This sounds like someone made minute, non-revolutionary advances on standard de-salination and described it as if they were the first person to invent evaporative desalination. People have been doing sun powered desalination for thousands of years.

At small scales.

At large scales, desalination plants use reverse osmosis, which pretty much inherently creates a brine that is released back into the environment. You're not "moving the salt" to any useful industrial process, since it's still rather dilute.

At best, some of those plants use solar power to drive the RO process. But we'd much rather have the electricity to power other things, so a process that uses a non-semiconducting metal surface to perform solar-powered evaporative distillation, without a need to dispose of a brine, and without relying upon solar-electric generation and conversion, is a bigger deal than you make it out to be.

Not necessarily. If you magically decrease the cost of a development effort by 90%, a lot more projects will be done. The ROI of an effort isn't only affected by the return, but also the investment.

"Despite the limitations of the 1993-era sound card drivers,"

The Gravis Ultrasound ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ), as well as other soundcards which *USED WAVETABLE SYNTHESIS* were available.

Yeah, FM-synthesis sounds like a robot. The SNES SPC-7000 was wavetable. The Sega Genesis used a Z80 for FM synthesis. A GUS card was supperior to the SPC-7000.

If you want to know how good the music is, either run DOOM in DOSBOX with a correct GUS Wavetable patch set (which will let you know how *ACTUALLY GOOD* the music is). Alternatively, the Doom & Doom 2 remaster on Steam has an actual band covering the actual tracks. That also sounds awesome.

Lol; I guess the author wasn't aware of the state of the art in 1993 if that's what they wrote.

15 GB has been enough for me. My oldest email is from 1999, as I imported some older email as accounts - and I've used it since the beta invitation phase.

If I had photos there too it would not be enough, I've got hundreds of gigs of photos and movies - but those are on iCloud where I do have to pay. I've got a local copy on my NAS as well, but the added convenience and safety is worth it. There many memories there, for decades.

The ironic part is that they claim to be against DEI because one should select the most qualified candidate... and they end up with least qualified(*) cabinet ever. You can't go lower than e.g. Hegseth and Kennedy - the worm must have eaten most of his brain. And others - who probably know better - pretend not to. E.g Bessent pretending not to know who pays tariffs.

(*)Except for boot licking, of course. That's on North Korean levels in the US now.

The storage is not just used for the inbox, but the archive as well.

Doing some research seems to indicate that it's related to a 14 day trial period of games - so one can't download a trial, disconnect the console, and play beyond the 14 days. After 14 days, the authentication is converted to a permanent one.

Beyond that, I'm also trying to see why it's a problem - the combination of a downloaded game purchase and no Internet access sounds rare. And if offline gaming is important, physical games are usually cheaper and shouldn't have that problem.

Among consoles, the Playstation 5 is clearly doing well - it's a well made product, and to be fair: The new restriction doesn't bother most users. For it to be a problem, you need to be using downloaded games and the console not being connected to the Internet. That doesn't sound like a normal combination. If offline use is important, buy physical games. They tend to be cheaper as well.

Other than consoles, their wireless headphones are among the best, maybe even the best.

Beyond that, they have popular products in the photo category - and while that whole segment is suffering from phones, Sony makes a lot of the sensors used in the phones so they get a piece of that pie too.

This is Europe, so selling that data can get you in deep economic trouble. Same if a company buys it for use in Europe.... Chinese intelligence are surely siphoning the data, though, but I doubt they're selling it.

This is not being pushed by social media. On the contrary, these are pushed in order to enforce bans of social media to children, which most Europeans want.

You don't know for sure that an attacker doesn't know of or use this problem - or keeps it at hand in case an opportunity arises. A security bug doesn't enter a plane of non-existence just because you don't know that it is actively exploited - yet. It's a problem waiting to happen. These tools make some of them easier to find, for both good and bad actors. Ignoring it won't help.

Either that, or if they are too slow in increasing capacity, China might just build a bit and eventually take over the market. If RAM manufacturers are thinking of "if we do nothing, we don't risk money building another factory and we earn money hand over fist as it currently is" they might be in for a rough awakening.

If they are able to remove ads like this, shouldn't they remove fake celebrity endorsement ads instead? Just removing all ads for crypto and non-mainstream investments should go a long way to fix that...

Here in Norway, you can not buy a sim card without some sort of ID, physical or electronic (we've got bank certified online IDs we can use for sig documents, online purchases with credit card etc). However, if the carrier was caught selling your PII they'd be in massive trouble. Fines could be up to 10% of gross revenue, as per the GDPR.

One man's jailbreak is another man's severe security bug. If an actor with resources tries to break the phone- e.g. if ICE is used against "enemies of the state" (which Trump has branded Democrats already) - having all of those holes patched is good. This makes it harder for Cellebrite, three letter US agencies etc to get access to your data. It also makes it harder to resell stolen phones, so they're less attractive targets for criminals.