In a pinch, you can turn your diamonds and a glass of water into glucose to keep you alive or gasoline to fill your empty tank. Theoretically.

Yeah, enough to send 10 people to the ISS, win the bid to land people on the Moon again, sell more electric cars than anybody else on three or four continents, make major contributions to battery and vehicle design, produce a rocket ship factory that defies belief, provide effective grid management and personal…

People can’t drive at all, to a first approximation. I can’t, anyway. Too often my attention is not sufficiently on the process, for one reason or another. The only reason the system works at all is that there are many conservative controls on our behavior, and the vehicles are learning to work better, too. I don’t…

Society will protest successfully by eliminating the need for fossil fuels. It will be hard to arrest all of us for not using their products. In the meantime, some of us are being a bit hypocritical for continuing to drive dinosaur-fueled vehicles to protests. If the fossil fuel industry stopped producing one day, the…

Ohhhhhh, Yeahhhhh!

The article should have raised the issue of whether people in this situation should or should not also get the Shingrix or other vaccine against Shingles. And whether these vaccines would protect someone otherwise vulnerable to this potential relationship.

Some day, as your cruise rocket rounds the Moon, think back on this statement. Of course, it’s possible I just missed the funny part.

The poorly named “Autopilot” and “FSD” are two entirely different things. The latter is in Beta, and only used by a small number of drivers. It is claimed to be generations advanced from Autopilot. Tesla’s does not appear even to attempt a reasonable public relations effort to explain all this. Perhaps they should…

Without disagreeing with you, the assertion here that Amazon has largely centralized its “cloud” doesn’t seem all that intelligent, either.

Are the animals still on board? What a mess.

I welcome the end of the use of petrochemicals for fuel and the associated end of the ICE age. But if the oil and gas industry were to capitulate tomorrow and announce that they would no longer produce anything . . . well, it doesn’t take much imagination to predict what would happen next. These companies stay in…

In this case, the actions taken in the plane should have, if the pilot were qualified and the plane in flying shape, been totally safe. In a way, you could just report this as a flying accident, independent of the reason for it. In other gender reveal tragedies, people were doing clearly unsafe things.

Caller ID: Good.
Robo call: Bad.

Tesla’s Autopilot is not at all advertised as full self driving. That’s the system that most Tesla drivers can opt to use at the moment, and according to Tesla explicitly requires continuous vigilance. Their FSD Beta is an entirely different system, not yet available except to a few beta testers and as yet issued with…

This may be redundant, but “Autopilot” and “Full Self Driving Beta” are two entirely different control systems, the first widely available and the second only as yet deployed to a relatively few beta testers, and claimed to be based on entirely new and better AI. This comment is not intended to compare the systems,…

More to the point: Why is it that anything vaguely cylindrical is immediately compared to a phallus rather than to, say, a baseball bat or a lighthouse? The resemblance in this case, either in shape or performance, is really not all that striking. Unless some phalli perform much differently from those that this…

I wish Samsung would bring back their 18+” Galaxy View tablet. Amazing for a lot of things nothing smaller can do.

“Hoisted?” I think she meant “foisted.”

YouTube allows playback from .25X to 2X. I find all of the speedups useful, and occasionally the slowdowns. To buzz through a video and get the gist, or to deal with a member of the STOA**, the speedups are sometimes a godsend. I don’t do it with Chris Hayes (MSNBC), whose brain often gets so far ahead of his mouth…

Oh, believe me, it’s not a joke — donuts produce very bad results on the old glucose meter. But Krispy Kreme doesn’t make kale salad, so let us praise Krispy Kreme for this brilliant reward/promotion. Maybe Kale Konfections will do something similar.