I guess what the US does to scientists in countries like Iran is now, maybe, being done to its own scientists.. well, what goes around comes around..

Problem is, those EV's need electricity, and these days we've also got an electricity distribution and generation problem. Solar panels on your roof alone aren't gonna cut it. We already got alerts of new businesses and homes won't be able to be hooked up to the infrastructure for years to come. Getting a charger at home or near your home will also be a big problem.

As an owner of both, you're very mistaken, the FireTV stick is much better considering its price, which is a fraction of the shield, and most people don't use anything else as their streaming/media apps on these things. But if you're into native gaming with better graphics, yeah, than the shield is better, but most don't use it for that.

How can you ditch your dependence if you don't have much of the resources yourself. Just like the sanctions on russian oil and gas, it is yet again the US blocking and interfering with our access to those resources, and again putting the verberial gun to our heads to get it from US companies. It's time the UN is putting sanctions on the US for their pirating behaviour all over the world.

Of course he'll say that, as he is the of a US car manufacturer. But after close inspection, chinese cars aren't heavily subsidized, not even much more as US and european car manufacturers. It's all about protectionism as it has always been with the US, nothing they do they do out of kindness, hell, not even WW2, and certainly not the war in Iran. And yet the common civilian is in need for cheaper (but more luxurious) cars, as in regard to build quality US cars sure are nowhere to be found in the top.

How can they get away with this? Bootlegging is still illegal, and these recording weren't done with the permission of the artists and certainly not for redistribution.

So an US based Volvo will be full of US spyware when exported to Europe.. no thank you, I'd rather be spied on by China, and have a much cheaper car but with the same or better features, than being spied on by the US.

I can not imagine microsoft doing these edits to code/commit descriptions, I guess it'll be some extra plugin these devs used.

What rails? This robot has tracks like a mini excavator, so it can drive anywhere. And yeah it is the same type of industrial robot, but not on a fixed position with a fixed power supply you can run 24/7. So the robot has to deal with uneven surfaces and distances from the solarpanel mountrail.

I guess phones with open source OSses without this restriction will become more popular from now on. OS level age restriction is really an abomination of a law, any politician even suggesting it should be hanged and shot at the spot.

Except how would this be impossible? This is a nuclear fission reactor, much like the reactors of submarines. So it's far from possible, I even wonder why they haven't done it much sooner.

I already thought it would be very difficult to create a new videocodec which would not infringe in anyway with existing patents, and I was right, so I really wonder how the legal departments of all the companies who put effort into AV1 being royalty free could have missed it.

Not really, I liked the Hobbit, but it did suffer immensely due to Jackson not having gotten the time to prepare properly when he was forced to take over from the director that left. They didn't get any extra time and even had to write scenes on the day they had to shoot it. So with that in mind , he did a pretty good job.

It's still a big shame Amazon didn't hire (or wasn't allowed to by the Tolkien estate) Peter Jackson for Rings of Power, it would have been so much better as it is now (still wonder how these nobodies got to do this billion dollar series).

But be honest, if AI can generate just as good content and in MUCH shorter time compared to a human, based on what the game designer wants, why should you keep the human for creating the models/art/maps? That would be a bad business decision.