India spends a fraction of what the US spends per child on education, how do they have more trained AI workers? Could
It be our kids don't care about boring stuff like learning to program AI?

Starlink will support 5G, IoT etc. before SES can start launching satellites. Starlink is about the size of a pizza box and consumes the same current as a 60 watt incadescent light bulb. If SES can make satellite communications work with a cell phone/under 1 watt, then why can't Starlink do that? In fact Starlink already demonstrated cell phone to cell phone texting (which means it can support IoT/LoRa). As for 5G I am sure that's on their radar, they have a deal with T-mobile .. you don't think the possibility of 5G hasn't come up? The assumption that Starlink is going to twiddle their thumbs doesn't really make sense.

How are they going to get the satellites up there? SpaceX is the only provider who can do it cheaply AND has the launch cadence. Plus, Starlink has a 5+ year head start. Meaning if SES started work tomorrow, their first launch would be two or three years from now and then add another 5 to 7 years before their constellation is in place in any position to compete with Starlink -- by which time Starlink will be onto its Gen 2.

And then we'll start getting emails that they need our bank account info to transfer the money from their brain's crypto wallet.

Your brain will be encrypted unless you pay up.

He was at a conference I went to some years back, he was saying he lived in New York. I guess the Russians are going to have to get him via a CIA-style "extraordinary rendition" or Navalny-style diverting his flight .. or Uber.

Overall foldable phone sales are INCREASING by a lot: "In the first quarter of this year, the total size of China’s foldable smartphone market was 1.86 million units, up 83% from last year."

The story isn't that foldable sales have decreased or that people don't want 'em. It's that there are Chinese alternatives undercutting Samsung. It's actually an argument in favor of foldable. This is like when in 1999 the atavista search engine started losing market share to Google. Back then you idiots would have said this means search engines are a fad. "In the first quarter of this year, the total size of China’s foldable smartphone market was 1.86 million units, up 83% from last year."

600 grams is too heavy. Would you walk around with a 600 gram dumbbell on your face? It's good for a one-time 30 minute gimmick. Don't get me wrong, the visuals are amazing and what it can do is great, but it's not light enough to just wear casually .. nor is there good enough content on it. They need to get it down to at least 120 grams, which is totally possible because the Bigscreen Beyond weighs 120 grams .. so if a couple of guys in a garage can make a 120 gram VR headset (with 2.5K per eye displays) why can't Apple? They blundered by putting the CPU and fans etc. (all of which requires more accompanying infrastructure) in the headset instead of with the battery pack. That was a huge fucking blunder.

Wasn't Hitler from there? And didn't they allow Nazi Germany to just annex them with zero resistance? Maybe they should look at regulating their humans first?

Did you read my last line?

Sounds like a great plan, suck up a $100 billion dollars of green energy funds and fail to deliver .. thereby securing coal dependency. A win-win. Ok, a win-lose.

That has to be the most useless metric ever. Give me back football fields, libraries of congress, rhode islands, quarters, or even bananas.

For that amount she can get the deluxe first class package right next to the window seat.

The reason they suck is that they are the biggest and therefore there's huge inertia to make any sort of change. A small organization can easily rewrite its stuff, change platforms, whatever. American Airlines is likely to think they need to allocate and invest a billion dollars to fix their stuff. I mean, I am sure it can be done for a LOT less, but since it's a big organization you can't really tell people to suck it up we're changing this shit. It would need a strong personality to come in and do something like that. The best they can hope for is to hire some consulting company to come in and write a for thousand pages of esoteric requirements that everyone thinks they need.