Oh yeah, the ones with the ugly headlights? Good for them, I didn't realize they actually sold any.

Only a 15% service fee? Even that's obscene. So if they sell a $100 ticket, they're going to charge $15 in service fees? For what? Should be a flat fee capped at something reasonable like $5.

Rivian? Is this another AI shoe company?

How long until the FCC is renamed the Department of Truth?

I am Zuck the great and powerful! Who are you?

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! Er, wait a minute, there's nobody there...

What's the point? OLED is so vastly superior, I don't know why they're even still manufacturing these. Momentum?

Maybe they can put an OLED display behind an LCD panel to get double the colors.

It was pretty vapid, but that's what people like: feel-good pablum with a veil of "science." Andy Weir writes stuff that's one step above YA fiction. What did you expect?

I used to have a "Songbird Magnet" (manufactured by Bird-X), which was just a speaker that would blast out purple martin song at scheduled times to attempt to get a colony to nest. It never worked for me, but surely that's all this needs to be? A box with a speaker in it and some rudimentary sensors? Why does it have to look like a bird?

But depressingly, maybe this is just a prelude to Blade Runner. "Do you like our owl?"

You may be right. Bring back Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

Hear hear. Some of my favorite episodes are those that present a moral quandary that at first seems obvious, but then end up with an ambiguous resolution that leaves you thinking. It makes me suspect that those who state that Star Trek has always been "pushing social boundaries" weren't really paying attention. I never got the impression that the show had a political agenda beyond showing what would happen if we put our differences aside and worked together for once. Can't we all just get along? (The answer is "no.")

After Google Stadia went tits up, the writing's been on the wall for Luna. If this turns out to be the first death knell for the service, I'm not surprised.

Game streaming is an odd market position to fill because hardcore gamers will already own a capable system and won't enjoy the added latency and compression of a game stream, while casual gamers are already happy with playing crap on their phones. So what's left are those gamers who can't afford a system, but they aren't going to have much money to spend on games anyways. At best, they can only hope to provide a subscription service with just enough content to keep customers interested while also trying to keep the cost of renting time on a remote gaming PC to a minimum.

If you think about it, this is kind of like a virtual gaming cafe... except you don't get the side revenue of selling drinks and snacks. It's awfully hard to see how they can make money from this.

I think his point was that as stated in the headline, they didn't make the oxygen; it was already there. They're just freeing it from its chemical bonds.

Pedantic, I know, but it's true.

That would be only 454 22TB drives, so at 670 grams each that would only be around 670 pounds of hard drives occupying 10,830 cubic inches or 178L of space.

That could easily fit into 4-5 backpacks if you're okay with your party moving at half speed due to being overburdened.

Oh good, more surveillance software disguised as a crowdsourced public resource. Is anyone fooled by this stuff anymore?

I was thinking the same. I did this in the early 2000s with an old 486, except it was dialing out with a 56k modem. It was running a Junkbuster proxy to filter out ads. Amazing that I was able to do that with 33MHz.