from the network, restarting Edge, and closing out the tabs was the only way out.

It's sheer stupidity that the "restore all tabs" behavior can't be disabled other than by a registry edit.

Just pray that you don't fall victim to some zero-day RCE in a service you run.

You say this as though a farmer could just turn a knob on any given morning and decide on the products to grow based on that day's market. Fruit and vegetable production requires 10 months end-to-end, and livestock takes even longer.

Maybe today's market is tiny, but in 15 years, it will have to be 100% of the new car market. Possibly a little less if the next Administration cracks down and actually outlaws two-strokes and engines without catalytic converters (leaf blowers and lawn mowers have ~11 times the carbon footprint of automobiles on an hourly usage basis).

Every car maker wants to make electric vehicles, they just don't want to pay for the R&D to make good ones, and are waiting for somebody else to shoulder the initial financial burden. When everyone wakes up to smell the coffee, there won't be anyone losing money making electric cars; the prices will have to go up, and consumers will have to pay them.

Just put in a conveyor-belt slidewire, anchored at both ends, and buckets at equally-spaced intervals. The weight of the full buckets going down will lift the empty buckets going back up. No need for the environmental expense ov making batteries in the first place.

Windows 10 can't even re-establish a VPN connection when switching back and forth between wired and wireless networks. I have to restart almost every day.

They're just trying to get us concerned about our personal health. I had to read the summary twice to prove to myself that I wasn't experiencing age-related dementia.

Absolutely. Great movies (that also happen to NOT be sequels, remakes or comic book adaptations) after 1999 include:

• Mulholland Drive (2001)
• A Scanner Darkly (2006)
• Tropic Thunder (2008)
• Swiss Army Man (2016)

That question isn't exactly relevant to this discussion, because Locast just uses the exact same model. They're not skipping commercials or substituting their own--they are only echoing the broadcast. It's a very useful service. My son isn't allowed to install an outdoor antenna in his Brooklyn apartment, and accesses local broadcasts on his AppleTV.

Indeed. I suffered through the G Stylo, which, in spite of its wonderful camera, fell horribly short in GPS performance due to its silly antenna setup. They fixed that issue with the Stylo 2, but took away the laser-focused camera (though the camera is still quite good), the battery life is great and overall I'm quite happy with the Stylo 2. I'm still running it even though it's approaching three years old.

I think some of the battery life comes from it using a basic 400-series SOC instead of something more power-hungry. That, and I don't spend my day with my face glued to my phone, but even when I run Strava (screen off) on an extra-long bike ride, I still have plenty of juice for the whole day.

As it is, I think I'm going to wait for the 5G dust to settle before getting a new phone, unless I break it. However, I'm not going to be brand-loyal, and while LG still has a shot at selling me a new phone, there are some Nokia models that look intriguing to me.

There were GPS and cellular modem add-ons available for the Palm III in 1999. TCP/IP stack was built-in, with browser and email capabilities.

However, when somebody uses "military" style rifles to kill 58 people and wound 800 more in a 15-minute period, they tend to draw attention. I wonder why that could be?