Also these satellites are direct to phone, where as the early Starlink ones needed a hefty receiver. They are doing their usual thing of targeting the next big tech boom, not the current one. Satellite to phone will probably only really take off once Chinese manufacturers start churning out modems and phones with it.

It will be interesting to compare how well it works too, since Chinese companies, particularly Huawei, are already ahead when it comes to cellular and wireless communication technology.

Fusion is a long shot, at least in our lifetimes. This is proven tech that just needs to scale.

Really this is the best way to make use of fusion power. Take the natural reactor we already orbit, and add some storage to make it available 24/365.

It's not a prequel, it's set around 1000 years after the TOS era. Where Discovery jumped to for season 3.

It looks fine. It's an early teaser trailer that tells us nothing about the plot or characters.

Here we go again. "China is failing, no need to worry", then in a few years time "China stole our future tech and we need more export restrictions until we can invent it ourselves!"

If you look at the speed at which China has developed rocket technology and space tech in general, both privately and with government funded research, it's pretty clear that they are going to be a big deal very soon. They have some geographic disadvantages, but they have huge supply chain and rapid development advantages.

TFA also makes the classic mistake of assuming that the initial launch cadence is how things will remain, when of course it's going to ramp up as confidence in the already deployed satellites builds and the steady stream of work improves the turn-around time on the rockets.

We have got to stop doing this and instead be realistic. We have competition, and competition is usually a good thing if you respond well to it. We are going to have to adapt to a new world where there are vastly more satellites in orbit and where the reach of these private companies, likely backed by governments and with dual civilian and military applications, are greatly extended. Fingers in ears doesn't work, as we have found out time and time again.

It's probably worse in the US, most things related to solar are. In Europe there are loads of really good off the shelf options. Every solar installer will offer you a battery system.

I'm not an astronomer, but I recognize a hack when I see one. Dark matter was a hack. Dark energy was a hack on a hack. Now they're hacking the hack to the hack

The article is about Dark Energy, not Dark Matter ...
However ...

Dark matter is not a hack.

It is just like viruses.
When they were discovered (1890s?), they were yet to be seen for decades.
The basic story is that a solution from infected tobacco leaves caused mottling on healthy tobacco leaves. Bacteria were suspected, but the scientists used very fine filters that excluded bacteria, and the leaves were still infected!
They called it virus from the Latin word for poison.
It was not seen, because they were smaller than the wavelength of visible light, and that was what optical microscopes use.
It was only in the 1930s when they were actually seen by electron microscopes.

So Dark Matter says we observe effects of something unseen through its gravity.
It may turn out to be a particle, or primordial black hole, or something else.

There are many other examples of sports science pushing records though, so even if there is doping it's likely also down to improvements unrelated to that as well. For example, women's sports science was a long way behind the men's up until the 90s, when women started to improve rapidly.

How is the gender and age verification "critical" to retain? Once someones gender and age has been verified, it doesn't need to be re-verified. Or if it does for some reason, they would want new, current data, not data from years ago. Over the span of years it is possible to change your gender, for example.

Same with location data. While it may be necessary to verify that they are, say, in the US when signing up, or when logging in, there is no reasonable justification for retaining their precise GPS coordinates after that check is complete. Even for advertising, they could narrow it down to a general area, or some kind of token.

Even if they ask for opt-in, explicit permission, the use and retention still has to be reasonable. Effort has to be made to reduce the risk and the harm in the event of a breach.

You need better consumer laws to stop companies getting away with this.

In the UK, when Sony removed features from the PS3, people got partial refunds from the shops they bought them from. I don't know if Amazon and the like chased Sony for the losses, and I don't really care. As long as someone in the chain pays, that will discourage the practice.

Tech Bro just invented the petrol station with attached shop/restaurant. Those things we have had for decades, and which (at least in Europe) many charger locations are modelled on already.

As for Tesla's robots, they are rubbish and the demos were rigged. Their solar and battery offerings are over-priced.

I've never been to a US gas station (I assume it's use from the use of gallons) but in the UK you drive up, often have to queue, and then park by the pump. If they have pay at the pump you put your card in, enter the PIN, takes about a minute for some reason. Open your flap and remove the cap, pick up the nozzle and fill up for a few minutes, then reverse it all and drive off. Add another minute or two if you have to pay at the kiosk.

The petrol stations are sometimes at supermarkets so you don't have to go too far out of your way, but not always.

Plugging in at home is much nicer, especially if you have a garage. For public charging, Nio is the ultimate with battery swap. You don't even have to get out of the car.

I'm sure you can find some idiot, probably a false flag, saying that. Or twist something someone said to imply it, the classic one being that beyond 1.5C is pretty bad and we had about 20 years to prevent it. But that's all it was, fringe stuff and lies.

There were plenty of credible sources, plenty of people on the political left accurately relaying the scientific consensus.

What does it matter though? Even if what you claim was true, that's no excuse for you to continue to ignore the science.

The biggest lie is that there were all those credible claims that world would end in 20 years.

They typically have on-site batteries for those chargers.