I would be very surprised if farmers didn't rely on climate data that comes from these satellites.

Unfortunately that seems to be the tactic used by many businesses now. Taki Udon is another one, and RMC come to think of it.

Years late but OK. Do they work?

Are those features any good though? Google's voice transcription is better than most humans, and it's all done locally on the phone. At least with my wife's iPhone 16... Max? it's makes frequent mistakes and seems to have a poor microphone.

Another good AI feature iPhone seem to be missing is call screening, call menus, and holding. You can have your phone answer for you and ask who is calling, and what they say appears in real-time on your screen. When you call some numbers it displays menu options as text too. If you get put on hold it can listen for you and beep when the agent is ready to speak to you. I think it tells them you are holding and about to pick up as well.

It's self correcting in the same way that climate change is. Sure, life on Earth will adapt... But the speed at which it is happening means that people living through the adaptation are going to experience some bad times.

If I were doing it I'd look for an old POTS to SIP gateway device on eBay and use that. No need for a phone line, which these days tends to be expensive. Just an internet connection and SIP service, or he could even be running his own.

A steal at $38 billion for 5MW. The only reason they wasted so much money on it is the other uses for the material it can produce.

The problem with cooling towers is that the basic cheap ones tend up evaporating off a lot of the water, instead of returning it to the source. For nuclear plants relying on inland water supplies, that if often an issue, especially when temperatures rise.

The more expensive types probably aren't worth building, even if the space is available, for the sake of a few weeks a year. While these events getting more frequent make the investment seem more worthwhile, renewables and storage are already much cheaper, and getting cheaper every year. The only way they build cooling towers and refit all the plumbing to accommodate them is if someone else is paying for it, i.e. consumers or taxpayers (but I repeat myself).

It's not really the practicality of it anyway, it's about staking a claim. As TFS notes, they have some dubious concerns about China landing one first and using its presence to declare an area off-limits to other countries. I think that's probably exaggerated for the sake of distracting from the Epstein Files, but obviously solar and battery storage would not have the same effect of working around existing treaties that forbid claiming ownership of parts of the moon.

Thanks. I'll have to get an order in.

They've definitely got revenue as the article stated. "OpenAI's annual recurring revenue is now at $13 billion, up from $10 billion in June, with the company on track to surpass $20 billion by year-end" and "five million paying business users". Nothing to sneeze at and the growth rate is 4x. People will invest in that.

They are probably factoring in the weakening USD too.

They aren't going to start making Fujifilm cameras in the US.

Tariffs are used to address systemic unfairness in trade, not because some idiot thinks that having a trade deficit is a bad thing. At best you might get a few new factories where robots do final assembly on some products, and high inflation. Best case.

I hope for America's sake that after Trump there is a big reset and things are put right. But I have little faith that the Democrats will actually do it. The damage may be permanent.

It certainly turned out that way with Brexit.

As long as the price rises are US only, it's fine. You guys pay your winning tariffs, but don't expect the rest of us to subsidize your choices.