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: September 27-October 3, 2021
Compatibility, big tech, and the Internet as seen by Cory Doctorow.
A survey of gig workers worldwide reveals, well, all sorts of things with nothing definite.
Business leaders in Orlando, Florida want to move from tourism to high tech center.
And now we have a working CO2 removal plant. One day this type of thing will be laughed off the face of the earth. We already have CO2 removal plants. I have some in my back yard.
Monday is usually slow, so I am moving my notes on writing from Sunday to Monday...at least for a while.
Rumors about next year's Galaxy phones from Samsung.
High unemployment and labor shortage at the same time. Same old story. People are here wanting jobs. Employers won't pay the salaries asked.
On demographics and economics. If you are 40 or 24, you rule the economy.
....The Metropolitan Police of London are buying facial recognition tech. Abuse is available as well as great benefit for law and order.
TikTok claims one billion (with a B) monthly active users. That is a large number.
Our FCC will give rural networking companies $1.9Billion to replace equipment from China.
Ford recalls their electric-powered Mustangs. The roof tops are blowing off.
.....Amazon showed new hardware yesterday. Here is a link to one summary.
Meanwhile in Russia, the governors threaten to ban YouTube.
The race is on to develop simple pills that fight the virus.
Studies show that the Apple Watch can detect more heart issues than previously known.
.....IBM releases the Machine Learning eXchange. This is in cooperation with the Linux Foundation's project called LF AI and Data. The goal is to make it easier for organizations to deploy several machine learning projects while reducing redundant work.
The next generation of cloud computing will use data mesh and DevOps to the nth degree.
Europe becomes the world's largest cryptocurrency economy.
When did social media companies become instruments of the state here in America? These companies do what the governments say in China and Russia, but this is America. When did they punish those whom some government employees deem deserve punishment for speaking their minds? In the short term, this may be pleasing to most of us, but in the long term it won't be good for all of us.
We now have 10million Android phones infected with GriftHorse.
A review of IBM's missteps in its cloud computing business (what is left of it).
Google adds features to its Lens system to make shopping from home easier.
Google adds the ability to track wildfires to Google Maps.
DeepMind has a weather-predicting system that works well, better than the usual.
Honda shows its plans for future aircraft and robots.
.....Meanwhile in Washington D.C., Congress and the President find a way to fund the Federal government for a couple of months. One of the "problems" a political party has in America is that if you have the votes in both houses of Congress and the President all in the same party, you actually have to do somethings. You cannot blame anyone else.
Watch TV on the inside of your sunglasses? Yes, a new product coming out of China.
Intel shows Loihi 2: its second-generation neuromorphic processor.
Get 'em while they last: Best Buy is restocking the Nvidia RTX 30-series graphics cards right now.
We have new logos and labels to help us by the right USB charger: 240watts is now available.
.....Amazon (gosh, don't they have enough money yet?) now has a hit game on its hands.
During the prolonged year of the virus, some school districts issued laptop computers to every child. In cyber security, this is known as "expanding the attack surface" about 10,000x. Oh well, the predictable and predicted has happened with K-12 systems hacked often and held for ransom just as often. Not enough money to do things right, but enough money to pay later.
Once again, someone has a pill that defeats our current virus in trials. There are days when I feel that we don't want to defeat our current virus as it has become our identity. Look at us. We suffer, yet we conquer something that no generation prior to ours had to face and defeat. Hence, we conquer something no one else could. We are the greatest generation! We have to find something that makes us feel better, and the virus has done that for us.
The governors in California make it the first state to require virus vaccination for attendance.
Meanwhile in Netherlands, a grocery story opens "chat lanes" where you can stand and chat with the person checking your groceries. No hurry, want to talk with someone. Good.
Google contributes a million $$$ to the Secure Open Source program of the Linux Foundation. This is nice, but only pennies for Google.
Our NOAA sailed a drone into a hurricane and confirmed that the seas are rough and you don't want to be inside a hurricane at sea. I would hope we didn't spend a lot of money to confirm the obvious.
Meanwhile at the CDC, they created the virus vaccine cards and while trying to make them wallet sized...well they flopped. You cannot make up stuff this silly. Only in some government offices do you see this.
.....Apple and money: they made $8.5Billion (with a B) from video games. More than Microsoft, Nintendo, Activision Blizzard, and Sony combined. And Apple doesn't make any video games.
An early look at Windows 11. It seems that if you don't have a new computer with the required hardware, it is difficult to install. Once there, it seems "okay."
It appears that the folks at Tesla have mastered the art of marketing and sales.
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