The basketball team attached to the University of Kansas won the senior-level AAU championship (previously known as the NCAA Basketball Championship). This is also the highest ranking semi-pro basketball tournament. It is also the one wherein the head coach of each team is wealthy while the players are not openly paid. That makes all the players suspect to investigations by the Internal Revenue Service for tax evasion.

The governors of Spain will spend $12Billion of their taxpayers' money to bring semiconductor manufacturing. More goodbye to China.

Starting this week, Alphabet's Wing division will be delivering medicine, ice cream, and such via drone in the Dallas and Fort Worth areas.

Today, our Dept of State has a cyberspace and digital policy bureau. This new bureau will attempt some type of cyber diplomacy. Best wishes for clarity and success.

New from Peloton, a camera that watches us exercise and attempts to do something useful with that. We trust that they spent a lot of time working on security and privacy.

To bring employees back to the office building, Google is giving them free electric scooters.

Thoughts on remote work, the "great resignation," and what employers might be able to do. It isn't rocket science.

A brief study by Microsoft shows that remote workers are having a third time of the time for high productivity around 9 p.m.

Users of Microsoft's Azure services can now access Arm processors.

This story must be important as it is all over the Internet: Elon Musk is now the single largest stockholder of Twitter.

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Wednesday 6 April 2022

Microsoft makes its easy to switch back and forth between Windows 365 Cloud PCs and earthbound Windows 11 PCs.

Microsoft shows a preview of its new File Explorer. The screenshots in this article are terrible.

Apple will hold its WWDC this year June 6-10. All online; no one in person. We will learn in a few years if what we thought was true that the real value of these conferences is in the milling around and meeting people.

This is a long and detailed story of technology workers in Russia and the tens of thousands who have left Russia in the past couple of months. Worth reading.

IBM releases its new z16 mainframe computer.

Our FBI is spending more money and time on tracking social media. This is a good way to capture ne'er-do-wells. Forget what you read in the papers. The vast majority of the FBI is getting criminals off the streets.

DropBox moves its Shop feature to open beta. This will allow users to sell their digital content easier.

Intel pulls all its business with Russia.

Google announces a new AI model with 540 Billion (with a B) parameters. This means that only the big boys can excel in AI, and the US government is not one of the big boys.

More product names to memorize: Google announces BigLake---its new data lake storage engine.

The Russian darknet marketplace known as Hydra ran on servers that were mainly in Germany. The Germans pulled the electric cord on them.

Amazon has contracted 83 space launches to put over 3,200 satellites into orbit for its Project Kuiper satellite broadband service (similar to Starlink from Elon Musk).

Recent study shows...walking and walking and walking increases the length and quality of life.

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Thursday 7 April 2022

Despite the best efforts to the contrary by some rich folks, the baseball season begins today.

OpenAI updates its DALL-E systems that generates images based on text descriptions from users.

In a symbolic move, our Dept of Justice charges a Russian with running the Hydra darknet marketplace.

Facebook used to run a developer conference every year called F8. Now that it is Meta, there is no such conference.

It appears that while the Russian military has floundered the cyber efforts of Russia were large and largely succeeded.

Work from home or work from a virtual home? This all seems kind of silly, but it may work for some.

A look at how the IT department for the city of Kyiv has kept operating during the war.

No need to buy a guitar tuner. Google search now has one built in.

MIT grad students vote to join a union. I am not sure what a union will give them.

This must be the most important story in the world this week as it dominates the Internet: Twitter will allow us to edit Tweets that we have already sent.

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Friday 8 April 2022

It is all about money: Bill Nye teams with Coca-Cola about plastic waste. We have bought Coca-Cola's idea of plastic everything. We chose to fill the oceans with plastic.

To reduce the use of Russian petroleum, Britain will build eight nuclear power plants. It is much cleaner.

On the border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, SIM cards are used in Zimbabwe to access Mozambique's infrastructure.

Facebook claims to have stopped hackers from telling Ukrainian soldiers to surrender.

Some Snapchat employees are working to bring American Sign Language to kids and others.

Must-see video of a 5-year-old writing on the sidewalk in computer fonts.

Do you spend $1,999 on an Apple laptop or a new Mac Studio?

In an era where race and gender are all mixed up and open to daily reinterpretation...the Washington Post proclaims that we now have a black, female Justice on our Supreme Court.

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Saturday 9 April 2022

Pandemic prosperity continues for the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

And now we have "algospeak." If you want to wiggle around the censoring algorithms of social media and other sites, you make up words. It is 1984 all over again.

Tracing Bitcoins and busting the web's biggest child abuse site.

Microsoft describes how they have been disrupting Russian cyber attacks against Ukraine. Now we have to decide if an American company is at war with a country, and if that type of thing is moral, ethical, legal, etc.

Well, why not? This is a bed and chair with a motor that changes your posture so you can eat, play video games, and sleep without getting up...or something like that.

How America's taxpayers bought those Starlink Intenet satellite systems and shipped them to Ukraine. Since we are aiding the enemies of Russia, does that make us combatants and free game for Russian military attacks? Of course that would never happen. (Never write "never.") We live in strange times.

Orbital space tourism begins. Four commercial passengers go to the International Space Station for a one-week visit. Don't push that red button!

We are now starting to hear about "they profited from Russia's invasion of Ukraine." Many, many, many companies will profit from that war. Prices are rising in many areas due to nothing except that war. The price of toilet paper will rise due to that war. Is Puffy Soft or whatever that company is called going to be implicit in the war? And while we are at it, how about vilifying all those companies who had big profits over the million US deaths from the virus?

One woman's experience working as a stewardess on a super yacht.

It appears that it is back-to-work time. And most managers surveyed say they will fire people who don't return. If you were able to work from home and receive full pay during our recent exercise (like I did), you are a rich person. I am a rich person. Many are not.

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Sunday 10 April 2022

Dwayne Haskins Jr. was a professional football player. At age 24, he was run over by a dump truck and killed in south Florida yesterday. Why he was crossing an Interstate on foot at 6:30 a.m. has yet to be explained. Yet another bad decision in an adulthood full of them. This is a tragedy. Perhaps others will learn from it.

A story of how volunteers have been backing up the archives of Ukraine. They don't want the country to disappear from all records. And with computer-stored information, that can happen.

Meta is using a Qualcomm processor to power its AR glasses. Some see this as a big failure for Meta.

Google blocks the Russian Parliament from YouTube. In this case we giggle a bit and grin as "that'll show 'em." In the next case next year it may not be so funny. This is dangerous territory.

Meanwhile in North Dakota, we find a "perfectly preserved" dinosaur. The BBC has a documentary coming.

How to get promoted? Perhaps learn something about the English language and use the word "get" correctly.

Trying to buy a house? Supply is low and demand is high in the US. Prices go up and many simply cannot afford that.

This isn't a surprise: crytpo currencies are used more in countries with high uncertainty and corruption.

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