Current AI is nowhere near as smart as ants. Current AI is nothing but "fancy pattern recognition".

You could throw ants into a new, unknown environment (like a house), and they would figure out how to make a colony and find food and survive. But you couldn't take a "chatbot" and expect it to play "chess", or take a chess-playing AI and expect it to figure out which pictures are of cats.

Google collects a lot of data, but it does not share - or sell - that data with any third parties.

Battery packs made up from cylindrical cells only make up about 15% of the market.

Citation needed.

Teslas - which comprise 75% of all EVs sold worldwide - use cylindrical cells for almost all of their vehicles (Chinese-made Standard Range Model 3 being the only exception) as well as for their Powerwalls. Most laptops and cordless tools appear to use cylindrical cells within their batteries, at least the ones I've either taken apart or saw being taken apart. Phones/tablets don't use cylindricals, but I can't imagine that makes up 85% of the market. Maybe if you're talking about device counts rather than percent of global kWh capacity?

I'll believe that when they start spitting out rockets as quickly as SpaceX is spitting out Starship prototypes.

This is an incorrect analogy.

The security export is saying that the vulnerable machine should be replaced with different hardware because you can't be sure that the vulnerability hasn't already been compromised and that the hardware in question already contains a trojan or backdoor. Patching it at that point is "closing the barn door after the horse has bolted" - you're too late. You're assuming that you've managed to apply the patch before it had been compromised. If you or your company/entity takes security seriously, you can't make that assumption.

Instead, you should replace the vulnerable machine. You can replace it with identical hardware that has been carefully patched while offline. Changing vendors is not necessarily part of this solution - that's only considered if the vulnerabilities are so numerous that you find yourself patching things (or ideally, replacing your vulnerable hardware) "regularly".

Starlink is only meant for sparsely-populated areas. It doesn't scale in urban areas. So yes, you're going to be put on a waitlist if there are already too many subscribers in your geographic area.

This may come as a shock to you, but did you realize that only a handful of carefully selected voters (called the "electoral college") is actually allowed to vote for the President of the United States?

That's pretty much the dumbest interpretation of events I've read. There won't be any billionaires on Mars - it's a rugged wasteland, not a paradise. You'll only see reckless explorers on Mars - people willing to risk death for the adventure and fame.

Because there's not a rocket made today or anytime in the foreseeable future that contains enough fuel to move the ISS to a parking orbit.

Can the International Space Station be moved to a higher orbit, like halfway between the earth and moon?

No, they created flubber.

Now, get off my lawn kids.

With aircraft, there is always a Pilot In Command.

Allow me to introduce you to these new contraptions called "drones". Many of them will fly pilotless until they arrive at an area of interest.

It was designed to be launched on a rocket. The stresses produced by the spacecraft's own thrusters won't amount to much in comparison.

Yep, they messed up by giving the Commodore 128 a CP/M mode instead of a PC mode. If it had been PC-compatible, Commodore may have survived.

2) Land on water (Hint Lithium does not like water)

While pure lithium reacts with water, lithium-ion batteries do not. The recommended method for dealing with a lithium-ion battery fire is to keep a low-pressure stream of water on the pack to keep it cool to prevent nearby cells from combusting. So landing such a plane in water won't add any additional complications.

I remember the first time I saw this vine.