But it doesn't have to do it all by itself. The critical issue is cost. If it can add a kW at steady state to a battery pack, then it'd be a great addition to a mild hybrid vehicle, where all the loads that used to be belt-driven are now electric.

Yeah, more than consumers, manufacturers are even bigger sheeple. Look at every big and small company making bigger and bigger phones with more and more cameras. The only way they can do that at a lower price than Samsung is to make a lower quality product. If I'm looking for a smaller phone say 5" and light with a newer processor - nothing out there. Smaller manufacturers should be developing niche markets and growing them, not chasing lower and lower margins with commodity products.

Everyone's making the same phone - ever increasing screen size, gimmicks like fingerprint reader front or back or under screen, everyone's removing microSD slots, headphone jacks, using the same set of LCD/OLED panels and other components. If they don't want to make something that caters to smaller but real markets (outdoor activities, smaller phones, and in this case, gamers), then they're competing with bigger companies that can throw $$$ into buying customers. So I guess this is good for them... except they aren't ever going to make a phone that's as good as even a gaming laptop... so it is really just for mobile power gamers. I'd have gone for a bigger or multiple niches.

kWh rather.

The air up there is very cold. Air is bled off from the engine compressors to heat the cabin. How will an electric aircraft do this? Resistance heating from the batteries, I assume? How many more kW capacity will be need for that?

All smartphones have cameras, but not all have NFC chips, especially the cheaper ones. So QR code payments, used allover Asia, in a few chains in the US (including Walmart, Best Buy) would be more accessible. All that'd be needed is a bank account (Chase, Walmart, etc.).

Fromt he summary,
" finding 16 rare 'giant' viruses that are completely new to science...
These giant viruses were only discovered this century,"

Well yeah, since they were discovered recently enough to be reported as news, it would be in this century.
Oh they mean, "Giant viruses were only discovered this century...", and not these 16 in particular.

Now this is a summary that is basically a cut-n-paste of a summary from another site, but they couldn't bother to even read it first...

Not having had my coffee yet, I read "One day Amazon will be fair."

Phones are getting bigger - want was called phablet size is now phone size. Even cheap $200 phones have at least a 5.5" screen. The manufacturers say it is because that's what people want, but I think it's the converse - they want people to buy new phones so they mass produce big ones. Anyhow, maybe people are holding on to their old phones cos they can actually carry them around.

They should use the edge-to-edge screens to reduce the size of phones, say a 5" screen in what used to be a case for a 4.5" screen.

"... our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years,"

That's nice, but what they really did was what they do always. They asked themselves, what would Apple do? So they made something where it isn't clear what the timeline is, because posts are all over the page. Where you can't tel; what came when, because they did they same thing they do in GMail, which is something cute like "2 weeks ago", rather than the date itself. To Facebook's credit, they put everything on the page, you may have to look for a setting, but it's all there and it's usually obvious where to go for the commonly-used functions.

Everybody has privacy issues, but Google tells you what they think is important for you and takes away the rest. Then they muck is all up with a pretty-looking but half useful UI.

Five hundred parts per million. Hundred billionths. Ten parts per million.

In the following years, researchers would invent a clear and compact way of representing these numbers.

In the good old days, this would be an appropriate comments for Slashdot, News for Nerds. Now look at the pap in the rest of the comments.

I know any camera in a smartwatch isn't going to light it up on DxOMark, but it'd be something. Samsung used to have one in an earlier watch.

It seems like the strap is coming along for the ride, when it could be made to do something, maybe an e-ink screen, battery cells, or well, a camera.

What's happening is that Samsung won't do it because Apple doesn't. They want to be innovative, but not too much. Ah well, they won't miss my $349.

Rather than 4k, I'd love it if they released new and rescanned titled in 3D FullHD - whether originally shot in 3D or post-processed.

Exactly! A good test would be $100 or even 200, but no, they had to buy a $60 phone. There's no medium left these days. It's basically a joke test.