Now, appliance manufacturers can add support for Matter to their devices, and ecosystems such as Apple Home, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and Samsung SmartThings can start supporting the new device types. Yes, this means you should finally be able to control a robot vacuum in the Apple Home app -- not to mention your wine fridge, dishwasher, and washing machine.

You could do all of this with zwave and zigbee, but many manufacturers chose not to allow it. This is nothing new, and it's not likely much will change, as holding all the data and potentially charging subscriptions for access to automation is part of the reason why they made the choices they did with existing standards.

Which limit is 5gb? OneDrive is 1tb (per account) for M365 customers I thought

They're opt-in, and they're not website ads, rather they are notifications. Conceptually not the same

They give you crypto for viewing ads. Not sure how that's a scam. Might not be a fruitful endeavor, but scam is a bit much.

The only other "scandal" is the affiliate links drama, which is a monetization issue rather than a privacy issue.

Outside of tracking it yourself, there are tools like Koinly that do it for you (just give it your wallet address). Of course, they also cost money, but pretty much all tax prep software does

Compliance costs money. Coinbase wants to appear to be a premium choice, so they go the extra mile (some of the others do, as well)

Some of the use cases discussed aren't suitable for fire, such as a landfill, cow pasture, or rice field.

low or absent market demand

People don't want fancy features. They just want their existing shit to work well.

Do I have good reception?
Can I make calls that don't sound like Nextel PTT chatter? (No, because carriers use shitty codecs still)
Can I send photos and videos quickly and with some fidelity? (Maybe.. depends on the tools since Apple won't get on board with RCS, as well RCS interoperability still being an open issue due to carrier pettiness and Google refusing to open the RCS API)
Can I stream media with some fidelity? (Usually, but data caps and forced low quality streams via "data saver" account settings interfere)
etc

The market wants the existing product to function well before XR/AR, unmanned/autonomous vehicles, etc can have their day. That's what we're all paying for, and for many that low bar isn't even met. Why reach for the moon when you can't even get to the top of a step ladder?

You're using a trademarked name in advertising for your own gain (the bar in this instance posts a banner saying they're showing the Super Bowl, not the "big game"). The fact that you're selling space to other advertisers for counter-advertising isn't really important because you've still got a big banner using the term Super Bowl as a way to solicit others to give you money

This is a hell of a decision, and makes complete sense in the same fashion that a bar advertising the "Super Bowl" in the US is violating trademarks. Obviously Indian law and jurisprudence is different, but it's a big market, and Google relies heavily on exploiting data that could/should be protected in some fashion to make the vast amounts of money it does.

Some do, but sometimes there's no telling if the right track is being delivered (on IPTV/cable/OTA.. my receiver may be reporting DD+ 5.1 direct play from the source, but it frequently appears to just be a stereo mix) or if they're not further reprocessed and compressed (like video is) to save on space (which causes its own artifacts). Boosting the center channel may not help at all in those cases. You're almost better off using something like DTS Neural:X that does a pretty solid job upmixing and moving dialog to the center channel

$5b is a margin of error for a company with a market cap rapidly approaching $2t today

If the paper gets pulled it may as well be creative writing (ie science fiction)

And then it stops being science

Science isn't about declarations. It's about reproduction and trust. Gotta answer that door to start backing up your claims