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: 5-11 April, 2021

Summary of this week:

• LG leaves the smartphone market
• Palantir enters the European marketplace
• Supply chain woes and profit$
• Angst continues at Google AI groups
• IBM has a new COBOL compiler
• Alienware has first AMD processor based laptop since 2007
• Amazon workers vote NO to a union in Alabama
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Monday 5 April 2021

3,281 drones flying in formation. This breaks some sort of world record.

Palantir moves into the European market.

It is finally officially official: LG stops making smartphones.

As Anthony Iannarino says, "too many leaders use their organizational authority instead of inviting people to an adventure, one with meaning, and one that will require growth. Leaders mistakenly believe everyone is motivated by money."

Abiding by the law, these companies pay $0 in Federal corporate taxes. They don't write the laws, members of Congress do and they write the laws as national industrial policy.

Tuesday 6 April 2021

Our Supreme Court rules in favor of Google over Oracle.

The year of the virus continues to bring riches to Facebook, Alphabet (Google), and Microsoft.

Our government is running a context to design a new mask. $500,000 first prize.

What to do with a lot of time on your hands? Adapt a liquid cooling system to a MacBook Pro laptop.

The NFT may have already come and gone.

Wednesday 7 April 2021

"Coronavirus tied to increased risk of neurological and psychiatric illness" Predictable and predicted.

A few stories on the supply chain.

The year of the virus has been good for chip makers.

The chip shortages reach down to $1 chips that run television sets.

A closer look at Intel latest processors for the data center. Intel is lagging behind the industry.

Google slowly shifts to the Rust programming language for the Android OS.

There are 2million podcasts out there. Well, most of them were one-time attempts. Someone learned something. That is okay.

Microsoft is testing servers that are sitting in bath tubs of heat-conducting liquid.

The angst continues at Google in the AI research organizations. Firings and resignations and ethics and the like.

MUST READ: How to do Zoom/Teams meetings much better and engage people much better.

Thursday 8 April 2021

Alienware shows an update to its gaming laptop series. What's new is that it has an AMD processor for the first time since 2007.

By some numbers, YouTube was the biggest "winner" of the year of the virus.

Even Apple has hit supply chain problems.

Dell shows new monitors that are made for gaming consoles as well as computers.

Now that you've been vaccinated... the experts don't seem to know what to do now

Jeff Bezos favors higher corporate taxes. Once you've made it, you favor anything that hinders those trying to make it. An old story.

IBM releases a new COBOL compiler for Linux. Still used, programmers still needed.

Friday 9 April 2021

Leaked photos and info on Lenovo's next gaming phone. It is large.

A look at Google Stack: an app to scan, recognize, and organize, i.e., put the paper into stacks.

Neuralink claims that this monkey is controlling the computer with its mind. The brain-to-computer interface has long been sought. It is a worthy goal.

Our Commerce Department adds 7 Chinese computer companies to an export controls list.

Sounding a warning on space debris and satellites blanketing the earth.

Real news that isn't news: people would rather add than subtract. We would also rather multiply than divide. I hope they didn't spend a lot of money on this research.

A decade in the waiting, Microsoft releases a 64-bit version of OneDrive.

It appears that the Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama are rejecting a union.

Saturday 10 April 2021

In Bessemer, Alabama at the Amazon fulfillment center, over 80% of the workers vote NO to a union.

The year of the virus has been very good for Twitch.

Crooks are (still) stupid: man who planned to blow up a data center in Virginia told everyone of his plans ahead of time. Now arrested.

Research proves what was suspected: most of those exam proctoring software systems don't work well as they fail to "see" non-white faces.

This isn't a joke. Most folks I speak with think this is what should happen.

For only $700, we have a Transformer toy that transforms on its own.

If we all stopped wasting food, the price of food would rise.

Sunday 11 April 2021

This must be an important story because its been all over the Internet the past several days: Logitech will no longer make universal remote controls.

The inevitable side affects of this and any vaccine.

The cost of fame (especially in California): Facebook spends $23million a year to protect Zuckerburg.

Good with your thumbs? This teen wins about $300,000 a year playing Fortnite.

The long-awaited helicopter flight on Mars is being delayed due to technical difficulties.

This is a real use of technology, helping persons whose body no longer works function by thinking.

I love this piece by Johanna Rothman on flipping the Bozo Bit.

Rare video of lightning striking a tree.

Official Linux support for the Apple Silicon M1 processor is coming real soon now, possible in June.

The practice of reading aloud what you have written. I recommend it.

Some writers search for the "original" story. Every one is original. None are original.

One of my favorite techniques and practices: write by hand. Pencil and paper.

The paper notebook. I have a collection of filled notebooks.

A lesson in basic economics for freelance writers. Money doesn't flow easily.