Items I happen to view each day. Science, Technology, Management, Culture, and Writing

    This is my day book for this week. It is a log of things I see on the Internet.

This week: 6-12 July, 2020

Summary of this week:

• Uber is buying Postmates
• Disney streams "Hamilton" and rakes in the money
• Both Zoom and MS Teams announce new features
• US Supreme Court returns half of Oklahoma to Indian tribes
• The year of the pandemic has brought us a different type of dog days of summer

Monday 6 July 2020

In the UK, with all their worries of brain drain with Brexit, the year of the virus shows that Europeans can telecommute across national borders with ease. Nation states? What were those?

Facebook spends some of its money on education in India.

Elon Musk is one of the early plutocrats to create their own private schools for their own children. Now he has extended it to an online, for-profit school. I think this will become a trend.

Uber is buying Postmates (they deliver food) for a cool $2.6Billion. And where does Uber get this type of money?

Tuesday 7 July 2020

Researchers monitor social media and predict virus outbreaks. People simply post on social media about how they feel when they wake in morning.

Fraunhofer—one of the world’s most important digital media compression pioneers—announced a new video compression standard named VVC or H.266.

Seth Godin on the 100-hour and the 1,000-hour assets. Invest in a skill and increase value.

Palantir files for a public listing of its stock.

Disney streams the "Hamilton" movie and hauls in the cash.

Tech companies react to new laws in Hong Kong. They don't seem to understand the situation or their place in it. In China, people simply disappear.

Wednesday 8 July 2020

Thursday 9 July 2020

T-Mobile has 5G coverage that is much bigger than any other provider in the US.

Zoom—our favorite way to see one another in the year of the virus—is now offering a hardware solution for "Zoom Rooms."

Here comes the Thunderbolt 4!

Qualcomm updates its Snapdragon 865 to "865 Plus" for more power in mobile gaming.

Coming real soon now from Microsoft are new features to help fight "Teams fatigue." We could use it.

Harvard leads the charge of online-only classes for the fall semester (undergraduates).

Friday 10 July 2020

Once again Elon Musk says that Tesla will have self-driving cars real soon now.

Facebook makes lots of money when President Trump writes things that violates Facebook's policy. People don't seem to grasp policy #1: make money.

This will take a while to understand, but it seems that our Supreme Court has ruled that about half of Oklahoma belongs to Indian tribes, not the state of Oklahoma.

In the year of the virus, when we all work and school from home, PC sales are up.

Got $3,899? Get this Canon camera with a 45MegaPixel sensor. Shoot 8K video. Does anyone have a display that will show 8K?

Dell updates its XPS desktop computers. Do you think they could put a ruler next to the machine in the photo so we can see how big it is?

Twitter billionaire Jack Dorsey will fund a universal basic income experiment. Good. Don't send tax dollars to a government where 50% will be removed. Send it directly to people.

iOS14 come out in beta release today.

Saturday 11 July 2020

Strong rumors about an Apple laptop with Apple Silicon coming before Christmas.

"domestic violence cases are on the rise not just in the US, but worldwide, according to an April report from The New York Times. Many abuse victims have been quarantined with their abusers, and lockdown orders make it difficult for them to escape." You thought this stay-at-home, work-at-home, still be paid was without cost?

Speculating on the future of Ham Radio.

Foxconn to invest $1Billion in India to expand a factory.

Mental and emotional stress caused by everyone staying home is becoming evident. It was predictable and predicted.

Just in time...after 25 years, Gary Larsen brings new Far Side commentary.

Sunday 12 July 2020

Microsoft and Google team to bring more apps to Android.

Disney World opens. Just in time for summer heat and afternoon thunderstorms.

It is about time. The Linux world removes "master/salve" and other terms. I wrote of this 30 years ago. There are many more to be changed now that we are in a global economy. Remember "Turtle Graphics?" It has to go.

Apple make more tools available free to school teachers. Nice gesture, but let's not be naive. More persons who know how t program means lower salaries for programmers, and Apple pays a lot of money to programmers.

Tips for freelance writing in the year of the virus and any other year.

The memoir: "Write something universal as illustrated by a deeply personal tale."