Apparently the Chinese are doing well with it. https://www.technologyreview.c... Also read so other stuff and it looks like the salt cooling is the way to go. Any leaks and it self seals as it goes from molten to solid.

Doesn't matter how long the media lasts, the technology to read it will be obsolete in a decade and within 50 years nothing will remain of the hardware to read it. Think about 8in floppies, the Zip drive and any of the numerous others media's that have come and gone with only a few remaining devices working if they can be found at all. Then the OS support would have to be there and even Linux is dropping support for old hardware, Mac and Windows have already killed off lots of old hardware.

First China and now France, good thing we are investing in ITER with France, or are we after Elon's and Trump's cutting DOE budgets and grants. Oh well, at least our ememies will have clean virtually unlimited power someday, or our they our friends, I guess that depends on the day and Trump's mood. For the near future we can use clean coal and natural gas to power our cities, right.

This is a problem I see with USB-C, it is that as the spec grows faster the old cables will work with new charging block but not at its rated output. Cable manufacturers are at a disadvantage in that they can't make a cable for a future spec without the spec and hardware to test it on. Cables will always follow after new hardware and specs are released. I am sure someone will likely complain and require cable makers to become clairvoyant and have new cables ready and waiting on new standards, oh and the company that makes the device being powered must retroactively support the new standards.

Just add the battery widget to your desktop and see the charge. I charge mine, maybe every 6 -8 months, just to charge it. It sips power very slowly.

This needs to get nipped in the bud before the Republicans can prevent the FTC from coming down on their cronies. Now I say that as a former real Republican and not a MAGA. I believe in Capitalism, but I also believe that there are limits on it. When you cross the line, you need to pay. Fraud, extortion, gouging and the like are across that line. Behave, invite competition to expand our knowledge as a society and thrive as a country. It doesn't take a genius to see that when a few companies hold all the cards there are only a select few individuals who benefit.

Actually, a lot of the games run on Arm on other platforms (Macs, iOS devices and Android phones and Chrome devices). From what I can gather what the Game developers and PC industry producing the Windows PC's have to contend with is bad graphic chip designs or drivers that don't take advantage of the Qualcomm chips graphic pipelines. Apple, from the get-go had graphics in mind and made sure that they were capable and worked. Qualcomm and Microsoft pushed out the chips and OS to fast and are paying a price for it all to compete with Apple M series. Another year and they likely would have had a contender out the door, now they will be playing catchup and forcing consumers to have to upgrade to play the current crop of game titles.

If they use any lines, poles, property owned by the state then they need to accommodate the $15 low-income broadband, and more in my opinion. The is profiting and then there is greed.

His "University" fraudulently took people's money, $35k, by misleading people to take real estate courses that were basically of no value. Whether people took student loans to pay for them, I do not know, but it is no better than what others did to people. Yes, I could have looked at other schools who frauded people. Bottom line, many so called schools have scammed many people and they should have options on getting relief. This fund was setup my Sally Mae for that reason but never really published or advertised.

This has nothing to do with the government held loans, this is all privately owned loans through a private bank. This has been available for people since the early 2000's. Money was set aside to cover loans paid out too 'bad' schools, you know the predatory ones who advertised all these great degrees and failed to actually do any educating. Kinda like Trump University https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., as well as many more fraudulently hawking degrees. Student loan debt's should be treated like any other debt, but they are not. They are not touchable in a bankruptcy, and can and generally are not renegotiable and leave people in a major disadvantage. Even taxes and medical bills can be negotiated and reduced in many ways.

Radar has issues also. I drive a big rig and the radar sometimes will pick up the road on the opposite side of an overpass as an object and slam on the brakes. In some other conditions I have notice similar issues, one being in traffic when someone darts in front within a certain distance and pauses before pulling away. Luckily, I have figured this out and can override it with tapping the throttle at the correct time. until all vehicles and pedestrians are tagged this will not work to a huge degree. additionally, road conditions will be a concern as braking on wet or sandy roads will likely cause additional accidents as now you are basically and unguided missile.

I would like to see them go electric here in the US, but I doubt anyone would pickup the cost. With Europe most of the tracks are less than 100 years old, thanks to two major wars with the second one targeting the tracks and roadways to slow down troop and equipment movements. It is a lot easier updating out of date tracks/roads/electrical grid when it was bombed into obscurity. I applaud California for the initiative, but the technology and money is not there to achieve it yet. Electric trucks are ok for short local deliveries (initial cost not withstanding) but more than a few hundred miles drive a day becomes really non-existent due to lack of infrastructure and it will likely add greatly to the transportation costs to build out if forced to in a short time period. Setting up the rail system would be an even more monumental challenge due to the environmental laws and permitting that the construction of new rail systems would require. Getting product to and from market is going to get even more pricey and eventually it will become cheaper to make/grow/sell elsewhere.

Problem is who decides what is a standard feature/application. Take the camera and related software, what happens if a phone manufacturer updates the camera software to create a different format or use a different processing option or adds encryption to the messaging app that uses more processor power. Would that violate the law now. Lots of phones have options that do not make it to out in the initial release and are added later. Would adding a feature that uses more power be a violation. Just look at a few years ago when lots of companies where pushed to open up the radio hardware to allow fm reception, running the radio will now cause a battery life to suffer. I really hope the wording of the law allows this or we are going to see phones that are caught in a time vacuum as the only updates will be security as long as it does not impact battery life. So if a security update does use more battery life it will never reach the phone.

"They'll also need to ensure software updates never negatively impact battery life." As I see it, there will be little incentive to approve updated OS features, applications and games that push the phone or tablet with more demanding code as it will likely impact battery life. This is especially the case with games with more advance graphics and action. As a phone manufacturer I would likely either lock down the phone to base installed programs that I can control and certain 3rd party ones that are vetted and will likely cost a pretty penny to make up for loss of other revenue. We will go back to the $49.99 game and $99.99 application instead of the $.99 and free ones. As a device gets older and applications more advance they tend to require more resources, including power, which WILL impact battery life. However worthy the intent of this law is I think it will backfire, giving the consumer less choices. This is the type of law I see someone without the knowledge of the subject trying to sound smart and helpful.

Even though not Canon, I believe one of Shatner's books claims it was the Borg who upgraded V'ger in early experiments, I think it was. Need to reread the book's.