It is primarily a firmware issue though. While it could be a hardware issue who is going to bother with that when you are one firmware update from having your router controlled by a foreign government. Add an auto update feature for the firmware and you are good to go.

I would have thought the potential security issues revolve around the software running on the hardware rather than hardware. Moving the hardware manufacturing to the USA is not going to fix that problem.

Anyone building an AI data centre in Essex needs their head examining. Build it somewhere in Scotland we're with DLC you can do 365x24 free air cooling. Oh and your close to all that renewable energy so no need for building massive amounts of grid infrastructure to transport energy down south.

Water usage is going to be highly dependant on your local climate. All the new AI data centres are direct liquid cooling so other than filling the cooling loops in the right location you will never need additional water. The problem is building them in hot places say Arizona, California etc. were especially in the summer you need water for evaporative cooling.
For example even in the UK you will need some evaporative cooling should you stupidly decided to put your AI data centre in the South of England. Come to Scotland and you can run free air cooling 24x7 every day of the year and have a really significant margin over the maximum daytime air temperature ever recorded.

Bear in mind that the Soviet Union weaponized pneumonic plague, creating stains with multi-antibiotic resistance and increased environmental stability.

Since when has the British Isles not been part of Europe? Please stop equating Europe with the European Union, the two are not the same.

No cancer does not hit everyone equally. If you smoke you are more likely to be hit by cancer, and if you are over weight you are more likely to be hit by cancer. These two factors are the biggest avoidable ones for cancer.

In the UK at least (and I doubt it is different in any western country) those factors are overwhelmingly prevalent in lower socioeconomic groups. That is the better off you are the less likely you are to be a smoker and the less likely you are to be overweight so the less likely you are to get cancer.

Data from Scotland shows that cervical cancer rates in the cohort of women eligible for the vaccine who took it up is a big fat zero. That is there is no rounding in that it is actually none whatsoever.

Not really, the government would in such a scenario tell the AI firms they just got bumped to the back of the queue, because power for the general population is more important. The alternative is the population riots and that will not work out well for those in charge of the AI firms if they kick up a fuss. Especially in the US were the mob will be armed with guns.

That is a bad example. The height of the wall was sufficient to stop the site being flooded. What they didn't figure in was the land dropping over one metre in height, so all of a sudden the wall was no longer high enough. The bigger issue was having the backup generators in the basement, which is a dumb idea were ever you happen to be when their failure in a disaster situation has such dire consequences.

The problem with that argument is that I can point to countless examples were the rest of the world have or are busy adopting superior systems in also sorts of areas that the USA has refused to adopt is busy resisting to the last on what amounts to nothing more than it's foreign so commy.

To keep it on road transport theme, I would mention road signs, roundabouts and emergency sirens as just three examples of the rest of the world using science to improve our lived experience and the USA resisting because it was not invented here.

An interference model for detecting numberplates could easily be run on a low price TPU. However even more traditional image processing using hidden Markov models would still be AI. Remember boys and girls not all AI is neural networks.

The problem with those sorts of studies is that they can make a computer system less productive *if* you have some experience in using the system. The problem them becomes very quickly *most* users have *some* experience of using the system and it becomes less productive.

For example most sensible people consider that using LaTeX to enter mathematical formulas is wildly more productive than using Word *provided* you have put in the effort required to learn how to use it.

Consequently there is no one best system. The problem is UI studies have a tendency to focus on making systems easy to use for beginners not more productive for those with some experience.

My read was less that on in a million plates are read incorrectly. Perfectly believable, the Flock cameras are probably reading hundreds of millions of plates a day. The ~â..." error rate is that the number of plates flagged that are wrong, which is partly because a small number of plates are repeatedly being flagged incorrectly.

Two things can simultaneously be correct.

Yes but you have to remember that the idea that any other country could have come up with a better standard for number plates goes against the American exceptionalism that the USA is the greatest and best and everything and it's consequential near total refusal to adopt any standard that was "not invented here" even if it is demonstratively superior in every way.