Not to mention that the UN can pontificate all it wants but the security council is the only group that has any power and even then it only take one nation to torpedo any resolution. The place is a waste of valuable real-estate.

Are we at the point where an FDM printer can make production-quality parts? Everything I see is some organic shape like everybody's D&D character that only needs to sit on a shelf. SLA printers are better but in my experience you need SLS technology to really make sturdy parts and the surfaces aren't smooth like you'd get from injection molded parts.

Apple and Google are providing the "infrastructure" that allows mobile commerce to exist. Surely, you're not against having to pay to support infrastructure.

Test the thing in New York City or Boston and then get back to me. I want to see video with sound so I can see how often it gets honked at, cut off, and given the finger.

Every single story of this type has the same premise. The assumption is that the "science" is pure and unadulterated, that there are no redundancies or inefficiencies in the organization, and there are no paper-pushers who don't contribute to the work product. All of that exists everywhere in government just as it does in the private sector and all of those people get a paycheck with guaranteed raises every year and a pension and carry significant overhead costs. The difference is that the government just magically gets more money and doesn't have to convince people outside of government that the work they do has value. Government has no sales people who have to produce.

Way back in the mid 80s, I had an original IBM PC and a friend had a Mac. We decided to see what would happen if we pit them against each other in chess. (The Mac won likely due to the higher clock speed). I would totally love to watch a pair of AI's duke it out in an AI court (with both an AI judge and a human judge).

If it doesn't look like a fountain, I'll be disappointed.

Who wants to bet on the conclusions:
1) There are not enough trees despite the lack of a baseline
2) First world countries are to blame for the state of the biomass
3) Third world countries are being forced to cut down their trees so first world countries have to subsidize their governments.
4) China and California are not to blame for anything.

Nope. Sorry. Deal breaker.

Potentially, yes. But any transient magnetic field onboard the vehicle or not accounted for in the environment is a potential problem. How does this system distinguish between the earth's magnetic field which is fairly weak from high current wiring or a motor with an armature that has it's own magnetic field and changes orientation?

Now pay up or come up with another term.

Make a lot of noise over here so that over there you can get all sorts of intelligence.

Clearly, just as with rational human men, AI men aren't interested in snooty Washington Post reporters who in all likelihood are batshit crazy.

Who gets laid off doesn't come from Washington. That's a middle management decision. They are simply given a directive to reduce their headcount by a certain number or percentage. It's the middle managers who hand out the proverbial pink slips. Given that, clearly they had the choice to make. If they were rational people, then the decision hinged on which research would be the most beneficial. That may or may not be the case in this instance. On the surface, it sounds promising but so does a lot of other research. We don't know the details only the dramatic headline. However, more often than not, middle managers are not rational. They often keep people based on seniority rather than effectiveness or common ideology rather than merit or even whether or not an existing brand group is favored over new business concepts.

Qualcomm got pissed when Apple realized that they were getting screwed on licensing and now Qualcomm gets pissed when they can't use Arm's stuff?