Yep, the EU waits for the market to sort itself out and then makes that a regulation.

Sucks if you've invested so much money in 3/8 egg width cables that are only used by one brand... but you were screwed anyway.

If the next iteration of USB produces something better, the regs will change again. The simple fact USB-A and USB 2 are still commonplace is due to the fact that even though there are superior ports and protocols they just do the job so reliably, flawlessly well that there's no point in moving on. I suspect that USB C will be the same, even if there is a better port it's usefulness and ubiquity will sustain it.

As a gamer, I cringe at the idea of wireless anything. Lag and they'll start to go flat at the worst possible moment.

Although gaming on anything less than a desktop is a compromise anyway.

USB C only really has two uses. Charging and a port replicator. Granted a USB A 3.0 port can do the latter just as well. As such, a laptop doesn't really need more than one (or two at the maximum if one is for charging).

Adapters are just another point of failure. I'm yet to have a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle that works properly.

Nice try to compare this to a fatal flaw that killed 350 people... but no cigar.

An issue that still hasn't been fixed.

You should also note that Airbus didn't want to reduce the maintenance requirements, they did so at the continual demand of customers (meaning airlines). If an airline is still following the recommended schedule and procedures, the problem doesn't manifest.

Boeing is doing the same thing but they aren't even trying oppose it, they're happy to make their aircraft less safe.

Yep, according to The Fine Summary, it's largely due to more lax maintenance schedules being driven by airlines rather than aircraft manufacturers. So the airlines want to save a few pennies on filters, seals, other parts and the time and staff to fit them.. and fuck anyone who gets sick in the process of making money.

What are the charges? Uploading a film, a succulent copyrighted film.

There is something wrong when the authorities of a country care more about copyright infringement than the 40,000 murders that occur yearly.

And only 6 hours of gameplay.

That's the normal console expectation.

I don't own a console any more. Last one was a Wii. Thought about a Switch 2 but not with the way Nintendo have been acting.

In the Glorious PCGMR good indie games like this are commonplace and usually go for £/$20-30. I bought Captain of Industry last week and it's like electronic crack, same with Schedule 1 and both of these games are still being developed and updated with new content. Last AAA game I bought was WH40K Space Marine 2, also bought last week as it had dropped below £30 and really I'm not enjoying it that much. It really represents what's wrong with modern games, too much button mashing, quick time events, stupidly long load times. I'm glad I didn't pay full price for it but I suspect I'm not going to bother finishing it for some time.

Because someone who steals a phone will never lower themselves to selling something they know doesn't work.

Plus this little nugget:

That means they can just send the stolen phones overseas... That's where most of the UK's stolen cars go, no point in chopping them up here when someone in Bulgaria will buy them whole no questions asked. Phones are a lot easier to move. Maybe this might stretch between the US and Canada or UK and EU but as mentioned, phones are easy to move and crims have no compunction selling something that doesn't work.

So... We can start planning the invasion of this planet next week?

Pretty much this.

I suspect it's less to do with AI and more to do with the current global economy descending into chaos. So companies aren't hiring as much and the first group to suffer from this are graduates. If your hiring budget gets slashed, you're only going to hire experienced people... then make those people work 80 hour weeks for less pay. Welcome to capitalism Comrades.

Same things happening in the western world too.

As for AI... Even as terribad as it is I suspect it'll be a better script reader than most call centre flunkies. It's not going replace an engineer that knows what they're doing but it will instruct Auntie Gladys on how to reboot her router.

An aircraft like this will likely be a lot further up the logistics chain, using existing airports to transport blades from near the factories to other places where they're loaded onto local logistics (road, river, sea). I suspect a lot of the larger wind turbines are being used offshore. This is similar to most other outsized cargo aircraft (I.E. Airbus' Beluga).

Making multi-piece blades makes them heavier and more complex, meaning more prone to failure. A wind turbine blade is expected to have a service life of decades under all weather conditions. Complexity is a huge problem.

Also I suspect this plane may never see the light of day. The whole thing sounds like a pitch for VC funding.

It already is, the soy farmers in the midwest are already asking for handouts because China has stopped buying their product.

The power of the US has waned and it's now dropping to the point where it's not just the EU that can say no... it's not even just the EU and China any more. You've got Trump to blame for most of it.

With Apple, by the time it's "ready", someone else will have done it better. Probably multiple someone elses.

It's going to be another Apple Maps. Google already has a very good voice translator.

I also deal with GDPR, it's important for all the reasons that people don't talk about. A lot of our personal data ends up in the hands of bad actors because organisations who aren't expressly selling it are getting compromised. North American carriers WestJet and Hawiian as well as Australian Airline QANTAS had their frequent flyer programs compromosed so all the data that was in there is now in the hands of the bad guys. I'm sure they didn't want this to happen but they secured it as cheaply as possible (because these programs cost money to run). A lot of GDPR is about how you handle, store and control that data to minimise the risks of, during and after a data breach. Companies get breached all the time, most of the time they don't really get very far, maybe defacing a website or getting a few commercial in confidence emails. Much of what GDPR does is limiting access to PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and making sure an organisation has someone in charge of it by defining the roles around dealing with PII (I.E. the Data Controller).

Now companies like Apple are getting their knickers in a knot because they cant spy and sell data (whilst simultaneously trying to tell you they're not doing it) so they want to create a lot of hate against GDPR in the hopes that it'll prevent similar laws in other countries. They know the fight is lost in Europe, they're just hoping that they can stave it off in other parts of the world.

Marketing?

Lets use the correct verb here people, they're selling, selling your personal data to all and sundry. Lets not try to hide that behind ambiguous terms.