It's not expensive to add AM coverage to the radio itself. However, many cars, especially EVs, flagrantly exceed FCC limits on RF noise pollution, and this is far worse on AM (which picks up noise as signal) than FM (which suppresses some noise and receives less due to the higher frequency). So the cost is not in the radio but in fixing the el cheapo badly filtered car power system so that the AM radio isn't wiped out by it.

Of course after you do all that almost all that's on AM is junk, lots of Rush wannabees, though there is diverse ethnic programming in some cities.

Young whippersnapper, hold your tongue.

I grew up eating Gros Michel and remember it fondly. Cavendish is not nearly as tasty. And yes, I am over 70 -- it was the 1950s.

If you hunt around you can find a few sellers offering Gros Michel bananas as exotic specialty fruits, grown in remote (from other bananas) areas like Miami. But they're not in stores. And a blight is coming for Cavendish, so they'd better have new varieties lined up.

Firmware in most consumer routers is based on Linux, with the router vendor adding some UI and chip-vendor drivers to the open source baseline. Not written from scratch. And thus just as good or bad as routers whose hardware was assembled elsewhere.
China can't manufacture the high end chips yet, but they do have their own supply chain for midrange SOCs and memory. Gigadevices cloned some European SOCs. They work. Chinese contract manufacturers build to the quality level the customer pays for. You want cheap junk, they're happy. You want good, they can. And their native design capabilities are catching up. The US, in contrast, is now mainly an exporter of raw materials -- wood, scrap metal, animal feed. Plus weapons to allies and airplanes, though Boeing's reputation ain't what it used to be.

The rich and powerful are treating it like a tiger running after them. They know that they don't have to be faster than the tiger, just faster than other running from the tiger.

Well, you know the difference between a BMW and a porcupine.

(A porcupine has pricks on the outside.)

Tom's basically suggests that Brave is steering requests to one Ponzi scheme to a different Ponzi scheme site that pays them a share of the take. No honor among thieves.

Hail Eris!

It's bigger than Pluto and Mike Brown found it at Palomar, not in some desert state where gila monsters and politicians compete for who can bite worse.

Sure, but didn't Apple also build some laptops with soldered-in SSDs, so you couldn't pull the SSD or HD out of a broken laptop in order to salvage its contents, the way you can on other computers? Funny how many Starbucks laptop users had such machines.

Other articles on the topic point out that much the specific "evidence" against him was factually wrong, and the government ignored it when it was pointed out to them. The Former Guy's administration was out to make China and Chinese-Americans look bad. Lelling, then the US Attorney, was playing along with the racist fraud. Rollins, the new one, correctly dropped the charges.

Come again?
> 74 mw is 74,000 times more power than your WiFi router (-30dBm)

A WiFi router is allowed +30 dBm, not -30. That's one full watt, though most WiFi devices aren't quite that powerful.

But if the Havana Syndrome were caused by microwaves, a spectrum analyzer -- a standard piece of test gear -- would be able to pick it up. These used to be big heavy devices but now you can buy hand-held microwave ones, professional quality.

Nope, CAD doesn't let you overcome the basic physics of reactor design; it just lets you tweak away safety margins.

Whether or not uranium-cycle nuclear is safe enough, the reality is that it does not have a net positive production of power. When you take into account the energy cost of building the plant, mining the uranium, enriching the uranium, dealing with spent fuel, and decommissioning the plant when done, you end up putting more in than you got out along the way. In large part it's a very costly way to take TVA hydropower, turn it into enriched uranium, and spend it elsewhere. Rather than just have some transmission lines.

MuseScore may have a public address in belgium, but the company isn't using Yandex because they have a thing for matryochka dolls. TheRegister refers to "The Russia-based WSM Group, owner of Audacity".... Which is to say the Russians have a Belgian subsidiary address, but Vlad calls the shots or run a risk of defenestration.

Bitcoin is a modern, super-harmful variation on an old theme. Gold is not worth very much inherently; it's over-valued because some people think it's currency. But the easy gold has been found, so miners will put in huge effort for it, so long as the value of the gold exceeds the cost to mine. The cost of mining helps set the value.The money supply, in a gold standard, depends to some extent on the success of miners, and is divorced from the needs of the economy. Too much gold created inflation -- Spain's pillaging of Mexico tanked its economy.
Bitcoin is similar. The value is based on the cost of mining, which is predominantly the cost of electricity. So it is almost literally created out of carbon emissions into the atmosphere. Even if you were to use "renewable" energy to mine BTC, that energy could better be used displacing coal and oil. The total amount of CO2 on the plant is what matters, and BTC causes huge amounts to be generated. It is stupid, evil, and existentially harmful to everyone on the planet.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.