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There's a promotional video of the NeXT factory. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhIwfu73reE

The gambling industry has funneled a ton of cash into academic researchers producing papers that gave credence to the idea of "addictive personality," which in turn was massaged by…

In case of Kakao Taxi vs Uber, it was Uber's unwillingness to work with existing taxi operators that killed any chance Uber had in the Korean market. Kakao (at least until they bec…

I find it strange these types of articles never mention UAE's Barakah nuclear power plant (which did not source reactors from a nation unfriendly to the U.S.) and experienced only …

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jouhatsu

Less than 1 percent of Lithium-ion batteries get recycled in the US and EU. https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/04/lithium-costs-a-lot-...

It's possible that Samsung got a briefing on what's happening with ARM and Qualcomm and negotiated an extended reprieve from the new licensing scheme about a month ago when Masayos…

>But in recent years, nearly every modern phone shipped today has an eSIM How many phones other than iPhone, Pixel, and (very recent) Galaxy S/Z have eSIM? There aren't that many c…

Crowd-sourced list of Android phones that support dual-frequency GPS: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jXtRCoEnnFNWj6_oFlVW...

The government that was in power from 2017 to 2022 put a moratorium on new reactor construction there and promised a full phase-out, and although the newly-elected government promi…

I often hear US investors have a higher risk appetite, but why is that the case? I imagine it can't be just cultural differences.

That's true, but Canada has suburban sprawl just like the U.S. where, in most cities, home internet is just as expensive if not more so. Think how much less wire, amplification/spl…

There is a cafe chain in Russia that charges by the minute but most drinks are free. They tried to expand to the U.K. in the mid-2010s, but their test cafes failed, and they pulled…

Former Samsung head Lee Kun-hee had a heart attack in 2014, and his son Jay Y. Lee took over. I don't know if that had any effect on the alleged culture problems the article talks …

It's based ISED's bimonthly CSV data dump of licensed radio transmitters. Heavy concentration of cellular antennas in some blocks might be because ISED's database lists even nano/p…

How do people obtain regulated medical devices like CPAP without a prescription? I assume a sleep study is required to get a prescription from a doctor.

Shel Silverstein's literary estate is also known to take scholars and biographers to court under some misguided notion of protecting the brand. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/b…

Rail companies in Japan turn profit due to these factors: 1. Transportation by road in large Japanese cities is a complete nightmare. People really can't take the bus or drive if t…

Intel and Samsung specifically did that by creating WiMax as a competing standard for LTE, but look what happened. https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/17/14303910/qualcomm-alleged...