Transit/Sprinter/Crafter/etc do not have exactly square rear bodies like the Rivian and Brightdrop vans though.

This is really only suitable to large package delivery, so you either land one of the handful of fleet contracts or you're shot.

A small percentage of Americans could barely get used to cab over vans, but those ultra-utilitarian box vans aren't going to sell as work vans or even small independents delivery.

For Android phone producers I'll just chalk it up to laziness, but Apple would be easily able to block phones themselves.

Has China ordered them to allow stolen phones?

What China? The Confucian China? The cultural revolution China? The liberalised then overran by tank China? The disillusioned ultracapitalist China ran by a dictator who concentrated power in a way Mao could only dream off, who now has grandiose dreams of immortality because he can see no China beyond himself?

50 year plans my ass.

They can't get their own designs manufactured on EUV either, so they won't be catching up fast.

If Aircela can actually deliver their machine for 20k$ and maintenance costs per year aren't more than a couple percent of that, high suntime nations like India really don't need much else.

The combined cost of PV/battery/Aircela/power-plants needed for an Indian Net Zero transition wouldn't even come to 2 Trillion. Most of the cost would be in electrification of the rest of the economy so you can just use the synthetic fuel for backup and impossible to electrify uses (aviation/shipping).

Main entrance for the both buildings is on the main road, only some service entrances and garages in the dead end.

The US government is choosing to transmit.

Even if it's fixed frequency there are reasonable explanations for wanting the capability, including it hardly makes its common use the fault of SpaceX. If it's a variable frequency transmitter you need to be suffering from Elon Derangement Syndrome to make it the fault of SpaceX.

These are not SpaceX satellites in the sense people will interpret the headline, it is intentionally misleading, fake news.

They are only thin if you let the reality distortion field erase the camera bump. Sour grapes from Apple haters aren't always wrong.

If they (or Samsung for that matter) went all in on thin, it would have been a better fashion statement. Compromise on the camera even more.

How can COM be obsolete technology? Every post-NET Windows API is build on it (WinRT=COM) ... oh wait, nevermind.

They almost certainly already agreed to only target westerners, operating with permission and already fled to China to escape prosecution to begin with.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalinitiative.net%2Fa...

They went from "nothing to see here" for DUAL_EC_DRBG, to "dog ate my homework" for ECC curves ... what outlandish excuse will they have for their really not a backdoor, pinky promise, constants this time?

Even the NSA wouldn't gamble on being the only ones able to crack it, so it will be some constant encoding a defacto public key yet again, like usual.

ECC if you don't use NSA's backdoored shitty curves can be very efficient.

This clearly comes down from the top, "force AI into everything and show me uptake, or else ...", so the grunts just shovel it in there and force it.

Meanwhile the market is clapping because the morons at the top lucked into the money printer which is the cloud transition. Also 365/Azure are handled with some competence ... while Windows and consumer applications are done by the teams with the least political power, which get forced to do these AI experiments and use crap like WinUI ("dogfooding" is clearly only for the teams without influence).