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: 29 November - 5 December, 2021
How one writer uses Scrivener as a basic organization tool.
Using short stories as the centerpiece of a writing life.
Some thoughts on writing humor. It works and it sells.
Some tips on researching a non-fiction book.
It appears that Apple is working on exchanging energy among all storage devices.
The conglomerates are gone; enter the neo-conglomerates.
Thoughts on espionage in the age of cyber everything.
Crypto miners are sneaking into Google Cloud accounts and stealing computer time to mine money.
....At its annual big event, AWS announces several systems aimed at fleets of robots.
Founder and CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey steps away. He is replaced by Parag Agrawal.
Amazon has the rerun a union vote in Bessemer, Alabama. Our National Labor Relations Board steps in.
A large commercial airliner lands for the first time in Antarctica. Tourism coming?
It appears that AMD is raising the prices of its graphics processing units by 10%.
.....Amazon moves into the market of providing local 5G networks.
Official news that online shopping slowed a bit this year. I think it simply spread over more days.
.....Meta (Facebook) is reversing its trend of using its own data centers. It is going back to AWS.
AWS makes trying AI easier and less expensive with new versions of SageMaker.
Square (that payments platform) changes its name to Block.
Qualcomm tries again with a new ARM processor to run Windows. It is called the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3.
Lest we forget, 37% of the world's population has never used the Internet.
I'll just quote this: "Tesla has quietly launched a $1,900 four-wheel ATV for kids."
.....Microsoft claims progress in its quest to use DNA as computer memory.
It appears that the Russians and Chinese are attack American satellites daily.
Where the money is. Someone stole a cool $120Million from a Decentralized Finance site.
NASA and Blue Origin enter an agreement on a low-earth orbit space station.
AWS announces Amplify Studio for low-code/no-code cloud development.
It appears that Google will have its own smartwatch next year.
Our FTC doesn't want Nvidia to buy ARM.
.....We learn that our President is supposed to fill cybersecurity vacancies in private industry. Yes, there are those in government who are so wise as to know what everyone company in America needs and should be doing.
Google backs away from the 10 January deadline to return to the office. I expect other big companies to continue the trend.
It appears that Sony will have a game subscription similar to Microsoft's.
Graphics processing units (GPU) and cards are difficult to find to buy. Now we have "GPU hunter" as a paying profession. It pays well.
TSMC has started experimental production of 3nm processors. Look for these in iPhones in 2023.
.....Clearview AI receives a patent for "face search engine." They have been criticized for being able to crawl the web and find folks who would rather not be found. Caution here folks. This is how missing children and kidnapped adults are found. Human trafficking exists, and this technology fights that.
All Chris Cuomo wanted to do was help his brother. Ethics? Well, he was trying to help his brother. Integrity? Same answer. Oh well.
No, it isn't us. Hollywood is making movies where no one can understand what the actors are saying.
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