Given that affordable and robust(ish) solar panel efficiency is pretty much unchanging, I wonder if the power generated compensates for the need to have a super bright screen and extra cooling.

This isn't about the amount of dust in your home. The device is a snooping device in your home, and the data will be available to anyone who pays or is law enforcement, with little to zero accountability or protections for the device purchaser.

Given the high level of gun ownership in USA won't people just shoot them down then steal the delivery?

Yes, Amazon is one enormous example of test driven development producing a mediocre outcome. In your example, the sentence passes grammar test, passes thesaurus test, good coverage.

CLI without a command completer to help you out.... The whole thing Alexa experience is incredibly frustrating and unproductive, and the app to configure the devices is terrible.

With a few Edge and VS Code feature integrations, remote development features, you've got pretty much got every paid web dev who is using Linux using this combo. Which will work well on Windows (handy, you running Office 365 in a browser is fairly painful and Teams on Linux is fairly sh*t). Sure you can create your own integration, but will you? You are a time poor web developer, not a web browser developer, not a VS Code developer, it works great, and at last your entire team can use the same desktop development technology. Click click. Maybe there were few ignored notices giving away your privacy when VS Code asked you to enable the integration, with a less obvious way to disable that data sharing (they told you how to disable that but did you forget?).

I suppose MS never stopped hurting from losing the old browser wars, and now they are back, armed and ready.

Google have a separate Android podcast application. That might fill half your gap. I prefer it to the other podcast apps I have tried.

Evidentially, plastic straws (and many other plastics) are ending up in our environment in huge numbers, and having a large impact. Evidentially, we are doing a terrible job controlling littering. Its not absurd to remove the cause of a problem, it's the best thing you can do.

The Hierarchy of hazard controls has elimination as the most effective control. Asking people to stop littering is at the other end of the control spectrum.

If you show me you are a Google employed or created entity, I am happy to provide you with examples here. I've given Google plenty of feedback via the "OK Google, send feedback" channel, which as far as I can tell, has not been acted upon by humans or machines.

I'm so glad a human might be listening when I am cursing the Google Assistant service. That makes me feel so much better, even if they are just probably laughing at me.

Frankly the service and it's capability is appalling and does not seem to be improving. It continually leaves me feeling frustrated and dis-empowered. Its not the actual voice recognition which seems to be the problem, rather the contextural application of that data, which they need to improve. Google must know this, yet they seem unable to deliver.

Three years of machine learning and the machine hasn't learned very much at all. Maybe the humans can help.

People seeking to deceive another party, using this medium, could find it easier to gain trust where it is not warranted.

Intimacy/engagment is a two way thing in the physical world. Faking it will lead to brains making even more misinterpretations towards meaning. Obvious possibilities for mis-use. The Internet sucks a little bit more every day.

Same for Netflix. I find their recommendation system useless. At muliple conferences I have been to there have been references to how they track every movement and selection, use AI and big data, notice how far through a series or an episode I get, etc., for their recommendation system. Yet that recommendation system rarely shows me stuff I would actually like to watch. Mostly I read reviews in publications I like, or talk to my friends, to find things I want to watch.

Thanks, those links provide illuminating views from a variety of perspectives.The Forbes article on past espionage - it's author, Arthur Herman, his Hudson Institute, are interesting... Hong Kong Free Press makes raises some good points about CEO behavior, a different view point, again partisan. Seen the Guardian article previously. So I am swayed that "we should not trust Huawei, here, look at their past actions of espionage, and current actions and behavior of the executives, and we have some alternatives". But who can we trust?