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: 20-26 September, 2021
It is Monday. Little news. So I put the writing entries here instead of yesterday.
Keeping all those wires neat with a magnetic desk.
SpaceX promises to bring the Starlink Internet service out of beta in October.
Great question for the writer: Why write this book (or anything)?
These are good productivity and health tips for writers and everyone else.
Those times when you don't know how to do something and it all seems difficult.
"what should I write that has a decent chance to sell?" Gosh.
One writer's experience with ten years in the business of business and write.
Thoughts on the self-published memoir.
....Amazon is about to update its line of Kindle Reader hardware. People still buy those special things instead of using their phone?
Roku updates its line of sticks that plug into our televisions.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation obtains $45million in funds to expand its capacity. This is the most successful education project in the history of such. Those guys should receive a Nobel Prize in something or other.
About half of Americans receive "some news" from social media. If your eyes are on that system, you will see things there. This comes as a surprise to some adults.
Nvidia releases new display drivers for the upscaling technology that work on Windows 10 and 11.
We reach a milestone as Shopify now has more traffic than Amazon.
.....Slack adds what is basically a video email clip. This is supposed to reduce the number of meetings.
Facebook changes it software in a way that makes it more difficult to gather data for analysis.
"Freedom" on the Internet is shrinking. That includes in America as well.
NASA, not being very good at sending persons into space, tries its hand at reorganizing.
Work from home? Google is buying a new office building in New York City.
Older versions of Ubuntu (from 2014 and 2016) are receiving extended end-of-life service.
Amazon is relaxing its drug testing of employees and will now lobby for easier access to marijuana.
.....VMWare earns the FedRamp High Authorization to Operate. This is a big deal in government contracts.
Microsoft had a big event yesterday showing new hardware. Here is one summary of the event.
An in-depth analysis of how Apple is designing its processors and (more importantly) its systems.
The governors of California feel they should be able to manage all industry in the state. I guess they missed their calling. They should have majored in business and created wealth through tens of thousands of jobs. Instead, they settle for politics and telling everyone else how to live their lives.
MIT releases a tool kit that allows others to build muscle-sensing systems. What is to become of this? I hope good things as it multiplies the number of smart people working on worthwhile problems.
The European Processor Initiative produces its first RISC V processor.
.....Meanwhile in Europe, regulators want one type of phone charger for all phones.
The shortage of integrated circuits won't go away soon as those manufacturers claim they have unfilled jobs. This is all a side affect of our reaction to the virus. We chose our reaction. We knew what we were doing, right?
Polls in America show that voters feel government "needs to do everything it can to curb the influence of big tech companies that have grown too powerful and now use our data to reach too far into our lives." Note that the words "big" and "too" are subjective.
Google announces new features for Android phones, but some are limited only to Google's phones.
.....Meanwhile in China, I guess the Communist Party is returning to the 1960s when, for some reason, they tried to destroy their own subjects. This time they want to basically ban all internation trade. Such is disastrous. What are they doing?
We have an Emergency Connectivity Fund that is to help poorer school districts provide computing for students. I have no doubt that the richer school districts will receive the bulk of the money as their riches allow them to better fill out the paperwork and get the money.
How a teenager took advantage of obvious holes in "scientific research."
A deeper look at the upgraded Dell XPS 15 portable computer. We live in an age where "nobody gets fired for buying a Dell."
.....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.
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