The US has heavily invested in the auto industry, remember the bailouts a few years ago(2009)? Can't really blame the Chinese as they had not tried entered the US market at that time. $80 billion between Bush and Obama from the US government to prevent Chrysler and GM from failing, and Chrysler still sold off to Fiat on 2014. This was not the first time either, so the US heavily invests in the auto industry. Unfortunately, they are charging more than most people can easily afford, unlike when Henry started Ford, he wanted his employees to be able to buy what they were building. Even Ford's current boss was very impressed with the BYD EV he used for an extended period saying that the US auto indeustry can't compete with the quality and price. That's pretty telling, maybe look into making a higher quality more affordable vehicle by oh let's say reduce the pay of the big wigs. Ford total compansation 2025: Jim Farley(CEO): - $27.5 million William Ford(Executive Chairman): ~$20.28 million Alicia Boler Davis (President of Ford Pro): ~$18.97 million Doug Field (Chief EV, Digital and Design Officer): ~$15.27 million Sherry House (Chief Financial Officer): ~$8.38 million Almost $100 million in the top five Not saying they don't deserve just compensation but that is kinda absurd when you make that much and complain when someone starts squeezing you model.

Exactly, EV's are a damaged market in the US courtesy of the current Admin, in most of the rest of the world it is a good market and in some areas exceedingly good. This just means that the US will continue to fall further behind the rest of the world in this area as well. And makes the US more depended on billionaire oil companies making the obscenly rich even richer.

but, but, it benefits Trump and his family and friends so it's good, that's all you need to know.

Guess I should have proofread this better. They tested a propulsion engine for a system capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.

It is in mistaken belief that Russia tested a Nuke bomb. They did not, they tested a nuclear powered engine for propulsion. Trump really should read his briefs or have someone read them to him that knows what they are doing and can explain the big words.

He needs to change his ways for the new Administration and disavow climate change before they make him go away.

Thinking I am more worried about the US government then the Chinese at this point in time. Prefer neither knowing what I am doing, who I am watching and what I am interested in.

Yes, we need to get Trump and all his cronies out and soon or this will just be the beginning of our fall to a Mad Max dystopia. Between elimanating research across the board in pretty much all fields except maybe weapons, destoying our medical system, education system and so on we are doomed to be a movie of the week if this is allowed to continue.

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.