Why would Google acquire fitbit if they *couldnt* use the data to improve their search advantage.

They make most of their money from targeted advertising, driven from deep analytics gathered by browsing, gps/maps use, and any other products they control.

Having fitbit is another great source of profile data. Why wouldn't they want to use it?

Dont we already have:
- LPWAN
- Sigfox
- DASH7

and about 6 others. What's another one in the mix between friends?

I'm assuming their eventual plan is to then monetise it.

I have a Moto Force X, and it has infrared sensors on the front. It can detect coarse movements like waving a hand in front, or moving your face in front of it.

Combined with an OLED screen it's great for being able to view my lock screen (clock and notifications) without needing to press a button. I'd happily get a phone with the same feature again.

Yeah, but you missed the part where the update also happened on the MiBox 3. The MiBox is "like a ROKU".

I've been using one for the last 6 month and it's been great. I saw the update come through last week, though I havent seen the sponsored channel yet.

There's no guarantee that submerging something in boiling water exposes all parts to that boiling water. Cracks, crevices and hinges can be relatively safe harbours.

That's the reason for autoclaves. The higher heat and pressure penetrates more thoroughly.

I know that computer vision systems can be very sensitive to lighting changes. Part of me wonders if the new "tent" building added a complications in lighting consistency.

Ironically, the breweries themselves produce vast quantities of CO2 at relatively good purity, through the fermentation process. It's vented from the top of the fermentation vessels and then released to air.

It would be a pretty good starting point to capture that off-gas, do some basic filtering and then re-inject it into the finished beer.

That's the difference between English syle India Pale Ales, or Americanised Imperial Pale Ales. Same acronym, very different beer.

English styles showcase the malt and yeast. Hops are added early and contribute a lot of bitterness, but very little flavour and aroma. Americanised styles add exteme quantities of hops at the end which gives the hoppy taste and aroma.

That not true for wireless phone charging:

1) It operates in the near field where the inverse square law doesn't apply.

2) The electric and magnetic forces are uncoupled and it's not streaming radiation out like a light bulb. The energy oscillates between the antenna and the near field.

Poor guess. It's closer to 60 to 70% efficiency into the battery for Qi.

Not to mention that smartphone energy efficiency has been improving and their use is offsetting a lot of PC/laptop use that consumes an order of magnitude or two more energy.

Well, the main one, and most obvious, is lack of wires.

I have my phone on a stand next to my bed. It's very, very convenient to be able to roll over and grab it in the morning, or if I get a call late at night, and not rip the cord out of the socket.

Note - I did have contact charging (like pogo-plug) on my last phone (Sony) and that was OK too but more sensitive to alignment.

If you watched his testimony, Comey states that the media were camped out in his driveway, and if he'd leaked this personally it would have been like feeding seagulls at the beach. The media frenzy would have been ridiculous.

I get the point of your sarcasm, but regardless they are actually safer. The cargo containers are explosion and fire resistant.

Maybe, but 400Hz is still incredibly slow, even for a rectifier class diode.

That's why you'd use as many symptoms as practical to give an initial list of likely diagnosis, go off and perform more specific tests and feed that back to the AI. It should be possible to rapidly converge the differential analysis on a small set of candidates.