If your basis for judging research is truth in propaganda why would you trust science from the USA? The current president is a pathological liar and his regime is trying to convince the world that Venezuela's government is a cartel of narco-terrorists so the USA can invade and hand Venezuela's oil wells over to American oil companies. Truth has no value in the USA.

China taxes the rich and spends money on educations. The US gives the rich tax breaks, the rich hoard their wealth, and in many parts of the country schools are literally falling apart while good teachers leave the profession because they cannot afford to live on a teaching salary. Thanks to Reaganomics and MAGA the USA will not be a leader in anything in a few decades.

Tariffs or outright bans on Chinese cars won't keep them out of the USA for long. Those companies can open the same factories in the USA that they have elsewhere. They'll be vertically integrated dark factories that can crank out cars with a fraction of the labor costs of other brands. The cars will not be as inexpensive as they would be coming from China, but they will still be less expensive than comparable cars made in the USA by anybody else. Chinese brands are already building factories in South America and Europe, so they'll know how to do it well when they set up shop in the USA. Xiaomi built up it's electric car program, from initial research to having a car on the market, in only three years. Think about how little time it will take them to just build a factory in the USA.

Why would a game industry awards show acknowledge layoffs? Layoffs have been part of that industry for decades. A studio gets hired by a publisher to make a game, finishes the game, then lays off half the team because the next project will be smaller. Or there is no next project and the entire studio tanks. If game industry people think their layoffs are bad they should go talk to some 40 year olds working in Palo Alto about how many times they've been laid off.

where the sun don't shine.

The Linux Foundation has always been kind of useless, but they're really outdoing themselves this time.

More like old vs new terribleness.

The "America first" asshole decided that the USA can't build more big solar power installations and there's no other way to build power for datacenters fast enough. Then he decided to scare Indian students away from the USA. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's Indian CEO decided to expand Microsoft's presence in India. America's chickens are coming home to roost.

Which bubble will pop first, Pokemon cards, Labubus, or AI unicorn valuations?

I have a combination of prescriptions that mean that I can't use contact lenses. I see quite a lot of people wearing glasses, and Zenni, Warby Parker, and the other online companies have said they sell a decent number of frames with plano lenses (meaning no prescription), presumably for people who want the look.

Eventually, you won't be able to tell. Someone will come in wearing glasses, and the tech is going to be too small and streamlined. There are also companies working on embedding augmented reality capabilities in contact lenses fed by tiny cameras placed just out of the field of vision. You'd be able to see them only in very specific circumstances. Power feed is a primary challenge right now, but it's probably not an unsolvable problem.

Just looking at the technical side, the cost to the end-user of streaming that much data would be exorbitant. Compressed video or even once-per-second snapshots would eat up all the mobile data, and the battery life would be measured in single digit hours.

No one else is going to risk making a part that one of the big defense contractors has under copyright with an exclusivity lock even if the US government says they can. The smaller ones just can't afford the effects of a lawsuit or the risk of treble damages if they do. That's why forcing a right to repair into the contracts is so important.

Never going to happen. The junk mail lobby has too much influence in Congress, and Congress gets free use of the postal service for "constituent communications" (aka electioneering).

How do you know that?

Being from Google, I rather assume the opposite - and that they probably focused their engineering effort to make sure the reduced battery life didn't give their corporate surveillance activities away.

Huawei is doing original things. Z-fold phones with an OS that does everything a desktop can do and has AI integration that (Chinese sources say) is actually useful. Unfortunately we can't get them in the USA because the federal government has to protect Apple's inability to innovate. Of course Samsung is nipping at Huawei's heels, but if you use a Samsung phone you'll start seeing targeted ads on your smart refrigerator.