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 September, 2021
Buying and selling homes (a family's largest investment, well it used to be) online is here.
Finally, the Wall Street Journal has a report on how companies "hire" people with resume-scanning software that simply works poorly. Companies don't waste their time "reading" resumes any longer.
Fear and loathing on the airlines. This is due to how we chose to react to the virus. We chose this. We knew what we were doing, right?
Working from home online has led to much more worker surveillance by employers. I have worked in and around government for 40 years. We have always been told we were being watched. Given the level of competence seen on the job (quite low), most of us doubted that the watchers were awake.
In the wake of Hurricane Ida, things are bad in southeast Louisiana, very bad.
....Silicon Carbide integrated circuits has made its way into the electric vehicle market. This is pushing out just plain silicon.
A closer look at the money-making machine that is Amazon Web Services.
Tired of Facebook et al and even GoDaddy? Self-hosting. You do everything yourself.
A poll (here we go) determines that three days a week in the office is what we want.
.....Headline says it all: "Intel's Mobileye will launch a robotaxi service in Germany in 2022"
Apple to hold an event on September 14th. Rumors predict new phones and watches.
Microsoft introduces its own news site: Microsoft Start. (I thought MSNBC was their news site?)
Intel will spend $95Billion (with a B) on chip-making plants in Europe. The West continues to scramble and remove itself from China's facilities. I guess one pandemic per decade is a bit too much.
Lenovo shows two new high-end, slim, and stylish laptops. They call the line "IdeaPad."
Amazon wants to expand its in-person health care to more cities. As the demographics shift to older ages, this is a big business opportunity.
And this is a bad photo of Amazon. A new warehouse surrounded by crumbling huts in Mexico.
.....Our Dept of State has spent $59Million over ten years on a new passport system, and we have nothing to show for it. At least it wasn't $59Billion (with a B).
Webex from Cisco is now up to 8Billion calls a month.
Amazon will open two Whole Foods stores that will have no cashiers real soon now. Goodbye jobs.
Google significantly boosts the capabilities of its Workspace.
The governors of China were behind much of the recent anti-anti-Asian angst in America. Goes back to centuries-old Chinese strategies of letting your enemies fight your enemies for you.
Google "quit" on DoD's Project Maven. In walked Amazon and Microsoft. And some call this Fascism while others call it Patriotism.
We have a sneak peak at the new RayBan glasses with cameras in the frames.
.....Not much Internet viewing today.
Microsoft delays their return to the office until...well, they don't know when.
Amazon tells its 750,000 operations workers that it will pay their college tuition.
The rumors were true: Amazon shows its own line of TVs.
Dell claims to be offering protection from ransomware.
Microsoft udpates Teams and LinkedIn for remote and hybrid-remote work.
.....Today is the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the US. Remember those who died on that day and since as a result of it. And remember those who attacked, too.
Seth Godin has a good post about certainty in predictions and measurements. Colleges used to teach science majors how to represent uncertainty in data. Journalists, however, have never seemed to learn any of those things.
Code.org pushes a new "CS Journeys" program. I am all for education. Let us remember that more programmers means lower salaries for programmers. The big tech companies have an agenda here, and it is not all good.
Facebook didn't provide all data as it claimed it did. Well, half is better than nothing, huh? If it is in the news, it is probably bologna (an old expression).
Our President mandates vaccines for all Federal workers and contractors. While we are at it, how about mandating vaccines for all persons receiving SNAP and other Federal aid?
This is real information. The equipment in the lab.
.....A peer-reviewed study of 61,000 Microsoft employees show that remote work hurt productivity. This is not surprising as none of these persons were hired to work remotely. No doubt some thrived, but as a whole, this didn't fit these persons. There are some companies that continued to thrive as they hired everyone to work remotely. Their selection process fit persons who wanted to work remotely.
Despite promises, Google gave the governors of Hong Kong data on persons living there.
If you are one of the few who ride high-powered motorcycles, leave your iPhone at home.
Some tips on book marketing on LinkedIn.
Exploring "the myth of writer" and instead writing NOW.
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