That makes no sense - we don't know the capacity of the fast-charge battery, and we don't know the charge time of the long-range battery. And the cost of the battery pack is a huge part of most EV pricing, putting two full-capacity but different battery technologies in one car would adds thousands and thousands to the sales price and would push vehicle weight to new, unbelievable, heights.

Putting two batteries in an EV makes as much sense as putting both a diesel and a gasoline engine in a vehicle, because 'one's good for long-haul driving', the other runs on cheaper gasoline and better for 'start-stop' driving in, say, a city-setting.

You've made it make no sense by making specifically the worst assumptions possible. Two batteries. One long haul and one fast charge but sized based on a reasonable usage pattern. Why would anyone mean two full capacity batteries? When the fast charge is topped off, it will run the vehicle while slow charging the long distance battery. Once that is full again, it switches to running off the long distance battery unless you plan on making another stop in a certain amount of time. That way, you can take the largest fast charge possible if you need to pay the higher price to reach your destination or you can switch batteries if you will be able to slow charge later.

That would be OK if a car had both working together.

Discovery often goes both ways, which is why a lot of seemingly baseless things end in settlements anyway.

Much like recent backlash against routine vaccines, preventative care looks expensive until you slowly find out what the real costs are without it.

Maxing out growth isn't a bad thing if you want to be a stable business. If you want eternal growth and to attract gambling on the stock market, that's of course a problem. They don't even know what to do with the successes they do have.

What I don't understand is why "Too Big To Fail" wasn't taken as a guideline to break up monopolies during a financial crisis. You can't be too big to fail without being a monopoly or oligopoly.

This time, they've muddied the branding so much that people won't be able to keep track.

They went from Core i3 in the old lineup to a new linueup of Core Ultra 3 and then introduced a budget Core 3.

A vacuum can have lots of massless stuff in it. In this case, kinetic energy. Energy can be converted into mass.

The problem with Universe was that it tried to be a CW drama right up until about the middle of the second season. The plot started to move but the execs had already moved on.

Even over 6 months, that's 5 Gbps averaged out. That's USB 3.0 speeds. Must have been a really impressive compression algorithm or a lot of filler/duplicate data that is easily compressed.

The law doesn't have to differentiate when people do. People still can. Including the people who would allow charges to be filed. Retroactive consent has some legal weight.

I translate that as there only being an option to rent, not buy, these robots.

Gemini is even worse at jumping between languages when speaking in my experience, but I would guess the names aren't flagged with the language in the source data either.

Around me in the US, some random sections of highway jump from being named in English to being named in Spanish. There is no reasonable answer for why it would happen other than they aggregated a bunch of map data and didn't validate that it was all in the same language. There is not a significant Spanish speaking population in the area. Other areas use internal Federal numbers for some roads. Like a US highway that changed route. The old route is still paved as a highway and signage reads "Old US ##" for the highway, where the number is the same. Google says "Federal Secondary ####" where the number is essentially 4-5 digits of internal DOT recordkeeping.

Sometimes it's right and still doesn't make sense. I was driving in Texas near Austin in an area I had never been before and got directed off the Interstate highway to a random parallel country road. I couldn't see too far ahead but took the gamble. I ended up passing miles and miles of stopped traffic that day.

The answer is standardized public data feeds. Maybe all the navigation companies can create a global standard format to save taxpayer money, but data feeds are going to become an important part of infrastructure somewhere in the future. It might make sense to have user-reported road hazards or issues be fed back to the public sources. Even dispatch local authorities to check on a situation if needed.

If all the Android phones leave the road, then Google won't have enough data to decide traffic is running normally. Self-reinforcing feedback loop. See above about the need for public data.