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There are a number of reasons why lithium batteries may catastrophically fail and catch fire. Dendrite shorts is one, another reason is poor alignment of the layers during assembly…

I don't think that is very true in this day in age. Here in Cincinnati, the vast majority of houses now have fiber run to them. There are still some stragglers, but that's mainly b…

This is effectively how hot swapping is done for may modern systems. It seems counter intuitive to call it hot plugging, but it’s what you’ll find if you look up “hot swap controll…

> what? These are telescopes, not telephones. There’s a very small amount of scientific grade ones in existence and they are all different. Have you not been following modern satel…

I believe google/waymo uses Swiss Re for reinsurance, so you are correct.

There are surgical scalpels that are ultrasonic, and they are incredibly sharp when activated. They can cut through skin and tissue like butter!

I had the same experience reading neuromancer in the last year. I felt like I got the vibe of what was going on, but struggled to understand the details and figure out what was act…

Children are one of the high risk populations for flu. That is why kids are a priority of flu vaccines.

Some noise cancelling headphones/earpods can absolutely provide hearing protection, but it does depend. Here are the specs for Apple airpod pro 2: https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro…

> We could "solve" the problem like Singapore or China (some of these 'many countries'), and simply throw everyone in jail for petty crimes. This clearly isn’t true, as the US has …

The Android on chip AI is and has been leagues better than what is available on iOS. If anything, I think the upcoming iOS AI update will bring them to a similar level as android/g…

Yes, the iPhone has a laser array and sensor that it uses for lidar.

Waymo's recent experiment with multimodal models and a purely camera based system (EMMA) validate some of the claims that using LIDAR data in training does help. Pretty neat! Still…

> opening up more federal land for drilling and mining I'm honestly not sure how much a difference Trump will make in this. The US greatly increased oil and gas production under Bi…

Hahaha, wow. The other products on that page do a wonderful job of disagreeing with parent’s explanation.

Google photos is way, way, way better than apple photos at this. It’s not even a competition. I have my sister’s dogs named in my google photos library. Every time I a take a pictu…

As an avid mountain biker and having been to bentonville twice, the trails are just ok. Immaculately maintained and there are some neat features, but the hills there are seriously …

Non-fuel uses make up roughly 10% of oil demand. Certainly significant, but unless plastics, fertilizer, etc have absolutely insane growth in the next 25 years, it won't keep deman…

Non-fuel uses make up roughly 10% of oil demand. Certainly significant, but unless plastics, fertilizer, etc have absolutely insane growth in the next 25 years, it won't keep deman…

A Raptor engine has about 1/3 to 1/4 of the thrust of an F-1 engine. However, the Raptor is far more efficient and much more impressive technically. They are really a marvel of mod…

On the flip side, I think if they can make slightly more expensive panels with technologies like perovskites, but they are significantly more efficient, they will gain a lot of mar…

It's fairly common for undergrads and graduate students to compile reviews of research technologies to see what is getting commercialized and what isn't. If you search google schol…

No, they did not. They promised that they were going to start using a manufacturing technique called dry electrode coating, and they have done that.

Yeah, it's no competition. Siri is terrible in comparison to google assistant. Not sure what OP is on about.

Keep in mind you need to multiply those power numbers by capacity factor. Solar in California is at ~29% capacity factor (much higher than I expected honestly), while nuclear is ge…