Productivity is notoriously difficult to measure for creative and collaborative jobs.

I'm not saying WFH is better or worse, but the idea of an easily available numerical score of each employee's "work done" is nonsense.

Good. The world needs cheaper panels, and no one else is even trying.

China has been massively subsidizing the world's transition to renewable energy.

If you wanna call that "dumping", then so be it. But it is still a very good thing.

Greenies: "We need to switch to solar energy."

Deniers: "Whaaa! We don't wanna pay for that. We don't want solar!"

Greenies: "No problem. China is paying for it."

Deniers: "Whaaaa! China is destroying our solar industry!"

Pearl Harbor was 83 years ago.

China is also installing lots of wind and solar.

The wind and solar are growing faster than the coal.

People were saying the same thing 20 years ago: That the Chinese were flooding the market to drive everyone else out, and then they'd jack up the prices.

Well, here we are after 20 years, and Chinese panels are cheaper than ever. There isn't a jacked-up price anywhere.

Protectionists have cried wolf on this too many times.

Indeed. The future of solar is vast arrays in the desert, not bespoke installations on rooftops.

We need better storage so solar energy can be used 24/7.

Sodium batteries might fix that problem.

Best to stay out of wars.

Why should we care what happens in the Mideast?

It mattered back when we got our oil from there (although the wars didn't seem to help), but we are now self-sufficient in oil and gas.

America's military has a reverse Midas curse: Everything they touch turns to dust.

1. Some apps work offline, but that doesn't work if they are webpages. I use my compass app when I am far from any cell tower.

2. Many apps use on-device databases, credentials, or other local storage.

3. Many apps use the camera, microphone, tilt sensor, or neural engine.

4. Users feel secure seeing a dedicated icon on their screen and less secure about searching for a website and then remembering their login and password.

Indeed. A separate phone for each app is profoundly stupid.

I hope they fail as an example to others.

Did it? They are getting publicity, but are they getting sales?

Including a crappy one-app phone with every app vastly increases their costs, especially NRE.

Google says they've sold 50,000 units.

That would be a successful app but is nowhere near the breakeven point for a hardware device

The full press release says the CO2 will go into "intermediate storage" and (eventually) into geologic storage somewhere in the Nordic region.

In other words, they skipped the hardest part with a promise to figure it out later.

Indeed.

There never were any promises, and it was obvious upfront that these were and are PR schemes.

The current scheme in TFA is clearly not an effective means of addressing climate change. The money could be far better spent on wind turbines, solar panels, or efficiency improvements. The problem is that those aren't newsworthy.

Microsoft is just paying some money for the right to pat themselves on the back and talk about how much they care.

"Asking" for data is not "selling" data.

That tracking data is coming from car companies, not tech companies.

There is nothing "surreptitious" about it.

None of the big tech companies sell data.