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.

New cars are becoming like new houses. All the profit is on the upper end. Everyone else can buy used, if they can even afford that. This has been happening with housing for far longer and a workable fix hasn't shown up yet.

It worked for telephone lines. Once. After that, any attempt at federal help became grift instead. Some things need a jump start or the infrastructure itself is the problem. Right now, people don't want EVs because their home isn't set up for it and they can't stop very many places along the way. Without a financial incentive it will never become the cheaper option. With it, it can remain cheaper post-subsidy. I don't think the idea is bad in itself.

For the most part, it can do this. The problem is that the more external capabilities you give it, the more likely it is to imagine an API that doesn't exist. So instead of getting you the answer, it will post pseudocode for a non-existent function call directly into the chat.

This addresses two issues at once. One is that, on average, management isn't even as useful as an AI chatbot. Two, AI cannot usually give precise accurate information without hallucinations. Something that isn't actually as necessary for high-level guidance. But like you mention - having a high level view to see risks and problems is getting harder with the higher complexity that technology brings.

For now, AI is going to be better at eliminating middle and upper management and leave us with just people at the bottom doing things that only humans can do. The actual work.

A domestic airline would be one that is headquartered in Japan. A domestic flight would be one that starts and ends within Japan. Domestic airlines often offer international flights, so your point makes no sense.

Are you sure it's not Microsoft's Internet Connected Rent-Oriented Software LLM Operational Program (MICROSLOP)?

Starlink only has good speeds until they are saturated. There are a limited number of ground stations - imagine cellular except maybe one big cell tower per state for the US. Nobody should use Starlink if they have other options. Not because it's bad but because it will be if too many people subscribe. They are way beyond traditional satellite Internet but it still has limits.

Probably only worth it if you have one of their routers - anywhere from $129 to $300+. The incremental cost isn't bad if you're already in their ecosystem though

The hardware can be much cheaper than a pi. For marketing reasons you wouldn't call it VPN because that makes a picture of routing elsewhere or false privacy. It would be a home bridge (name taken though). It would probably depend on online services that may go away without warning and the two devices would ship pre-paired and the online service would do NAT hole punching. If you have Ethernet on both ends it can be plug and go, but if you have to be a Wi-Fi client you probably want Bluetooth setup with a smart phone for simplicity since phones tend to not want to stay connected over Wi-Fi to a device with no Ethernet.

This is less a technical challenge than a marketing challenge. The total cost could be pushed under $100 considering how much computing power is in a smart light bulb these days.

You can just buy games as a "gift" after selling on eBay. There are lots of ways to convert credit to dollars.

If they don't, there will be a poster of an Italian-American dressed as a native American crying about it.

You're living in a world where you can pretend inflation didn't happen by just suppressing wages. The prices are already due to go up because the value of a dollar is lower. No matter how you try to hide it by not paying people, this is already the case.