On one end the AI craze is screaming for more power, yet they have bucket loads of money to spare. They should use their own AI to help them build power plants to feed it. Once it understand how to get more power and CPU, then its only a matter of time before it will become sentient.

Came to say pretty much the same. There is a huge shortage of seeing dogs worldwide because of the difficult task of training dogs AND making sure that they pass the final testing exams, such as making sure they never actually cross on a red light (dogs are colour blind) and kill their owner. Having tens of thousands of robot dogs syncing their experience would great a huge pool of learned behaviour and be a tremendous improvement in accessibility for a percentage of the population.

That's fine, you won't remember soon enough...

The Vulcans understand what is needed to have a sentient computer.

Only if they are sexy adds.

The problem is not that microbeads are a issue in themselves, but more like that thy are a great absorbent of other chemicals. So it makes it a lot easier for chemicals to neter the food chain since many animals would eat fish or drink water that's contaminated with microbeads. And these are chemicals that would otherwise either dissipate or disintegrate from the water treatment cycle or UV rays outside.

But where would this 'plant' put it, especially when it dies? Should it have other 'plants' bury it so in 50 million years our dinosaurs mutant children will have clean coal to burn?

Submitter/editors can't make the distinction between passengers (which one person can be multiple times) and people. It's a hard life...

But the features! http://nedroid.com/2014/08/pho...

Will it be that much bigger than the other factories out there? Or is it just marketing that everyone regurgitates?

It,s a crappy exaggeration... let,s not innovate too much because someone might be left behind! I'm siding with the Google deployment on this one; they offer a better service for what seems quite a bit less money. This has more chance to bring the internet to poorer people than ever before (although only in towns for now, but it is only beginning).

My girlfriend loves my new found third leg. Thanks, radiation!

I didn't know conglomerates were charities? Why would they lower their prices, unless forced to?

How about encoded smoke signals?

Won't solar panels be so cheap in 5 years that only rich people will burn candles and/or oil?