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China's commercial 'artificial sun' achieves first discharge (www.globaltimes.cn)
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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, they're funding a fusion reactor. I think that's very solidly outside of making videogames.

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

It's to fight the honkai when they start appearing in our universe. (Jokes aside, a company that needs to run a lot of servers would be interested in cheap energy.)

[–] intelshill@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Google funds Calico, which studies aging. Thus, Google is an anti-aging company.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

If you're trying to make the argument that google isn't just a search engine, then I fully agree.