Has anyone noticed that the numbers given are gibberish? The world record is 1m18s but the human record is 0m15s and the robot did it in 0m45s.

The figures are so heavily cooked that it's not really clear what it's capable of: "The result is a material that has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio thatâ(TM)s 10 times better". So it's actually just good for it's light weight compared to steel, specifically when it comes to tensile strength, which means you can use it for... suspension bridge stays? Well, until it rots or cracks due to sun exposure anyway. And that's assuming it can safely flex like steel cable can.

Yep, looks like this week's yellow bogeyman story. Stories of unnamed devices found in unnamed panels coming from an unnamed source are great for scaremongering, until you realise they're at about the same level as the magic spy capacitors on Supermicro server boards from a few years back.

Quite apart from the overall bogeyman nature of the story, if you're going to put spy devices in something why would you put them in solar panels? What are they going to report back to their evil CCP overlords, "sun is currently shining somewhere in the US?". What a load of complete crap.

True. I'm just waiting for someone to call themselves that... black metal, or perhaps drone metal? "Jevons Paradox, formed by former Sunn O))) band member ....".

In particular see "Jevons Paradox".

Which, despite its name, is not a heavy metal band.

Just like the person who's fallen out of a skyscraper window and is telling himself "so far so good, so far so good...".

If you look at what it is it's a concrete runway, in the middle of nowhere, with a few fancy-looking curved structures around the periphery.

Oh, and a cool-sounding name.

This isn't so much a "how we will grow" but more a "please someone find a use for this".

No, it's not Art of the Deal, it's Art of the Squeel - he saw what has policies were doing and turned tail.

Maybe they could grow bananas in the US? It's well on the way to being a banana republic anyway.

It's OK, it's just standard power management with an "AI" label attached to it to make it sound cool. Nothing to see here, move along.

That's how you can tell when something is incredibly stupid, when it has the word "challenge" at the end and is spread via social media. I'm just waiting for the Running Head-first Into a Concrete Wall Challenge and the Put a Shotgun in your Mouth and Pull the Trigger Challenge to take off.

That's already the standard in a lot of countries. All the fast lane does is check that your image matches the one in the identity document, nothing more. And by fast I mean actually fast, not just "called fast" - time from leaving the plane to picking up my luggage can be as little as five minutes.

The weird thing with this is that it was the US who forced the entire world to adopt biometric passports post-911, and now they're left behind using humans squinting at you at the end of long queues at their borders. Where you have no rights and they can detain you and seize your property, but at least they can't automatically match you to your passport.

If they're going to have the chips do that, why not cut out the middleman and just have them not able to think bad thoughts? And one of them could find a cure male-pattern baldness while we're at it.

The V2 was hypersonic. Perun covered the hypesonics about two years ago. Their two main uses are propaganda and attracting funding.

It's OK, it'll be fixed when the same story is reposted tomorrow.