Yes, impressively fast, but they have yet to produce any chips, let alone do it at any sort of significant scale. Semicon manufacturing at this level is really hard. China should not be underestimated, but even before when China had access to western machines, they still weren't successful in producing state of the art chips. The machines are of course a key part, but it can still fail on processes and people

> The original Huawei ban in the US was because the company could have backdoors in their devices. Something like seven years later, there has simply been absolutely no proof that this is really the case - we are still in the "unsubstantiated allegations" phase. While it is true that there is no proof that is the case, the issue is that it's very easy to hide more or less undetectable backdoors in the hardware. So, true or not, many countries simply don't want to take such risk when it comes to their critical infrastructure. China itself is very restrictive on what they allow in their own mobile networks. They don't permit products from non-chinese vendors in their critical systems. > There have also been allegations - here and elsewhere - that comparable devices from the US have backdoors, has there been any confirmation of that? The US doesn't really have any companies that deliver comparable devices. The main 5G suppliers outside china are Ericsson (Sweden), Nokia (Finland), Samsung (South Korea)

The strange thing here is that Huawei of all companies, are promoting FTTR when they also have a complete 5G infrastucture portfolio, own a decent chunk of the foundational patents for 5G, and sell loads of 5G devices. It seems like promoting FTTR goes a bit counter to their intrerests in their most likely larger wireless 5G business. I wonder what's going on.

That's not very typical. I would like to make that point.

> There are a tiny number of scientists with hard evidence that humans were in North America 35000+ years ago

When it comes to evidence of human occupation 35 000 years ago, calling it "hard evidence" is definitly overstating it. There is, however, solid evidence for occupation well before 14 000 BP.

The earliest solid evidence for humans habitation in North America (so far) is from 21 000 - 23 000 years ago in the form of preserved human footprints at White Sands that have now been confidently dated. There are also a few disputed, but potentially promising sites that could indicate human occupation by around 25-26 000 BP.

However, any evidence for very early occupation, say some 30 000+ years ago is only indirect, such possible but ambiguos artifacts of stone and other material, or broken bones that may or may not come from human activity, but where other, natural causes can't really be ruled out. I would not call that hard evidence.

I've read DPReview before buying my cameras. Their reviews are really thourough and allow buyers to make a well-informed choice. Never once have I been either pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised with how the camera performed. I got exactly what the reviews had infromed me I would get –both the good and the bad.

Lay-offs and hiring freezes are happening outside the US as well, though.

Extreme events have always happened, but if the frequency of such events increases, then there is reason for concern.

This might add some more clarity on what Nokia did and didn't do:

All telecom equipment relies heavily on global standardization. These standards set specific requirements for any and all such products. Nokia's, as well as anyone else's telecom network components need to be compliant with these standards. If they aren't they would never be able to sell them to any telecom company.

One such standardized requirement is to include interfaces for lawful intercept (i.e. interfaces for enabling police wiretapping) where the standards require them. Nokia has sold network equipment to Russia. The products they have sold have the required lawful intercept interfaces as required by the standards, like any other vendor's would.

Nokia has, however, not provided any components or systems for conducting actual lawful intercepts in Russia – in this case the system called SORM. Nokia probably has such systems of their own, but many western companies are careful about selling them to non-democracies, for obvious reasons. Russia may instead have developed their own lawful intercept system or they simply bought theirs from one of the less picky third party providers of such systems. In any case Nokia had nothing to do with that part.

tl;dr Nokia sold standards compiant telecom network products to Russia, but did not sell them any surveillance system.

In 2015, 4G was realy the only option available. Or did you mean that your 2015 car used 3G?

Running data traffic on 4G/5G is far more spectrum efficent than 3G. Old 2G/3G networks are hogging a lot of spectrum resources for the limited data capacity they provide. Reallocating the spectrum occupied by 2G/3G to 4G/5G will enable far connected devices. Also, this is not something AT&T has deciced. 2G and 3G networks are being retired all across the world. It's driven by spectrum regulators. Quite a few countires have already shut down 3G.

The London Underground is just super late to the party. The Stockholm subway has had mobile coverage since 1999.

I'm only surprised that the researchers were surprised. Why would you expect the results to be different if you only change one word of a story?