The i-Pace is no longer in production, so it is not really an option going forward (Waymo has at least two paths they are following for expansion outside of their initial footprints, the Inoiq 5, and a purpose built Zeekr). Of course, for Waymo's initial deployment in London, I would not be surprised if they ship a few Jags over just for the presso, but they will need something else.

Actually they do.

In order to be a Black cab driver in London you still need to pass the knowledge (memorizing over 20 thousand streets and 100 thousand landmarks) and passing multiple tests of that knowledge and when and how to use them (the shortest route is not always the one as the raven flies). Being a Black cab driver allows you access to certain routes and lanes and actions that others may not be allowed to use.

Computers, of course, should be able to memorize many of those details.

Well, yes, and no. Not declaring it a formal safety issue also meant that the full force of the NASA resources across all divisions were not brought to bear at the time, and that would also mean that next steps would need to be formally coordinated with high levels of consensus as to those next steps. NASA, like many such large organizations, has a lot of groups that are the best of the best of the best in their field, but might not realize that other alternatives and approaches might be more appropriate. It would also have added a level of bureaucracy that many groups don't want to work under, but sometimes, that really is the best answer. NASA (and Boeing) dodged a bullet and did not lose the crew or the craft, but they came a lot closer than they should have to such a disaster (space is hard, every flight has a probability of loss of mission, but NASA needs that number to be very low, especially for missions involving humans).

"Soylent Green is people!"

"It is hard to make predictions, especially about the future".

Because it is cheap does not mean it must also be bad (although I will agree there was a lot of cheap junk being sold). There are some items for which the only manufacturer ended up being offshore, so now that item costs more due to the taxes.

Github has had no charges for actions runners for open source projects for some time (with various resource limits). If you wanted runners for your closed source projects, there has been a limited free tier, but except for the tiniest orgs, most needed to pay.

More specifically, according to reports, Ellison (Paramount) had offered the same deal privately that they are now offering publicly, and the WBD board had rejected it. The board could not accept it now and later claim they had done their fiduciary duty in evaluating (and rejecting) the deal previously.

And, yes, if Paramount offers more, the board will need to reexamine the new offer (and money always talks). The $2.8B termination fee (that WBD would need to pay Netflix) would also need to be considered in any revised Paramount bid by the WBD board.

Regardless of any potential changes to CNN (which are going to happen in any deal as CNN itself understands it needs to change to survive), the transaction would not have closed until after the midterms.

The proper headline would be "AMD made a very bad choice, and Valve suffers because they choose AMD".

AMD (unlike Nvidia and Intel) choose to not include the protocol enumeration in their firmware (which they apparently plan to do moving forward (they learned the lesson), which required them to do it in software. They knew they would need to make the protocol public, which the license and NDA they signed did not allow. They did try to convince the HDMI forum to let them publish the protocol, which the HDMI forum decided not to do (as was always their right, and the most likely outcome, but AMD needed to try). Valve choose to select AMD knowing HDMI 2.1 was not likely to be available. So, bad on AMD, and bad on Valve.

Influencers are the new shopping channel hosts (getting you to buy junk you don't need with money you don't have).

(Old) Hollywood is terrified of big tech. They see changes coming that will impact the way the business has operated for many decades. Sort of like some people are terrified of AI (their jobs will change, or be eliminated). Change will happen (no matter who wins the acquisition). Unless you can accurately predict the future it is not possible to know the good, bad, and meaningless changes that will happen (either in Hollywood, or AI, or ...)

The cable network parts were expected to be worth (somewhere) around $16B after the spin-out, which means Netflix's bid is worth (to the shareholders) in the range of $100B (as the shareholders still get the cable network).

The board will probably need to evaluate the Ellison offer.

Some people insist that they do need to see the content. They were often brought up in an environment where they were told they can have it all. And every politician will always promise everything for free (or at least cheap), as that is the way to get (re)elected.

Around my neighborhood almost no one parks in the garage (they park in their driveway, or the street). The garage is where you store stuff (and you rarely open the garage door).