Of course there will be layoffs after a merger. Some would be expected (there is no need for two HR departments, or two financial/accounting departments, or two marketing departments, and all the managers that supported those organizations). The question is about the actual talent supporting the products (those are the engineers, not the managers).

Disney wants to have their cake, and to eat it too. If they un-bundle ESPN they know full well they will lose about 70% of the cable subscribers (based on past evaluations, only about 30% are dedicated sports fanatics). Those 30% really really want their sports, of course, and they don't really want to pay for it at fully the un-bundled price.

YTTV would probably like to un-bundle. Disney does not. Because if Disney un-bundles for YTTY, the MFN (Most Favorite Nation) clauses will come into force, and all the majors will force Disney to offer them the same deal. And because of those MFN clauses, Disney can not offer a good deal only to YTTV.

The Computer History Museum has had previous success reading such 9-track tapes (they have a dedicated lab for restoration and recovery).

It is possible that that will be a next step. Google Play Store works that way.

Price always matters, but you don't have to tip the waymo driver (at least I never have, and the AI does not seem to expect it), so total pricing is what matters. To this point Waymo's pricing is in the same order of magnitude as the competition (more than a typical Uber or Lyft before tips, but not way out of line), although they have the parent company resources to undercut any price they want if they decide to own any market they want.

Initially the answer is no (primarily they will serve the strip and immediate surrounding areas). They claim they intend to expand to include the airport (the taxi cabal will no doubt try to stop them). Of course, they still don't serve their "home town" airports SFO (or SJC) yet, either. The only airport that they currently serve is PHX.

I do wonder if they will expand the Bay Area service and include Levi's Stadium before the Big Game in February 2026 (and of course for the FIFA World Cup later in 2026). Both would be big promotional wins.

Given all the i-Paces (although fewer Zeekrs) I see around the SF Bay Area they could, at least in theory, have the capacity.

Microsoft's Project Natick was an early demonstrator that sea cooling was viable. They did not use wind energy for power, so I guess this can be claimed as a first, but it mostly seems like just a me-too.

Some data centers have used their waste heat to do things like heat pools, or apartments/condos.

As I recall, github hosted runners for linux and windows have been using Azure VMs for quite some time (and the mac runners are hosted in azure datacenters). As data residency requirements continue to expand, adding new github datacenters in parallel to the existing Azure datacenters makes less and less sense financially (let the cloud provider (Azure) do the (literally) heavy lifting of building out new datacenters).

iFixIt had a booth at a recent Maker Faire (the right audience for their toolkits and their "If you can't fix it, you don't own it" mantra). I am a long term satisfied customer of many of their tool-kits, and have recommended them to others who want to tinker and repair (FD: I also own Metcal (soldering) and Hakko (SMT rework) equipment, but that is not iFixit's core audience).

Some AVR's do have various boosting choices (including dialog enhancement(s)). The home theater forums have long threads about the issue and what is considered best. And some people just turn on closed captioning.

These are targeted as AI accelerator(s). Just like Google's TPUs, or AWS's Inferentia/Tranium chips. They will have little to no impact on the consumer GPU market (except, perhaps, sucking up more fab capacity and making GPUs even more expensive).

Co-CEO's have a very mixed success rate, unless, as executive chairman, Ek intends to continue to operate as the actual decision maker.

Countries have been spying on each other for, well, forever.

Some countries are just better at it then others.

That the PRC has worked to be good at it is not a surprise.

That the campaign was identified suggests the PRC teams still have some work ahead of them to avoid detection in the future.

Boeing has been doing various paper design exercises for close to a decade on their New Midsize Aircraft (NMA), which has been tentatively called the 797. A number of airlines have expressed interest for much of that decade. The MAX issues redirected Boeing's teams, and pushed back the work on the NMA. But Boeing never, totally, abandoned the work, but instead then decided to wait for new engine developments that would provide a strong compelling operational advantage for a NMA. The first serious step of talking with the engine manufacturers has been talking place. Airbus is not sitting still, and they also are looking at what will eventually replace the A320 series, but as that is a more modern aircraft than the 737, they have a bit more time to make the call.