Always carry a sharpie to colour in random squares on the QR codes.

Petty? Yes. Borderline vandalism? maybe. They're usually stickers and replaced often anyway. Good for the soul? Absolutely.

I wonder why Sony is worried about that?

Oh that's right.... seems that Sony is worried that MS will do to Playstation, what Sony did to PC versions of their own games.

Fuel... which then releases the carbon back into the atmosphere, completely negating the entire point of the project.

That's the entire point of burying it.

It's ok. You won't be "forced" to give up your car.... It will just become too expensive to keep.

$10/gal? $8k licensing? $80/day parking?

Public Transport is starting to look pretty good isn't it....

It has nothing to do with being how it cools its servers. I'm sure that information is available. It's most likely embarrassing to someone, either Google or the City. It also means that people can work out how much Google is paying for said water and will show how much the city bent over for them.

Trade Secrets are a wonderful catch-all.

Given Nvidia's apparently inability to build stable drivers, and/or a reliable GPU, why on earth would we want that controlling a car? Oh look, Netflix just crashed while on the freeway. Just hold on a sec while I reboot the steering and braking controls.

It sounds like an overblown comment, but you absolutely know there is some product manager in there, working out if they can combine a bunch of functions to reduce cost, and thus make their quarterly bonus.

Batteries I can understand, as they buy power at cheap times, and use it during the expensive parts of the day, depriving the power company of all that juicy extra profit.

But Data Centres? Unless they are getting free power I would have thought they'd be paying a handsome sum for all the power they use.

Or is this just another case of the power company creating a problem so the government gives them cash to "fix it".

Now seems like a good time to rip up all the old phone lines and replace them with fibre. How much copper is in the ground wrapped in plastic, doing absolutely nothing any more.

Another product for Google to cancel. Except this time your car stops working instead of your chats.

I'd imagine this is only because they want to add more bloat and telemetry, and the only way to hide it from the user is to make sure the boot drive is super fast.

Don't misunderstand, SSD's are awesome, but throughout computing history, every performance gain in hardware is immediately negated with "more features" in software. That's the way MS likes it.

If your mouse stops working, just plug in another one and then click the button to allow it work.... wait... what?

I would imagine this is because whenever a developer changed the price, they would see a decent number of subscriptions get cancelled because people simply forgot they had them, and once reminded, would not renew it. Apple makes 30% on each one of those subscriptions.

This new policy is designed explicitly to stop those cancelations and keep the money flowing to Apple. It is a customer-hostile action.

So you're saying that if law enforcement has access to something, then anyone else can get access to it as well? Why does that sound familier?

Change the funding model of the Patent Office. It's very simple.

If the Patent is rejected, the PO gets to keep the entire fee.
If the Patent is approved, the PO has give back 75%.

All of a sudden it's much more difficult to get a Patent approved.

So it turns out Google does value privacy after all. No no.... not yours... just their own.