Until the car won't charge, won't unlock, won't go into gear and spontaneously shifts out of gear while driving. All problems my Polestar has, and for which more than 50% of the time it sits at the dealership. The problem isn't that I use the car as a cell phone, it's that I try to use it as a car.

It is easier to have one target platform than two.

Where is the spin that you claim? It's you asserting it is an upgrade.

LOL

"We do not live in an economy based on information. We live in an economy based on secrecy and superior knowledge and technical capabilities."

Yes, an information economy. Perhaps you should ask google what that means.

Then why all the talk about bringing manufacturing back? Eh peanut gallery?

"We have a dying generation who still sees the economy as post WWII, because that is the world we grew up in (Last of the boomers here)."

The constant agism is tiring. GenXers as a group are as entitled as Boomers are and Gen X isn't dying any time soon, post-Reagan internet boomers drive greed now, not post-WW2 boomers. Older people are more concerned with fixed incomes and retirement, older people are naturally more conservative.

"That is called public policy, in a free society."
Is it called that? Or do you mean you are free to call it that in a free society.

Mass murder of Jews was called "public policy" in free German society, not sure what the merit of your claim is.

"You don't know the policy won't achieve its goals..."

Because we don't know the goals. What we do know is that people will lie about the goals and lie about the data.

"The real questions if this is more to little to late..."

No it's not, unless you're a brainwashed racist.

"Students have told us they value tools that help them learn and understand things visually, so we're running tests offering an easier way to access Lens while browsing,"

So Google thinks students wanting to cheat on homework are their clients, not the parents and teachers, and Google has the nerve to then imply that their AI is a tool to help students learn.

I think nothing of that argument, it is a word game.

If the only thing required is a refrigerator then this might make sense, but refrigerators go into kitchens, and kitchens have more requirements than just cool and frozen.

There are good reasons to want a tablet in a central, accessible location in the kitchen. Apparently, Samsung isn't it, but that's not a condemnation of the idea.

Replaceable memory is not just to provide upgradability, it allows buyers to shop memory pricing.

" This is a budget laptop. It doesn't need to be upgraded."

Odd, that's never been a description of budget laptops previously.

" For someone on a tech website, you're certainly completely out of touch with technology needs."

Takes one to know one. and you're replying to an AC.

Or why even buy a computer at all? Let's ignore that the entire appeal of computers is their flexibility.

"Corals are dying worldwide. Ask the great barrier reef."

I asked the Great Barrier Reef and it said everything was fine, in the King's English no less. More than that, the Great Barrier Reef was annoyed at the assumption that it would know about other reefs worldwide. The Great Barrier Reef told me to tell you to F off.

"Why are we wasting time, money and research into something we know already?
Once again time wasted , money spent and no action taken."

"We" aren't, it's just a troll. Scientists study things all the time, environmentalists troll on the health of coral reefs all the time. Besides, what could be done for corals?

Jaques Cousteau used to dynamite coral reefs to make it more convenient for his boat. The world's most famous environmentalists did not give a shit, rules for thee.

As long as the fundamental principle driving world economies is greed, the world is doomed.