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Submission + - Delivery robot spontaneously bursts into flames in California (theverge.com)

AmiMoJo writes: An autonomous food delivery robot burst into flames on a Berkeley, California walkway on Friday. Kiwi, the startup that makes and manages the one hundred-strong fleet of robots, issued a statement to say that the fire was quickly extinguished by a passerby before the city’s fire department arrived and doused the machine in foam. No one was harmed as a result of the incident. Kiwi said that it believed the fire was caused by human error, when a faulty battery was manually inserted into the robot.

Submission + - Switzerland votes to abandon nuclear power in favor of renewables

bsolar writes: Swiss voters approved a new energy strategy proposed by the government. Under this new policy no new nuclear power plant will be built and the 5 existing nuclear power plants will continue operating and will be shut down at the end of their operating life (expected to last about 20-30 years). The plan is to offset the missing nuclear energy production by renewables and lower energy consumption.

Comment Re:The price is actually pretty nice (Score 4, Informative) 249

I know nothing about it, but my guess is that it's only 1 Gbps to the router room of the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga. From there it presumably rides their T1 to the Internet. (Or whatever they have.) Also, it's probably 1 Gbps download / 128 Kbps upload.

It's symmetrical. https://epbfi.com/you-pick/#/fi-speed-internet-1000

Comment Re:It's always refreshing (Score 1) 1090

Dude, it's "The Learning Channel." They don't promise what you'll learn. You learn what not to be, how not to act, how many kids not to have, and good reasons not to get limbs lopped off. If it weren't for TLC I'd be a whiny bitch with 20 kids, 1 arm, no legs, and weigh 1/2 ton. Thank god TLC is there for me. Without god I don't know what I'd do.

TLC stopped being 'The Learning Channel' about a decade ago. Now it's just TLC, doesn't mean squat.

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