I think these are in production, or maybe just available for OEM orders:

https://www.martinrea.com/news...

Graphene in brake lines, of all things.

A standalone GPS device probably wouldn't have W3W.

There's plenty of power in modern phones to do most desktop work... I agree the OS isn't right. So I wonder if this would be a good place to run a desktop under a VM type thing. As a bonus, you can still use your phone as a phone while it runs a fullsize desktop environment for web and office work.

It's not like TSMC or GloFlow or anyone (outside of unexpected downtime) has cut production. It sounds like car companies freaked out, and rather than stock pile a few extra processors during Covid-19, they cut chip orders (possibly triggering contract breaking clauses), and are now surprised that TSMC et al have sold off that reserved capacity to other people?

This should be an easy problem for companies waiting on a couple hundred $ of chips who are trying to make $30K cars. Just pay the big premium to cut in line at the fabs. Penny wise, pound foolish.

Note the names above and see how many of them are still around in 5 years.

I think this is only the beginning of shrinking data center sales for Intel. The hyper cloud guys have custom ARM chips for a fraction of the cost, and it's only going to eat up share from here on out. AMD will get a bit of a boost for a while, but it won't be long before they top out too in the DCs. We know for sure Amazon is moving a lot of machines to ARM, I would assume Google is too. MSFT won't be too far behind. And the Chinese guys definitely want to get off of Intel in case they get caught in some new US vs China trade spat.

Check out that photo. 3 huge trailers of high pressure H2 tanks to power 1 row of a DC. You'd need huge tank farm for enough H2 to power the entire DC for 2 days. What city / fire department is going to give you a permit for that?!

Granted, maybe they didn't use the full tanks... but that sure looks like a whole lot of hardware.

When people around the world have to burn up twice as much electricity to race to make the same amount of bitcoin.

It has received donations from at least one other, Warren Buffet - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Not sure if other smaller contributions to the foundation have occurred or not.

I wonder if the other 5 factories get repurposed if not used? What does all that pay for? I would think a lot of off the shelf hardware that can be sold or used for some existing vaccine production?

I believe that contract clause was ruled illegal and void a few years ago in Canada. Approximately when a few stores (mainly mom and pops) started charging premiums on CC transactions.

I am glad Apple continues to work on maps. I've found it OK in recent years - some places automatically open in Apple, and I don't bother switching most of the time.

At the same time, I have found the growing prominence of ads in Google Maps (in the form of highlighted pointers) getting increasingly annoying... but I don't blame Google for trying to make some money off of all their map work.

Same. Saw fusion in summary... thought how could that be, we don't have fusion in a practical sense on land. Bit of RTFA'ing and Google got me this:

http://large.stanford.edu/cour...

Fission.

I don't think you can compare nuclear capacity factor to wind. Nuclear plants schedule downtime for maintenance and swap out fuel. Wind goes down whenever the weather decides to change.

IMHO, yeah, Tesla slightly stepped over the line w/their phrasing.

But, the bigger issue is WHY ARE ALL 5 STARS NOT THE SAME?!

I actually learned this when the Model 3 got their 5 stars, IIRC, Musk on his twitter feed or something mentioned that the X is actually safer because it's heavier and it's 5 stars is better than the Model 3's 5 stars.

Well, who knew that before?! For a long time I assumed 5 stars in a sub compact was approximately the same as 5 stars in a pickup truck. It didn't really make sense that they'd be exactly the same safety, but I kind of figured the minimum score for 5 stars was relatively low, or scores in different areas offset themselves enough to make the math work out.

Fix the bigger system, not just Tesla's claims.

Spotify had issues with people scamming the playlist system to get paid. Forcing people through a 3rd party would reduce that a bit.

Nothing is stopping other car companies from making competitive compatible products. It must be easy, if Tesla can do it.

Seriously though, more likely cities will pay for it, but with min-bus type things that can do public transit. Maybe give public transit higher priority or something on the lanes.