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    Michigan politicians want to ban Chinese-badged cars from even visiting the US

    Oldsmobile was bought by GM. That plant (Lansing Car Assembly) has since been shuttered in favor of 2 newer plants in Lansing. I live in the Lansing area, and think Slotkin is just being a good Michigan politician here. The GM plants are unionized, and a UAW endorsement is actually useful at the...
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    The Chevrolet Equinox EV is high on comfort and convenience

    I have a 2025, and they are nice family cars with plenty of space in the back for kiddos. You really should not consider the LT1 model though, as that doesn't have pedestrian detection or the overhead camera you need to navigate parking with the large A pillars and overall poor visibility you...
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    New pathway engineered into plants lets them suck up more CO₂

    One thing I have to say, is that the capitalization of rubisco is pretty out there. Folks I admire alot explain the origin of the name rubisco, and make the analogy to laser or radar, which aren't capitalized in english. RuBisCO is what wikipedia settled on, but RUBISCO is just shouting. :ROFLMAO:
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    FAA to retire floppy disks and Windows 95 amid air traffic control overhaul

    What I'd love to see is what NavCanada or Eurocontrol do. Do they also have equally old stuff? Or did they update and modernize more recently?
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    The 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ first drive: 460 miles on a single charge

    It depends on how much you drive. My power is ~$0.15 per kWh. A Chevy Equinox EV has a 86 kWh battery, and can go ~300 miles with it. Math tells me I can fill it up for $13, which is less than the seasonal variation on my power bill. Gas here is ~$3 per gallon, so the 10ish gallons it would take...
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    Pocket Casts makes its web player free, takes shots at Spotify and AI

    There is. I use it in my EquinoxEV, and with an account, pocket casts syncs progress between my phone and the car. It's slicker than I imagined!
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    Thanks to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may “simply not get made”

    I'm so confused. The cost of the media itself is really low. Like, tariffs are bad and all, but in this instance I'd expect an enterprising lawyer to argue that the tariff should be charged based on the cost of blank media. You could also imagine some financial engineering so that the value of...
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    Amid pathetic uptake, FDA green lights confusing COVID vaccine update for kids <5

    Yeah, I'll echo that. Pediatricians in my area aren't getting/giving the vaccine. Our daughter had to get her shots from the county health department, since drug stores and pharmacies can't give shots to children under 3.
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    Comcast trying to drive local sports network out of business, lawsuit says

    While true, they've since settled with DirectTV. Dish and Comcast still do not carry the channel.
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    US weather forecasts get a software update

    There is a limit. At its heart weather prediction models are applied linear algebra at a massive scale, so the communication latency between nodes is actually a key contributor to performance. Cloud computing is great at many things, but low-latency internode communication isn't one of them.
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    JPL scientist analyzes pros and cons of the science in dystopian drama IO

    This was a pretty bad movie science-wise. Early on, Sam was saying something about how to get oxygen out of ammonia (NH3), and my chemist wife and I just lost it. The creators clearly didn't care about making for a plausible setup of any kind when making the movie.
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    Tax bill that passed the House would cripple training of scientists

    Exactly. When I was a graduate student, my advisor got a grant. That grant paid my stipend, but also paid the university for the things I used (like the library, and keeping the lights on). If graduate student tuition went to $0, somebody else's tuition is going to go up to offset the loss of...